Practical AI training for Southampton and Hampshire teams, at your premises or live online. Real work, real tools, taught without jargon.
The Oxford AI School delivers AI training for businesses across Southampton and Hampshire, from port and logistics operations to professional firms and independents. 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.
Southampton runs on movement: freight, cruise, marine, distribution and everything that supports them. Businesses built around schedules and documentation have more repetitive written work than almost any other sector, and it is the first thing AI takes off people once they know how to ask.
We train logistics and freight forwarding teams, marine and engineering businesses along the water, professional firms in the city centre and Winchester, and the hospitality and retail operators who live and die by their bookings and their reviews. Most attendees save 10 or more hours per person every week once AI becomes part of how they work.
We deliver in person across Southampton and Hampshire, and live online for teams spread across depots, sites and home working.
Every Southampton session is hands-on and tailored to your work. This is the kind of thing your team walks out able to do.
We work with the tools you already have licences for, and tell you honestly where a free tier will do the job.
The everyday all-rounder. Projects, custom instructions, file analysis and the habits that keep it accurate.
Best for long documents, contracts and drafting where the detail carries risk.
The natural first step for Microsoft 365 businesses, inside your own security boundary.
For Google Workspace teams, plus image and video generation for marketing.
Research with sources shown, for supplier checks, market work and tender background.
These are the skills that separate teams getting real value from AI from teams who tried it once and gave up.
Prompt engineering is four straightforward parts: role, task, context, format. Say who the AI should be, what you want, what it cannot guess, and the shape of the answer. We teach it quickly, then practise it against the paperwork your team brought with them until good output is routine.
By the end of the day your Southampton 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 what turns a clever tool into a dependable one. It covers what you load into a conversation, what you leave out, when to start fresh, and how to keep the terms, schedules and templates a tool works from current. In an operational business, working from last year’s version is the expensive mistake.
Your staff are already using AI. The only question is whether they are doing it inside rules you have written down.
Freight, marine and professional businesses handle customer contracts and commercially sensitive terms. Staff typing that into a chatbot with no rules in place is a risk your insurer would rather you had written down.
The AI Policy Workshop is a full day for up to ten people, in Southampton or online. You leave 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.
We tailor the session to your sector, because a freight office and a hotel need completely different examples.
For operators around the port, Ocean Village and the wider Solent supply chain.
For accountants, advisers, solicitors and consultancies in Southampton, Winchester and Fareham.
For hotels, venues, restaurants and independents across Hampshire and the New Forest.
Book a free 10-minute intro call. We will talk through what your team actually does all day, then build the session around it.