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Learn the everyday uses of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot, with prompts built around emails, research, documents and admin.
Explore Basic AI Training →The East Midlands sits at the crossroads of the country and gets on with the work while everyone else talks about it. The businesses here do not need hype about AI. They need someone to show them what actually saves time. That is us.
The East Midlands earns its living from things that have to be specified, documented and signed off. Derby's rail works and aerospace supply chain. The food and textile manufacturers around Leicester. Agri-tech and engineering out towards Lincoln. The logistics operators strung along the M1 and the A1 and clustered around East Midlands Airport, which moves more air freight than almost anywhere else in the country. Different industries, one shared problem: the paperwork that surrounds the actual work has quietly grown to eat half the week.
That is where we start. We train your team on the documents they genuinely produce, not a demo dataset. Tender responses and pre-qualification questionnaires. Method statements and works instructions. Supplier correspondence, delivery exceptions, spec sheets that have to be rewritten for a customer who does not speak engineering. Your people learn ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini on that material, and they leave using at least one of them on a live job.
The safety conversation in this region is rarely abstract. Engineering and manufacturing businesses here hold customer drawings, commercial terms and supply-chain pricing under NDA, and a lot of it would be genuinely damaging in the wrong window. We teach the data red line explicitly: what can go into a public AI tool, what never can, and how to get the same time saving without putting a client's confidential design into a chat box.
Most attendees have something useful working inside ninety minutes. If you want the rules written down properly rather than remembered vaguely, the one-day AI Policy Workshop sends you home with your own AI acceptable use policy, signed off.
You can watch a recorded course any day of the week and most of your team never will. Put a trainer in the room and something changes. Questions get asked. Real tasks get solved. The whole team leaves on the same page.
The East Midlands is a straightforward run for us and in-person delivery is included rather than billed as travel. We train on site across Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Lincoln, Chesterfield and Loughborough, and out to Mansfield, Newark, Grantham, Kettering and Corby. You supply a room and a kettle.
Send us a redacted tender response, a works instruction or a week of supplier emails beforehand and that is what the session runs on. Manufacturing and engineering teams stop paying attention the moment an example stops resembling their job.
Shop floor, office and management in one room hearing the same guidance. In businesses where a spec error is expensive, having everyone agree the same AI rules at the same time is worth more than the tool training.
One is the skill of using it well. The other is the discipline of using it safely. We teach both, because the risk lives in the gap between them.
Tender responses, method statements, spec rewrites, supplier chasing and reporting, all done in a fraction of the time. Your team learns it hands-on, on live documents, and keeps the hours it frees up.
Customer drawings, pricing and supply-chain terms are the assets you cannot afford to leak. Clear rules on what never goes near a public AI tool, written up properly in the AI Policy Workshop.
Three jobs that come up in nearly every session we run in this region, and what changes once a team can do them properly.
Engineering and construction supply chains here live on bid paperwork, and most of it is the same evidence rewritten to fit somebody else's form. Teams learn to build a reliable source of approved answers, then adapt it to each new question set without starting from a blank page or copying last year's mistakes forward.
Manufacturing sites need the same information in three registers: precise for the engineer, plain for the operator, commercial for the customer. AI is unusually good at that translation, provided somebody has been taught to check it. We spend real time on the checking, because an unreviewed spec is a scrap cost.
Around the M1 and East Midlands Airport, a large share of the working day is spent explaining why something is late, to several people, in several tones. Drafting those updates from the raw facts is the single most popular thing we teach hauliers and freight teams, and it usually pays for the session inside a fortnight.
Every one can be delivered in person at your East Midlands office, or live online. Prices exclude VAT.
We help East Midlands businesses, manufacturers, logistics firms, professional services teams and growing companies move from first prompts to safe, confident adoption. Pick one focused workshop or combine modules into a tailored team programme.
Learn the everyday uses of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot, with prompts built around emails, research, documents and admin.
Explore Basic AI Training →Move beyond one-off prompts with context management, reusable instructions, document analysis, business planning and quality checks.
See the AI Basics Deep Dive →For teams ready to connect tools, automate repeatable work and build more capable processes with Claude Code and agentic AI.
View advanced AI training →Train the team, agree practical boundaries and leave with a written AI acceptable use policy shaped around your business.
See the AI Policy Workshop →Understand generative engine optimisation, build source-worthy content and improve visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity.
Explore GEO training →Plan, write and improve a credible business website with AI, from positioning and page structure to useful content and conversion.
See website building with AI →Someone in your business pasted a client email into a chatbot last week. Nobody signed anything, nobody agreed it was allowed. Our one-day AI Policy Workshop fixes that. We train your East Midlands team to use AI safely, then write the policy with everyone in the room.
You leave with the finished document. Not a plan to write one.
The straight answers East Midlands businesses ask us most about AI training, cost, tools and using AI safely.
A free 10-minute call first. Tell us what your team does and where AI could save the most time, and we will tailor the day and bring it to your East Midlands office.