Practical AI Education. Built for Manufacturing.

Build the knowledge, capabilities, and confidence to apply AI in manufacturing, from individual learning to team-wide adoption.

Annual plan

CPAI Premier

Premium AI education for individual manufacturing professionals.

$1,995USD / year

1 seat

  • Access to all available AI coursesIncluded
  • 52 planned weekly educational releases per yearIncluded
  • AI manufacturing case studies and expert interviewsIncluded
  • Self-guided AI readiness assessmentIncluded

CPAI Premier Factory

Structured AI education and adoption support for manufacturing organizations.

$12,995 USD / year
15 seats

  • Everything in Premier Team, plus
  • One facilitated AI readiness assessment per year
  • Two private AI implementation workshops per year
  • One AI adoption roadmap review per year

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FeatureCPAI PremierCPAI Premier TeamCPAI Premier Factory
Annual price$1,995 USD / year$5,995 USD / year$12,995 USD / year
Seats1515
Access to all available AI courses✅✅✅
52 planned weekly educational releases per year✅✅✅
AI manufacturing case studies and expert interviews✅✅✅
Self-guided AI readiness assessment✅✅✅
Playbooks, guides, and templates❌✅✅
Monthly expert webinars❌✅✅
Private professional community❌✅✅
Role-based learning paths❌✅✅
Team learning dashboard❌✅✅
One team onboarding session per year❌✅✅
One facilitated AI readiness assessment per year❌❌✅
Two private AI implementation workshops per year❌❌✅
One AI adoption roadmap review per year❌❌✅

Scoped services

Factory services have defined annual limits. Scope and timing are agreed in advance. They do not include unlimited consulting, guaranteed implementation results, or custom AI development.

Annual pricing

Annual pricing is shown in USD and excludes applicable taxes. Each price covers a 12-month term. No plan renews automatically.

Course and release timing

New courses and educational releases are added throughout the 12-month plan period. The 52 weekly releases are planned; future or unfinished courses are not all available today.

Enrollment and team access

Online checkout and team seat assignment are not available yet. Use the inquiry form to discuss enrollment and availability.

  1. Contact CPAITell us which plan fits your team and what you want to learn.
  2. Confirm the detailsWe will confirm availability, seat setup, and service details with you.
  3. Start learningBegin learning once enrollment and access arrangements are in place.

About Premier

Learn how other plants already solved it.

Every plant leader has this list. Premier starts each week with one item on it.

AI rarely fails in the demo. It fails at integration.

So every Premier conversation follows the same path: from the problem on your floor to what it really takes to make a solution run.

  1. The problemWhat’s breaking, what it costs, and why it keeps coming back.
  2. The solution spaceThe AI, automation and simpler options, and when each one makes sense.
  3. The integrationWhat it connects to: PLCs, SCADA, MES, ERP, quality records, and the people who run them.
  4. What it takesThe data, budget, skills and timeline, and what to ask before you buy.

The briefing

Everything you need for Monday. Nothing you don’t.

Delivered to your private page every week, so it’s waiting for you instead of buried in your inbox.

Weekly video

The Plant Conversation

A 35–40 minute conversation with a practitioner who has solved the problem in real plants. Four chapters, so you can jump straight to what you need.

Weekly PDF

The Monday Brief

One page your team can act on. Key points, where AI fits, what it connects to, and the questions to ask your team and your vendors.

Every two weeks

The AI Filter

The developments and techniques worth your attention, rated by how ready they are for a real plant.

Monthly

The Book Brief

Plant examples, where AI helps, questions to discuss, and one action to try.

Anytime

Ask the guest

Send questions before we record and vote on what we cover next.

Growing every week

The Library

Find what other plants learned about the problem in front of you, in minutes. Every conversation and brief, organized by problem.

Included

AI Readiness Assessment

A self-guided assessment of your plant across five areas. Get a clear readiness profile and identify which problems are worth solving first, based on your current systems.

  1. Answer questions about your plantAbout 60 minutes to discover how your factory works. No technical knowledge needed.
  2. Get your readiness profileData, systems, people, process and risk.
  3. Take your priorities to your leadership meetingUse your profile to plan next steps with your team.

Conversations

Real plant problems, worked through with the experts who solve them.

Each conversation follows one real plant problem from the first symptom to a working solution, with a practitioner who has solved it in the field.

Conversations recorded with experts from ApteanWherefourSpecrightUncountable

Who it’s for

Made for the people who keep the line running.

Plant managers & GMs

Fewer surprises and clearer priorities for the week.

Operations & production

More output from the lines you already have.

Quality & food safety

Faster investigations and calmer audits.

Maintenance & engineering

Know what will connect to your equipment before you buy.

Continuous improvement

Turn the data you already collect into wins.

Owners of growing processors

Smart AI decisions without building an AI team.

Our promises

Built on trust, not on leads.

No sales pitches

Every conversation stays on the problem and the options to solve it. Sponsored content is always labelled.

It stays in the room

All sessions follow the Chatham House Rule. Your plant’s problems are never published.

Not-for-profit

CPAI is a federal not-for-profit. Premier fees and sponsorships fund CPAI’s programs.

Your data is yours

What you tell us shapes your briefing and nothing else. It is never shared outside CPAI.

Questions

Is anyone going to sell to me?

No. Every conversation stays on the problem, the options and what it takes to make them work in a plant. Nothing is sold during sessions, and your details never leave CPAI.

Will this work with our older equipment?

That’s the question we care about most. Every conversation covers integration: what a solution needs from your PLCs, MES, ERP and data, and what to do when systems are old or disconnected.

Do I need to understand AI?

No. We start from the plant problem. When AI is the right fix, we show how it fits the systems you already run. When it isn’t, we say so.

I don’t have time for another program.

That’s why it’s built this way. The brief takes five minutes, the video is in chapters, and there are no required meetings. Most participants spend about fifteen minutes a week.

We’re a smaller plant. Is it for us?

Yes. Downtime, rework, traceability and short staffing often hit smaller plants hardest, because there’s no large team to absorb them.

What happens after I contact CPAI?

We will discuss the plan, confirm availability and seat arrangements, and agree on enrollment details with you.

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