// descending into competence
BAT. Barely Artificially Trained.
Practical tech and AI training that gets your team using the tools you've already paid for, properly this time. No abstract theory, no hour-long lectures about the history of machine learning.
// what it covers
Training built around the tools you've actually got
Practical tech and AI training that gets your team using the tools you've already got, properly. No abstract theory, no hour-long lectures about the history of machine learning.
Every project starts with a full Training Needs Analysis: working out exactly what your team needs to be able to do before a single module gets designed. From there we build the course, or courses, around it, using your own manuals and documentation as source material wherever they exist, or built from scratch when they don't.
20+ years designing and delivering training programmes, for organisations from small teams to some of the world's best known companies, now applied to tech and AI specifically.
Barely Artificially Trained
A deliberately silly name for a genuinely practical service. Your team ends up competent with the tools they've got, not more impressed by us.
// for example
Say you've built a new piece of software
Give us the manual, the release notes, and a bit of your time to answer a few questions, and we can design, resource and deliver the course around it. Or start from nothing, we're just as happy building the content from scratch.
"My team keeps avoiding the AI tools we already pay for because nobody's shown them properly."
// who it's for
Teams handed new tools with no real onboarding
Individuals and teams who've been handed AI or software tools with no proper onboarding, and owners who want their staff confident rather than quietly avoiding the software out of nerves. Complete beginners are welcome. So are teams who've had training before that didn't take.
"We bought the licence eight months ago and I don't think anyone's opened it since week one."
"Everyone nods along in the demo, then goes straight back to the old way of doing it."
"I want my team to actually trust the AI tools, not be scared they'll break something."
// what's included
Every course, whatever the subject, gets the same standard
Learning outcomes
Set for the whole course and for every module, before a single slide gets written, so we can prove afterwards that it worked.
Modular design
Broken into modules, each with its own learning aim, so training fits around your team's day rather than eating a whole one.
Every learning style
Fun, inclusive courses designed with everyone's learning style in mind, not just the people happy sitting through a lecture.
Lesson plans
Documented well enough that the course can be run again without us in the room.
Train the trainer
We can train your own people to deliver the course themselves, whenever you're ready to bring it in-house.
Hard and soft evaluation
Quizzes and tests alongside real observation and feedback. Evaluation that tells us it actually worked, not evaluation for its own sake.
Most courses come with a follow-up option too: refreshers as tools update, or a check-in a few weeks after go-live to see what's actually sticking.
// how it's delivered
Whatever shape actually fits your team
Chalk and talk through to informal, hands-on workshops. In a room, on a call, or self paced. Any mixture of the above, whatever suits how your team learns and how much time you've got.
Classroom
Chalk and talk, structured and instructor led, when that's genuinely what a topic needs.
Workshops
Informal and hands on the real tool, working through your actual tasks rather than a slide deck about it.
Online, remote or on-site
In person, over a call, or a bespoke e-learning course your team works through in their own time, like the demo below.
Blended
Any mixture of the above. Most real training plans end up being exactly that.
// see it for yourself
Try a real course, not a description of one
This is the fastest way to understand what BAT actually builds. It's a short, interactive demo course that walks you through how we design and build training, running on the exact same engine we use for client work: the same navigation, the same evaluation types, the same accessibility, just wearing your content instead.
About 10 minutes, start to finish. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.
Try the demo course →Not sure what training your team actually needs?
Tell us what's being avoided or misused and we'll point you at the right format, even if that turns out to be something small.