AI Academy · Practical AI Automation

Stop chatting with AI. Start putting it to work.

Most people use AI as a chat assistant. Over eight evening sessions, you and your team learn to build it into automations that run on your own machine and do the work for you—taking real inputs, applying your company's strategy and voice, and turning out finished reports, dashboards, and decks. Everyone leaves with a working automation and a free month of Claude Pro.

Free webinar first: Aug 20 & 26 · see AI build an app live Next batch: 14–24 September 2026 · 8 evening sessions · 7:00–8:30 PM

From asking AI questions to running it as a process.

A one-off prompt gives you a one-off answer. The real gains come when the same task—your weekly report, your board deck, your monthly analysis—runs as an automation on your own machine that produces the finished thing every time, no chat window required.

This course takes the recurring, deliverable-shaped work you already do and turns it into automations that stay on-strategy and on-brand. You build a complete, real workflow live—we use a competitor analysis as the worked example—then adapt it to your own role in a capstone.

Free webinar: watch AI build an app, live

In 30 minutes we take an idea from the room and build a working app with Claude, start to finish. Free, no experience needed.

Aug 20, Thu · 12:00–12:30 PM Aug 26, Wed · 7:30–8:00 PM

What you'll be able to do

By the end, AI isn't a novelty—it's part of how the work gets done.

Spot the right work

Find the repetitive, deliverable-shaped tasks AI should be doing, and rank them by impact and effort.

Build repeatable workflows

Turn one-off prompts into pipelines that run the same way every time—no starting from scratch.

Keep it on-brand

Ground AI in your strategy, brand voice, and conventions so every output sounds like you.

Produce real deliverables

Generate boardroom-ready reports, KPI dashboards, and PowerPoint decks straight from your workflows.

Roll it out to the team

Shared prompt libraries, context packs, and review gates so the whole team works the same way.

Stay safe and honest

Verify claims, protect your data and IP, and disclose AI use appropriately.

What you'll actually build

Real automations that run on your machine—not answers in a chat window. A few of the workflows people build in this course.

Your weekly report, on autopilot

Point it at your data and it drafts the report in your company's voice, every week.

A spreadsheet into a live dashboard

Turn a messy export into a clean KPI dashboard and a plain-English summary.

Meeting notes that write themselves

Drop in a recording and get notes, decisions, and who-does-what-by-when.

A month of social posts from one brief

Feed it a campaign brief and get a month of on-brand posts ready to schedule.

A first-draft deck in minutes

Give it a one-page brief and get a structured, on-brand deck to refine.

An assistant that knows your files

Ask questions and get answers from your own documents, not the internet.

200 reviews into what matters

Turn a pile of customer feedback into the three themes worth acting on.

A competitor teardown, annotated

Scan a rival's site and get an evidence-based breakdown of what they're doing.

See it in action

Not mockups—real automations you build in this course, running on your own machine. No chat window, no copy-paste.

A spreadsheet → a live dashboard, with an AI-written summary.

A one-line brief → a branded deck, written and designed.

A meeting → a marketing plan → finished content, in one run.

Who it's for

Analysts, marketers, product managers, team leads, and operations professionals who produce recurring reports or presentations—and managers rolling AI workflows out to their teams. If you make the same kind of deliverable again and again, this is for you. No programming background required.

The curriculum

Eight evening sessions over two weeks—each one hands-on.

1

The Optimization Mindset

Map your week to find repetitive, rule-based work, learn when a prompt should become a process, and prioritise candidates by impact, effort, and risk.

2

The AI Workflow Toolkit

Frame tasks with roles, constraints, and structured outputs; build reusable prompt templates; and choose the right surface for the job—chat, projects, or agent tools.

3

Grounding AI in Company Context

Create a shared context pack—strategy, goals, brand voice—so every output aligns with your company automatically, and keep it current with clear ownership.

4

Build-Along: Your First Real Workflow

Capture a competitor's webpage, analyse its messaging, tone, and CTAs against your strategy, and produce annotated screenshots with evidence-based callouts.

5

From Analysis to Boardroom

Turn analysis into reports and recommendations, build a KPI dashboard from a spreadsheet, auto-generate a presentation deck, then refine and brand the result.

6

Scaling to the Team

Set up shared prompt libraries and team context packs, add review gates where humans check and approve, and measure the win in time saved and consistency.

7

Ethics & Quality Gates

Verify claims and avoid hallucinations, keep evidence traceable, protect company data and IP, and disclose AI use appropriately.

8

Capstone: Optimise Your Own Process

Pick a proven automation pattern—or bring your own process—build it live with instructor support, and present the before-and-after with the time you'll save.

What's included

You don't just leave with notes—you leave with working tools.

1 free month of Claude Pro
Activated with you in class, so you can put your new workflows to work straight away.

"Honestly, this could change how our whole team works."

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