Four Tuesday mornings is all you need


Hello Reader!

By the end of four Tuesday mornings you will be drafting client reports from raw meeting notes in minutes, and you will know exactly what you can and cannot put into an AI tool without creating a problem for yourself.

That is what Core AI Skills is for. The autumn cohort starts on Tuesday 15 September.

Most people arrive a little nervous. That is normal, and it tends to be the ones who arrive nervous who get the most out of it.

What you leave able to do

  • Turn raw notes and meeting transcripts into proposals, client reports and executive summaries
  • Get around to doing all the things you know you need to do, but never have time to produce, like competitor analysis, market briefings and regulatory summaries
  • Analyse performance data in your business, and surface the patterns worth acting on. Again when was the last time you did that?
  • Build a searchable knowledge base from your own policies and templates, so the AI answers from your sources rather than the open web
  • Know where the line sits on client data, commercially sensitive material and personal information

Four sessions, eight hours, €600

You could assemble this knowledge yourself. There is no shortage of free tutorials and Reddit threads. But that route will take you weeks of trial and error to arrive at where you'll be after four Tuesday mornings learning with us! Plus our courses are fun.

We have upskilled 2,600 professionals since 2023, our TrustPilot scores is 4.5/5 and we regularly score 70-80 NPS. People love learning with us.

Module one: know where the line is.​
Four tools, set up properly. Then a straight answer on what client data, commercially sensitive material and personal information can and cannot go into them, and how to write a prompt you would put your name on.

Module two: raw notes in, client report out.​
Meeting transcripts and scribbled notes become proposals and executive summaries. Competitor and regulatory briefings from public sources. Performance data with the patterns already pulled out.

Module three: teach it your business.​
Your policies, procedures and templates become a searchable knowledge base. No more answers scraped off the open web.

Module four: we teach nothing.​
Bring the task that has been sitting on your desk since July. Walk out with it finished.

Three things people ask before booking

  • No technical background needed. Open to any industry or function, from analysts to directors.
  • No tool lock-in. ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini, our teaching is LLM agnostic so you can use whatever tool you're comfortable with.
  • You will actually apply it. What sets our training apart from others is that we deliver change in the way you do your work. It's not about features. It's about applying what you learn, in your role, immediately.
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Four Tuesday mornings. 10am to 12pm, so you are back at your desk by midday.
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15, 22 and 29 September, and 6 October. Small group sizes mean you need to book your place now while there are still some left.

See you on the 15th (The hard part was deciding)

The AI Institute Team

PS - have you heard about the new requirements of the EU AI Act? In case you need to more, you might want to join our free lunchtime webinar on 17 September.

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Maryrose Lyons, Founder of the AI Institute

Maryrose Lyons has spent 25 years helping firms through every wave of new technology, and generative AI is the biggest she's seen. These days she runs the AI Institute, working alongside construction, engineering, architecture and QS teams across Ireland, the UK and EMEA, and has upskilled more than 2,800 professionals along the way. She's the voice behind the ChattingGPT podcast. Each bi-weekly edition pairs a piece of her thinking on AI at work with the latest episode. Pull up a chair with more than 5,800 readers.

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