Advanced AI Operations
For the people who put AI to work inside a business: prompt engineering, workflow automation, LLM operations, AI governance, and responsible AI risk management.
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TRAINING CENTER / APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
Train here.
Work here.
Build what’s next.
Global AI and Robotics, Inc. is a Georgia nonprofit building an earn-while-you-learn apprenticeship program in AI operations, robotics and manufacturing, drone systems, and cybersecurity. We design it alongside the employers who’ll hire our apprentices.
501(c)(3) Public CharityGeorgia nonprofit corporation, EIN 42-3589263
U.S. DOL Application SubmittedRegistered Apprenticeship program in review
Four Career PathwaysBuilt from stackable, industry-aligned certificates
Founding Partners Forming NowFayette County employer consortium
WHY WE EXIST
The robots are already on the line. The people trained to run them aren’t.
Drive down Highway 74 South and you’ll pass plants running automated lines, PLC-controlled equipment, and machine vision systems. Those employers need technicians who can program, maintain, and secure that equipment. Most of the people who could fill those jobs have never had a way in.
That’s the gap we’re closing. GAIRI pairs classroom instruction with paid, supervised work at partner employers, so apprentices earn a wage from day one and finish with credentials a hiring manager actually recognizes.
OUR MISSION
GAIRI’s mission is to expand access to advanced technology careers for individuals across Fayette County and Georgia’s South Metro region by delivering industry-aligned education, hands-on technical training, and workforce pathways that lead to high-demand careers. In partnership with local employers, government, and community stakeholders, we develop a skilled, future-ready workforce designed to meet the evolving needs of Georgia’s technology and advanced manufacturing economy.
HOW THE APPRENTICESHIP WORKS
Earn while you learn. Every step is structured.
Built on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Registered Apprenticeship model. Final occupations and standards are set with the Office of Apprenticeship.
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Recruit & Assess
Outreach through workforce boards, veteran services, schools, and community partners. Candidates are assessed for aptitude and matched to a pathway and an employer.
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Technical Instruction
Approximately 4,000 hours of technical training, delivered at GAIRI and through training partners and organized into stackable certificates that build on each other.
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Paid On-the-Job Learning
Apprentices work at a partner employer under an assigned mentor, logging competencies on real equipment with scheduled wage increases as skills grow.
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Credential & Career
Completers earn a nationally recognized credential and industry certificates, and move into a full-time role with the employer that trained them.
CAREER PATHWAYS
Four concentrations. One standard: can you do the job?
We don’t invent our own competency lists. Each pathway is mapped to frameworks industry already uses, then organized into stackable, industry-aligned certificates.
AI Manufacturing & Robotics
Industrial and collaborative robot programming, PLCs, machine vision, sensors, predictive maintenance, and lean manufacturing. The skills plant managers ask for by name.
AI Aerial Drone Surveillance
Commercial drone operations, flight safety, aerial imaging, and AI-assisted data analysis for inspection, public safety, agriculture, and infrastructure work.
Cybersecurity
Defending the power grids, water systems, transit, and data centers communities depend on against criminal and terror-linked cyber threats. Apprentices learn threat monitoring, incident response, and industrial control system security.
WHO WE SERVE
No degree required. Just the drive to learn.
Advanced technology work shouldn’t be reserved for people who already had a head start. Our pathways are built for career starters and career changers alike.
Young AdultsA paid first step into a real career
VeteransTurning service skills into civilian roles
Displaced WorkersReskilling after layoffs and automation
Justice-Impacted IndividualsA real second chance at a skilled career
Working AdultsMoving up without stopping work
Underserved CommunitiesRural and South Metro neighbors
FOR EMPLOYERS
Help shape the workforce you’re going to hire.
We’re forming a founding consortium of Fayette County and South Metro employers. Founding partners have a direct hand in what gets taught, and first access to the apprentices who learn it.
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Co-design the curriculumTell us the equipment, software, and skills your floor runs on. We build to it.
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Host and mentor apprenticesBring on apprentices at a scale that fits you, with GAIRI handling recruitment, instruction, and program paperwork.
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Sit on the Industry Advisory BoardKeep the program honest about where the industry is heading.
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Sponsor a lab or cohortPut your name on the training space your future technicians learn in.
CAMPUS VISION
The future begins here.
Our long-term plan is a dedicated training center in Peachtree City with AI labs, a robotics and advanced manufacturing floor, a cybersecurity training lab, and drone technology and aerial systems space. Early instruction begins in partner facilities while we finalize a permanent site.
Partner With Us
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CONTACT
Let’s talk.
Employers, community partners, funders, and future apprentices: we’d like to hear from you.
LOCATIONPeachtree City, Georgia
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