Apprenticeship

The trades don't have a demand problem. They have a throughput problem.

600,000 open trades jobs, 150,000 new entrants a year, and grant money flowing. So why does it feel stuck? The orgs meant to fix it run modern mandates on case-manager-era operations.

The demand and the funding are already here. The variable left is throughput — and the workforce orgs that scale will be the ones that give overstretched staff their hours back with applied AI, while keeping human judgment on the decisions that change lives.