The Business
Business Model
- Two-sided Marketplace
- Knowledge-as-a-Service (KaaS)
A Sense of Urgency
Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakha sums it up well with this statement: AI will not replace humans, but humans with AI will replace those without AI. This has never been more true for workers today.
Current State
- 75% of employers struggle to find workers equipped with the right AI-related skills.
- 81% of employees say their company’s online learning helps them, but businesses still fail to close AI skill gaps.
Challenges
- 29,000 AI tools and counting make understanding AI overwhelming
- Learning models are outdated: one and done and high-level
- Corporate L&D is slow
- Consulting is expensive
- Information and startups are more focused a technical audience
- Learning platforms and universities are considered knowledge hoarders with high paywalls
The Monster Playground
Join other Mind Munchers hungry for knowledge by participating in Communities of Practice (AI for HR, AI for Marketing etc.) for free. Enjoy Monster Mentors who share open resources and mentor at no cost.
The Monster Marketplace
- Monster Value Practitioners: If you are innovating with AI, turn your expertise into a contribution. Share insights and digital resources with your peers and get paid.
- Monster Minds: Turn fear into fuel with access to in-depth insights & resources.
The Monster Masterminds
Go into mythic mode with other Monster Masterminds to get the Executive Edge.
Why a Public Benefit Corporation and Open-Source
Journalists often discuss AI as if it were the enemy, warning of job cuts, mass disruption, and a workforce left behind. Corporate leaders are accused of using this fear to justify downsizing while hoarding the upside.
But fear is also a tool to drive self-innovation.
At AI Monster, Inc., we don’t treat AI like a monster under the bed.
We work to demystify and democratize access to AI knowledge as a social right, so together, we turn fear into fuel.
We believe AI isn’t here to replace us. It’s here to amplify us. We can all be Monster AI value creators if we can get faster, cheaper access to business best practices, enterprise-ready AI tools, and thriving communities of practice to harness it.
The benefits of AI should be accessible to all, not just those with technical backgrounds or the financial means to attend expensive classes at MIT.
As a Public Benefit Corporation, we are legally committed to serving more than just shareholders—we serve the public good by embracing the principles of open-source.
-Heather Zindel, CEO, AI Monster, Inc.
Our Story
How it Began...
We didn’t set out to build a company. We set out to solve a problem.
As two business professionals navigating the rapid rise of AI, we kept seeing the same pattern: endless potential, scattered resources, and too many people feeling lost.
We believed AI could be for everyone, especially for the doers in business: the HR leaders streamlining hiring, the marketers crafting smarter campaigns, the ops pros rebuilding workflows from the ground up. We believed that the people closest to the work were the ones best positioned to shape the future of it.
So we teamed up and built AI Monster, a peer-powered Center of Excellence and marketplace built by real business professionals using AI in meaningful, practical ways. Not theory. Not hype. Just real-world business practices that are shared to create value for individual careers and shareholders.
We found our first Monster Value Practitioners (MVPs), brilliant minds already using AI to automate, innovate, and elevate their work. We gave them a platform to share what they’d learned, to collaborate with others, and to earn recognition (and revenue) for the value they were creating.
Then we built Communities of Practice for each job function and invited business professionals to engage with their peers and share best practices.
What began as a scrappy experiment quickly became a movement.
Soon, AI Monster will be where the business side of AI comes to life:
-A community of builders sharing non-technical insights and unlocking value.
-A marketplace of digital resources and peer-driven services on speed dial.
-A growing ecosystem of professionals committed to learning, teaching, and leading together.
We’re building a new kind of future, one where AI is not just powerful, but open, collaborative, and accessible.
And this is just the beginning.
Together, we’re not just watching the AI revolution happen.
We’re powering it. We’re open-sourcing the business playbook for AI at scale.