AIPractical AI training
Whether you’re starting from zero or already use ChatGPT every day, learn to turn ideas into useful tools and better ways of working. Develop the judgement to check what AI produces, and to adapt it yourself.
MBA, IIM AhmedabadFounder of LEAD
Live small-group learning and personalised 1:1 guidance.
Starting from zero
“I didn’t realise I could make something with AI.”
You don’t need technical experience. We start with purposeful everyday use and build towards your first small tool.
Using it every day
“I use it all the time. Maybe only a narrow part of it.”
Using AI often isn’t the same as creating with it. The next step is learning to make, check and adapt useful work.
Holding an idea
“I have an idea, but I don’t know how to make it work.”
Then we start from your idea, at a size you can build, test and improve.
One subject, two requests
Both requests below are about percentages, and both are useful. What changes is what you’re left with, and how much of the result depends on your decisions.
You ask
“Explain percentages to me.”
AI answers
Per cent means “out of a hundred”, so 20% is 20 out of every 100, or 0.2.
To find 20% of 150, multiply: 0.2 × 150 = 30.
A quick check: 10% of 150 is 15, so 20% is twice that, 30.
A week later
“Can you explain percentages again? And give me a few to practise.”
What you’re left withA clear, correct explanation. Exactly right when you need to understand something once.
You ask
“Help me create a small percentage-practice tool that gives me questions, checks my answers and explains mistakes.”
Your part
You set the purpose
“Quick practice at finding a percentage of a number.”
You choose the level and the feedback
“Whole numbers to start. When I’m wrong, show me the working.”
What AI builds
Percentage practice
Illustrative learning exercise
Quick practice at finding a percentage of a number.
Feedback: show the working
Correct. 12.5% = 0.125, and 0.125 × 80 = 10.
Your turn: answer, then press Check. Nothing you type leaves this page.
You check it with answers you know
“20% of 150 should be 30. If I type 3, a common slip, it should explain why.”
You change a requirement
“Now add harder questions, with decimals.”
You check again
“12.5% of 80 should be 10.”
What you’re left withA tool you can use every time you practise. You know it works because you checked it, and you know how to change it.
The tool came from AI. The judgement came from you.
Not every question needs a tool. When the same need keeps coming back, it can be worth making one. And a single request rarely produces something finished and correct: the learning is in the purpose you set, the answers you check and the changes you make. That’s what we practise, starting with tools as small as this one.
What you’ll learn
The aim isn’t to know more about AI. It’s to be able to do more with it yourself, and to know when a result can be trusted.
Foundation · part one
Learn to define a task, give useful context, work with the information that matters, refine what comes back, and recognise when it needs checking.
Foundation · part two
With AI’s help, create a first small tool that does something useful. Then test it and adapt it.
You’re ready to move on when you can
Beyond the foundation
With a suitable starting point, build several small tools, reusable approaches and simple connected workflows. Personalised work can become more involved when your capability and the scope justify it.
AI can help at every step. You don’t need to write code unaided or explain every line. But watching a demonstration, or opening the code once, isn’t the same as being in control of the result. That’s the difference we work on.
Possible first creations, not a fixed list. What you make depends on where you start and what’s useful to you.
Learning
A practice tool that checks answers and explains mistakes
Personal
A small calculator or tracker, from splitting a trip’s costs to keeping a habit going
Creative
A simple web page for something you return to: a recipe that scales, a set list, a club’s fixtures
Documents
A reusable way to work with documents: summaries in your format, checked against the source
Work
A small workflow that removes repetitive steps: meeting notes in, a standard follow-up out
They aren’t only for percentages. Here they are, asked of a completely different first tool.
IllustrativeSharing the costs of a trip
What problem are we solving?
Four friends, one trip, a pile of receipts. Who owes whom, without a long argument at the end?
What information is needed?
Who paid for what, and who shared each cost. Not everyone came to every dinner.
How will we know it works?
The balances add up to zero, and a small case worked out by hand gives the same answer.
What should we change?
One friend joined halfway. Split each cost only among the people who were there, then check again.
Why learn with me
I began teaching at eleven. Since then I’ve studied computer science, completed an MBA at IIM Ahmedabad, and founded LEAD Educational Institute, which I still run. I’ve taught people of different ages, nationalities and professional levels, including senior leaders.
I build
So your idea can become something that works.
I use AI to create learning tools, develop websites and support my business. That lets me help you connect an idea to a working result, and find what’s wrong when it doesn’t work.
I run a business
So we make what’s worth making.
Running a company teaches you to ask what a solution is for. I’ll help you tell a useful tool from an impressive demonstration that nobody needs.
I teach
So the explanation fits you.
I notice where you’re stuck and change the explanation, the example or the pace. That’s what a teacher adds to a tutorial.
The point is not to impress you with what I can build. It’s to help you develop capabilities you can use.
Two things I’ve made with AI
For my students
For my business
This website is a third example. I shaped its vision, content and experience, with AI tools helping me design and build it. You won’t start with a website. You’ll start with something small that works.
Tell me what you use AI for today and what you want to make. We can work out a useful starting point together.
Ask where to beginQuestions
Straight answers to the questions people ask most. If yours isn’t here, ask it directly.
Ask a questionYes. You don’t need technical experience to begin. The foundation starts with purposeful everyday use and builds towards your first small working tool, at a pace that makes sense for where you’re starting.
Probably, but it depends on what you already do. Using AI often isn’t the same as being able to create, check and adapt useful work with it. If you’re already making simple tools, the foundation may not be the right fit, and one-to-one learning can start further along.
Not to begin. AI can write most of what a small tool needs, while you learn to describe what you want, test it and ask for changes. Some creations do involve code, and as you go further, a basic understanding of what it’s doing becomes useful.
Tell me what you use AI for today and what you want to make. We can work out a useful starting point together.
First, to use AI on purpose: define a task, give useful context, work with the relevant information, refine what comes back and recognise when it needs checking. Then to create a first small tool with AI’s help, check that it works with inputs you can verify, change it, and check it again.
Early creations are small and useful: a practice tool that checks answers and explains mistakes, a calculator or personal tracker, or a simple web page for something you do often. What you make depends on your starting point and the scope we agree, but creating a first working tool is part of the foundation, not an advanced extra.
No. Prompts copied from a list stop working as soon as your situation changes. You’ll learn to define what you need, judge what comes back and adapt it, so you can write your own instructions for things no list anticipated.
You can learn a great deal on your own, and plenty of people do. A teacher adds a sensible path, feedback on your actual work, help when something doesn’t work, and learning that stays attached to a task that matters to you. Those are hard to get from a tutorial.
By what you can do with less help: complete a task, check it and adapt it with more independence than before. The clearest evidence is your own work, something you made, tested and changed yourself.
The tools will change. The skills underneath change much more slowly. Defining a task clearly, giving useful context, checking results and adapting them all carry from one tool to the next. We use current tools, but the aim is judgement you can take with you. You’ll still need to keep practising as things move.
Choose the group if you’d like a shared foundation, some structure and the benefit of other people’s questions. Choose 1:1 if you have a specific goal, need a particular pace, or want the learning built around your own work or project. If you’re unsure, tell me what you’re hoping to do and I’ll suggest the better fit.
Ask me about live small-group learning and current availability. Personalised 1:1 learning is priced by enquiry, once we’ve agreed its focus and format. If you’re asking on behalf of a team, see AI training for businesses.
The timetable and delivery arrangements for the next group are shared when you enquire, so you get current details rather than a date that may have changed. For 1:1 learning, we agree the schedule and format together.
That depends on the programme and on what you want to make. Ask about software requirements and any additional costs when you enquire, so you know exactly what you’ll need before you start.
Yes, particularly in 1:1 learning, where your own work can become the material we learn from, as long as its scope suits the time and you can share the information involved. We work on it together so that you can do it yourself. It’s learning, not commissioning me to build a complete system for you.
Yes. Team learning is arranged around your organisation’s tools, everyday work and processes. Start at AI training for businesses.
Your next step
Tell me where you’re starting from and what you’d like to be able to do. I’ll suggest whether a small group or one-to-one learning fits you better.
Handwritten beside a blank index card: Start small. Make it yours.
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