AI Academy · AI Accelerator
AI won’t take your work. Someone who knows how to use it will.
Don’t wait until AI is mandatory. Learn it while it’s still an advantage.
Former Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey told the National Press Club in May 2026 that he expects unemployment across Australia and the Western world to reach 15% by 2030 or 2031, as AI and robotics replace people at scale.
That’s his expectation, not our forecast.
You don’t have to believe the number to see the direction.
This programme is for the people who intend to be on the other side of that line — and to bring their business with them.
Free masterclass · 39 min
Watch this before you decide anything
What AI is about to do to work, what the people building it are actually saying, and what an ordinary business can do about it — with worked examples, an engineer who isn’t a programmer, and no assumed technical background.
Thrive in the Age of AI — Your Business Game Plan · 39 min
15% out of work means 85% still in it. The difference between the two groups isn’t luck.
One of the people building this technology put it to Derek plainly: the jobs will go to those who know how to use AI. The risk was never the technology. It’s being outpaced by somebody with your skills who has learnt to move faster.
The gap
Go beyond using AI. Learn to operate at AI speed.
Most people are still on the first rung — asking AI questions the way they’d ask Google, generating the odd image, tidying up an email. That’s genuinely useful. It’s also barely scratching what the technology can now do. The rung almost nobody reaches is building things, and that is exactly where the distance between one business and another is opening up.
Level one
Ask it things
Questions put the way you would put them to Google. Quick answers, quick lookups.
Level two
Make things
Emails, documents, images, posts. Genuinely useful — and where most people stop.
Level three
Build things
Tools, systems and processes that used to need a developer, a budget and a waiting list.
What you’ll be able to do
Accelerate the business
Find where AI can build tools that lift the customer experience, cut costs and keep people coming back for more.
Learn fast. Execute fast.
The gap between an idea and a working tool is now measured in days rather than quarters. Learn how to close it.
Save thousands in development
Work that used to need a developer, a budget and a place in the queue is increasingly within reach without any of the three.
Marketing that keeps up
Content, campaigns and presence maintained at a pace one person or a small team simply could not hold before.
Reduce the administrative load
Find the clunky processes quietly eating hours and rebuild them properly — Derek cut his own student onboarding from hours to minutes.
Forecast and plan
Read customer behaviour, spot the trends and plan for what you didn't expect, using information your business already holds.
A general manager, 24/7
Something watching the business every hour of every day — not only when you are — and reporting back at whatever hour you nominate.
Know which tools to use
Not every platform handles every task equally well. Learn what's current, and what produces the fastest, best result for the job in front of you.
A result you can point at
This isn't about collecting prompts. It's work that stands up to review, produced in a fraction of the time it used to take.
A worked example
Derek finally built the website he had wanted for twelve years but never had the expertise to commission. A client of his who works in IT looked at it and said it would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop. It cost about $120, and roughly seven to eight weeks — work Derek estimates would have taken at least two years with a developer.
What was once limited by your development budget may now be limited more by what you can imagine.
Proof
You don’t have to become a programmer.
Meet Darren Good
Engineer · Blu Sky Factory collaborator
Darren’s background is engineering — acoustic design, maintenance, a graduate diploma in mechanical engineering, and project engineering today, including work with large mining companies.
He is not a career software developer. In his own words: one Fortran subject at university in the nineties, one Pascal course at high school, and a lot of tinkering since.
What he has built with AI
- ✓An AI receptionist that answers calls, holds a conversation, takes details and books appointments.
- ✓A subscription puzzle website deployed on a US server, with automatic onboarding and billing.
- ✓Server-performance diagnostics measured against industry-standard reviews.
- ✓And, as a demonstration of the pace: a short prompt at six o'clock one evening, and about eight minutes later, a full playable version of the board game Risk.
His own summary is the part worth keeping: none of those outcomes were within his experience or skill set when it came to the actual coding. His engineering judgement was. AI supplied the rest.
Darren’s results are his own, and depend on the skills and effort he brought to them. They are not typical, promised or guaranteed.
AI doesn’t replace your expertise. It lets your expertise reach further than it could on its own.
AI isn’t magic. That’s exactly why it’s worth learning properly.
AI is extraordinarily capable. But it isn’t infallible. Here’s the part that too often gets left out of the conversation.
It can mislead you
It can be confidently, fluently wrong — which is worse than being obviously wrong. Cross-checking isn't optional.
It can frustrate your customers
Some people want a human being and will leave if they can't reach one. Where you use it matters as much as whether you use it.
Left alone, it automates the wrong thing
Unsupervised, it will happily do the wrong job perfectly, at scale, until somebody notices.
It bites in the real world, not in testing
You don't find the bugs until it meets real customers. Rolling out slowly and deliberately is a skill in its own right.
The opportunity was never in handing everything over. It’s in knowing where AI belongs, where it doesn’t, and where human judgement still has to sit. That is the whole difference between dabbling with AI and learning to operate it.
Which question is yours?
There are two ways to read what’s happening, and they lead to the same place.
If you own the business
How do I benefit from the disruption?
Where does AI change what your business can offer, what it costs to run and how fast it delivers? Are you downstream of this change — or are you the one causing it in your market?
If you’re employed
How much more can I do with what I already know?
With the experience you already have, how do you build tools for your industry and direct a workforce of AI — bringing more value to your employer than you could deliver on your own?
You keep your skills either way. They’re yours. What changes is how much you can do with them.
Two ways in. Pick the one that fits.
One builds your own capability. The other builds it across your organisation.
Small business owners & professionals
AI Professional
Build your own AI capability.
For small and medium business owners, and professionals who want to lead with AI in their own work — with tools you can put to use on Monday.
Or a payment plan: $520 deposit and four monthly instalments of $300. Fully refunded if your application isn't accepted.
Next intake begins Thursday 17 September 2026, 5:00pm AWST
Best suited to you if
- You run a small or medium-sized business
- You’re a professional building your own edge
- You want capability you can use immediately
Businesses of around 20 or more
AI Executive
Build AI capability across the organisation.
For owners, founders and executives who need the capability to sit in the business rather than in one head — the strategic view of where AI changes things, and what to do first.
plus $1,495 AUD for each staff member who joins
Every staff member who joins receives the full AI Professional programme in their own right; staff places are arranged with us after you enrol. Payment plan available: $2,395 deposit and seven monthly instalments of $800. Fully refunded if your application isn't accepted.
Next intake begins Thursday 17 September 2026, 5:00pm AWST
Best suited to you if
- More than one person needs the capability
- You want one shared language and one standard
- Your systems and processes have to move with the team
We’re training the business, not one person in it.
The usual failure isn’t the tool. It’s one person learning it while nobody else changes how they work. What we’re after is one shared language, one standard, and a team that moves at the same speed.
Not sure which one applies to you? Book a free discovery session
Frequently Asked Questions
+Do I need any technical or programming experience?
No. AI Accelerator is built for business owners, executives and professionals who have work to get done — not for programmers. You don't need to know how to code.
+Is this just a ChatGPT programme?
No. ChatGPT may be one of the tools, but the platforms change constantly. What we're after is the capability underneath: how to direct AI, design workflows, judge what comes back and find where it genuinely belongs in your work. That's what you keep when the tools change.
+Won't this be out of date in six months?
The tools will be. That's precisely why the programme is built around capability rather than which button sits where. Every six months the tools get better — and the people already using them get further ahead.
+Is this suitable for a small business?
Yes. AI Professional is built for small and medium business owners, and for professionals applying AI to their own work. Larger organisations that want the capability across a team should look at AI Executive.
+Can members of my team take part?
Yes, under AI Executive. Each participating staff member receives the full AI Professional programme in their own right, at $1,495 per person. Staff places are arranged with us after you enrol.
+Is there a payment plan?
Yes, on both. AI Professional is a $520 deposit and four monthly instalments of $300. AI Executive is a $2,395 deposit and seven monthly instalments of $800. Paying upfront costs less, and both options are shown to you at application.
+Do you provide the AI platforms themselves?
No. The AI platforms discussed are third-party tools we neither own nor control. Their capability, pricing and availability change without notice, and what anyone achieves with them depends on their own skills and effort.
+What if I'm not sure which one is right for me?
Book a call before you enrol. There's no benefit to anyone in putting you into the wrong programme.
The cost of starting doesn’t rise. The distance you have to close does.
AI is learning faster than the people deciding whether to learn it. Every six months the tools get better, and the people already using them get further ahead. Waiting until AI is essential in your industry means learning it under pressure — while somebody with your skills is already moving faster than you are.
Would you rather talk it through first? Book a free discovery session
Not ready to join yet?
Stay Ahead of the AI Shift
AI is moving too quickly to check in on once a year.
Join us and we'll keep you updated on the tools, developments and practical applications we're seeing — particularly the changes that matter to business owners and professionals. It starts the moment you join and runs for about ten weeks, and you can stop any time.