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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 free chat courses and practical paid tracks. Plain English, honest about what AI can and can't do.

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  • No sign-up
  • Runs in your browser

Illustrative interface · from a live course

  • Scripted chat lessons
  • Quick checks as you go
  • AI presenters, labelled as AI
  • Progress stays in your browser

The hubs

Choose a hub.

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.

  • Live
    01

    Career

    Stay valuable at work as AI changes it.

    Start with: Accounting & bookkeeping practices

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    02

    Earn

    Earn in the AI era — honestly.

    Start with: AI freelancing

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    03

    Connection

    Find your people in a changing world.

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    04

    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 free chat course in your browser. Go deeper with a paid track when they open.

  1. 01 · Free

    Free chat courses

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

  2. 02 · Paid

    Paid tracks

    Deeper, structured tracks with progress tracking and certificates of completion. Opening soon; nothing is for sale 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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Free courses you can start today.

Three short courses for accounting and bookkeeping practices, the first topic in the Career hub.

  • Free · 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: approved tools, data rules, banned uses, review levels, records and client wording, then run a measured 30-day pilot. Free policy template and pilot tracker.

  • Free · 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, and pick your first pilot. Free scoring sheet.

  • Free · 6 lessons · 15 quick checks

    Safe Hands

    Client confidentiality and AI: an accounting firm’s checklist

    Is it safe to put client data in ChatGPT? A free checklist course for accounting firms: TPB, AICPA, §7216, ICAEW and UK GDPR rules, account tiers, vendor due diligence and client notice wording.

All accounting courses

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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