AI First Workshops by Franz Enzenhofer

Change how you work.

Franz Enzenhofer in a red patterned shirt speaks into a microphone on stage at JETZT GEO/SEO in Vienna, with the audience in the foreground.

Build useful tools, automate recurring work and create agent setups that work with you 24/7.

Public workshops in Vienna and Berlin. In-house team workshops in English and German, worldwide.

Learn from someone who builds.

Builds with AI himself, and shows you how.

  • 25+Years on the web
  • 500+Trainings delivered
  • 100+Businesses consulted
  • 4,000+Books in readers' hands
  • 10×-100×Reported impact

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In-house workshops

Company workshops, built around your team.

Wherever your team stands today, that is where we start. From there we take it as far as you want to go.

From newcomers to the agentic organization

  1. Newcomers
  2. AI First
  3. Vibe coding
  4. AI First computer use
  5. Agentic engineering
  6. The agentic organization
Open SEO workshop in Vienna in 2018: Franz Enzenhofer stands in front of a projected "Systematic SEO" slide while participants with laptops face him.

No coding experience needed. What your team needs is domain expertise and the will to change. Then let's change.

  • Leadership and teams aligned on one shared AI First way of working
  • Your people build real internal tools, automations and agents, on your own work
  • Tailored to your stack, your workflows and your use cases, no generic slide decks
  • One day to several, on-site anywhere or remote, in English or German
Plan an in-house workshop

25 AI First workshops since December 2023.

In-house for companies and open in Vienna. Five workshop families, each one run several times. A few of the workshops behind each:

  • AI First workshops

    Your team rebuilds its real work with AI and leaves with tools, agents and automations that run. In-house, per team or across the whole organization: 1 to 3 days, at most twelve people per day.

    Your team leaves with

    • Tools that run on your real work
    • Agents for everyday tasks
    • Automations that keep running after the workshop

    Workshops delivered, examples

    1. Lift manufacturer: two days, 10 people, booked again the next year (2025 and 2026).
    2. Multinational team from five countries: a two-day AI First transformation workshop.
    3. Munich retail-deals platform: non-coders built AI business apps.
    4. Music-information association: two days, fears turned into first use cases.

    "Franz's workshop was a complete success for us. He managed not only to reduce fears and build acceptance for the topic of AI across the whole team, but also to spark genuine interest."

    Sabine Reiter, Executive Director, mica - music information center austria
  • AI Computer Use workshops

    You direct software an AI builds, and leave with something that runs. One day, each person on a personal cloud desktop, in-house or open in Vienna.

    Your team leaves with

    • Software you directed and an AI built
    • Practice in steering an AI build
    • Something that runs

    Workshops delivered, examples

    1. Tech startup on its way to unicorn: AI computer use live for more than 40 managers.
    2. Webshop group, 2026: two days, 26 people, two locations.
    3. Open run, 2026: 12 non-developers, one day, 90+ projects, one a Jira ticket prioritiser that opens GitHub pull requests.
  • AI Thinking workshops

    Leadership sees live what AI does today, then decides what that means. One day, in-house, for your leadership team.

    Your team leaves with

    • A live view of what AI does today
    • One shared picture across leadership
    • Decisions on what AI means for you

    Workshops delivered, examples

    1. Recommerce scale-up, January 2026: 39 senior managers, CEO included, from in-chat automation to vibe coding.
  • AI Newsroom workshops

    Your editors use AI daily and keep their quality and tone. In-house, from half-day sessions to one week.

    Your team leaves with

    • AI in the daily newsroom routine
    • Your editorial quality kept
    • Your own tone kept

    Workshops delivered, examples

    1. National daily, 2026: a 40-page tools guide and a copy app.
  • AI SEO workshops

    You run every SEO step with AI and build a tool. Three days.

    Your team leaves with

    • AI in every SEO step
    • A tool you built yourself
    • A workflow you keep using

    Workshops delivered, examples

    1. February 2025: 12 seats, sold out, 11 certificates.
    2. A national postal service and a telecom sent people to the three-day run.

The Agent Ladder

From the chat window to agents that work for you.

Most teams stop at the chat. We take yours to the top: agentic engineering and an agentic organization.

The Agent Ladder, from bottom to top: 0 Text LLM chat, text in, text out, ChatGPT, November 2022. 1 Text LLM chat with reasoning, the AI prompts itself in an internal reasoning monologue. 2 Chat with tools, web search and code sandbox, you still copy and paste. Below this line AI only answers, above it AI acts outside the chat. 3 Agent on a machine, files, terminal, deploys, Claude Code and Codex. 4 Agent with your logins, your browser and connectors, Claude in Chrome. 5 Agent with its own accounts, own mail, keys and 2FA. 6 Several agents, subagents, teams, workflows, one lead and many workers. Below the next line you start every job, above it nobody presses Enter. 7 Agents on their own computers, always on, starting by themselves and reporting back. At the top: agentic engineering and the agentic organization, your team leads, the agents work. An arrow along the steps up to step 7 says: we take your team there, step by step.

Build your AI First organization.

Tell Franz where your team stands today. He plans the climb with you.

AI First workshops

Open or in-house for your company.

Pick a topic, or we tailor a program around your real work.

Small groups, max 12. New dates go to the newsletter first. If an open workshop misses its minimum, everyone gets a full refund.

  • AI First Transformation

    A custom program for your whole organization.

    In-house · 2 to 3 days · on-site or remote

    You walk away with

    • Leadership and teams on one shared AI First way of working
    • Your real workflows automated, not demo ones
    • Working AI prototypes, built during the program
    • Tailored to your stack, your tools, your use cases
  • AI Thinking for leadership

    Leadership sees live what AI does today, then decides what that means.

    You walk away with

    • Managers who have seen agents do real work, not slides about it
    • A shared picture of where AI changes your business first
    • Decisions on the next steps, taken in the room
  • AI First Computer Use

    From the chat window to agents that work on your computer: Claude Code and Codex with the tools on your machine.

    You walk away with

    • Agents that open files, run tools and finish whole tasks on their own
    • Your own recurring tasks handed over, with checks you trust
    • A safe sandbox desktop and a repeatable way of working
  • Vibe Coding: build your own tools with AI

    Zero to your own solution in a day. Bring a laptop, no coding experience required.

    You walk away with

    • A real workflow of yours, turned into a working first version
    • A playable game, a published website, a live app with AI inside
    • Dashboards and automations built from your own data
  • Agentic engineering: your own AI agents

    OpenClaw, the open-source agent framework (390k+ GitHub stars, November 2026), on your own server.

    You walk away with

    • Your own agent running 24/7 on your own server
    • Wired to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack or Discord
    • Agents that plan, build, test and review each other's work
  • Your first iPhone app

    From your idea to your own app on your iPhone in one day. No Mac needed, your Windows laptop is enough.

    You walk away with

    • Your own app, installed on your iPhone via TestFlight (Android as APK)
    • Screens, navigation, data and AI features you described yourself
    • Agents that test your app and find bugs before others do
  • The AI newsroom

    For editorial teams: research, writing, checking and publishing with AI, without losing the journalism.

    You walk away with

    • Editorial workflows that use AI where it saves hours
    • Checks that keep facts, sources and tone under your control
    • Tools your newsroom built and keeps using

Public workshops.

Rather join on your own? Small groups, max 12, hands-on all day.

· Vienna

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Build your first useful AI tool.

Vibe CodingAvailable

Use your own idea to build a first working tool, website or automation with AI.

  • 09:00-18:00
  • Taught in German
  • Max 12 people

Early bird -10%EUR 719.10 excl. VATEarly-bird price until 22 November 2026, then EUR 799 excl. VAT

· Vienna

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Your first iPhone app.

Available

Describe your app, Claude Code builds it, and you install it on your own iPhone via TestFlight. No Mac needed. Recommended: first experience with Claude Code or Codex, or day one.

  • 09:00-18:00
  • Taught in German
  • Max 12 people

Early bird -10%EUR 809.10 excl. VATEarly-bird price until 22 November 2026, then EUR 899 excl. VAT

16-17 December 2026 · Vienna

Join both days.

Build a useful tool on day one and work on your own app on day two.

EUR 1,348.20 excl. VATEUR 180 less than both days booked separately.Early-bird price until 22 November 2026, then EUR 1,498 excl. VAT

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Workshop reviews

16 references from real participants, from feedback forms and LinkedIn.

  • “He lives AI.”

    Last week I had the opportunity to attend Franz Enzenhofer's AI workshop. Franz already supported my former startup with SEO, and that is how I came to know and appreciate him as a real expert.

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    What sets Franz apart is not only his technical know-how. He lives AI. You notice every minute that this is not about future scenarios but about things that are already possible today.

    It was particularly fascinating to see what vibe coding can do by now. Within a very short time you get applications that a few months ago would have needed project teams, long specifications and many development hours. The speed at which an idea becomes a working prototype is simply impressive. (...)

    In about 45 minutes I built my real-world use case: an app that creates bedtime stories for my kids, including topics, email delivery, voice output and much more.

    Many thanks to Franz for the practical, inspiring and at the same time honest look into the world of modern AI agents, vibe coding and AI-assisted development.

  • “Thanks for opening my eyes!”

    Last week I attended Franz Enzenhofer's AI Computer Use workshop. Thanks for opening my eyes!

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    Until now I mostly used AI in the browser and in chat windows. Not in a Codex/code environment, and certainly not in my Mac's terminal. The difference: enormous.

    Old way of working: open ChatGPT/Claude - enter a prompt - get an answer. New way of working: open Claude Code - prompt (or speak!) - Claude works on its own, if you like with every tool on the Mac.

    My personal highlight after the workshop: two app prototypes of my own. One of them is the Bim-Bot with Viennese grumpiness, which uses the live data of Wiener Linien and announces the next connection with attitude.

    (...)

    To break it down: a few months or years ago, AI gave me ideas. Now those ideas suddenly get hands and work.

  • “Super practical, extremely inspiring and immediately applicable.”

    The workshop was truly impressive. Super practical, extremely inspiring and immediately applicable. In a single day I built things that normally take whole teams: websites, SEO blogs, data visualisations and even a shopping app. You manage to explain complex topics clearly and get people straight into doing. You walk out and want to keep going right away. Your workshops are really valuable.

    Alexandra Aichholzer

    Alexandra Aichholzer

    Country Manager Austria, Shopfully

  • “Everything is clear, well-founded and practical - without any beating around the bush.”

    A really great workshop! I learned a lot about what is possible with AI and already have plenty of ideas I want to try and implement in my daily work.

    Read the full reference

    Franz shares his knowledge with enthusiasm, gets to the point and knows what he is talking about. Everything is clear, well-founded and practical - without any beating around the bush. I left the workshop with lots of new impulses and a lot of motivation. Highly recommended for everyone who wants to understand and use the potential of AI better!

    Martina Strasser

    Martina Strasser

    Digital Business Analyst, UNIQA

  • “It completely changed how I think about turning ideas into reality.”

    Franz did an outstanding job facilitating the workshop. I left the one-day session on AI-powered computer use for non-coders really inspired. It completely changed how I think about turning ideas into reality.

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    The tools and approaches we explored enable rapid, hands-on experimentation, allowing me to test and refine ideas in a practical way without months of planning, implementation, and review. It was empowering to see how quickly concepts can become working solutions, even without any coding skills.

    Tanja Wassermair

    Tanja Wassermair

    CPO, GeoGebra

  • “I basically book them blindly because I know they will be incredibly valuable.”

    Franz's workshops are a fixed appointment for me at this point. I basically book them blindly because I know they will be incredibly valuable. The amount of content he delivers in a single day is honestly impressive - you'd rarely get that much input elsewhere in a whole week.

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    His pace is fast, so come well-rested and ready to focus. But if you do, you'll get an incredible amount of knowledge and practical insights. You can also tell how much effort he puts into preparing his material and how much he cares about every single participant.

    He answers every question and is extremely generous with his knowledge, even sharing insights from his own personal projects that are easily worth far more than the workshop itself.

    Highly recommended.

    R. Leb

    Wiederkehrender Teilnehmer

  • “I especially liked applying everything in practice with real examples.”

    It was an intense but very instructive workshop. I especially liked applying everything in practice with real examples. Highly recommended for practitioners, especially if you have had very little to do with AI so far. I would attend one of your workshops again any time.

    Susanne Reiner

    Susanne Reiner

    Steuerberaterin, Kanzlei Kleiner

  • “The workshop created a healthy learning environment.”

    I really appreciated that we were encouraged to ask questions and make mistakes. The workshop created a healthy learning environment. Even though it was a lot of new information packed into a single day, everything was structured in the right order and easy to follow.

    Elena Soroka

    Elena Soroka

    Digital Marketing Managerin

  • “really liked”

    I really liked the workshop; the whole execution, from starting with theory, background, followed by actual practice.

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    Since I'm a junior in SEO, I'm really happy that I got to learn more from a developer's perspective. Really appreciated actual real-life examples for both good practice & practice we should avoid.

    The AI tasks were especially fun & I'm proud to say I've been using megaprompts from the same day I left the workshop and noticed how much it's impacted my work in a positive way.

    Looking forward to your newsletters about any potential tools that may come!

    I would also like to thank you for showcasing Eurosender, as it made following through technical parts way easier.

    Alenka Bajc

    Alenka Bajc

    Junior SEO Specialist, Eurosender

  • “really brilliant”

    The workshop was really brilliant!!! You far exceeded my expectations!

    Read the full reference

    The training was practical, to the point, and had a lasting effect on my way of thinking.

    Previously, I had little exposure to AI, but I knew it was becoming increasingly important in everyday work. The workshop helped me to rethink: I now ask the AI first, before I begin a task-rather than halfway through. A real enrichment!

    The content and what I learned are still on my mind-an indication of how valuable and sustainable this workshop was. Thank you so much!

    Elena Rosa

    Elena Rosa

    Digital Product Manager, Aktionsfinder

  • “Performance diagnosis AI SEO Workshop”

    Performance diagnosis AI SEO Workshop: SEO Expertise 98, Nice Guy 100, AI First 100, Workshop 100, Overall 100.

    Yeah, it was really nice! I also did a lot of promotion for your workshop.

    Wilfried Ladenhauf

    Wilfried Ladenhauf

    Lead Web Developer, Styria Media House

  • “Real-world examples and data, not fiction!”

    Lots of input on how to measure GEO. Real-world examples and data, not fiction! Very complete and sophisticated insights into how to see this current, so-called "GEO market".

    Wolfgang Spitz

    Wolfgang Spitz

    Geschäftsführer, POINTED.

  • “A great way to get a concise and practically usable knowledge update.”

    A great way to get a concise and practically usable knowledge update. Franz Enzenhofer has a deep understanding of the topic and is willing to share that knowledge and understanding.

    Andrea Schlögl

    Andrea Schlögl

    Head of Marketing, INSITE LMS

  • “getting straight from talking about it into using it in a productive way.”

    The hands-on approach and the avant-garde learning by doing: getting straight from talking about it into using it in a productive way.

    Konrad Fux

    Konrad Fux

    Leiter Markt & Lösungen, VKU Service GmbH

  • “we could solve practical exercises together right away”

    It was very interesting and we could solve practical exercises together right away, so the knowledge sticks even better.

    Claudia Pisch

    Claudia Pisch

    Digitale Produktentwicklung, Stadt Wien

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Black-and-white studio portrait of Franz Enzenhofer in a dark T-shirt, hand at his chin, looking into the camera

About

Franz Enzenhofer. Vienna, Austria. AI First consultant, builder, trainer.

Coding since 1986, on a half-broken C64. Web since 1998. SEO since 2004. AI First since 2022.

  • Builds open source with his AI agent Arthur Ficial: apfel, 6,597 GitHub stars on 11 November 2026.
  • Took a people-search engine from 2 markets to 11 and 90M monthly visits, 90% of it from SEO, into the top 10 websites of its era.
  • VP Growth at the London fintech Curve, 2019.
  • Clients from Red Bull Media House and Coca-Cola to Stiftung Warentest, Bayer and Österreichische Post.
  • Author of "Understanding SEO". First edition sold out in a week and a half, reviewed in c't 4/2018.
  • In-house workshops in Austria, Germany, UK, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Sweden, India, US, Peru and Colombia.
  • Speaker at SEOkomm, WeAreDevelopers, Fifteen Seconds Festival, Startup Week, Werbeplanung.at Summit, WordCamp Vienna and the JETZT conferences.
  • Organizer of viennaJS from 2012 to 2017, growing it from 195 to 2,079 members. Also ran the Growth Hackers Meetup Vienna.

The mission: get people to actually use this stuff. Not slides about AI, but real, working results you build with your own hands.

Open source AI agents, built by AI agents

apfel. Built by franzai.

Franz and his AI agent Arthur Ficial build it in the open.

The free AI already on your Mac. A pipe-friendly UNIX tool and a local, OpenAI-compatible server on Apple's on-device model. No API keys, no cloud, nothing leaves your machine.

Terminal
brew install apfel
echo "Write a haiku" | apfel
6,597stars on GitHub

Starred and followed by engineers from

  • Google
  • Apple
  • Sony PlayStation
  • Microsoft
  • Netflix
  • Spotify
  • NVIDIA
  • Stripe
  • Shopify
  • Amazon
  • Meta
  • Vercel

Classical SEO and GEO

Looking for classical SEO or GEO?

Before AI First there was, and still is, SEO. Under FullStackOptimization, ranking sites since 2004, and now GEO too: found inside AI answers, not just on Google.

  • Technical, content and architecture SEO that compounds for years
  • GEO: visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews
  • 20+ years, 100+ businesses, startups to household names
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  • GEO: how AI search finds your content

    Get found inside AI answers. Every step of the SEO process, executed with AI.

    In-house on request · next open date via newsletter

    Ask for the next date
  • AI SEO Workshop

    Bring AI into search. For teams that already live in SEO.

    In-house · on request

    Bring AI to your SEO
  • LLM SEO / GEO for teams

    Hypothesis-driven optimization for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.

    In-house · on request

    Get into AI answers
  • Business Goal SEO Workshop

    The classic all-in workshop, cross-department, built on a full analysis of your site. One agreed hard business goal.

    In-house · usually 2 days · cross-department

    Set a business goal
  • In-house SEO Training

    For teams that already have SEO responsibilities: Dev, Product, Content or Marketing.

    In-house · 1 day · per department

    Train your team

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Get in touch.

Workshop for your team, on-site or remote? Or just talk AI? It is Franz who answers.

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Based in Vienna, Austria, EU. Operates worldwide, on-site or remote.

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Vienna, Austria. English and German.