Practical AI training for Derby teams, delivered in person at your office or live online. Built around your real work, taught in plain English.
The Oxford AI School delivers practical AI training for businesses across Derby and Derbyshire, in person at your office or live online. Sessions are hands-on from the first ten minutes and built around the tools your team already has: ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity.
Derby generates more manufacturing output per head than almost anywhere in Britain, yet its engineers, advisers and back offices are still buried in documents AI could halve. From the suppliers around Pride Park and Infinity Park to the advisers of the Cathedral Quarter, we come to your office and teach your team on the real quotes, specifications and reports they deal with every week.
We are tool-agnostic and jargon-free. No coding, no acronyms nobody explains, no assumed knowledge. Every session also covers how to use AI safely: the data that must never go into a public tool, the checks that keep output trustworthy, and simple AI guidelines that keep your Derby team on the right side of UK GDPR. Most attendees save 10 or more hours per person every week once AI becomes part of how they work.
We deliver in person right across Derby and Derbyshire, and live online for teams working from several sites.
Every session is hands-on and tailored to your work. This is the kind of thing your team walks out able to do.
Anyone can watch a recorded course, and most of your team never will. Put a trainer in the room and something changes: questions get asked, real tasks get finished, and everybody leaves on the same page.
We are based in Witney, Oxfordshire, around ninety minutes from Derby by road, so we come to you. You provide a meeting room and we bring everything else.
We train on the actual emails, quotes, reports and admin your Derby team deals with, so the skills transfer the moment we leave.
Everyone hears the same guidance and agrees the same AI ground rules in one room. No stragglers, no quiet confusion, nobody improvising in the dark.
Most Derby businesses have the licences already. The gap is knowing which tool suits which job, so that is where we start.
The general-purpose workhorse. Projects, custom instructions, file analysis, and the habits that keep it honest.
The one we reach for on long documents, careful drafting and anything with a contract or a policy in it.
The path of least resistance for Microsoft 365 businesses. Copilot in Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams, with the security your IT team wants.
For Google Workspace teams, plus image and video generation for marketing and internal comms.
Research with citations. Ideal for market scans, competitor checks and anything you will have to defend in a meeting.
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 skill dressed up in a technical name. Give the tool a role, a task, the context it cannot guess, and the format you want back, and the quality jumps immediately. We teach that four-part structure, then practise it on the emails, reports and spreadsheets your team brought with them.
By the end of the day your Derby 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 the real time is won or lost. It is deciding what to load into a conversation, what to keep out, when to start a fresh one, and how to keep the documents a tool works from up to date.
Teams juggling several clients, sites or product lines feel this immediately: once context is managed properly, you stop re-explaining your business every single morning.
Every session can be delivered in person at your Derby office or live online. Prices exclude VAT.
AI basics, prompting and the core tools, hands-on. Everyone leaves already using AI on a real task.
Everything in the intro, plus document and image creation, projects, and AI for marketing and comms.
Train your team and leave with your own written AI acceptable use policy, approved tool list and staff guidelines, built for UK GDPR.
In-person delivery across Derby and Derbyshire is included, not a surcharge. Takeaway materials and follow-up support come as standard. Need something different? We build custom curricula too — see all programmes and pricing.
Your staff are already using AI. The only question is whether they are doing it inside rules you have written down.
Somebody in your business pasted a client email into a chatbot last week. Nobody signed anything and nobody agreed it was allowed. If you handle customer data, and almost every business does, then unwritten AI rules are a risk sitting on your register with nobody’s name against it.
The AI Policy Workshop is a full day for up to ten people at your Derby office or online. You leave with your own written AI acceptable use policy, your approved tools agreed, your data red line drawn and gatekeepers named, plus the training that makes staff able to follow it.
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 the session to your sector, because the work, the paperwork and the risks are not the same across Derby and Derbyshire.
For the manufacturers and suppliers around Pride Park, Infinity Park and Sinfin working to demanding customer standards.
For the accountants, solicitors and consultants of the Cathedral Quarter serving Derbyshire business.
For the businesses whose work arrives as a specification and leaves as a document pack.
Book a free 10-minute intro call. We will talk through what your team actually does all day, then build the session around it.