Practical AI training for Cheltenham and Gloucestershire teams, delivered at your offices or live online. Hands-on, jargon-free, built around your work.
The Oxford AI School delivers AI training for businesses across Cheltenham and Gloucestershire, about an hour from our base in Oxfordshire. 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.
Cheltenham is unusual. Thanks to the cyber and security cluster around GCHQ and the Golden Valley development, this is a town where people take data handling seriously by default. That makes for the best kind of AI training audience: sharp questions about where information goes, and no patience for anyone waving away the risk.
We train professional and financial services firms in the centre and Montpellier, cyber and technology businesses who want the commercial side of the house up to speed, hospitality and events businesses working around the racing calendar, and independent practices across Gloucester, Tewkesbury and the Cotswolds. Most attendees save 10 or more hours per person every week once AI becomes part of how they work.
We deliver in person across Cheltenham and Gloucestershire, and live online for teams split across offices or working from home.
Every Cheltenham session is hands-on and tailored to your work. This is the kind of thing your team walks out able to do.
We are not tied to a vendor. In a town that thinks hard about security, that matters: we cover what each tool does and where it keeps your data.
The general-purpose starting point. Projects, custom instructions, file analysis and how to keep it accurate.
Strongest on long documents, careful drafting and anything where the wording carries risk.
The security-friendly option for Microsoft 365 businesses, working inside your existing tenancy and permissions.
For Google Workspace teams, plus image and video generation for marketing and comms.
Research with sources attached, so an answer can be checked rather than believed.
These are the skills that separate teams getting real value from AI from teams who tried it once and gave up.
Prompt engineering is straightforward once someone shows you the shape of it: role, task, context, format. We teach those four parts, then use your own live work to practise until the first answer is usually the one you wanted. No prompt libraries to memorise, no magic words.
By the end of the day your Cheltenham 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 discipline behind consistently good output. What you load into a conversation, what you deliberately withhold, when to start fresh, and how you keep source documents current. In Cheltenham this lands especially well, because managing context is really information governance applied to a chat window.
Your staff are already using AI. The only question is whether they are doing it inside rules you have written down.
In a town built around information security, an AI policy is not a nice-to-have. Staff are pasting work into tools that log it. Without written rules, your risk register has a hole in it and nobody has signed their name against it.
The AI Policy Workshop is a full day for up to ten people, in Cheltenham or online. It covers approved tools, what AI is and is not for, the UK GDPR data red line, the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, rules by department and named gatekeepers. You leave with your own written AI acceptable use policy.
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 content flexes to your sector, because a cyber business and a hospitality group need very different examples.
For businesses around the Golden Valley cluster who need the commercial and delivery teams as capable as the engineers.
For accountants, advisers, insurers and law firms across Cheltenham and Gloucester.
For hotels, venues, restaurants and independents working around the racing and festival calendar.
Book a free 10-minute intro call. We will talk through what your team actually does all day, then build the session around it.