Practical AI training for Cambridge teams, delivered at your offices or live online. For the people who run the business, not just the people who build the product.
The Oxford AI School runs AI training for businesses across Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, for teams who want practical fluency rather than another conference talk. 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.
Cambridge has a peculiar problem with AI training: the assumption that everybody here is already an expert. Some are. Meanwhile the operations lead, the finance manager, the office manager and the founder doing their own investor updates at midnight are getting no help at all, in a city where the technical bar makes it slightly embarrassing to ask.
We work with the commercial side of life sciences and deep tech businesses at the Science Park, Granta Park and Babraham, with spinouts and scaleups who need process before they need headcount, and with the accountants, recruiters, agencies and property firms who serve them across the city. Most attendees save 10 or more hours per person every week once AI becomes part of how they work.
We deliver in person across Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, and live online for distributed and hybrid teams.
Every Cambridge session is hands-on and tailored to your work. This is the kind of thing your team walks out able to do.
We stay vendor-neutral and go straight at the practical differences, including where a tool is the wrong answer for sensitive research or IP.
The generalist. Projects, custom instructions, file analysis, and the discipline that keeps its answers trustworthy.
Our default for long documents and precise drafting: protocols, papers, contracts and policy work.
For Microsoft 365 businesses that need AI inside an approved security boundary rather than in a browser tab.
For Google Workspace teams, plus image and video generation where marketing needs assets fast.
Research with citations, which in Cambridge is usually the only kind of research anyone will accept.
These are the skills that separate teams getting real value from AI from teams who tried it once and gave up.
Prompt engineering is less clever than the name suggests. Role, task, context, format. We teach the structure, then spend the session applying it to genuine work: a funding update, a customer proposal, a hiring brief, a data question. By the end people are getting first-draft output they would actually send.
By the end of the day your Cambridge 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 skill that separates people who like AI from people who rely on it. It is knowing what to load into a conversation, what to hold back, when a fresh start beats another follow-up, and how to keep the reference material a tool draws on accurate. For a Cambridge business protecting IP, it also means being deliberate about what never enters a public tool at all.
Your staff are already using AI. The only question is whether they are doing it inside rules you have written down.
If your business has research data, unpublished work or commercially sensitive IP, an AI policy is protection rather than paperwork. Staff will use these tools regardless. Written rules decide whether that happens safely.
The AI Policy Workshop is a full day for up to ten people, in Cambridge or online. It produces your own written AI acceptable use policy: approved tools, permitted uses, the data red line under UK GDPR, rules by department and named gatekeepers who approve 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 tailor examples to your sector, because a life sciences team and a recruitment agency have almost nothing in common day to day.
For the commercial, operations and admin functions of businesses at the Science Park, Granta Park and Babraham.
For founders and small teams who need capacity now and cannot hire their way out of it.
For accountants, recruiters, agencies and property firms serving the Cambridge cluster.
Book a free 10-minute intro call. We will talk through what your team actually does all day, then build the session around it.