Use AI for documents, data and decisions, with the checks to trust what you produce. No coding is needed.
£495 including VAT per place.Four live 40-minute sessions.
Each of the four sessions teaches one operating rule, applied to a realistic document pack in the same session.
You should be comfortable with ordinary office software and have access to a mainstream AI assistant. Works with the assistant you already use: Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude. Which assistant you choose is never scored.
For analysts and people in marketing, operations, HR, finance and product roles. Write and review code? See the engineering course.
The examples below come from the current course packs. Every exercise is a set of realistic, fictional documents with a complete set of sources, so every claim you check has a definite answer.
Go back to the source documents before accepting an assistant's answer.
Find out what is being requested before you ask the assistant to draft it.
Give an assistant only the work you can still check properly.
Once the evidence says the current explanation is wrong, stop defending it and change course.
Four live 40-minute sessions, weekly over four weeks, each built around a prepared document pack with live tutor review.
You keep the corrected briefing, the written definition, the customer pack and the causal analysis you produce.
Exercises run in ordinary office tools with the assistant you already use. There is no coding and no tool setup beyond your normal working accounts.
In a Microsoft 365 cohort you collect the Module 1 document pack from your own portal page, work in Word and Excel with your assistant, and return your files through named slots.
Download the pack: the briefing to check, its sources and a verification log to fill in.
Hand back your corrected briefing and your log, and replace either as often as you improve it.
When Lee calls a checkpoint, you return a copy of the briefing as it stands, and that copy stays fixed.
The briefing in the portal when you press Submit is the version Lee marks.
Lee explains the rule and the working risk behind it.
Work through the documents with your assistant, keeping a record of what you check.
Show Lee what you would send and explain the changes you made, referring back to your sources.
Compare your approach with the rest of the group and discuss where you'd use it at work.
Module 1 task, as briefed in the session
A colleague's assistant has produced a finished client briefing. It reads confidently. The meeting is on Thursday.
Your assistant can suggest where to look. You open the source, check the passage, figure or date, and own the decision.
Feedback covers the work you produced, the checks you ran, how you staged the work and how you responded to new evidence.
We don't score your choice of assistant or your prompts. Sharing your assistant conversation is optional, and keeping it private won't affect your result. We only see a short piece of your work in each session, so this is not presented as a certification.
Representative tutor feedback, written from the assessment rubric
Have another look at the footfall table. It's for the five refitted stores, and your briefing uses it to describe the whole estate. You could limit that sentence to the five stores, or take it out. Whichever you choose, show me the source and your check before sending it.
The engineering course teaches the same four rules on code repositories. Two of the engineers on its first cohort (July and August 2026) agreed to share their feedback. You can read their full comments on the engineering course page.
The hands-on repository exercises, live tutor feedback, and support for multiple programming languages make the learning immediately applicable. It’s a thoughtful, credible course that promotes responsible engineering judgment, not simply faster code generation.
Camila CotaEngineering course, September 2026Before the course, I mainly focused on solving the technical problem. Now I ask better questions, think more like a product owner, and look for evidence first. I learned to check test cases, reproduce issues, keep logs, and make small, meaningful commits. This has made my development process more structured and reliable.
Sujal NeupaneEngineering course, September 2026Microsoft Research asked 319 knowledge workers about their use of generative AI in a 2025 survey. Those who had more confidence in it reported less critical thinking. The effort they still described was more concerned with checking information and staying responsible for the task. Because these were people's own reports at one point in time, the study cannot tell us that confidence caused the change.
On the course, you'll practise that checking before a briefing reaches a colleague or client.
People's ratings of their own AI proficiency did not predict their task results in the GLAT study. Their scores on a performance test did. Yet a systematic review in 2024 found that most AI-literacy assessment relied on people describing their own ability.
That is why this course assesses observed work rather than quiz answers: mass-market courses such as Google AI Essentials teach fundamentals and prompting with self-paced quizzes, with no dedicated verification module and no observed, evidence-based assessment.
Read the CHI 2025 study, the GLAT performance study and the 2024 assessment review.
More than one-third of entry-level jobs now require AI skills, according to employers surveyed by NACE in spring 2026. The EU AI Act's Article 4 asks organisations that provide or deploy AI in the EU to support staff AI literacy.
For organisations within the Act's scope, Article 4 has applied since February 2025. It requires support for AI literacy without prescribing a particular training course. The Commission updated its guidance in July 2026, before wider AI Act obligations began applying in August. A course based on observed work can contribute records of attendance and group results as evidence of that support. We don't include anyone's individual conversations in those records.
Read the NACE survey and the European Commission's Article 4 questions and answers.
The course is live and unrecorded. You control what you share with Lee and the group.
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