Why AI training, and why now?
Most UK firms report a gap between the AI tools they’ve bought and the AI skills their teams actually have — 97% identified at least one AI skills gap (UK AI Labour Market Survey 2025, DSIT). Curiosity about AI without the capability to use it wastes the licences you’re already paying for. Training that ends in a working automation, not a slide deck, is what closes that gap.
Who is NeuralGen Academy for?
NeuralGen Academy is built for UK professional-services SMEs and their teams — marketing, operations and client-facing staff — plus the leaders who have bought AI tools but aren’t yet seeing hours saved. It suits teams of roughly 3 to 30 who want practical capability on their own work rather than a broad theory course. If one person is already experimenting with AI and the rest of the team hasn’t caught up, a workshop is the fastest way to bring everyone to the same level.
Formats & pricing
| Format | What it’s for | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Half-day team workshop | Fast, practical introduction for a whole team | £950 (paid on the day) |
| AI skills audit | Diagnose where your team’s gaps actually are | £1,500 |
| Six-week programme | Deep capability build, ends in working automations | £9,000–£15,000 |
See full detail on pricing.
What a workshop covers
- Prompting fundamentals, taught on your team’s real tasks, not generic examples
- Tool setup for Claude and ChatGPT
- A live automation built on one of your team’s actual workflows
- A starter AI policy your team can adopt immediately
What does the six-week programme involve?
The six-week programme is a deeper build for teams that want lasting capability, not just an introduction. Weeks one and two audit your workflows and cover prompting and tool foundations. Weeks three and four build real automations on the tasks that cost your team the most time. Weeks five and six embed those automations, measure the hours saved, and leave you with a simple AI policy. It ends with working automations your team built and can maintain — not a certificate for the drawer.
How is NeuralGen Academy different from a generic AI course?
Generic courses teach AI in the abstract; we teach it on your real work and finish with something that runs. Every session uses your team’s actual tasks, the outcome is a working automation rather than notes, and progress is measured in task time before and after. Because the same people who train your team also build automations for our Operations clients, the training reflects what holds up in production, not just what looks good in a demo.
What will your team be able to do afterwards?
After training, your team can write reliable prompts for their recurring tasks, run and maintain at least one working automation, judge whether a new AI tool is worth adopting, and work within a simple, agreed AI policy. The aim is durable capability that keeps saving hours long after the session ends, not a one-off demonstration.
Can funding cover the cost? (AI Upskilling Fund)
Eligible professional-services SMEs may claim up to 50% of six-week programme costs through the AI Upskilling Fund. Eligibility rules vary and change over time, so we confirm your position against the current scheme before you commit.
What outcomes do you measure?
We time real tasks before and after training, and count the number of workflows a team can now run with AI unsupervised. That gives a concrete before/after — hours saved and capability gained — rather than an attendance certificate. More on how we track this in measuring AI training ROI.
From workshop to working automation
Training often surfaces the best automation candidates in a team’s day-to-day work. Where that happens, our AI automation team can take the workflow from “we built it in the workshop” to a fully implemented, fixed-price sprint.