You leaned in.
AI got interesting to you before anyone made it part of your job. Now people bring you questions you’re still working out yourself.
A Nashville community
AI is part of your work now.Maybe it’s your title.Maybe you leaned in.← me, honestly
A place for people learning, building, and figuring out what AI actually changes in real work. Formal AI practitioners and the people who became the AI person on their team belong in the same room.
Nashville · Slack · Small founding group · Invites in early November
- Where
- Nashville
- Format
- Slack-based community
- Size
- Small founding group
- First invitations
- Early November
Your title might say
Customer Success ManagerVP of ProductOperations CoordinatorChief of StaffRecruiterFounder & CEOData AnalystDirector of MarketingSoftware EngineerHead of PeopleExecutive AssistantCOODesignerAI Transformation Lead
But the people you work with know you as…
“The person we ask about AI.”
This is about the work you’re doing, not your level, function, or job title.
Who’s in the room
A room for people trying new things with AI at work.
Nashville already has strong communities for builders, data leaders, product people, and AI events. This one sits alongside them, focused on the actual work: the workflow that finally clicked, the automation that broke, the rollout nobody adopted, the thing you’re still not sure should be automated at all.
Still trying to figure out what a prompt is? This probably isn’t the right room yet. But if you’re already using AI daily to automate parts of your workflow, even if it feels messy or imperfect, you belong here.
Might be for you if…
You’re making it useful.
You’re building workflows, testing tools, and reshaping how your team works, and you know the difference between a good demo and something people actually use.
You want people to think with.
Not another feed of AI hype and hot takes. People who will tell you what really worked, what failed, and what they’d do differently.
Real talk.
Bring the messy thing you’re working on. Leave with a better idea, a useful example, or a person who can help.
What I imagine we’ll get into
Nothing here is live yet. These are some things I have in mind for the founding group, and the people who join early will be key in shaping what this becomes.
Help shape the room
Find your people in Nashville.
Sign up to join the waitlist for the founding group: people learning, building, and figuring out AI together.
I plan to keep it small to start because I care about this work and want to build it right for everyone. The founding group will lay the foundation for what makes this genuinely useful, shaping the community, the topics, the format, and what comes next.
- Real work in progress: unfinished, imperfect, occasionally frustrating.
- What worked, what didn’t, and what you’re still testing.
- Come to contribute, not to promote.
- People doing this work nearby, and maybe we get together IRL if we decide we’re into that.
Waitlist open now · First invitations sent early November
Why I want this to exist
This work is new. There’s a lot to know. We don’t have to figure it out alone.
As I’ve been building with AI, the most valuable thing has been having people to learn with. I want AI in Practice to be that kind of room in Nashville: a place to solve hard things together, make each other better, and laugh at how genuinely weird all of this is along the way.
Come here to share, learn, and help each other out. Good relationships grow out of that.
Rachel Gulley, Founder of AI in Practice NashvilleCommunity builder, AI operator, former talent operations leader, building people-first things.see you in there! :)Find me on LinkedIn
If you lead a team
Someone on your team has likely become the AI person.
This work is new, and there’s no established playbook for it yet. It’s free to join, it sends them somewhere serious to learn, and what they pick up comes back into your organization. If anyone comes to mind, send them this page.
Two things to know: Everyone keeps company-confidential details out of the room. We talk about how the work gets done, not whose data it is. And this community is separate from my paid work at Reel. Nobody’s here to sell, me included.