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AI training for business teaches people to do their own jobs with AI, on their own work and in the tools they already use. predeploy runs it for teams and companies, hands-on. It is not a consumer course, and it is not AI model training.

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BBC reporting describes the UK rollout of workplace AI courses. BBC: workplace AI training ↗

The Turing framework distinguishes workers, professionals and leaders. The Alan Turing Institute: AI skills for business ↗

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What AI training is

AI training: who needs it?

Businesses have bought AI tools faster than they have trained people to use them. AI training closes that gap, one team at a time.

The ONS, Artificial intelligence in UK businesses: 2023 to 2026 found that only 11% of UK businesses with ten or more staff have given AI-related training to more than half their workforce.

At the same time, government and industry have set a goal of upskilling 10 million UK workers in AI by 2030, according to the DSIT, AI Skills Boost explainer. The gap between those two numbers is where most teams sit today.

11%of UK businesses with 10 or more staff say more than half their workforce has had AI-related training

Source: ONS, Artificial intelligence in UK businesses: 2023 to 2026 (Jul 2026)

10 millionUK workers the government and industry aim to upskill in AI by 2030

Source: DSIT, AI Skills Boost explainer (Jan 2026)

Why teams stall

AI training: which skills are missing?

Even organisations that hire for AI report a skills shortfall. For everyone else, the gap is wider.

The DSIT, AI Labour Market Survey 2025 found that 57% of organisations in the UK AI labour market report a technical skills gap. Among UK businesses with ten or more staff that use AI, only one in ten say they use it extensively.

Tools without training stay shallow. People try an assistant, get a mixed result and go back to the old way. Training on their own work is what moves them past that point.

57%of organisations in the UK AI labour market report a technical skills gap

Source: DSIT, AI Labour Market Survey 2025 (Jan 2026)

10%of UK businesses (10 or more staff) that use AI say they use it extensively

Source: ONS, Artificial intelligence in UK businesses: 2023 to 2026 (Jul 2026)

AI training courses

AI training: who is the course for?

Each course is built for one group in your business. We run them separately or together, depending on the workflow you want to change.

Lead

01 / Leaders

Decide where AI goes first

For leadership teams: what AI does well and badly today, how to pick use cases, how to judge a vendor claim, and what to ask of the people building it.
Use

02 / Everyday users

Do the job with AI

For the people doing the work: hands-on practice on their own tasks, in the tools they already have, with clear rules on data and checking output.
Sell

03 / Go-to-market teams

Research, write and follow up

For sales, marketing and customer teams: account research, drafting from your own material, and keeping the CRM clean without extra admin.
Build

04 / Technical staff

Run and extend what we build

For the people who will own the workflows: prompts, evaluation tests, integrations and how to change a workflow safely once we have gone.

Training by role

AI training: what does your role need?

Each role page explains the work that group practises, the checks it needs and how in-company training is scoped for it.

People and organisation

AI training for beginners →Leave knowing which free course to start with, when in-company training is worth it, and what a first session should cover.AI training for managers →Leave with a manager’s review checklist, an agreed escalation route and a practical coaching exercise.AI training for HR →Build an HR task guide with approved inputs, a source-based review checklist and clear escalation responsibilities.AI training for recruiters →Leave with agreed recruitment use cases, the checks for each, and the questions to put to any AI recruitment vendor.AI for executive assistants →A clear view of useful tasks, the checks that keep them safe, and the training route that turns individual experiments into a reliable way of working.AI training for small businesses →Choose a manageable first workflow and give its owner a practical guide for using and checking it.AI training for charities →Leave with a practical task guide, a source-checking routine and clear ownership of follow-up decisions.AI training for teachers →Leave with agreed classroom and admin use cases, the checks staff run before using an output, and a clear rule set for pupil data and assessed work.

Professional services

AI training for accountants →Create a source-linked task guide that preserves assumptions, numerical checks and the responsible reviewer.AI training for finance teams →Leave with agreed finance use cases, the control and review step for each, and clear rules on what data goes where.AI training for lawyers →Fee earners and support staff who use the firm's approved tools on real tasks, verify outputs consistently and know where the firm's limits are.AI training for consultants →Consultants leave with repeatable methods for research and synthesis, a verification routine for any figure or claim that reaches a client, and clear rules on what client material can go where.AI training for healthcare teams →Teams leave knowing which tasks are suitable for AI, how to check every output, what patient information must never go into an unapproved tool, and who to ask when a use case drifts towards clinical decision support.

Go-to-market

AI training for sales teams →Leave with a checked account brief, a follow-up task guide and rules for preserving customer facts and commitments.AI marketing training for teams →Leave with a source-led content workflow and a checklist for claims, audience, tone and approval.AI training for customer service teams →Teams leave with tested prompts and checks for their most common contact types, a clear rule for when AI drafts are not appropriate, and an escalation route that protects customers in vulnerable circumstances.

Product and operations

AI training for project managers →Leave with a checked status-report example, a source-linked task guide and a review checklist for project commitments.AI training for design teams →Build a design task guide that preserves research provenance and makes review decisions explicit.AI training for operations teams →Create an operational task guide with input checks, a review standard and an explicit exception route.

Not a consumer course

AI training: what will people practise?

Flip the switch to compare an off-the-shelf AI course with training built on your business.

The bars compare approaches, not measured results. Off-the-shelf AI training courses teach the tool. Ours teach the job, done with the tool, inside your rules.

That matters most for data. People learn exactly what your policies allow them to share with an AI tool, and how to check output before it reaches a customer.

What people practise onGeneric examples
Which toolsWhatever the course uses
Data rulesGeneral advice
The week afterBack to old habits

Which format

AI training: which format fits?

Tick what applies. The needle points to the format that fits most teams in your position.

Three formats cover most needs. A workshop gets one group aligned. A team programme trains several groups at their own level. Embedded training runs alongside a build, so people learn on the workflow they will use.

WorkshopProgrammeWith a build

Tick what applies

The needle moves with each answer.

How it works

Audit, design, run, reinforce

The same trainers take you from the first conversation to the follow-up.

Audit

Find out what people do today

We talk to each group, see which AI tools they already have and how they use them, and read your data and AI policies.

Design

Build the course on your work

Exercises come from real tasks in your business, in the tools your team uses, at the right level for each group.

Run

Hands-on sessions, not slides

People work on their own tasks during the session, with a trainer in the room or on the call to unblock them.

Reinforce

Check it stuck

Follow-up on the workflows people committed to, with written guides they can return to and answers to the questions that came up.

Training plus build

Learn on the thing you will run

Training sticks best when there is a real workflow to use the next morning. That is why we pair it with our build work where we can.

Our AI consultancy picks and builds the workflows. Our trainers then teach the people who use and maintain them. When we leave, your team can run, fix and extend what we built.

For sales and marketing teams, the same approach powers AI-powered GTM.

  • Users learn the workflow we built with them, step by step
  • Owners learn how to change prompts, rules and tests safely
  • Leaders learn how to judge whether it is working
  • Everyone learns what to do when the AI gets it wrong

A practical next step

AI training: what should your team learn next?

Choose the training around the decision each person makes and the work they need to check.

Start with AI training for business to define the audience and course brief. Corporate AI training coordinates departments; small business training focuses on a manageable first workflow. An enterprise programme also needs clear ownership across access, policy and learning teams.

A useful course ends with a task people can repeat, a way to judge output and a route for uncertain cases. The task should expose missing evidence as well as a successful answer. Operations teams can practise handovers and exceptions; design teams can critique generated concepts against a real brief; product teams can bring live decisions for coaching.

For a focused session, compare AI workshops for teams with in-company training. For a course designed around your tasks and review criteria, use bespoke AI training. For sustained practice, use employee training programmes. Keep an example of current work before training, then review a comparable attempt afterwards. Attendance and confidence are useful signals, but neither establishes that the output is accurate or the workflow is ready to use.

Plan the course with an employee AI training plan and compare workplace training costs. Use sales-team training for account evidence and commitments, or Claude Code training for developers reviewing repository changes.

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AI training for business

Plan the right programme for your company, people and tools.

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AI training for teams

Practical courses for operations, design, marketing and product teams.

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AI for accountants

Uses, tools, governance and training for practices and finance teams.

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AI for HR

Recruitment, people work and the UK rules that apply, plus HR training.

Start with the decision

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AI for marketing

Tools, courses and team training for marketers, within UK advertising and privacy rules.

Start with the decision

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FAQ

Questions, answered

AI training for business teaches people to do their own jobs with AI, on their own work and in the tools they already use. It is for teams and companies. It is not a consumer course, and it is not training an AI model.

No. AI model training means teaching a machine-learning model from data. Our AI training teaches people: how to use AI tools well, check their output, and build them into the workflows they own.

Teams inside companies: leaders who decide where AI goes, the people who use it every day, and the technical staff who maintain what gets built. We shape each course around one of those groups, or run them together when a workflow spans them.

The ones your team already uses. That may be an AI assistant your company has licensed, the AI features inside your CRM or office suite, or automation tools. We do not ask people to learn a new platform just for the course.

Yes. Training works on its own. When it runs alongside a build from our AI consultancy, people train on the exact workflow they will use, which is why we recommend pairing them where you can.

Yes, in every session. People learn what data they may and may not put into AI tools under your policies, how to check output before it reaches a customer, and when not to use AI at all.

It depends on the group size, the format and how much of the course is built on your own workflows. We scope it on the first call and send a plan and a quote before you commit. The first call is free: book it here.
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Tell us who needs training. We will build it on their work.

A call with a trainer, not a sales team. Tell us which teams, which tools and which work, and we will tell you which format fits.

01We find out what each group does today

02We build the course on your own tasks and tools

03You get a plan and a quote before you commit

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