Handshake is a generative AI consultancy and studio. We build generative AI software for clients and users, measure the impact of generative AI for external organizations, and train people to leverage it via our top-rated Generative AI Masterclass.
Currently, our work is divided into three main activities: teaching the Generative AI Masterclass, building & consulting for clients, and our own projects.
The Generative AI Masterclass is a three-week, fully remote course that we run every month. It’s designed specifically for product managers, creators, and business leaders. We wanted this course to be accessible to those who don’t have a technical background, but in depth enough that it’s actually useful. We basically teach our students to do what we do ourselves at Handshake: hack together little apps and automations with AI, experiment with new tools, and stay curious about the limitations and capabilities of generative AI as a whole.
Through our client work, we engage with Fortune 500 executive teams, governments, and NGOs to explore and create the future of generative AI. The kind of work we do includes, but is not limited to:
- Building chat bots to make large amounts of content more accessible, ranging from podcasts, reports, blogs, videos, or even a mixture of these
- Creating bespoke training programmes to upskill leadership teams on generative AI, and helping them understand how they can best leverage the technology for their specific needs
- Aiding in cybersecurity research & implementing experimental, open source machine learning tools in order to solve unique security problems, and detect rare computing architectures.
We also work on our own projects, mostly because we just love to build things, but also because the best way to learn about how generative AI works is to try and make things with it.
Current projects
→ Sisu: a small web app that uses Enneagram types to help you have tough conversations
→ Coordinate Plane: This is an experiment in how to get beyond "prompting" with LLMs and surface more powerful interactions with users.
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