Fast-tracking AI Ready States and Regions.
AIReadyAmerica.org is live. AI Ready America is a nonprofit 501(c)(3), powered by the Enterprise Technology Association, dedicated to fast-tracking AI Ready state and region efforts across the United States; bringing the education, enablement programs, and ecosystem coordination that turn AI readiness into real economic momentum for workforces, businesses, and communities. Learners and leaders can get started right now.
AIReadyAmerica.org is live.
The national home for the AI Ready movement is open. A nonprofit 501(c)(3) powered by the Enterprise Technology Association, built to fast-track AI Ready state and region efforts coast to coast. Explore the model, browse the hubs, and find your starting point today.
The states that move first will win the AI economy.
AI is reshaping how every industry hires, builds, and competes. The advantage will not go to the places with the most pilots. It will go to the ones that make their whole region ready, from students and small businesses to enterprises and government. AI Ready America gives you a coordinated way to get there instead of a scattered set of one-off efforts.
A workforce that can actually use AI
Practical, role-based training that meets people where they are, not abstract theory.
Businesses that adopt with confidence
Hands-on accelerator programs that move companies from curiosity to deployment.
An ecosystem that compounds
Partners, events, and a shared portal that keep the momentum going long after launch.
Four parts that work as one system.
AI Ready America is not a single program. It is a coordinated system that takes a region from awareness to adoption, with each piece reinforcing the others.
AI Navigator + Portal
A guided front door and shared statewide hub that connects people, partners, and resources, and shows everyone where they stand and what to do next.
ConnectAI Accelerator
Hands-on programs across eight tracks, from startups and small business to enterprise, government, and research.
EnableAI Advisory
Strategic guidance for leaders that aligns partners, funding, and milestones so the whole program stays coordinated and moving.
CoordinateAI Week
An anchor convening that brings the whole region together, builds visibility, and turns interest into participation.
ActivateWe did not draw this up on a whiteboard. We proved it in Ohio.
AI Ready Ohio started at Cincinnati AI Week in 2024 and launched statewide in 2025 with support from JobsOhio. Today it spans seven verified regions, university partners, and national training providers, all coordinated through a single statewide program. It is the blueprint AI Ready America now brings to states and regions across the country.
With partners including JobsOhio, Big Kitty Labs, and Microsoft.
Explore AI Ready Ohio →One model, built to flex at any scale.
AI Ready America is not tied to a single kind of jurisdiction. The same coordinated system works whether you are activating a single municipality or an entire multi-region economy.
Municipalities
A single municipality can launch AI Ready to upskill its workforce, modernize public services, and signal that it is open for innovation.
Counties
County leaders coordinate readiness across their municipalities and local employers, aligning education and adoption under one roof.
States
The full statewide model, proven in Ohio, connecting universities, economic development partners, and state agencies in a single program.
Regions
Multi-county and cross-border economic regions run AI Ready as a shared platform, the way Ohio activates its seven regions today.
Tools and resources mapped to the NSF coordination hub model.
NSF TechAccess: AI-Ready America (NSF 26-508) funds a Coordination Hub in every state, the District of Columbia, and territory, each carrying five primary responsibilities. AI Ready America gives a hub the infrastructure to deliver all five from day one, built and proven through AI Ready Ohio.
AI Learning and Resource Navigator
Maintain a public, user-friendly inventory of the state's AI training programs, infrastructure, and support services.
AI Navigator + statewide Portal
A live, searchable navigator and shared portal, already built in Ohio on a Supabase and Vercel stack, that becomes the hub's public front door on day one.
State / Territory AI Readiness Strategic Plan
Develop a statewide readiness plan with partners, with data collection and evaluation built in for evidence-based decisions.
AI Advisory + performance dashboards
Strategic guidance that aligns partners, funding, and milestones, with dashboards that capture progress and feed the program's national reporting.
AI Deployment Support
Provide hands-on help for AI adoption and, where useful, a corps of credentialed practitioners.
AI Accelerator + Deployment Corps
Hands-on programs across eight organizational tracks, backed by a vetted network of advisors and practitioners ready to support local adoption.
AI Readiness Training & Capacity Building
Act as a backbone that scales existing training and aligns credentialing across the state's education and workforce systems.
University + training partner network
A backbone that connects universities and national training providers, scales what works, and recognizes skills through micro-credentials and certifications.
Coordination Within Priority Sectors
Convene industry, education, and workforce partners around the sectors most critical to the state's economy.
AI Week + sector roundtables
Anchor convenings and sector roundtables that align adoption strategies and contribute to shared, national best-practice repositories.
Built for the hub. Ready for the national role.
The same coordination layer maps to the NSF National Coordination Lead responsibilities, from national dashboards and best-practice repositories to the AI Deployment Network and cross-sector coordination.
NSF TechAccess: AI-Ready America (NSF 26-508) funds a Coordination Hub in every state, the District of Columbia, and territory at $1M per year for three years. Letters of intent are due June 16, 2026 and full proposals July 16, 2026.
Built for the people who move a region forward.
Economic development organizations
Regional and statewide EDOs that want a turnkey, fundable AI readiness program to offer their communities.
State and regional government
Leaders who need a credible, measurable path to AI readiness across workforce, business, and public services.
Universities and enterprise partners
Institutions and companies ready to anchor curriculum, talent, and adoption inside their home region.
Make your state or region the next one to be AI Ready.
AIReadyAmerica.org is live. Learners and leaders can get started right now, or tell us about your region and we will show you what an AI Ready program could look like, from first conversation to statewide launch.
AI Ready America is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) powered by the Enterprise Technology Association. AIReadyAmerica.org is now live.