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Keep up with AI. At your own pace.

Learn the new ways of working, earning and living with AI, through short chat courses now and deeper, practical tracks later. Plain English, honest about what AI can and can't do.

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Each hub has its own focus, its own AI presenter and its own guardrails. Career is open now; the others open one at a time.

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    Career

    Stay valuable at work as AI changes it.

    Start with: Accounting & bookkeeping practices

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    Earn

    Earn in the AI era — honestly.

    Start with: AI freelancing

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    Connection

    Find your people in a changing world.

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    Life

    Run everyday life with less friction.

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    Finance

    Understand and organise your money with AI.

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    Health

    Use AI wisely for health information.

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How it works

Small lessons. Real skills.

Start with a chat course in your browser. Go deeper with a structured track when they open.

  1. 01 · Courses

    Chat courses

    Short scripted conversations with quick checks. They run in your browser, with no sign-up needed.

  2. 02 · Tracks

    Structured tracks

    Deeper, structured tracks with progress tracking and certificates of completion. Not open yet.

  3. 03 · Presenters

    AI presenters, labelled as AI

    Each hub has an AI presenter. They are always labelled as AI and never pose as real people.

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Courses you can start today.

Short courses in the Career hub: AI at work, job seeking, HR, teaching and management, plus courses for accounting and bookkeeping practices.

  • 6 lessons · 14 quick checks

    Plain Start

    AI course for beginners: how AI works and how to use it at work

    AI course for beginners: how AI and chat assistants work, why they make things up, which work tasks suit them and how to keep data safe. No sign-up needed.

  • 6 lessons · 12 quick checks

    Clean Sheets

    Excel course for beginners: faster spreadsheets with AI

    ChatGPT for Excel, step by step: clean tables, formulas you can check, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, PivotTables and charts with AI, without risking your data.

  • 6 lessons · 12 quick checks

    Fair Process

    AI for HR teams

    AI for HR teams: draft fair job ads, keep humans in charge of screening, build interview packs, check policies and pilot AI tools safely. A starter course.

  • 6 lessons · 12 quick checks

    Plan Ahead

    AI for project managers

    AI for project managers: draft a project brief, break down tasks, build a risk register, write honest status reports and close well, with checks at each step.

  • 6 lessons · 12 quick checks

    Class Ready

    AI for teachers: lesson planning, feedback and integrity

    AI for teachers: plan lessons and resources faster, write feedback without sharing student data, set clear AI rules for tasks and teach students AI safely.

  • 6 lessons · 12 quick checks

    Policy and Pilot

    Write your firm’s AI policy and run a 30-day pilot

    Write your accounting firm's AI policy on one page, then run a measured 30-day pilot. A course with a policy template, review levels and a pilot tracker.

  • 6 lessons · 14 quick checks

    Practice Priorities

    AI use cases for accounting firms: a scored shortlist

    How accountants use AI, ranked: score your firm's tasks on value, checkability, error impact and data risk, check Xero and QuickBooks AI, pick a first pilot.

  • 6 lessons · 12 quick checks

    Next Move

    career change course: switching careers in the AI era

    Career change course: find transferable skills, test options against real data, close gaps with training and set a 90-day plan, with AU, UK and US guidance.

  • 6 lessons · 15 quick checks

    Safe Hands

    Client confidentiality and AI: an accounting firm’s checklist

    Is it safe to put client data into ChatGPT? A checklist course for accounting firms on TPB, AICPA, §7216, ICAEW and UK GDPR rules, plus client wording.

  • 6 lessons · 12 quick checks

    First Line

    Cyber security awareness training for staff

    Cyber security awareness training for staff: spot workplace phishing, verify payment and bank-detail requests, report fast without blame, protect work data.

  • 6 lessons · 15 quick checks

    Practice Room

    interview skills training: practise job interviews with AI

    Interview questions and answers: build STAR stories, predict questions from the job ad, run an AI mock interview out loud, and get ready for video interviews.

  • 6 lessons · 12 quick checks

    Daily Assist

    everyday work with AI assistants

    How to use Copilot and other AI assistants at work: draft emails, get summaries you can trust, turn meeting notes into actions and keep your work data safe.

  • 6 lessons · 12 quick checks

    Open Doors

    networking and LinkedIn without the awkwardness

    Networking tips that feel less awkward: map who you know, write a short intro and messages, work events, and fix your LinkedIn headline, About and settings.

  • 6 lessons · 12 quick checks

    Lead Well

    Management course for new managers

    How to be a good manager: a starter course for new managers on clear goals, one-to-ones, feedback, early performance talks, wellbeing, change and safe AI use.

  • 6 lessons · 16 quick checks

    Clear Asks

    learn prompt engineering: better prompts for everyday work

    Learn prompt engineering for everyday work: brief AI tools clearly, add examples, set limits so they don’t invent details, check output, keep data safe.

  • 8 lessons · 14 quick checks

    Proof Points

    resume and cover letter writing with AI

    How to write a resume and cover letter with AI: find keywords, write achievement lines and a letter in your own voice, and check every claim. AU, UK, US.

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Our guardrails

Honest about AI, and about ourselves.

Courses are drafted with AI assistance and run through automated quality and source checks. Here's what we hold ourselves to.

How these courses are made
  • AI-assisted, openly.

    Drafted with AI assistance and run through automated quality and source checks. Spotted an error? Tell us.

  • Official sources.

    We cite regulators and official bodies, and we don't invent statistics.

  • No hype.

    No earnings claims, no false urgency and no affiliate links.

  • Honest about limits.

    General information only, not professional, financial, medical or legal advice.

  • Straight about CPD.

    Courses may count towards your CPD; check your professional body's rules.

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