For owners and decision makers

AI courses

Six live sessions on the benefit of AI, and on how an organisation adopts it early. Each course lasts 15 minutes. Each one is available to purchase for your leadership team.

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Taught from systems that are already running

Etellect has designed, built and run operational software since 2000. The work includes payments, bank data, address and identity, membership, and agentic workflows in which software takes steps and a person stays accountable. These courses are that knowledge, arranged for the people who decide whether an organisation adopts AI early.

They are for owners, directors, COOs and programme sponsors. A technical colleague is welcome in the room. The session is about the benefit, the decision and the change in how the organisation works.

Buy one course, or buy the six as a set. Each is a live 15-minute sitting for your leadership team. The topics under each title are the syllabus: they are what the session covers, and the outline from which the course materials are produced.

Six courses, 15 minutes each

Available to purchase now. Etellect confirms the fee and the date when you send the request.

Course 1

15 minutes

The benefit of adopting AI early

For: owners and directors who need a clear view of the benefit before a budget is committed.

The decision it prepares: whether adopting AI now is worth more to this organisation than waiting.

Topics

  1. A working definition of AI, automation and an agentic workflow
  2. Benefits a leadership team can measure: capacity, error rate, response time and cost to serve
  3. What early adoption means in an operating business
  4. Where the first advantage shows up, and where the spend does not return
  5. The cost of waiting: staff time, service level and work that stays manual
  6. How to describe the benefit to a board, a partner or a staff meeting
  7. Five questions to settle before any tool is chosen

You leave with: a plain statement of the benefit, and the questions the leadership team still has to answer.

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Course 2

15 minutes

Choosing the first workflows

For: decision makers who have to choose where AI starts, and where it does not.

The decision it prepares: which piece of work should be first.

Topics

  1. Work that repeats, work that varies, and work that must stay with a person
  2. Volume, exception rate and the real cost of a manual step
  3. Data the organisation already holds, and data it would have to create
  4. A shortlist method: impact, readiness and risk
  5. Signs a workflow is ready: a clear start, a clear finish and a known exception path
  6. How to refuse a demonstration that does not match the operation
  7. Writing the first workflow on one page: trigger, steps, systems, owner and stop

You leave with: a one-page description of the first workflow, or a clear reason not to start there.

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Course 3

15 minutes

Agentic workflows for decision makers

For: leaders who will be asked to let software take steps inside a live process.

The decision it prepares: where an agent may act, and where a person must decide.

Topics

  1. What an agent is: a goal, a plan, tools, and a point where it stops
  2. Chat, copilot and agent: three different commitments to the business
  3. A worked example of a multi-step workflow inside an existing process
  4. Oversight that is specific: who can approve, what the agent may not do, and when it must hand over
  5. The decision trace: context, policy and action, so a later review can explain what happened
  6. Access to the system of record, and why the agent must not keep a side record
  7. Authority, audit, and the customer experience if the agent is wrong

You leave with: a rule for where software may continue, and where a person takes the next step.

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Course 4

15 minutes

Data, risk and accountability

For: owners and directors who need the organisation to adopt AI without creating a new liability. This is a leadership briefing. It is not legal advice.

The decision it prepares: what the workflow is allowed to see, and who remains accountable.

Topics

  1. Which data a workflow may see, and which data stays out
  2. Customer, employee and supplier information
  3. UK GDPR duties a sponsor should be able to explain
  4. How an agent can breach a rule the business already meets
  5. Sector duties in payments, membership and other operational settings
  6. The EU AI Act as a delivery constraint where products or customers are in scope
  7. The evidence a board, a customer or an auditor may ask to see
  8. Controls the organisation already holds, including Cyber Essentials, as the floor for any new workflow

You leave with: the data and duties the workflow must respect, and the name of the person who is accountable.

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Course 5

15 minutes

People, suppliers and the in-house team

For: leaders who need the workflow to survive after the first demonstration.

The decision it prepares: who owns the work, what stays in-house, and what is bought.

Topics

  1. Sponsor, business owner and operator: three roles
  2. What the leadership team must understand, and what the delivery team must be able to do
  3. What to build in-house, what to buy, and what to leave alone
  4. How to brief a supplier so the organisation keeps the judgement
  5. The change in someone's week: what stops, what starts, and who checks
  6. Preparing the people who remain accountable, as well as the people who use a screen
  7. When to bring in specialist support, a technical lead or an independent review

You leave with: named roles, and a decision on what the organisation will keep.

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Course 6

15 minutes

The first 90 days

For: the sponsor who has to turn interest into a live workflow.

The decision it prepares: the sequence for the next 90 days, and the point at which the work stops if it is not paying back.

Topics

  1. The decision on the table, written in one sentence
  2. Days 1 to 30: choose one workflow and name the owner
  3. Days 31 to 60: prove it on real work, including the exceptions
  4. Days 61 to 90: govern it, measure it and hand it on
  5. Measures a board will accept
  6. What to stop, so the new workflow has room
  7. Review points, and the right to halt
  8. When a discovery engagement is the right next step, and when the team can proceed alone

You leave with: a 90-day sequence, the measures, and a halt point.

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How a purchase works

There is no open enrolment and no public seat price on this page. The course is bought for your organisation.

1. Choose the course

One session, or the full set of six. Name the people who should be in the room.

2. We confirm the fee and the date

Etellect replies with the fee, the date and the practical arrangements for a live 15-minute sitting.

3. The session follows the syllabus

The topics on this page are the syllabus. The materials for the sitting are produced from them.

Why these courses come from Etellect

Since 2000

Applied intelligence for operating businesses, from a team based in Glasgow.

Systems in production

Payments, bank data, address and identity, membership and automation. The courses use that practice.

Questions before you buy

Who are the courses for?

Owners, directors and the people who decide where the organisation spends time and money. They are written for that audience. A technical colleague can attend. The session does not assume a background in software or data science.

How long is each course?

Each course is a live session of 15 minutes. The six courses can be bought separately or as a set.

How do I purchase a course?

Use Purchase this course on the session you want. The contact form is completed with that course named. Etellect confirms the fee and the date. There is no card checkout on this page.

What will the session cover?

The numbered topics under each course are the syllabus. They are also the outline used to produce the materials for that sitting. You leave with the decision the course is built around, written so the leadership team can use it.

Is this the same as the AI Discovery Programme?

No. A course is a 15-minute briefing for decision makers. The AI Discovery Programme is a paid engagement to size where AI will pay back inside a named organisation. Many teams take a course first, then decide whether discovery is the next step.

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Choose one session, or ask for the full set of six. Etellect will confirm the fee and a date.

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