We build with AI every day. Now we're teaching it.
The Pasadena AI Workshop is hosted by Whistle Labs, a Pasadena-based studio that designs and ships AI software and products. This is the class we wish existed for the smart, ambitious people in our own community.
About the Workshop
Who's in the room
Meet the Team
- James Gómez
- Kevin Xia
- Jake Hofman
- Daniel Zhu
We are student athletes from schools right here in Los Angeles. Between practices, games, and classes, we watched our coaches and compliance staff spend hours buried in NCAA rulebooks trying to answer questions that should take seconds. We knew there had to be a better way.
So we built one. Whistle Compliance is an AI platform now used by college athletic departments and conferences across the country. What used to take compliance officers an entire afternoon now takes a single question. We started with one problem in our own backyard and ended up moving across the country, conference by conference, because the results spoke for themselves.
Every business and every person has a version of that problem sitting in front of them. Something slow, something broken, something that quietly costs time and money every single day. We are confident we can help you find yours and show you exactly how to fix it.
From building products to building people
At Whistle Labs, AI isn’t a buzzword. It’s how we work. We use these exact tools every day to design, prototype, and ship real software.
Again and again, friends and clients asked the same thing: “Can you just show me how to actually use this?” There was no great in-person option, especially for professionals who aren’t engineers.
So we created one: everything we know from building with AI, in a room, in our hometown, for the people who want to learn it for real.
What we promise you
- We start where you are, even at zero.
- You'll build something real, not just take notes.
- We stay in the room until it clicks.
- We'll be honest about what's worth your time.
Hosted by
Whistle Labs
Whistle Labs is a studio based in Pasadena. We design and ship AI software and products for companies, every day, with the same tools we’ll set up with you in the room.
We were founded here, we work and live here, and this workshop is how we give back to the city that’s home. When you’re ready to build something for real, this is the team that does it.
- Based in
- Pasadena, California
- We do
- AI software & products for companies
- This workshop
- How we give back to Pasadena
How we run every cohort
- Hands-on or it didn't happen
- We measure success by what you build and use, not by how many slides you sat through.
- Plain English, always
- No jargon walls. We explain AI the way we'd explain it to a smart friend who's new to it.
- Honest about the hype
- We build with these tools daily, so we'll tell you what's genuinely useful and what's noise.
- Local and personal
- Small cohorts, real attention, and a community that lasts beyond the day.