Practical AI training for Bristol teams, delivered at your office or live online. Hands-on from the first ten minutes, tailored to your actual work.
The Oxford AI School delivers AI training for businesses across Bristol and the South West, from aerospace suppliers in Filton to studios and consultancies in the centre. 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.
Bristol has a genuine independent streak, and it shows in how businesses here adopt technology: quietly, on their own terms, and with a low tolerance for being sold to. Good. Our sessions have nothing to sell you beyond the afternoon itself, and the measure of success is whether your team is still using the tools a month later.
We train creative and digital agencies around the harbourside and Temple Quarter, engineering and aerospace suppliers north of the city, legal and financial firms in the centre, and the enormous number of small consultancies and independents who make up Bristol’s working population. Most attendees save 10 or more hours per person every week once AI becomes part of how they work.
We deliver in person across Bristol and the South West, and live online for teams spread across sites or working from home.
Every Bristol session is hands-on and tailored to your work. This is the kind of thing your team walks out able to do.
We have no vendor to defend, so we tell you plainly which tool suits which job and where the free tier is genuinely enough.
The all-rounder most teams already have. Projects, custom instructions, file analysis and the habits that keep it reliable.
Best for long documents and careful writing: contracts, reports, tenders and policy work.
The straightforward option for Microsoft 365 businesses, inside your existing security and permissions.
For Google Workspace teams, plus image and video generation for campaigns and content.
Research with sources shown, for market work, competitor 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 four things in the right order: role, task, context, format. Once a team has that, the quality of what comes back changes immediately. We teach it, then spend the rest of the session applying it to the live work people brought with them, which is the only way it sticks.
By the end of the day your Bristol 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 the less glamorous half and the one that decides whether AI actually saves you time. What goes into a conversation, what stays out, when to start again, and how to keep the source documents a tool relies on current. For agencies running several client accounts, managing context properly is the difference between AI helping and AI muddling two brands together.
Your staff are already using AI. The only question is whether they are doing it inside rules you have written down.
Bristol is full of businesses handling client material under NDA. If your staff are pasting that into consumer AI tools, and some of them are, you need written rules rather than good intentions.
The AI Policy Workshop is a full day for up to ten people, in Bristol or online. You leave with your own written AI acceptable use policy: approved tools, what AI is and is not for, the UK GDPR data red line, rules by department and named gatekeepers.
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.
The session is built around your sector, because a design studio and an aerospace supplier need entirely different examples.
For agencies and studios around the harbourside, Temple Quarter and Stokes Croft billing time they keep losing to admin.
For suppliers and technical businesses around Filton, Aztec West and Bradley Stoke.
For firms in the city centre and Clifton whose product is documents and advice.
Book a free 10-minute intro call. We will talk through what your team actually does all day, then build the session around it.