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For Australian teams and their leaders

Personalised AI training for your team

Build confidence with AI, on your own work

Chances are your team is self-taught: pasting client details into free tools, trusting answers they shouldn't, or barely using the licences you pay for. I work hands-on with your team on their real work, in small groups, until the habits stick.

How this is different

Tailored to your business context, not a generic course.

By the end, your team knows which work suits AI, what it should never touch, and how to tell when it's got something wrong.

Hands-on, on your real work

Your team does the work in every session, on their own tasks, tools and policies. No lectures, no wall of slides.

Long enough to stick

Small groups of up to 8, fortnightly over 6 or 12 weeks, so new habits have time to form.

One experienced person

I run every session myself. No hand-off to someone junior.

The approach, not one tool

It works with whichever AI tools your team uses, and with whatever comes next.

David Webb, founder of Thirdbrain

Who you'll work with

Twenty years leading teams through new technology.

I'm David Webb. I spent two decades building digital products at Woolworths, Blackwoods, nib and Transport for NSW. At Woolworths I also ran training and capability uplift programs. Now I build with AI every day.

If we can learn the methodology, that's more useful than fixing one problem.
Head of Finance, an Australian manufacturer

More about me

AI training options

Two options for teams, one for leaders.

Teams work in groups of up to 8, so everyone gets hands-on help. Prices exclude GST.

6 weeks · Your team

Starter

Take the mystery out of AI

  • 3 hands-on sessions, fortnightly
  • Your team's working guide to AI
  • Questions answered < 48 hours

$10,500for 6 weeks, up to 8 peopleFrom $219 per person, per weekEach extra group of up to 8: $3,500

Everything included
  • A short call with you, and a quick survey of your team before we start
  • 3 × 2-hour hands-on sessions, fortnightly, on your team's real work
  • Groups of up to 8, so everyone gets help and nobody is left behind
  • Your team's working guide: how to work with AI, built around how your business runs. The approach, not a list of prompts.
  • Questions answered within 48 hours
  • A before-and-after check, so we can measure what's changed

12 weeks · Your team

Momentum

Build a team that's confident and capable with AI

  • Everything in Starter, with double the sessions
  • An AI coach tailored to your business
  • Questions answered < 24 hours

$22,000for 12 weeks, up to 8 peopleFrom $229 per person, per weekEach extra group of up to 8: $7,500

Everything included
  • Everything in Starter, plus:
  • A deeper start: a session with you and 3 × 30-minute interviews with your team
  • 6 × 2-hour sessions, fortnightly, plus drop-in help sessions in between: optional 1-hour online sessions where anyone brings a task they're stuck on
  • Your team's interactive AI coach, tailored to your business, so everyone can learn and practise between sessions
  • Questions answered within 24 hours
  • A closing review with you: what changed, and what comes next

12 weeks · One to one

Executive

Private coaching for senior leaders

  • 8 private sessions, fitted around your diary
  • Your own AI coach, tailored to your role
  • Questions answered < 12 hours

$14,500for 12 weeks, one to oneMore on coaching for executives

Everything included
  • A 90-minute deep dive into your role, your work and your goals
  • 8 × 45-minute sessions between 8am and 8pm, Monday to Saturday, fitted around your diary
  • Your private interactive AI coach, tailored to your role, so you can rehearse real situations and practise between sessions
  • Questions answered within 12 hours, Monday to Friday. Sent after 9pm? You'll hear back by midday. Weekends by arrangement, and always for the moments that can't wait.
  • A before-and-after check, so we can measure what's changed, and a closing review

Pays for itself within six months, or I keep working at no charge.

If your team does the work we agree up front, and our before-and-after check doesn't show the training paying for itself within six months, I'll keep working with your team until it does.

Your numbers

Calculate the return on investment.

See how quickly training pays for itself.

Which option?

More than 24? Let's chat.

hours
Value of an hour
$ an hour
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Return on investment

Price
$10,500
Value (week)
$634
Value (year 1)
$29,182
Payback
3.8 months

8 people × 2 hours × $61 × 65% = $634 a week. $10,500 ÷ $634 a week = about 3.8 months. A year is 46 working weeks. Prices exclude GST.

Where the starting numbers come from

  • Time back: Australian office workers who use AI report saving about 2.5 hours a week (Google Workspace survey, 2026). Starter assumes 2, Momentum 3.
  • Value of an hour: the average full-time wage plus super, about $61 (ABS, May 2026).
  • Habit: 74 percent of frontline office staff now use AI regularly, but only 36 percent feel they have had enough training (BCG, AI at Work 2026). Starter assumes 65 percent, Momentum 80.

Time back is capacity, not cash. It turns into money when it's billed, or spent on work that earns.

Questions

The questions owners ask.

We already pay for AI tools. Why do we need this?

Having the tool isn't the hard part. Knowing what to use it for in your work, and trusting what it gives back, is. Most office teams now use AI regularly, but only 36% of people feel they have had enough training (BCG, AI at Work 2026). I work on your team's real tasks, so the habits stick.

Can't we learn AI ourselves, from YouTube or a free course?

You can, and the basics are a good start. The question is how long it takes. I've put the hours in and know what does and doesn't work. YouTube, free courses and your AI tool's own training are generic: they know nothing about your business, and that's where the biggest gains from AI come from.

How much does AI training cost?

Starter runs for 6 weeks and costs $10,500 plus GST for up to 8 people. Momentum runs for 12 weeks and costs $22,000 for up to 8. Each extra group of up to 8 adds $3,500 for Starter or $7,500 for Momentum, so a team of 16 on Starter is $14,000, about $875 per person. Larger teams are scoped together. Private one-to-one coaching for a senior leader runs for 12 weeks and costs $14,500.

Is our information kept private?

Yes. I'm happy to sign an NDA before we start, and nothing you share is reused for anyone else. Safe use is covered from the first session too: what not to put into AI, how to check what it gives back, and how your team will use it day to day, within the tools and policies you already have.

What if my team doesn't engage?

We agree the commitment up front: protected time, real work to bring, and about 15 minutes a day of practice. Groups of up to 8 mean nobody can hide at the back, and nobody gets left behind.

Do you run one-day workshops?

No, because one day gets people excited, then it fades. Habits take about 12 weeks of regular practice, which is why Momentum runs for 12 weeks.

How will we know it worked?

We measure before and after: confidence, how often your team uses AI, and time spent on the tasks we focus on. You see the results in the closing review.

What if the real problem is our systems, not our skills?

Then training won't fix it, and I'll tell you so. When the work itself is the problem, the same details typed into three systems or a quote that takes a day, the better first step is a review of how your business runs. It's a fixed fee, usually $3,000 to $5,000, and it gives you a clear view of the opportunities: what's worth fixing and what isn't, each one valued in dollars.

How a review works
Do we need to be technical?

No, the training is designed for non-technical roles.

Which AI tools do you teach?

Whatever your team uses: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot, or a mix. I'm not tied to any of them, because what I teach is the approach. How to solve a problem with AI, which kinds of work it suits and which it doesn't, and what it should never be trusted to do on its own. That carries across tools, and to whatever comes next.

Get in touch

Tell me a little about your team.

It takes about two minutes, and I'll come back to you. Prefer to talk? Book a call.

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When would you like to start?

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A first conversation

Start with one conversation.

Thirty minutes on your team, the tools you pay for and where they get stuck. If it is not useful, you will know quickly. No deck, no pitch.