Some internships hand you a badge and a laptop and wish you luck. WellSky hands you innovative tools.
On June 4, dozens of interns filled both buildings at WellSky HQ for the inaugural 2026 AI Immersion Day. The landmark event was built around the question: What does it actually look like to work with AI? In an era where tech companies love to discuss AI, WellSky designed this day to close the gap between knowing AI exists and knowing how to use it well. The day was built with a clear belief that the earlier you put tools in people's hands, the faster they can drive meaningful impact
The morning opened with a session led by WellSky Senior Vice President of Engineering Joe Baker on WellSky's AI vision and what the organization expects from the people building within it. It was less a keynote and more a framing device, setting the tone that AI at WellSky is not a future-state aspiration but a present-day operating reality.
From there, the cohort split. Technical interns spent the bulk of the day in a deep-dive Claude Code workshop led by the Engineering Enablement Team. The sessions covered core capabilities in the morning before moving into the marketplace, custom plugins, and WellSky-specific workflows in the afternoon. The goal was not familiarity with the tool in the abstract but fluency with how it fits into actual work.
Business interns, meanwhile, worked through a Gemini Enterprise workshop hosted by WellSky Staff Software Engineer Patrick Herrington, focused on applying AI to the kinds of analysis, communication, and workflow challenges they encounter day-to-day.
What set both tracks apart was not the tools themselves, but the context wrapped around them. Rather than working through contrived exercises, interns in both workshops were applying AI to actual WellSky problems, using real workflows, real code, and the kinds of tasks they would genuinely face in their roles. The Claude Code sessions gave technical interns direct access to the engineers who built and maintain those workflows, which meant questions did not dead-end at documentation but turned into live conversations about why things work the way they do.
The business-focused Gemini track offered something similar on the business side, where the focus stayed on decisions and outputs interns would actually own rather than hypothetical scenarios. Interns engaged with professional AI toolsets, connecting the capabilities to their day-to-day work. It provided a level of practical, hands-on experience that standard onboarding modules can’t match.
WellSky is not adopting AI because it is the next thing on a checklist, but because it changes what people can accomplish, and our interns got to experience that firsthand. They left June 4 not with a certificate to hang on a wall, but with tools open on their screens and a clearer sense of how to use them. The interns arrived this summer curious and ready to learn. They left this immersive day ready to contribute to our innovative culture.
