The Oxford AI SchoolBasic AI skills
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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 South West runs on small businesses that punch well above their weight, from Bristol tech to Cornish tourism and everything between. Long distances and tight teams are exactly the problem AI was built to solve. We show your team how.
The South West is the region where distance itself is the business problem, and that shapes what AI is worth here. A firm in Truro or Barnstaple is a long way from its customers, its suppliers and often from the nearest person with the same specialism. Teams are small, people wear several hats, and the administrative load per head is higher than it would be in a city. That is precisely the situation where AI gives back the most, and it is the argument we make first.
The region is not uniform. Bristol has aerospace engineering and a real semiconductor and silicon design cluster. Cheltenham has a cyber security economy with an unusual concentration of security-minded businesses. Plymouth is marine, defence and engineering. Bath and Bristol carry professional services and higher education. Somerset and Devon run substantial food, drink and agriculture. Cornwall and the Devon coast live significantly on tourism and hospitality, with the seasonal staffing that implies.
We train hands-on, on whatever your team actually produces: technical documentation, bids, guest communications, booking and supplier admin, or client reporting. Your people learn ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini in plain English with no coding. For the seasonal businesses we pay particular attention to material that has to be handed to new staff every year, because AI makes that repeatable in a way that genuinely reduces the annual scramble.
Safe use is in every session, with an obvious extra emphasis around Cheltenham where the audience frequently knows more about data security than we do and the conversation is sharper for it. The one-day AI Policy Workshop produces your own written AI acceptable use policy, agreed in the room, before anybody goes home.
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.
Bristol, Bath and Cheltenham are an easy run from Oxfordshire, and we go further west regularly. In-person across Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Exeter, Plymouth and Bournemouth, and out to Swindon, Cheltenham, Taunton, Truro and Torquay. Travel is included in the price, which matters more in a region this large.
Technical documentation and bids, guest and booking communications, supplier paperwork or client reporting. For small teams there is no time to translate a generic example into your job, so we skip that step.
In businesses of eight or twelve people, one afternoon with everybody in the room changes how the whole company works. That is a far better return than sending one person on a course and hoping it spreads.
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.
Admin, correspondence, documentation, bids and content, compressed hard. For small teams carrying several roles each, this is the difference between firefighting and getting ahead.
Most South West businesses have no one whose job is data protection. Clear, short, followable AI rules matter more here, not less, and the AI Policy Workshop writes them with you.
Three uses that dominate our work in this region, driven by small teams and long distances.
Hospitality and tourism businesses across Cornwall, Devon and the coast rewrite the same material every year: guest information, booking correspondence, listings, and the induction notes that new seasonal staff need. Building that once, properly, with AI handling the variations is one of the most immediately profitable things a small operator can do. Our AI for pubs and hospitality page covers it in detail.
Aerospace, semiconductor, marine and defence engineering businesses produce heavy documentation with small teams. Specifications, test reports, capability statements and bid responses all shorten dramatically with a trained workflow, and all need genuine expert review afterwards. We teach the review as part of the skill rather than as a warning at the end.
Around Cheltenham the security question is the first one asked, and it is the right question everywhere in the region because most businesses here have no internal IT or compliance function. We spend proper time on which tools retain your data, what a sensible short policy looks like for a team of ten, and how to make the rules simple enough that people actually follow them.
Every one can be delivered in person at your South West office, or live online. Prices exclude VAT.
We help South West businesses, tourism and hospitality operators, rural enterprises, professional services firms and growing teams 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 South West 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 South West 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 South West office.