DSEW regional impact · Northeast Tennessee
CloudWise began in 2016 with a straightforward idea: teach high-demand technology skills with outcomes in mind. Tennessee invested $1.18 million in that idea, helping build a training method, AI-enabled platform, regional partnerships, and practical programs that trained more than 600 people and expanded what local businesses could do.
What that new capacity changed for local businesses
“We followed the program, and it is 100% responsible for our 49% growth this year.”
“Thanks to what you taught us, we increased revenue by $3 million—and built the capacity to grow ten times beyond that.”
CloudWise connected training, AI tools, real business work, measurement, and curriculum. People learned by producing useful work; businesses put it into operation; results returned to the classroom and strengthened the next decision.
Advanced AI and marketing skills taught in plain language.
Reports, campaigns, apps, pages, and systems created during training.
Completed work moves directly into businesses and organizations.
Dashboards connect activity with response, capacity, and revenue.
Real results return to courses, instructors, interns, and the region.
The work reached schools, universities, chambers, workforce organizations, businesses, educators, and residents. Each delivery left behind something the partner could continue using.
Jeremiah School
AI marketing curriculum connected to college credit, business challenges, and real client work.
Coursework, a new minor, training infrastructure, and a regional economic forum.
Community deployment
A paid intern supporting entrepreneurship and startup work
1A paid intern plus weekly AI and marketing classes for the business community
WeeklyCommunity technology and AI skills training for Unicoi County residents
100AI Bootcamp delivered with educators from across the institution
54Regional training infrastructure
The studio gives the region a dedicated place for live AI instruction, practical workshops, and collaborative work. Its classroom and meeting spaces support the same outcomes-focused training used across CloudWise programs.
CloudWise built its own learning management system because course completion was not enough. The Training Hub helps people use AI while they learn, complete practical work inside the course, and leave with outcomes instructors can see.
CloudWise Training Hub
The platform combines course delivery, progress tracking, instructor tools, walkthroughs, prompts, credentials, and Ask Erwin—an embedded AI guide that helps learners understand and apply the material.
They came through community, college, workforce, and business settings. These six reactions show people gaining confidence, seeing new possibilities, and leaving with work they could use immediately.
The number matters because it represents hundreds of individual moments when people stopped feeling overwhelmed by technology and began using it to complete meaningful work.
CloudWise developed, launched, and taught Market Power—a marketing training program for the AI age. It combines strategy, AI instruction, guided walkthroughs, prompts, publishing tools, and performance dashboards so participants create the work their businesses need while they learn.
Market Power
Participants learn the decision, create the work, put it into the market, measure what happened, and use the result to make the next decision better.
One example · Smash Meals
From overwhelmed by marketing and losing revenue to 49.1% year-over-year growth.Smash Meals recorded $195,695.99 during January–June 2026, compared with $131,245.58 during the same period in 2025—an increase of $64,450.41.
CloudWise preserved the strategy, activity, published work, customer response, revenue, and decisions behind the growth. Students and local companies can learn from real data, real techniques, and real outcomes rather than a hypothetical case.
The cumulative outcome
Northeast Tennessee now has practical AI training, real business evidence, college curriculum, an intern pipeline, partner infrastructure, and technology that can help more people turn learning into measurable growth.
The two award amounts, announcement dates, and service areas come from official Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development announcements dated April 30, 2024 and October 30, 2024. The college partnership description is supported by ETSU's April 2, 2025 account.
Training participation, intern development, college-course totals, platform development, economic impact, and program activity come from CloudWise Academy's cumulative program records. Smash Meals figures come from the preserved longitudinal business record through July 2026. Gross Revenue is used for the year-over-year financial comparison.