Practical AI training for Manchester teams, delivered at your office or live online. Hands-on, direct, and judged on what changes the following Monday.
The Oxford AI School delivers AI training for businesses across Manchester and the North West, in person at your premises or live online. 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.
Manchester does not need convincing that AI matters. Between the digital and ecommerce scene, the media cluster at MediaCityUK and a professional services centre that rivals anywhere outside London, the appetite is already there. What is missing is the unglamorous bit: someone spending an afternoon making sure the finance team, the account managers and the operations lead can actually use the tools on their own work.
We train agencies and ecommerce businesses in the Northern Quarter and Ancoats, media and production teams around Salford Quays, legal and financial firms in Spinningfields, and manufacturers and distributors around Trafford Park and out towards Stockport and Bolton. Most attendees save 10 or more hours per person every week once AI becomes part of how they work.
We deliver in person across Greater Manchester and the North West, and live online for teams spread across offices and home working.
Every Manchester session is hands-on and tailored to your work. This is the kind of thing your team walks out able to do.
We are vendor-neutral, so we can be blunt about which tools deserve your money and which do not, based on the work you actually do.
The default all-rounder. Projects, custom instructions, file analysis, and the habits that keep output dependable.
The pick for long documents and careful drafting, from tenders to policies to client reports.
The easy internal sell for Microsoft 365 businesses. Copilot in Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams.
For Google Workspace teams, plus image and video generation for content and campaigns.
Research with sources attached, for market work, competitor analysis and new business prep.
These are the skills that separate teams getting real value from AI from teams who tried it once and gave up.
Prompt engineering is not a dark art. Role, task, context, format. Give the tool those four things and the difference in output is immediate and obvious. We teach the structure early in the session, then use your own live work to practise until people stop needing to think about it.
By the end of the day your Manchester 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 part that decides whether AI is a novelty or a habit. It is what you load in, what you keep out, when to start a clean conversation, and how you keep the material a tool refers to current. Agencies and ecommerce teams juggling multiple brands feel the benefit fastest, because managed context is what stops one client’s tone bleeding into another’s.
Your staff are already using AI. The only question is whether they are doing it inside rules you have written down.
If your people handle customer data, creative under NDA or commercial terms, they need to know exactly where the line is. Most teams have never been told, which means the rules are currently being set by whoever is in a hurry.
The AI Policy Workshop is a full day for up to ten people, in Manchester or online. You finish with your own written AI acceptable use policy: approved tools, permitted uses, 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 flexes to your sector, because a production company and a distribution business need very different worked examples.
For Northern Quarter and Ancoats teams where growth has outpaced the size of the back office.
For teams around MediaCityUK and Salford working to broadcast deadlines.
For firms in Spinningfields and operations around Trafford Park, Stockport and Bolton.
Book a free 10-minute intro call. We will talk through what your team actually does all day, then build the session around it.