Turn your class into an AI consulting agency

Give your students real-world AI consulting experience—without the administrative headache. We supply the local business clients, the AI analytics platform, and the framework. 100% free for your university.

Why take part

Good for students, the professor and the institution

For students

Real consulting work on real companies' AI adoption
A portfolio of client remediation plans: the AI Optimization report, as a PDF and slides
Hands-on experience with AI governance and analytics tools

For the professor

A ready-made practical component for your course
No need to recruit companies: we send local businesses to your partnership page. You can share it with companies you know, too
You run the class, and add or remove students
Students first practice on their own AI usage data in the class workspace, before they work on a client

For the institution

An industry partnership
Applied learning with real companies
Career readiness in AI adoption
No cost

Companies apply - you accept or reject

Students analyze client's AI report cards

Agents prepare the Turnaround Report

Your class customizes the report

The report (the AI Turnaround Strategy) is prepared by agents for each company, including easy-win ideas for how each department and individual user can use AI to generate more value. The reports can be used for group discussion and optional customization. Strategy reports are provided only to your class. Companies cannot access them directly through the platform. Exportable as PDFs or Slides, with your class name and university logo.

Required · Your partnership page

Publish your class partnership page

This page is how companies join your class, because it carries your class's unique registration link. Once your class is set up, you get the link: publish this text with it on your university website. We send local businesses near your university to the page, and any company that registers through the link is linked to your class automatically. You can share the page with businesses you know, too.

Template partnership text - customize as you wish

Local business partnership opportunity: a free AI-Value Turnaround Strategy

This [term], students in [course name] ([course code]) at [university name] are offering local businesses a free AI-Value Turnaround Strategy, delivered by the class.

Most companies can see who is using AI, but not whether it is paying off. Supervised by [your title and name], and using Inspira AI's reports, our students will look at how your team uses AI today, where it creates value and where it doesn't, and give you a plan to get more from it, as a report and a presentation.

What's involved:
- Each person on your team installs Inspira StarLight desktop app, which takes under 2 minutes. No integrations are needed.
- Your prompts stay private: by default, students see what each prompt was for, as tags and counts, not the prompt text.
- The AI report cards and turnaround strategy report are entirely free. You may optionally continue beyond Phase I as a paid service, but this is optional and not connected with the University.

By registering you agree to absolve the university and participants from liability.

Register here: [your class link]

Student experience

What you and your students experience

Students and professors receive year-long free access to Inspira's Digital Dark platform with sample data for self-exploration and/or as lecture support. Professors control how long students have access (no more than twelve months per student) and can invite new students anytime during the year.
When companies are assigned to your class, the professor receives an email with contact details, providing you with a long-term partner for future class collaborations. From the time of the notice, the company expects a turnaround report within four weeks — this is your window to do in-class discussions, which can take as little as 5 minutes if you choose to be brief. The professor can choose to pass on the opportunity, in which case the company will be assigned to a different university.
Ready-made strategy reports (e.g. the AI Turnaround Strategy) are prepared for each company by AI agents in the Digital Dark platform, including easy-win ideas for how each department and individual user can use AI to generate more value. Class members access them by signing in, then exporting for customization. The reports can be used for group discussion and optional customization. Strategy reports are provided only to your class. Companies cannot access them directly through the platform. Exportable as PDFs or Slides, with your class name and university logo.
Reports can be emailed to the clients with or without customization, giving you full control over how much time your students spend on the experience. This time flexibility allows your class to interact with multiple companies if you so choose. You may optionally reach out to the company for the opportunity to do a presentation by video call, or if the company is very nearby, invite them into the class at your option.
With limited availability and on special request, a senior AI performance engineer from Inspira may be available to do a live video lecture, providing project orientation and workshop-style learning on concepts such as the AI Maturity Ladder, AI Value Score or Prompt analysis methodology.

How it works

From application to first client

1ApplyApply below.
2Confirm your .edu emailWe email you a link. Nothing is set up until you confirm it.
3We review your applicationInspira staff review every application and email you the outcome.
4Set up your classYour class gets its own workspace and its own registration link. You sign in and invite your students.
5Publish your partnership pagePost a version of the template partnership text, with your class's link, on your university website, and let us know where it is. This step is required.
6We bring the client companiesWe send local businesses near your university to your page. Those that register through your link join your class. Students analyze each company's AI report cards and customize the strategy report.

Apply for your class

For professors at US universities. Use your university's .edu email address. It's free for the class and the university, and there's no card to enter.

After you apply, we email you a link to confirm your address. Inspira staff then review your application and email you when your class is ready.