A $7.4B company is training nontechnical staff as internal AI champions
tomcrawshaw01 · x · 2026-07-22
A $7.4B company is still early in AI adoption, and it is doing so by creating internal “AI Champions.”
- The champions are non-technical people inside the business, not a separate AI team.
- They are being upskilled in Claude Code and n8n so they can build automations in their own roles.
- The author finds it surprising that a company this large is only now getting started, but sees it as evidence that many people are not as far behind as they think.
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