Practical AI training for Birmingham teams, at your offices or live online. Straight-talking, hands-on, and measured by what your people do differently afterwards.
The Oxford AI School runs AI training for businesses across Birmingham and the West Midlands, about 75 minutes from our Oxfordshire base by direct train. Sessions are hands-on from the first ten minutes, taught in plain English, and built around the tools your team already has: ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity.
Birmingham has the second largest professional services economy in the country and a manufacturing base that has been quietly reinventing itself for thirty years. Both are full of work AI is good at: documents, reporting, quotes, correspondence, research. Very little of it has been touched, because nobody has had the day spare to sit down and learn how.
We work with accountants, lawyers and advisers around Colmore Row, with manufacturers and makers in the Jewellery Quarter and out towards Halesowen and Redditch, with agencies in Digbeth, and with owner-managed businesses across Solihull, Sutton Coldfield and the Black Country. Most attendees save 10 or more hours per person every week once AI becomes part of how they work.
We deliver in person across Birmingham and the West Midlands, and live online for teams spread across sites.
Every Birmingham session is hands-on and tailored to your work. This is the kind of thing your team walks out able to do.
We teach whichever tools you already have, and we are straight about which ones you can ignore for now.
The general-purpose starting point. Projects, custom instructions, file analysis and how to keep the answers honest.
The strongest option for long documents, contracts and careful drafting.
Usually the first thing IT will approve in a Microsoft 365 business. Copilot in Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams.
For Google Workspace teams, plus image and video generation for marketing.
Research with citations, for supplier comparisons, market checks and tender background.
These are the skills that separate teams getting real value from AI from teams who tried it once and gave up.
Prompt engineering is a simple habit: role, task, context, format. Say who the AI is, what you want done, what it could not possibly know about your business, and how you want the answer laid out. We teach it in fifteen minutes and then spend the session practising it on genuine work until it is automatic.
By the end of the day your Birmingham team has a small library of prompts that genuinely work, written down and shared, so the quality of the output stops depending on who happens to be doing the task.
Context management is where most of the wasted effort hides. It is deciding what goes into a conversation, what stays out, when to start fresh instead of piling on follow-ups, and how to keep the reference material a tool works from current. For businesses running multiple sites or clients, this is what stops answers drifting out of date.
Your staff are already using AI. The only question is whether they are doing it inside rules you have written down.
Professional firms in Birmingham are regulated, and regulated businesses cannot have unwritten technology rules. Your staff are already using AI. A one-page policy decides whether that is a controlled activity or an incident waiting to happen.
The AI Policy Workshop is a full day for up to ten people, in Birmingham or online. It delivers your own written AI acceptable use policy, an approved tool list, your UK GDPR data red line, rules by department and named gatekeepers for anything new.
We also cover the governance side that boards and clients increasingly ask about: risk management, record-keeping, and how you would demonstrate that an AI-assisted decision was checked by a person. Our guides to AI governance, trustworthy AI and the NIST AI RMF and compliance, auditing and explainability set out the approach in full.
We build the examples around your sector, because a foundry and a law firm have nothing in common except a full inbox.
For accountants, solicitors, advisers and consultancies around Colmore Row and Edgbaston.
For makers and suppliers across the Jewellery Quarter, Black Country and the Redditch and Bromsgrove belt.
For Digbeth studios, independent retailers and hospitality groups across the city.
Book a free 10-minute intro call. We will talk through what your team actually does all day, then build the session around it.