We help organizations and educators understand what AI can actually do, what it can't, and how to use it well — grounded in classroom experience and real project work.
Most of what's written about AI right now is written by people selling it. Our perspective is different: we teach with these tools every week, watch students push them in directions their makers didn't anticipate, and help working professionals figure out where AI fits in their actual day.
That gives us a useful vantage point. We can tell you what the demo doesn't show, what changes when a real team uses these tools daily, and where the genuinely interesting opportunities are — versus where you'll just spend money to automate the wrong thing.
The best AI literacy doesn't make people fear or worship the tools. It makes them fluent.
The work falls into two related practices. Both lean on the same foundation: years of teaching, plus active use of these tools in real projects.
Workshops, executive briefings, and hands-on training for teams that need to understand and use AI tools well. Tailored to your industry, your tools, and the realistic shape of the work — not generic prompt-engineering lectures.
Typical formats: half-day workshops, multi-week cohort training, leadership briefings, policy & use-case advisory.
Curriculum work, faculty support, and applied research on how AI tools change teaching, creative practice, and game development. Drawn directly from active classroom use at the University of Montana School of Visual and Media Arts.
Typical engagements: curriculum review, faculty development, AI use policy, capstone & studio integration, student-facing literacy programs.
Michael teaches Game Design and Interactive Media at UM and integrates AI tools into his courses — watching how students actually adopt, misuse, and rediscover them. That live feedback loop is the source material for the workshops and advisory work Silverleaf offers to other organizations.
Help your faculty develop AI-literate teaching practices. Build student-facing programs that go beyond "don't cheat with ChatGPT" into actual fluency.
Integrate AI into game design, content, and production workflows without surrendering craft. Workshops shaped by working in this space ourselves.
Cut through vendor noise. Help leaders and teams understand which AI investments will pay off, which won't, and how to roll out tools responsibly.
Plain-language briefings on the AI landscape — what's real, what's risk, what's worth a position on. Designed for non-technical decision-makers.