AI training for business teams and managers.
Not a talk about AI — working with AI: on your real tasks, with your real documents. Built for business teams and managers, explicitly not for developers.
Why most AI training changes nothing
The usual shape: a morning of slides, a few demos, examples from somebody else's industry — afterwards everyone carries on as before, because nobody built the bridge to their own work.
The difference is not the tool, it is the material: someone working on their own quote and their own meeting notes leaves with something that is still true the next day. So you bring the tasks.
Who this is for
For the people who work with text, documents and decisions all day: administration, assistants, sales, project management, leadership — in other words most of a company, not the IT department.
Developers are explicitly not the audience: in a mixed group half the room is bored while the other half is left behind.
- Workshops for business teams, assistants and leadership
- Exercises on your own work, not on sample data
- Clear rules about what may go in and what may not
- Follow-up until it sticks in day-to-day work
The training obligation in the EU AI Act
Since February 2025 the EU AI Act expects companies that use AI to make sure their people have a sufficient level of AI literacy — Article 4, if you want to look it up. What "sufficient" means is not prescribed: no mandatory certificate, no fixed format, no authority collecting attendance lists.
So anyone threatening you with fines for missing training is exaggerating. The obligation is still a good occasion: a workshop that works on real tasks and settles the data rules covers it along the way — documented, too. A click-through course covers it formally as well; it just changes nothing about how anyone works the next day.
What a session looks like
A round runs half a day to a full day, and the lecture portion is deliberately small: a brief, honest framing of what tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot or Claude do well and where they reliably fall over. We work with the tools you have and are allowed to keep — not with whichever one has the best advertising right now.
The rest is work on your own cases — the quote that looks much the same every week, the meeting notes nobody enjoys writing. We keep going until the output is good enough for real use, not just until the demo worked. You leave with a short page written together, which goes up in the team afterwards.
Rules before it becomes a habit
The most important half hour is the one about data: what may be typed into a tool that runs outside the company, and what absolutely may not?
Without clear rules, either nobody uses the tools for fear of getting it wrong, or everybody uses them without thinking about it. Both are worse than a line that fits on one page.
So it does not stop at the lightbulb moment
The weeks after a workshop are where most of the value leaks away. It helps if someone follows up: what made it into daily work, and where is it stuck?
Often that reveals that some of the daily handwork could be automated properly, once. At which point the training turns into an automation question — and the other way round.
Questions about this
Is AI training mandatory now?
More or less. Since February 2025 the EU AI Act requires that people working with AI have a sufficient level of AI literacy (Article 4). No specific format or certificate is prescribed, and so far there is no fine attached specifically to this. A documented workshop on your own tasks covers the obligation — and unlike a compliance click-through, it also changes how people actually work.
How large can the group be?
Small enough that everyone can work on their own task and I can sit with each of them once. In practice that means eight to twelve people rather than thirty. For larger workforces, several rounds work better than one big event.
Do people need prior knowledge?
No. If you can write an e-mail, you can take part. Prior knowledge helps with pace but is not a requirement — and scepticism about the topic is explicitly welcome in the room.
Does this happen on our premises?
In and around Hamburg, on site gladly; otherwise remote. On site is usually better for the first round, because it lets me see how the work actually gets done along the way.
The other areas
Most projects touch more than one of these.
- Custom software development from HamburgCustom web applications, APIs and legacy modernisation from a freelance software engineer in Hamburg — including advice that sometimes argues against a rewrite.
- Process automation and AI integrationMap the workflow, automate the recurring work, extend the software you already run with AI instead of replacing it: process automation and AI integration for small and mid-sized companies, from Hamburg.
- Claude Skills and MCP server developmentDevelopment of Claude Skills and MCP servers: hand recurring tasks and formats to an AI permanently, and make internal systems safely reachable for it.
Sound like your problem?
A 30-minute call, no obligation. By the end you know whether it is worth doing — including when the answer is "probably not".