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AI for Professionals

A practical, no-hype short course for non-technical professionals. Learn to use modern AI tools to write, analyse, plan and automate the work you already do — safely and with judgement. Evenings, online, and immediately useful.

Duration
3 weeks
Commitment
~4 hrs/week · two evenings a week
Format
Live online
Level
For everyone · no technical background needed

Short course

$95

Indicative · your local currency · pre-VAT-determination

Evening cohort

Starts 8 September 2026

Enrolling
Reserve your seat

Reserve a seat — our team follows up by email to arrange payment.

Refund & deferral policy

What you'll learn

  • Getting genuinely useful results from AI assistants
  • Drafting, editing, summarising and analysing with AI
  • Building simple automations for repetitive work
  • Data privacy, accuracy and the limits of AI at work
AI-native by default

The AI classes in this program

Every Lightspace program teaches the AI-native method — not a bolt-on module, but a working style woven through the projects.

  • Prompt & context engineering for everyday work — getting reliably useful output
  • The review habit: verify AI output before it goes out under your name
  • Personal AI workflows and simple automations for your role
  • Knowing the limits: where to trust AI and where not to

The curriculum

  1. 1

    Working with AI

    Week 1

    How to prompt well, get reliable output, and fit AI into your daily work.

  2. 2

    Analyse & automate

    Week 2

    Using AI for documents, data and simple automations that save real hours.

  3. 3

    Judgement & safety

    Week 3

    Accuracy, privacy, and building durable AI habits you can trust at work.

What you leave with

  • A personal toolkit of AI workflows for your role
  • Faster writing, analysis and planning from week one
  • A clear sense of what AI can and cannot be trusted with

How you're taught

Live cohorts led by working practitioners — not pre-recorded videos.

Live, not recorded

Real classes on a schedule, with a group that keeps you moving.

Practitioner instructors

Taught by people who build and ship software for a living.

Feedback on your work

Code review and honest feedback on real projects, every week.

Questions

Where does it take place?

Live online — you can join from anywhere in the world.

How much time does it take?

3 weeks, at roughly ~4 hrs/week · two evenings a week.

What do I need to start?

For everyone · no technical background needed.

How do payments work?

There's no payment on this website. You reserve a seat and our team emails you to confirm it and arrange payment.

What language is it taught in?

All live classes and materials are in English.

Full details in our Refund, withdrawal & deferral policy.