<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Charming AI Consulting: Notes from the shop floor</title><description>Practical writing on AI training, workflow automation, AI agents, and answer engine optimization, from the team at Charming AI Consulting.</description><link>https://charmingaiconsulting.com</link><item><title>What Does an AI Consultant Actually Do?</title><link>https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/what-does-an-ai-consultant-do</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/what-does-an-ai-consultant-do</guid><description>An AI consultant does the AI work your organization cannot yet do for itself, then hands it back. What the job covers, and when to bring one in.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI Strategy</category></item><item><title>What Is a Corporate AI Bootcamp?</title><link>https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/what-is-a-corporate-ai-bootcamp</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/what-is-a-corporate-ai-bootcamp</guid><description>A corporate AI bootcamp is hands-on training where each team builds one real AI system end to end in its own accounts, with 30 days of support after.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI Training</category></item><item><title>How to Choose an AI Consultant in Chicago</title><link>https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/how-to-choose-an-ai-consultant-in-chicago</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/how-to-choose-an-ai-consultant-in-chicago</guid><description>Choose an AI consultant on evidence: shipped work you can inspect, named builders, written support terms, and pricing stated on the first call.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI Strategy</category></item><item><title>What Is Answer Engine Optimization?</title><link>https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/what-is-answer-engine-optimization</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/what-is-answer-engine-optimization</guid><description>AEO is the work of making your website the source AI assistants cite when they answer. How it differs from SEO and what actually moves it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AEO &amp; AI Search</category></item><item><title>How to Get Your Company Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity</title><link>https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/how-to-get-cited-by-chatgpt-and-perplexity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/how-to-get-cited-by-chatgpt-and-perplexity</guid><description>Answer real buyer questions directly, structure pages so machines can lift them, keep facts consistent, publish llms.txt, and earn off-site mentions.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AEO &amp; AI Search</category></item><item><title>Role-Based AI Training vs Generic AI Training</title><link>https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/role-based-ai-training-vs-generic</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/role-based-ai-training-vs-generic</guid><description>Generic AI training hands everyone the hardest step: mapping the tool to their job. Role-based tracks do that mapping in the room, per team.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI Training</category></item><item><title>Workflow Automation Examples That Pay for Themselves</title><link>https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/where-the-hours-hide-automation-examples</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/where-the-hours-hide-automation-examples</guid><description>Hours hide in intake and routing, status reporting, re-keyed data, document drafting, and follow-up chasing. How to spot each and which pays back first.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Workflow Automation</category></item><item><title>Fractional Chief AI Officer vs a Full-Time Hire</title><link>https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/fractional-chief-ai-officer-vs-full-time-hire</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/fractional-chief-ai-officer-vs-full-time-hire</guid><description>Most organizations should start with a fractional Chief AI Officer and hire full-time once AI work is continuous. Here is how to tell which you need.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI Strategy</category></item><item><title>Should You Book a Keynote, a Workshop, or a Bootcamp?</title><link>https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/keynote-workshop-or-bootcamp</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/keynote-workshop-or-bootcamp</guid><description>Book a keynote to align a room, a workshop to build skill, a bootcamp to ship a system your team owns, plus what each format cannot do.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI Training</category></item><item><title>How to Adopt AI Without Replacing Anyone</title><link>https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/the-zero-people-replaced-playbook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://charmingaiconsulting.com/blog/the-zero-people-replaced-playbook</guid><description>A playbook for AI wins with zero people replaced: aim automation at tasks, let the team pick targets, fence every agent, and count the ROI in hours freed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI Strategy</category><category>Workflow Automation</category></item></channel></rss>