Petersburg Chamber of Commerce
The first AI 101 — practical AI for business owners, hosted at Hand of Fate Brewing. The response booked the rest of this map.
February 2026I teach businesses how to use AI, build websites that ship, and write software that kills busywork — start to finish, just me. As heard on NPR Illinois. Adam Gurski · AI Educator & Builder · Petersburg, IL
"A lot of people actually have the data — what AI helps them do is put structure to it."
Adam Gurski on Community Voices with Randy Eccles — NPR Illinois, June 2026
What I'm really good at is catching the moment.
The right song under a meal. The right record for the room. A frame that makes you lean in. It's the same thing every time — listen, choose, deliver.
Restaurants taught me the pace. A room moves faster than one person, so you learn to hold what everybody needs and your own next move at the same time. I did that nightly for fifteen years.
Trade work taught me patience. Most of it is repetition, and I came to like it — headphones in, podcasts on, learning while my hands stay busy. What I really chase is the problem-solving. I won't put a problem down until I've got it.
The camera came later. The AI tools came after that. Midjourney, Kling, Flux, Nano Banana, Seedance, ComfyUI, custom LoRAs — they're just tools. Most people come to me with a piece of an idea. I find the moment in it and build everything else around it until it works.
Listen. Choose. Deliver.
Same thing whether it's a dinner rush, a rebuild, or a final cut.
Films, photos, sites, moments.
Music videos. Brand films. Campaign stills. Live visuals. Album art. Websites.
Shoot. Grade. Generate.
I build every frame — I don't just capture it.
Full builds, before-and-afters, and the receipts — in the case studies.
The first AI 101 — practical AI for business owners, hosted at Hand of Fate Brewing. The response booked the rest of this map.
February 2026One for the administration, then invited back for all high-school teachers — AI lesson plans, quizzes, podcasts, even game code, built live.
April & May 202610am for seniors, 7pm for the workforce. Folks came in skeptical — left wanting to try it themselves. The library became a paying client after.
May 2026Springfield's public library. About twenty people and the kind of Q&A that runs past the hour.
June 2026Seventeen minutes on Community Voices with Randy Eccles — how local people and businesses can actually use AI.
June 2026 · Listen ↗The AI 101 talk on the road again — museum directors and business developers in the seats.
June 2026"AI 101 for Everyday Life" — booked for this fall. Your library or chamber could be the next pin.
UpcomingThree-year client: the site, the photos, the truck film — and the AI estimate system NPR talked about.
dixonsheatingandair.com ↗A one-page site with its own Lincoln commercial, right on the square.
luckysonthesquare.com ↗The Jucy Pale Ale spot — scale-play over the Chicago skyline. Also the room where the first AI 101 happened.
2026Apprenticeship recruiting site for the electrical trade.
springfieldjatc193.org ↗Paramedical tattoo studio — careful, warm, booking wired in.
bodaciousbeautybarr.com ↗HVAC site build — proof the work travels well past Illinois.
comfortauthoritytexas.com ↗AI-enhanced commercial assets for the brewery's bear marketing lineup.
St. Louis, MO"Right Here Right Now" visual — posted to Instagram, picked up for the live show.
Barrowlands 2026 · Glasgow, Scotland"My life is forever changed. It just figured all my June stats in minutes."