Meet Gio - Your AI Teaching Assistant for the Trades
Gio isn’t just a support bot. He’s your always-on teaching partner — ready to coach students, answer questions, and reinforce hands-on skills, even after the class ends.
Teach beyond the classroom
Whether students are preparing for day one or practicing months later, Gio is there. He helps them review techniques, understand tools, and stay engaged — so your teaching sticks and your graduates succeed.
Voice, chat, and real-time guidance
Gio meets students where they are — by voice or chat — and walks them through real-world tasks step by step. Welding prep? Safety procedures? Troubleshooting machinery? Gio becomes their on-demand coach, helping build confidence one question at a time.
Trained on your curriculum
Gio learns from your course materials, your voice recorded classes, and expertise. He personalizes his guidance to reflect your teaching style and objectives — becoming a true extension of your classroom, scaled across every student, every cohort, every time zone.
Everything you need to run your instructional business in one place
Workbench gives hands-on instructors and studios a full-stack platform to manage every aspect of their business — without cobbling together five different tools. From class scheduling and student bookings to payments, gift cards, marketing, reporting, and more, Workbench streamlines operations so you can focus on what you do best: teaching.
Modern infrastructure for training the next generation of skilled workers
Workbench partners with the best hands-on training facilities in the U.S. — from welding and HVAC to electronics, woodworking, and construction. But we don’t stop at infrastructure. With our custom-trained instructor AI systems, every student gets access to one-on-one guidance modeled after the country’s top educators. Whether they’re learning in the classroom or practicing on the job, our AI coaches reinforce skills, answer questions, and provide real-time support — anytime, anywhere. This is how you scale quality education without compromising on it. Manage your program, grow enrollment, and deliver a best-in-class learning experience — all from one platform, built for the trades.
Find your path in craft and trade education — and stay on it
Whether you're just getting curious about woodworking or planning to earn a certification in welding, Workbench is built to support your journey. Explore workshops, compare programs, and get personalized guidance from Gio, your AI advisor. Workbench helps you take your next step — and the one after that — with confidence.
Our Mission
Helping educators and creators shape the future by hand
At Workbench, we believe hands-on education is just as vital as academic learning — and it deserves world-class tools. Our platform supports the people and programs training the next generation of builders, makers, and doers. Whether it’s a student discovering welding for the first time, a local workshop scaling up, or a union retraining its members for a new era — we’re here to help them thrive.
- Students on the platform
- 10,000+
- Average increase in sales
- 20%
- Uptime guarantee
- 99.9%
- Average support time
- 30 mins
