A 6-week live cohort where professionals and business owners build a full AI agent team that handles real work in their business. Not theory, not prompts, not another tool demo. A working system you’ll use on Monday morning.
Reserve Your Seat — $1,497 Cohort starts April 16, 2026 · Thursdays 7:00–8:30 PM Central · 20 seats max · Founding member pricingNot ready for the full cohort? Start smaller.
Join the Workshop — $197One session. One working AI team member. $197 credited toward the cohort.
Every hat is your hat. Sales, admin, follow-ups, scheduling, bookkeeping. You can’t afford $50K+ for a single employee, let alone a team. So nothing gets delegated. Everything bottlenecks at you.
You signed up for ChatGPT. Maybe Jasper. Maybe some automation thing someone recommended. You used it for a week, got mediocre results, and went back to doing everything yourself. The tools work fine. Nobody showed you how to build a system.
It’s built for developers. Or for people who want to start an AI agency. You don’t want to sell AI services. You want to run your business without burning out. That training doesn’t exist yet. Until now.
AI Team Accelerator is a 6-week live cohort where you build an AI team that handles real work in your business. It starts with a private 1-on-1 session where you build your first agent, then continues as a group for six weeks.
Not chatbots. Not prompt libraries. An actual team of AI agents with defined roles, clear responsibilities, and a system for handing off work between them. A researcher who digs up what you need. A writer who drafts your emails and proposals. A strategist who plans your campaigns. An operations person who keeps everything organized.
You’ll build them. You’ll train them. You’ll delegate to them. And by week 5, they’ll be working for you daily.
This is the exact system Mike Routen uses to run his own business. He built it. He operates on it. Now he’s showing you how.
Not hypothetical. Not a demo. Here’s what the system produced in the last 60 days, while Mike was running his business, not sitting at a desk writing.
Produced a full program evaluation document covering market analysis, audience fit, competitive positioning, pricing, and messaging recommendations, that became the entire strategic foundation for this training program.
Took that evaluation document and built this page (copy, structure, layout, and design) without Mike writing a single line. You’re reading the output right now.
Produced a complete phone outreach playbook: 3-stage call scripts, objection handlers, and follow-up sequences for BNI and warm prospect outreach.
Built a full social media launch campaign: post calendar, copy variants for LinkedIn and Facebook, hashtag strategy, and a paid ads recommendation. Ready to execute.
Each of these would have taken a skilled freelancer days to produce. His AI team produced all of it in hours, with Mike directing, not executing.
Cohort: Thursdays, April 16 – May 21, 2026 · 7:00–8:30 PM Central
*Curriculum is subject to change.
Mike Routen isn’t an AI influencer. He’s a business owner with over 30 years of experience building software solutions that had real impact on businesses’ bottom lines. And he figured something out.
He runs Welcome Desk AI, a company that builds AI receptionist solutions for local service businesses. When he needed to scale operations without hiring a full team, he built an AI agent system - named roles, defined responsibilities, delegation workflows, the works. A researcher. A strategist. A designer. An operations manager. All AI. All working daily.
That system runs his business right now. Not as a demo. Not as a case study from six months ago. Today.
This cohort teaches you exactly how he built it and walks you through building your own.
The cohort is the core product. Here’s what comes with it.
Six Thursday sessions on Zoom, 90 minutes each. You learn, then you build. By the end of every call, something new is running in your business. A full AI team, built and operational by Week 6.
Before the cohort starts, a private hands-on session where you build your first AI team member from scratch using the 5-Star Staff Method. You leave with a fully configured Marketing Writer agent running in your business the same day. Sold separately for $197, credited toward cohort enrollment.
Pre-built templates, folder structures, and persona files so you don’t start from blank. The same scaffolding Mike uses in his own business, ready to customize on day one.
Mike does a live screen share of his actual AI team system. You see the exact setup running a real business, including the delegation workflows, agent profiles, and how work flows between them.
Post-cohort access to the member community. Ask questions, share wins, get unstuck. You keep the support after the live sessions end.
Build your first AI team member in one hands-on session. Leave with a fully configured Marketing Writer agent working in your business the same day. No code, no setup, no prior AI experience needed.
Join the Workshop — $197 One session · $197 credited if you join the cohortWhy the discount: This is cohort #1. You’re getting in early, before testimonials, before case studies, before the price goes up. In exchange, you get Mike’s direct attention in a small group, a lower price, lifetime access to all future trainings, and the chance to shape the program. When cohort 2 launches, it’ll be $1,997+ without lifetime access.
“I have been using ChatGPT for over 2 years and have always looked for ways to apply it to work and life. Primarily my use was organization, project planning, and basic information gathering. I was amazed at how much productivity I was leaving on the table after watching Mike use a team of agents to actually delegate and piece together large tasks that resulted in immediately usable deliverables, in about a twentieth of the time it would have taken me to produce a result of similar quality. The sky really is the limit with this capability and enables anyone to create and lead a team of their imagination to accomplish literally any task that requires a computer.”
You can see it for yourself. Here’s the answer:
The system this program teaches is the system Mike uses to run his business every day. It’s not a framework he invented for a course. It’s the actual operating system behind Welcome Desk AI - a real company, serving real clients, generating real revenue.
Understood. Here’s the math worth running first:
If you don’t start automating in the next 6 weeks, you’ll spend more time and money doing manually what an AI team can handle. Guaranteed.
Consider what Mike’s AI team produced to launch this very training program: a market research brief, a full competitive and positioning strategy, this entire web page, a phone outreach playbook, a social media campaign plan, video briefs, and instruction guides. Produced by a team of AI agents. Estimated time to produce that manually, or outsourced to freelancers: 40–60 hours and $3,000–$6,000+.
His actual time: directing the team, reviewing output, making decisions. A few hours spread across days. He didn’t write, research, or design any of it himself.
The cost of this program is $1,497. The cost of not building this system is compounding every week you wait.
This is cohort #1, which means three things: (1) you’re getting the smallest group size and most direct access to Mike that will ever be available at this price, (2) founding members get lifetime access to all future trainings - every new cohort, workshop, and resource, forever, and (3) early participants are already seeing results. All three of those are features, not bugs.
Six weeks. A working system. No fluff.
Reserve Your Seat Cohort starts April 16 · 20 seats · $1,497 founding rate · Lifetime access to all trainings