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Private AI Systems
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Private AI systems for regulated teams — designed, deployed, and maintained by one engineer who stays accountable.

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Hands-on AI courses for teams that build and run AI: agentic harness engineering, rapid acceleration sprints, R&D with AI, the full software-to-hardware ecosystem, private RAG, governance and security.

01 / AI Courses

Agentic
Harness

Engineering
Track°

How modern agent harnesses really work, and how to make them reliable on your own codebase and systems: skills, MCP tools, subagents, evals and guardrails.

Harness
Anatomy

Models, tools,
loops

Models, tools, loops, permissions: how Claude Code, Codex and similar harnesses actually work.

Module 01 · 3h

Skills &
Memory

Reusable
know-how

Package team know-how as reusable skills, memory and project rules.

Module 02 · 3h

MCP &
Tool Design

Agents meet
your systems

Connect agents to your systems through MCP servers and well-shaped tools.

Module 03 · 4h

Subagents &
Orchestration

Planner, worker,
verifier

Planner / worker / verifier patterns, parallel agents, workflows.

Module 04 · 4h

Evals &
Verification

Proof before
shipping

Tests, evals and review gates so agent output never ships unchecked.

Module 05 · 3h

Guardrails &
Security

Safe by
default

Prompt injection, secrets, sandboxing and human approval points.

Module 06 · 3h

Teams move faster when they understand the tools they use. The next course turns that understanding into a working sprint.

02 / AI Courses

AI Rapid
Acceleration

Team
Sprint°

Five days from "we should use AI" to a live agent on your data, a measured gain and a 30-day plan the team owns.

Day 1
Process Audit

Find the
wedges

Map recurring work and pick the three highest-leverage wedges.

Day 1

Prompt to
Workflow

Repeatable,
documented

From ad-hoc chats to repeatable, documented AI workflows.

Day 2

Build the
First Agent

Live, on
your data

Ship one working agent on your own data, live, in the room.

Day 3

Measure
the Gain

An honest
ROI sheet

Time saved, error rate, cost per task: an honest ROI sheet.

Day 4

30-Day
Adoption Plan

Make it
stick

Owners, rituals and guardrails that keep the change alive.

Day 5

Speed matters most where knowledge is created. Research teams get their own track.

03 / AI Courses

R&D
with AI

Research
Track°

Use AI to scan the field, widen the hypothesis space, simulate before building and keep every result reproducible.

Literature &
Patent Agents

Know what
is new

Agents that scan papers, patents and datasets and report what is new.

Module 01 · 3h

Hypothesis &
Experiment Design

Wider, then
sharper

Use models to widen the option space, then narrow it with evidence.

Module 02 · 3h

Simulation &
Digital Twins

Test before
you build

Test ideas in simulation before spending on hardware or field trials.

Module 03 · 4h

Data Pipelines &
Synthetic Data

Data for your
own models

Collect, clean, label and synthesise data for your own models.

Module 04 · 4h

Reproducible
Research

Rerun
anything

Notebooks, evals and audit trails that a reviewer can rerun.

Module 05 · 3h

Prototype to
Product

Paper, patent
or product

From a working result to a paper, a patent or a product.

Module 06 · 2h

To choose well you need the whole map. One course covers the stack from silicon to regulation.

04 / AI Courses

The AI
Ecosystem

Software ↔
Hardware°

The whole AI stack in one course: from silicon and data centres to models, agents, robotics, cost and regulation. Overview first, then in depth.

Silicon

Where AI
physically runs

GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, memory bandwidth and why HBM decides speed.

Layer 01

Infrastructure

Cloud, on-prem,
edge

Cloud, on-premise, edge; inference servers, quantisation, latency.

Layer 02

Models

Frontier vs
open weights

Frontier vs open weights, fine-tuning, distillation, evaluation.

Layer 03

Data &
Retrieval

RAG, vectors,
graphs

RAG, vector stores, knowledge graphs and data governance.

Layer 04

Agents &
Applications

The new
software stack

Harnesses, MCP, workflows and the new software stack.

Layer 05

Robotics &
Embodied AI

The physical
frontier

VLA models, humanoids, ROS 2 and the physical frontier.

Layer 06

Economics &
Regulation

Costs, energy,
EU AI Act

Compute costs, energy, EU AI Act, market map and a 3-year outlook.

Layer 07

Most company AI starts with knowledge retrieval. This track builds it properly and privately.

05 / AI Courses

Private RAG
Systems

Builder
Track°

Build a retrieval system on your own documents that answers with sources, respects permissions and runs where your data lives.

Ingestion &
Chunking

Clean, retrievable
knowledge

Turn documents, mail and archives into clean, retrievable knowledge.

Module 01 · 3h

Embeddings &
Vector Stores

Where quality
is decided

Choose, host and tune embeddings and indexes locally or in cloud.

Module 02 · 3h

Retrieval
Evaluation

Measure every
answer

Measure answer quality, citations and failure cases.

Module 03 · 3h

Permissions &
Audit

Right answer,
right person

Role-aware retrieval and logs your compliance team will accept.

Module 04 · 3h

Local
Deployment

Nothing leaves
the building

Run the full stack on your own hardware, no data leaves the building.

Module 05 · 4h

Every system needs someone accountable for it. The AI Officer course prepares that person.

06 / AI Courses

AI Officer
Training

Governance
Certification°

The practical governance course for the person who answers for AI in the organisation: EU AI Act, risk, literacy, policy and incidents.

EU AI Act
Essentials

Roles and
obligations

Obligations, timelines and roles for providers and deployers.

Module 01 · 3h

Risk
Classification

Know your
risk class

Classify your systems and document the reasoning.

Module 02 · 3h

AI Literacy
Programme

Article 4,
in practice

Design the staff AI-literacy programme Article 4 expects.

Module 03 · 2h

Policies &
Audits

Paper that
matches practice

Usage policy, vendor review, model registry, internal audit.

Module 04 · 3h

Incident
Response

When AI
fails

What to do when an AI system fails, leaks or misleads.

Module 05 · 2h

Agents widen the attack surface. Security teams need a track of their own.

07 / AI Courses

Cognitive
Security

Defense
Track°

The new attack surface: agents that read mail, browse and call tools. Learn how they are attacked and how to defend them.

Prompt
Injection

Hijacked by
a document

How agents get hijacked through documents, mail and web pages.

Module 01 · 3h

Agent Data
Exfiltration

Least-privilege
agents

Tool permissions, egress control and least-privilege agents.

Module 02 · 3h

Deepfakes &
Social Engineering

Doubt the
convincing

Detect and respond to synthetic voice, video and text attacks.

Module 03 · 3h

Red-Teaming
LLM Apps

Attack yourself
first

Attack your own assistants before someone else does.

Module 04 · 4h

AI is moving into the physical world. The last track covers twins, robots and safety.

08 / AI Courses

Digital Twins
& Robotics

Embodied AI
Track°

From ROS 2 basics to simulation-first development and humanoid operations, with safety assessed at every step.

ROS 2
Foundations

Nodes, topics,
services

Nodes, topics and services for teams new to robotics.

Module 01 · 4h

Simulation
First

Twin before
robot

Build the twin, test the task, then touch the robot.

Module 02 · 4h

Humanoid
Operations

Operator
copilots

Maintenance, knowledge capture and operator copilots.

Module 03 · 3h

VLA Models &
Safety

Capability and
safety

Vision-language-action models, limits and safety cases.

Module 04 · 3h
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Private AI Systems.
Founder-led. Confidential.
Built for regulated and
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