The firm that made AI work for people everyone else skipped.

We didn't join the AI wave. We were three years early.

Skilldora Inc. was co-founded by the husband-and-wife team of Dr. DeMario McIlwain and Dr. Dawn Nicole McIlwain — two skill sets that fit together like they were designed for it.

Dr. Dawn Nicole is a global trainer, TEDx speaker and multi-published author, expert in curriculum and training design. She knows exactly how people learn. Dr. DeMario is a creative tech genius who spent years before Skilldora as a freelance developer, digitalizing small businesses — building the websites, systems and tools that put overlooked owners on equal technological footing. He knows exactly how to build.

She designed the learning. He engineered the platform. Together they launched something no company in the country had done: a platform that trains and certifies people in AI — taught by AI. Today Dr. Dawn Nicole also serves as CEO of ProcuraFind®, the supplier-sourcing platform Skilldora built.

In September 2022 — before most people had heard of ChatGPT — Skilldora became the first company in the United States to deliver certification courses taught entirely by AI digital human instructors. Not a pilot. In market, with real learners earning real credits. In May 2023, the CPD Standards Office in England granted the world's first accreditation to an eLearning platform taught exclusively by AI instructors.

That origin is why we build the way we build. We had to make AI genuinely work for people with no technical background — and prove it to an accrediting body — three years before "AI consultant" was a job title. Everything we ship today runs on what we learned doing it first.

What we do now

Skilldora is an AI strategy, training and development firm serving small business owners, ministry leaders, working professionals and the organizations that support them — the people most technology firms overlook because the contracts are smaller and the explanations take longer.

Our model is our name: Train The Human. Deploy The AI. Understanding first, then working systems — delivered with full ownership transferred to you.

How we're different

• We were first — the accreditation and the AI instructors are 2022–2023 history, not a 2025 pivot.
• We build, we don't just advise — seventeen shipped systems with named clients and measurable outcomes.
• You own everything — every asset transfers on payment in full. No license fees.
• We use our own product — Ethan AI runs our front office every day. Try him on this site.
• We say no — if AI won't earn its keep in your business, we tell you on the free call.