AI Integration · FGCU · Southwest Florida

Put AI to work.
Not someday, now.

Faculty‑led, student‑powered, and built for Southwest Florida. We help your team solve real problems by putting AI to work. It starts with a hands‑on workshop. From there we capture your workflows, automate the busywork, and build the tools your team actually uses.

★★★★★ 9.5/10 from 500+ people trained across Southwest Florida
In the press JUN 2026
Helping SWFL businesses integrate AI into daily workflows
Gulfshore Business
Trusted across Southwest Florida
Businesses, governments & nonprofits put us to work.
Business Government Nonprofit
Storm SmartStorm Smart
IRC International RealtyIRC International Realty
FineMark Bank & TrustFineMark Bank & Trust
Florida TrustFlorida Trust
Charitable Foundation of the IslandsCharitable Foundation of the Islands
Bonita BayBonita Bay
City of SanibelCity of Sanibel
Fifth Avenue AdvisorsFifth Avenue Advisors
Our thesis

AI made knowledge infinite. The scarce thing now is judgment.

We’re here to solve the problem in front of you. We build the layer where your team’s expertise meets AI, so the right call reaches the right person, fast. AI does the analysis. Your team keeps the judgment.

Decide what matters.
Ignore what doesn’t.
Move faster than the competition.
Transform · what we do now

How AI integration works.

Real changes to how the work gets done, in weeks, with the capability left inside your team.

1

Capture the workflow

We sit with your team and map how the work actually gets done. Every task, every handoff, every place the hours go.

2

Automate the busywork

We find the repetitive steps AI can take off their plate, then wire up the automations around them.

3

Build the tools

Internal apps and dashboards your team actually uses, the kind they open every day.

4

Embed our students

FGCU students work inside your team as agents of change, so the capability stays in‑house after we’re done.

In the press Featured · June 2026
There is tremendous demand from businesses to move past getting started and really integrate AI into their daily workflows.
Mark Bole
Mark Bole
Faculty Fellow · Ain Technology & Design Hub, FGCU
Gulfshore Business
“Following the Future” · SWFL businesses invest in AI · June to July 2026
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What we build

The tools your team actually opens.

Built around how you work. Here’s where the busywork goes.

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Internal apps

Custom tools your team opens every day, built around your workflow.

PERFORMANCE67%

Live dashboards

One shared view of the numbers that matter, updated automatically, so the whole team works from the same picture.

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SAVES 6 HRS / WEEK

Workflow automation

The repetitive steps AI can take off your plate, wired up so the busywork runs itself.

Team enablement

Your team using AI independently and well, with the tools and prompts, plus the judgment to know what to trust.

How we work

Three ways in. One transformational direction.

Most clients start with a workshop. The ones ready to move keep going, all the way to AI built into how the work gets done.

In the room

This is what it looks like.

Real businesses, real software, real energy. Students coaching at every table.

A full-room Ain Hub workshop
Workshop attendees laughing together
A student helping an attendee one on one
By the numbers

Momentum you can measure.

500+
people trained
9.5/10
workshop rating
185
largest audience
3
integration clients
From 8 attendees in a room with no projector to a 185‑person seminar, in six months.
Two years in. Just getting started. Naples · Fort Myers · Bonita Springs · Cape Coral · Sanibel · Lee County
What people say

Real businesses. Real takeaways.

★★★★★

“Valuable information in a concise, fun, easy‑to‑understand manner. The immediate takeaway was fixing my website. I was thrilled to make changes right away.”

Workshop attendee · Sanibel
★★★★★

“Very informative and helpful as a beginner. The fact that information had been prepared on our businesses beforehand was very nice.”

Workshop attendee · Southwest Florida
★★★★★

“Great content that’s up to date despite how quickly AI is changing. Practical and engaging to learn.”

Workshop attendee · Fort Myers
The Ain Hub student team
Why it works

Faculty‑led. Student‑powered. Built to last.

Our students embed in your team as agents of change, and the AI capability stays in‑house long after we’re done. Backed by FGCU’s Daveler & Kauanui School of Entrepreneurship and a $2M founding gift from Mark Ain.

Mark Bole
Mark Bole, Faculty Fellow
“Make AI understandable, show where it fits, and measure the impact.”
Meet the team →

Tell us your problem. We’ll find where AI fits.

Start with a workshop, or bring us your messiest workflow, and we’ll show you what’s possible.