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Academy

Learning by building

Every course is built around a real project. You finish with something that works, not just notes.

The learning path

From the foundations to the point where you can build for others.

  1. FoundationBusiness automation foundationsSomeone who has never built an automation and wants to start properly.
  2. PractitionerBuilding useful AI assistantsYou know the basics and want to build assistants connected to real data.
  3. For managersSystems thinking for founders and managersManagers who will not build flows themselves but must know what to ask for and how to judge it.
Foundation6 weeks · 3 hours a week

Business automation foundations

We start from understanding a process, not from a tool. By the end you have built one complete, real flow that could run in an actual business.

By the end you can

  • Map a process and find its bottlenecks
  • Build multi-step flows with proper error handling
  • Connect systems through APIs and webhooks
  • Recognise where automation is the wrong answer
Duration
6 weeks · 3 hours a week
Format
Live online + weekly exercise
Suited to
Someone who has never built an automation and wants to start properly.
Prerequisites
Comfort with web tools and spreadsheets

Syllabus

  1. Weeks 1–2 — Seeing the process

    • Mapping a workflow
    • Measuring time and waiting
    • Separating repetitive work from judgement work
  2. Weeks 3–4 — Building the flow

    • Triggers and conditions
    • Working with APIs and webhooks
    • Error handling and retries
  3. Weeks 5–6 — Making it last

    • Logging and observability
    • Testing a flow
    • Handover and documentation
Practitioner8 weeks · 3 hours a week

Building useful AI assistants

We spend time on the part most courses skip: how you know the assistant is working, and where it should not be trusted.

By the end you can

  • Build an assistant that answers from an organisation’s knowledge
  • Measure answer quality with an evaluation set
  • Design the boundary for handing over to a person
  • Keep cost and latency within acceptable limits
Duration
8 weeks · 3 hours a week
Format
Live online + final project
Suited to
You know the basics and want to build assistants connected to real data.
Prerequisites
The foundations course or equivalent experience، Basic programming familiarity

Syllabus

  1. Weeks 1–2 — Fundamentals

    • Prompt design for real tasks
    • Tool calling
    • Structuring output
  2. Weeks 3–5 — Connecting knowledge

    • Preparing and chunking documents
    • Retrieval and source citation
    • Handling sensitive data
  3. Weeks 6–8 — Making it trustworthy

    • Building an evaluation set
    • Detecting low-confidence answers
    • Monitoring cost and quality in production
For managers4 weeks · 2 hours a week

Systems thinking for founders and managers

No coding. This is about deciding which process is worth automating, how to measure the result, and how to avoid accumulating technical debt.

By the end you can

  • Prioritise processes by impact against cost
  • Define a numeric success measure for an automation project
  • Evaluate the quality of a vendor’s or an internal team’s work
  • Recognise when not to automate
Duration
4 weeks · 2 hours a week
Format
Small-group workshop
Suited to
Managers who will not build flows themselves but must know what to ask for and how to judge it.
Prerequisites
No prerequisites

Syllabus

  1. Week 1 — Choosing well

    • The impact/cost matrix
    • Signs a process is ready to automate
  2. Week 2 — Defining success

    • Before-and-after metrics
    • Common measurement traps
  3. Weeks 3–4 — Maintaining and growing

    • Technical debt in automation
    • Handover to an internal team
    • A plan for incremental growth

Academy

To enrol, or to ask which path fits

No sales deck. We talk about your business, and at the end we tell you honestly whether now is the right time.