Slingshot

10/05/2026

Happy 3-year workiversary to Whitney! 🎉

Between her Gen Z slang lessons and her unwavering loyalty to the UK Wildcats, there's never a dull moment when she's around. She's a huge part of what makes this team feel like a team. Cheers to you, Whitney! 🥂

10/02/2026

Buying AI licenses is easy. Knowing what to do with them is the part that doesn't come with the invoice. 🧾🤖

Usage is the easy question. The harder one is whether your team is working differently, and that starts with having a baseline to measure against. This week's blog walks through the three shifts that separate an AI-fluent team from an AI-licensed one, plus the boundary fluent teams know not to cross.

Seats get filled either way. Judgment is what you have to build. 🧠

AI-fluent teams change how they work. Here are the 3 shifts that separate real AI adoption from a seat-count exercise.

09/30/2026

Here's a problem we run into all the time: hours every week going to the same manual work. The same records reviewed by hand, the same data keyed in, the same routine calls made. 📊

So much of that work everyone assumes "just has to be done by a person." A lot of it doesn't anymore. That's exactly what LaunchAI takes on. A senior team steadily automating the routine, so your people spend their time where judgment actually matters.

Not sure how much of your team's week is going to work like this? That's worth a conversation. 💡

09/29/2026

AI in practice. Not just theory. 🤖

We're skipping the Louisville AI Exchange this month, and we'd love to see our community at Proof AI Workshop instead. It's a full day of hands-on building at Mash Up Food Hall on October 14, co-hosted by Slingshot, RedTag, Vsimple, and Advanced Business Solutions.

Pick your sessions across marketing, software development, business operations and security, and workflow automation. Bring a stalled project to the open lab. Close out the day with show-and-tell and happy hour.

Tickets are $100 with lunch included. Grab yours today.

Spend one day working hands-on with AI in Louisville, in sessions run by practitioners using these tools across different industries. Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at Mashup Food Hall.

09/28/2026

10 years and still not a single pixel out of place. 🖌️✨ Rachel Foster has spent a full decade shaping how Slingshot looks, feels, and works, and she keeps finding new ways to push design forward. From whiteboard sketches to AI-powered prototypes, she's mastered every tool we've thrown at her. Happy 10 years, Rachel! 🎉

09/25/2026

Polished AI demos are the highlight reel. The real lesson is in the blooper tape. 🎬🤖

The moment you realize the model doesn't have the context you assumed it had is where the learning happens. In this week's blog, we explore why watching someone troubleshoot beats watching them succeed, and how that thinking shaped the hands-on workshop we're co-hosting in Louisville this October.

The fastest learners aren't the ones who get it right. They're the ones who break it first. 🛠

Courses give you AI vocabulary. Building gives you judgment. See why hands-on practice, real problems, and community beat another lecture.

09/23/2026

Only 6% of organizations qualify as AI high performers.

Slingy's take: adopting AI and getting real value from it are two very different things. 🤖

09/21/2026

Last Thursday's Louisville AI Exchange was one of our more honest ones. 🤖

Bill Henderson from RedTag broke down a full year of AI enablement, start to finish. What worked, what didn't, and the stuff in between that usually gets edited out before anyone gets on stage. He talked through where adoption actually stuck, where it quietly fizzled, and what it took to get people to use the tools instead of just nodding at them.

Turns out the misses are the most useful part. Thanks for bringing all of it! 🙌

09/18/2026

Prototypes stopped looking like prototypes, and that's the whole problem. 👀

The demo clicked through perfectly. Data landed where it should. So why does the real thing take another four months? Because a prototype proves an idea can work. Production proves it does, every day, with real users and messy data.

In this week's blog, we get into what lives underneath the happy path, and why the gap keeps catching smart teams off guard.

Budget for two projects, because that's what you're buying. 💡

Prototypes now double as specs, cutting developer questions by 90%. See what an AI production budget actually buys: guardrails, edge cases, and consistency.

09/16/2026

When we say the monthly model works, we'd rather a client tell you than us.

Louisville Water Company has had our team on an ongoing basis, and it's become one of the clearest examples of what LaunchAI is built to do: not a one-off project, but a team that already knows your systems and keeps making progress with you over time.

Here's what Matthew Griffith, their Director of Business & Digital Transformation, had to say about how it's worked for them.

Curious what this could look like for your organization? Let's talk.