Making AI adoption practical, human, and actually kind of fun.
Boring AI was founded in 2022 to help people make sense of AI in the workplace. What started as a mission to improve AI literacy for employees has grown into a workforce development consultancy that partners with HR and L&D leaders to build the skills infrastructure, role frameworks, and learning programs organizations need to make AI adoption lasting.
We work at the intersection of workforce strategy and learning design by helping organizations define what their people need to know, what roles need to look like, and how to build the development pathways that get them there. Training is how we deliver it.
Nicolle Merrill, CEO
AI Workforce Strategist
Nicolle Merrill is an AI workforce strategist who helps organizations identify the roles AI is creating inside their teams, build targeted development for different parts of their workforce, and anchor that work to a real AI strategy, not a training calendar. Her work sits at the intersection of workforce planning and learning design, helping HR and L&D leaders move from one-time training to lasting organizational capability.
She designs and licenses AI learning content that accelerates workforce adoption and upskilling across non-technical teams. She is recognized for creating accessible AI training frameworks for non-technical professionals and for developing train-the-trainer programs that enable organizations to scale AI education internally.
Nicolle also teaches AI strategy and workforce transformation to MBA students and executives at Porto Business School.
Navigating AI chaos
Giving Advice
Who we’ve helped.
Over the past two years, we’ve supported teams across industries, often through white-labeled partnerships, to move from AI awareness to real adoption.
Our work includes:
Hosting AI Learning Labs at Fortune 500 companies to encourage experimentation and build AI confidence
Creating custom AI adoption curriculums and success metrics for cross-functional teams in Finance, R&D, Marketing, and more
Guiding business leaders and L&D teams on AI upskilling strategy and change readiness
Teaching product and innovation teams how to design user-centered AI agents
Upskilling an Ivy League university’s executive education team to integrate AI into their programs
Designing AI skills frameworks and workforce development roadmaps for HR and L&D teams at mid-sized organizations
Much of our work has been delivered through white-labeled partnerships or embedded collaborations, often supporting internal teams from the inside. While the logos stay confidential, the impact is clear: helping organizations make AI useful, usable, and aligned with how people actually work.
FAQs
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Glad you noticed. First, google the term AI. What do you see in the images? Robots. Lines of code. Abstract circuits. So much blue, black, and grey.
The images the industry uses to represent AI are limiting. They don’t tell the full truth about how AI works (it’s not a brain) or it’s impact on people.
AI isn’t just robots and code. It’s data, decision making, tooling, and technology that shapes our everyday lives.
The industry needs to reimagine how we visualize and communicate AI and its impact.
By creating an AI company branded with images of donuts and bright colors, I’m rejecting the current representation of AI.
Plus, it’s way more fun this way because most people leave our sessions with a donut craving.
Learn more about about reimagining how we visualize AI and see artists’ work in this space on Better Images of AI. -
Once, in pre-GPT times, Nicolle told her good friend about her work teaching people how to use AI and her friend replied, “Sounds boring.” And the truth is, many, many, many AI trainings and talks are terribly boring, even post-GPT.
So she named her company Boring AI to simply set the bar low. So now she can dazzle workshop participants with something completely different and unexpected.
Also, i’s just fun to call your company boring.
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“Omg I can’t believe you made AI fun” <- Actual feedback from an audience member.