Training
Practical AI for professionals
Hands-on courses that take your team from “I've tried AI” to using it for real, everyday work.
edje runs hands-on, full-day AI training courses for professionals, delivered in person in Seattle and across the Pacific Northwest. Two courses — Intro to AI and Intermediate AI — are offered for both Anthropic Claude and Microsoft Copilot and take teams from first prompt to working automations: 19 hands-on exercises on day one, NASBA CPE credits, and four weeks of office hours included.
What clients are saying
The most practical continuing education I’ve had in twenty years—the only course I can point to where I changed how I worked the next morning and never changed back.
The courses
Basic · 8.5 NASBA CPE credits
Intro to AI: Practical AI for Professionals
From installing an AI assistant to running your first working automation in one day — prompting, guardrails, connectors, and a four-job capstone. No technical background required.
Intermediate · 8.0 NASBA CPE credits
Intermediate AI: Hands-On AI Agents
Operate an autonomous AI agent on your own laptop, climb a graduated autonomy ladder, and complete two measured capstones — a 90%+-accuracy text classifier and a working personal CRM.
Training that sticks
This isn't a webinar. Attendees work hands-on in the assistant their organization sanctions, on their own email, documents, and files, and leave with tools installed, workflows running, and the confidence to keep going. The curriculum spans basics through advanced: security and guardrails come before anything is connected, and by the end attendees are leveraging skills files and scheduled tasks to help complete real tasks.
What's covered
Foundations
The AI landscape and how to choose a model · risks, hallucinations, and data classification before anything is connected · accounts, apps, and settings configured correctly, once.
Working with AI
Prompt engineering that produces finished work, not rough drafts · connecting AI to email, calendar, and files through governed connectors · context engineering so answers reflect your business.
Putting it to work
Computer and browser control · packaging your procedures as reusable skills · durable memory and scheduled tasks · a capstone built on attendees' actual jobs to be done.
Loaded with practical exercises
Every section is anchored by exercises that get real work done: triaging a live inbox, reviewing documents with tracked changes, producing on-brand slides, and building working spreadsheets, so attendees learn by shipping, not by watching.
What you leave with
Starter packs
A library of ready-to-use AI skills files and templates: email triage, document review, meeting briefings, and more, so your team is productive on day one, not starting from a blank prompt.
A working setup
Tools installed and configured, connectors approved and governed, and workflows already running on each attendee's own email, documents, and files before the course ends.
Reinforcement that lasts
Post-training messages reinforce each section's key habits while they're fresh. Spaced nudges that turn a two-day course into a lasting change in how people work.
Office hours
Weekly office hours after the course get you fast answers on your first real experiments, when a quick unblock is the difference between momentum and abandonment.
Taught on Claude or Copilot
Every course is offered for both platforms: same curriculum, same exercises, delivered in the one your organization sanctions.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the training for?
Professionals — accountants, consultants, operators, managers. No AI experience is required for Intro to AI; Intermediate AI expects Intro to AI or equivalent working familiarity with an AI assistant.
Is it really hands-on?
Yes — 19 hands-on exercises on day one alone. Attendees work on their own devices and accounts and leave with a working automation, not just notes.
Do we earn CPE credits?
Yes. Intro to AI carries 8.5 NASBA CPE credits and Intermediate AI carries 8.0 (Group Live, Computer Software & Applications).
Where is the training offered?
In person, on-site at your office, in Seattle and throughout the Pacific Northwest (in-person only today).
Which AI platform do you teach on?
Claude or Microsoft Copilot, whichever your organization uses. Intermediate AI comes in two editions: Claude (including Claude Code) and Microsoft Copilot.
Bring this to your team
Tell us about your team: size, roles, and which AI platform you use (or want to). We'll reply within one business day.
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