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Hands-on AI capability for the people who will do the work.

Training, workshops, and hackathons for teams that need real capability, not slides and not certificates. The output is your people, working with real AI tooling on real artefacts of their own, ready to do the same work next week without us in the room.

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AI Training · AI Workshop · AI Hackathon
Why Learn

Generic courses are cheap. The wrong thing to buy.

Off-the-shelf AI training is a commodity now. You can put a team through a self-paced course for a few hundred dollars per seat. The reason it rarely changes how the team works is that generic curricula are not tied to anything your team actually does on Monday morning.

Learn engagements are different shape: every curriculum is designed for your team, your stack, and your real work. By the end, participants have built something they can show to their colleagues, and the team is collectively able to do the same thing again, on a different problem, without us.

Offers in this family

Three shapes for a Learn engagement.

Different shapes suit different goals. Training is the deepest; workshops are the most flexible; hackathons are the most high-energy way to shake a team into using the tools.

Offer · Half-day to two weeks

AI Training

Structured capability-building for a team that needs to use AI tooling in their day-to-day. We design a curriculum specific to the team’s role, deliver it in modules, and check comprehension throughout, not at the end.

  • Curriculum designed against the team’s real work
  • Delivered in modules from a half-day to a two-week intensive
  • Hands-on labs in every module; no watch-only sessions
  • Per-participant written summary and follow-up check after
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Offer · One to three days

AI Workshop

An intensive working session for a defined group, focused on a specific outcome. Suited to leadership teams who need to align on an AI strategy, or to working groups asked to scope a build by a named date.

  • Scoped around one concrete outcome: a plan, a spec, or a decision
  • Pre-work assigned in advance so the workshop runs on real material
  • Facilitated by us with the team doing the actual work in the room
  • Written output delivered within five business days
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Offer · Two to five days

AI Hackathon

Time-boxed building event for a cross-functional team to ship working prototypes against real problems. We frame the challenges, coach in the room, and judge with you at the end. The energy is intentional; the outputs are real.

  • Three to five concrete challenges shaped against your business
  • Teams of three to five, mixed by function and seniority
  • Two to five days end to end, with running coaching support
  • Working prototypes plus a written readout of which are worth productionising
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How it runs

Four steps from first call to follow-up.

The shape varies, a one-day workshop and a two-week training run very differently, but the four steps are the same.

Capability conversation

A free first call to understand the team you want to upskill, the work they actually do, and the gap between where they are and where you need them to be.

Curriculum design

We design a curriculum or workshop agenda specific to your team and your stack. Generic AI courses are easy to buy elsewhere; we do not deliver them.

Delivery

Training, workshop, or hackathon delivered in person or remotely. Hands-on throughout, we are not interested in teaching your team to watch slides.

Follow-up and reinforcement

A written summary of what was covered, a list of next steps for each participant, and a follow-up check four to eight weeks after delivery.

Common questions

Frequently asked questions about Learn engagements.

How technical does our team need to be already?

We deliver Learn engagements across a wide range, from non-technical operations leaders to senior engineers. The curriculum is shaped to where the team actually is, not to a fixed level. We will tell you on the intake call what we think the right depth is.

Will the team be able to do the work after the engagement ends?

That is the whole point. We will not deliver a Learn engagement that leaves the team dependent on us, every workshop and training produces a working artefact the team built themselves and can rebuild later from notes.

Do you provide certificates or credentialing?

We provide a written completion summary per participant. We do not issue industry-recognised certificates because we do not think they are worth what they claim to be worth.

Can the training be done remotely?

Yes. Workshops and trainings run well over video for teams up to about twelve people. Hackathons benefit from being in person; we will say so on the intake call if remote is going to compromise the outcome.

How long are the engagements?

AI Training runs from a half-day to a two-week intensive. AI Workshop is typically one to three days. AI Hackathon is two to five days end to end. The intake call confirms the right shape.

Can we use our own data and codebase?

Strongly encouraged. The training is more valuable when the team is working on real artefacts they recognise. We will sign whatever NDA your legal team needs before we see anything sensitive.

Need your team using AI tooling by next quarter?

Tell us who the team is and what they need to be able to do. We will tell you which Learn offer fits, training, workshop, or hackathon, and what it would cost.

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