AI Training & Change Management

Practical AI training for SMB and mid-market businesses, member associations, unions, not-for-profits, public-sector bodies and enterprise teams. Six courses from AI Foundations and applied workflows to tool evaluation, AI policy and decision rights, the Adoption Lab and an executive programme, plus tool-specific training for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, AI WorkPlace and custom systems. Delivered in person or virtually across Canada.

AI Training & Change Management

We turn AI curiosity into AI capability

Practical training built on the work your people actually do. They leave with tools they use the next morning, and we check the habit held ninety days later.

  • Six courses, three tracks

    From a half-day on the basics to a full adoption programme

  • Built on your real work

    In person or virtual, delivered across Canada

  • Measured at 30 and 90 days

    We follow up on actual use, not satisfaction scores

Why now

The gap isn't tools. It's translation.

Canada's own diagnosis is that businesses don't lack AI tools. They lack the ability to apply those tools to their own work, and that is a training and change-management problem.

< 1 in 4

Canadians report having received any AI training

KPMG–University of Melbourne trust study, cited in Canada's National AI Strategy (2026)

78%

of non-adopting firms don't see how AI benefits what they provide

Statistics Canada, cited in Canada's National AI Strategy (2026)

12% → 60%

federal target for business AI adoption by 2034

Canada's National AI Strategy (2026)

How we teach

Four commitments behind every course

What “make it stick” means in practice. We hold every course and every facilitator to these standards.

01

Train on live work, never on toy examples

Every applied exercise is built around a real artefact the participant brought — their bulletin, their board agenda, their customer email — collected in advance under an agreed data-handling rule.

02

Leave artefacts, not slides

A participant who leaves with notes has learned something. One who leaves with a working prompt library, a filled-in checklist and a template has changed something. Every course is designed backwards from what it leaves behind.

03

Teach the tool and the rules in the same room

The question "can I paste this?" arrives in minute four of the first hands-on exercise, not in a policy review six months later. Our Paste Test and decision-rights exercises put governance in front of the person doing the work.

04

Measure adoption, not attendance

We baseline confidence at the start, re-measure at the close, and follow up at 30 and 90 days on actual use — not satisfaction. Satisfaction sheets measure whether the day was enjoyable. We are selling whether the habit held.

Our learning cycle

The spine of every course we run

Confidence is baselined at the start and re-measured at the close. Actual use is checked at 30 and 90 days.

  1. 1Understand

    Concepts in plain English — removing mystery, fear and jargon.

  2. 2Try

    Hands on a tool within the first 30–45 minutes, and often.

  3. 3Reflect

    What worked, what failed and why — judgement over blind trust.

  4. 4Apply

    Realistic workplace tasks so relevance is immediate.

  5. 5Improve

    Refine prompts and outputs — AI work is conversational, not one-and-done.

Course catalogue

Six courses in three tracks

Each course is defined by who it's for, what participants can do afterwards and what they take away. Run one on its own, or combine them into a programme.

Track 1

Foundations

Confident, safe, everyday use — first on general tasks, then on your own workflows.

Track 2

Governance

Which tools are safe, what may be pasted where, and who decides.

Track 3

Adoption & Leadership

Turning fluency into a measured adoption plan, and equipping the sponsor who leads it.

Tool-specific training

Get full value from the tools you already license

Many organisations pay for AI licences that go largely unused. People try the tool once, get a mediocre answer and stop.

Each option below is our AI at Work course, using the same structure and learning cycle, with the demonstrations, exercises and prompt pack built for that specific tool.

That includes AI WorkPlace, our own enterprise AI platform — the one tool on this list we can teach from the inside.

Where we usually start

A seat-utilisation review comparing what you spend with how your people actually use the tool. It usually makes the case on its own.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot

All staff in Microsoft-tenant organisations

What we teach
Copilot inside Word, Outlook, Teams and Excel — where it draws its context from, and what it can and cannot see.
Why it's under-used
It switched on and nobody told them. Most people tried it once, got a mediocre answer, and stopped.

Claude (Teams / Enterprise)

Knowledge workers, analysts, ops and comms teams

What we teach
Projects and shared context, artefacts, connectors, and Cowork — delegating multi-step work across real files rather than prompting for text.
Why it's under-used
Treated as a better search box rather than a working environment. The agentic mental model is different from chat, and nobody has taught the difference.
AI WorkPlace

AI WorkPlaceOurs

Organisations that need secure, grounded answers from their own documents and systems

What we teach
Our own model-agnostic enterprise AI platform — taught by the people who built it. Secure retrieval across your files and systems, answers with citations, and how to structure knowledge so it can be found.
Why it's under-used
Bought for secure search, used like a chat box. Asking good questions of your own data is a skill, and it is the one that pays back fastest.
Claude Code

Claude Code

Developers, data and technical teams

What we teach
Working in a codebase, delegating multi-step engineering tasks, and reviewing what comes back.
Why it's under-used
Adopted individually by the keenest engineer and never spread to the team.

ChatGPT (Team / Enterprise)

All staff

What we teach
Custom GPTs, projects, and the workspace-versus-personal-account distinction.
Why it's under-used
Highest consumer familiarity, which cuts both ways — habits formed on the free tier transfer badly.
Bespoke AI Solutions

The system we built for you

The team that will use what we deployed

What we teach
Whatever we integrated or automated, taught by the people who built it.
Why it's under-used
Adoption is the difference between a system being used and a system being shelved.
Find your starting point

Answer four questions. Get a recommended programme.

Tell us about your organisation, who is in the room and how much time you have. We'll suggest the courses that fit and show what your team walks out with.

1What kind of organisation are you?
2Who's in the room?
3How much time can you give it?
4Which tools do you already pay for?optional
Recommended programme

Foundations + AI at Work

Two days

  • AI Foundations for the WorkplaceBasics
  • AI at Work: Your Real WorkflowsApplied
How we approach SMB teams

We sit with your team, not send a deck. Foundations and applied days built on your actual work, a half-day on which tools are safe, and a follow-up structure that checks the habit held.

Your team walks out with
  • Prompt cheat sheet
  • Safety & judgement checklist
  • Baseline confidence score
  • Completed prompt-and-refinement cycle
Natural next step

Add C3 Choosing Tools to complete the AI-Ready Practitioner pathway.

Request this programme

Every programme is scoped to your team. We'll give you a clear quote on the call.

Ways to work with us

From a single half-day to a full programme

Every engagement is scoped to your team. Combine courses into a certificate pathway, or choose the format that suits how you buy training.

Certificate pathways

Individual

AI-Ready Practitioner

Includes
  • AI Foundations for the Workplace
  • AI at Work: Your Real Workflows
  • Choosing and Trusting AI Tools
What it certifies
  • Demonstrated a structured prompt-and-refinement cycle on a real work task
  • Built a personal prompt library
  • Passed the tool-evaluation and data-triage exercises
Team or business unit

AI-Ready Organisation

Includes
  • AI Foundations for the Workplace
  • AI at Work: Your Real Workflows
  • Choosing and Trusting AI Tools
  • AI Policy and Decision Rights
  • The Adoption Lab
What it certifies
  • Holds an approved AI use policy and a decision-rights map
  • Has a mapped workflow with prioritised use cases and agreed guardrails
  • Completed a measured 90-day adoption review — issued as a written readiness statement with the evidence attached

These are Bespoke AI Solutions certificates of completion and readiness, not accredited qualifications. Their value is the evidence behind them: an observed capstone on real work and a measured 90-day review.

Engagement formats

Private cohort

One course from the catalogue, run for your people alone — so the examples and exercises are built from your actual work. In person or virtual, half a day to two days.

Best for: Teams booking training for the first time, or closing one specific gap.

Programme

A stacked pathway — Practitioner or Organisation — delivered as one engagement across a quarter.

Best for: Teams who want a credential and a measured outcome, not a one-off day.

Embedded adoption workstream

Training scoped as the adoption phase of an automation, integration or platform we deliver for you.

Best for: Every build engagement. Adoption is what makes the system pay for itself.

Annual training retainer

A committed number of delivery days and materials access across a year, drawn down as needed.

Best for: Associations and mid-market clients with rolling intakes.

Materials licence & train-the-trainer

We certify your own people to deliver our curriculum internally, under licence.

Best for: Enterprise L&D functions that need scale beyond our calendar.

Keynotes & conference breakouts

Plenary sessions and 2–3 hour breakouts for member conferences and all-hands events.

Best for: Associations and unions bringing AI to a whole membership at once.

Ask us about employer training grants

Provincial and federal programmes often offset a meaningful share of employer-led skills training, and AI is a listed priority in several. We'll point you to what may apply and help you prepare the application.

Who teaches it

Taught by the people who build the systems

Programmes are led by Nick, Co-founder & Head of Training, with Jordan, Co-founder & Director, on the governance and executive tracks. Between them they bring nearly four decades of operational leadership, change management and hands-on AI implementation.

We automate, integrate and deploy AI for clients every week, and that practical judgement is what we bring into the room.

20+

Years of digital transformation experience

6

Industries, across the public and private sector

30 / 90

Day follow-ups on actual use, not satisfaction

Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers on format, data handling, certificates and funding

Still have questions? We're here to help!

Contact Our Team

Ready to move your team from curious to capable?

A discovery call is free and takes 45 minutes. Tell us who is in the room and what they need to be able to do, and we'll give you an honest view of what it will take.

Or call (604) 907-2247 · hello@bespokeais.ai