Generic AI training produces informed people who change nothing
The problem with most AI training is not the content — it is that it is about AI in general rather than about your invoicing process, your service desk or your quality data. Sessions built on your own material end with a decision or something working, which is the only version that survives the week after.
- A decision or an artefact. Each session ends with something concrete: a shortlist, a policy, a working prototype, a process redesign.
- A shared vocabulary. So that the executive, the manager and the engineer are arguing about the same thing, which is not currently the case in most companies.
- Calibrated expectations. What these systems genuinely do well, where they fail quietly, and what that means for your specific processes.
- Capability that stays. Deliberate transfer, so the second project needs less of us than the first.
What is delivered
Executive session
Half a day: where value realistically is, what it costs, what the regulatory position means for you, and how to tell a real proposal from a fashionable one. No tooling, no demos of other companies.
Manager and process workshop
One or two days on your own processes: mapping where decisions are made, where AI would help and where it would not, ending with a ranked shortlist the room agrees on.
Engineering workshop
Two to three days hands-on with your data: retrieval, evaluation, agents, guardrails and cost. People leave having built and broken something.
AI usage policy
The practical one: approved tools, data classes in plain language, what may leave the building, and an amnesty for what has been happening already.
Prompt and pattern library
For your actual tasks, tested and versioned, rather than a collection of general tips that decay in three months.
Follow-up clinic
A session some weeks later on what people tried and where it went wrong. This is where most of the learning actually lands.
How it runs
- 01
Pick real material
Your documents, your processes, your awkward cases. Preparation is most of the work and it is what makes a session different from a course.
- 02
Run short and hands-on
Minimal lecture, mostly doing. People remember what they built and forget what they were told.
- 03
End with an artefact
A decision, a policy, a prototype. A session that ends with enthusiasm and no artefact has produced nothing.
- 04
Come back
Weeks later, when the practical obstacles have appeared. The follow-up is where the training converts.
A good fit when
- Different parts of the business have wildly different ideas of what AI can do.
- Staff are already using AI tools and there is no policy.
- Your engineers are capable but new to evaluation, retrieval and agent patterns.
- You want internal capability rather than a permanent supplier.
Not the right service when
- You need a certification programme. That is a training company, not us.
- Nobody can spare the time. A half-attended workshop is worse than none, because it produces the appearance of alignment.
- The decision has already been made and the session is meant to sell it internally. We are the wrong people for that.
Frequently asked questions
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