About AI Engines

Half fingerprint. Half circuit. The meeting point is where we work.

The AI Engines mark is a split: one half is a human fingerprint, the other is a circuit-patterned brain. The human on the left, identity and judgment first. The technology on the right, in service of that judgment. The two halves meet in the middle. That meeting point is the company, the workshops, and the work we do with every client.

Michael Jones

Founder, lead instructor · Marion, Indiana

I walk across the bridge first, then turn around and coach others across.

Mike is the founder of AI Engines and the author of the HUMAN-HEART AI Resilience Framework. Over fifteen years he has worked with instructional designers, academics, and administrators to build products at the intersection of education and technology. The last three years have focused on AI onboarding, integration, and training for individuals and organizations across higher education, nonprofits, and small business. As Assistant Director of the Future Learning Lab at Indiana Wesleyan University, he coached more than two hundred faculty and helped drive over one million dollars in operational savings. He is a Level 3 Certified AI Agent Developer through MindStudio, the highest tier of that program, with the build credentials to ship the same kind of agents he teaches participants to design. He holds an MFA in screenwriting, serves as a U.S. Army veteran, and lives in Marion, Indiana.

His work is pedagogically sound, bridge-building by design, and built on a simple rule: AI must strengthen the human it serves, not replace them.

James (Jim) Weaver

Co-instructor, developer advocate · Greater Indianapolis

Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar, IBM Quantum Developer Advocate.

Jim is a Java Champion, a JavaOne Rockstar, and an IBM Quantum Developer Advocate. He is the author of Inside Java, Beginning J2EE, the Pro JavaFX series, and Java with Raspberry Pi. He has taught thousands of developers at conferences around the world and brings enterprise-scale credibility into every workshop.

In AI Engines workshops, Jim translates advanced ideas into working examples. Teachers, pastors, and small-business owners leave with the same clarity he gives senior engineers.

The HUMAN-HEART framework

HUMAN-HEART is Mike's instructional design framework for AI-resilient teaching. HUMAN names five levels of human competency with AI, from honing the underlying craft to navigating full AI-assisted workflows. HEART is a five-step design method that pairs with it: highlight the learning outcome, examine AI vulnerability, assign the right HUMAN level, bounded by the regulatory and legal floor of the classroom. The result is courses and assignments where AI reinforces academic integrity rather than eroding it.

HUMAN-HEART is purpose-built for education contexts. It runs as a separate, custom engagement, not as part of the AI Foundations workshop. See the services page to start a conversation about a HUMAN-HEART engagement for your school, department, or district.