AI training for Thames Valley service businesses
More productivity. Same payroll.
Your team will gain one additional productive hour per person, per day, in 90 days. Or your money back.
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Umbra International Group
Trusted by


Umbra International Group
The hour a day is in your business, somewhere.
Whether that's the licences you already have
ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini accounts paid for every month, but sitting unused.
The repetitive tasks that appear daily
Meeting notes written up, paperwork chased, the same documents redrafted for the hundredth time.
The jobs your competitors are automating
Quotes, reports and first drafts are quick to automate, using the tools you likely already own.
The time lost to nobody knowing what's safe to input
People either avoid the tools or paste sensitive details straight in, because they haven't been trained on what's safe to input into AI.
How the programme works.
Audit first, then training at the level each person is at, then a measured result at the end of twelve weeks.
Testimonials
Don't take our word for it, take theirs.
From clients whose teams we have trained and built for. The build work is how we know what is worth teaching your team.
See what we built“The AI Edge training session was highly engaging and informative. It provided practical insights into how AI can improve efficiency, support better decision-making, and simplify everyday tasks. The trainer explained complex concepts clearly and used relevant examples that made the session easy to follow. I left with useful knowledge and greater confidence in applying AI tools in my work.”

What your team will learn.
The Three S's, in this order, each taught at the level the assessment places a person at. Beginners are not overwhelmed and confident users are not sat through what they already do.

Skills
Getting real answers out of AI instead of generic ones.
- Prompting that works, and iterating instead of accepting the first answer
- Giving the tool enough context to be useful on your work
- Which model to reach for, and how hard to make it think
For: Anyone who has an AI tool open and is still getting answers they would not send to a client.

Security
Knowing what is safe to put in, and judging it mid-task.
- What can and cannot go into these tools, in plain English
- How to make that judgement in the middle of real work, not by reading a policy afterwards
- The settings that decide where your data goes
- How your draft AI policy works day to day
For: Everyone, before real client work goes into the tool. This is the module that matters most in an accountancy.

Setup
Building it around the work you actually do.
- Setting the tool your team has chosen up properly in the first place
- Projects set up per person, around the tasks they repeat
- Context and instruction documents, so the tool already knows the business and your standards
- Working from a real task rather than a demo
For: Anyone whose week has a repeated job in it: proposals, reports, write-ups, chasing, formatting.
Who's teaching this?

Co-Founder & Coaching Lead
Sam has over three years of experience in marketing and community building as well as a year in Start-up recruitment. He founded a group that supports start-ups in scaling their impact, lectures on social enterprise, and led one of Reading's largest student societies. He brings expertise in storytelling, strategy, and digital media.

Co-Founder & Tech Lead
Will has over two years working in the AI space building AI agents and automations for UK businesses as well as the world's first dedicated reporting software for Human-Wildlife Conflicts, VirtualRanger. He brings deep technical expertise in AI and automation to every project.
Advised by

Jim is an entrepreneur and business consultant with over 25 years' experience in technology. He is a three-times published author with Wiley (NYSE: WLY), host of the UnNoticed Entrepreneur podcast, an advisory board member of Aizee, an AI agent company, and an associate partner at HGKC, a high-growth consulting company. Jim is also the AI subject matter expert for The Access Group.
What the hour is worth
Before you hire, add capacity.
An hour a day per person, priced at what an hour of your team's time costs you, and counted in the people you would otherwise hire.
On the table every year
£88,000
1,760 hours returned to the business a year, across 8 people.
The working time of 1.1 full-time people, without a new hire.
Based on an hour a day per person across 220 working days, and a seven-hour working day for a full-time person. Whether those hours are actually there in your business is what the audit answers, and we will tell you if they are not.
We teach what we have already built.
We spent the first year of AI Edge building automations for businesses across the UK, to understand what moves the needle and how to make systems staff actually use. From there we have transitioned into AI training, using that knowledge to build training courses we know are practical and relevant.

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We would rather you knew before the call. Here is who the programme is, and is not, built for.
This is for your team if…
- You are a service business in the Thames Valley: five to twenty staff, trading three years or more.
- You are the owner, partner or operational lead, and the decision is yours to make.
- Your team has AI access already and rarely uses it, or not at all.
- Staff are pasting company data into tools nobody approved, and you want rules in place before that becomes a problem.
- You want a number at the end of it, not a claim that the team is now AI-savvy.
It's probably not for you if…
- You want the work done for you rather than taught to your team. That is our automation service, and a different conversation.
- You are a startup of two or three people, or the team is large enough to have someone running this internally.
- Your team already uses AI confidently every day. They would be ahead of most of this.
- You want a video course people can leave running in the background and never finish.
If the hours are not there, we will tell you on the call rather than sell you a programme.
Frequently asked questions.
Everything else you might want to know about the programme.
Twelve weeks, delivered online. Six 45-minute sessions per person: weekly in the first month, then every other week, with a written review in between. Nobody leaves the desk for a day.
We meet you and go through the tools you run, where the problems are, and how your team uses AI today. Every member of staff gets a short assessment call, with your permission, covering what they know and the tasks that eat their week: what the task is, how long it takes, and how often it comes round. Nobody fills in a form. Before the calls, your team gets a short pack from us explaining the programme and the call. Within 24 hours of the last call you get a written report with a competence level for each person, a draft AI policy, a WhatsApp group with us, and your dashboard. Everything taught afterwards is built on what it finds.
No. The audit places each person at a level, basic or intermediate, and they attend the sessions for that level. If two of your people already do this well, they are not sitting through it again.
None. The bar is being able to use a computer. Everything is taught on the tools you already pay for, using your team's own work as the examples.
It depends on how many people you are training: a base fee for the programme plus a rate per member of staff, with a discount on the per-head rate above ten people. We give you the numbers on the fifteen-minute call, once we know the size of the team. The calculator on this page is the more useful figure: what an hour a day per person is worth to you annually.
Because a free course is built for everybody and this is built for your business. The audit finds where your team's hours actually go, each person is taught only what their own work needs, and at week twelve we measure whether the hours came back. A free session can teach someone what a prompt is. It cannot tell you what it saved you, and nobody carries the risk if it saves you nothing. If a free course is genuinely the right starting point for your team, we will say so on the call.
The same assessment call runs three times. Before training starts, each person names their most time-consuming tasks with how long each takes and how often. At week four, and again in week eleven, we ask exactly the same questions about the same tasks. The difference between the first and last readings is that person's time saved per day, averaged across everyone who took part, and it is arithmetic rather than opinion.
We keep running sessions and support at no charge for a further six weeks, then measure again. If it still falls short, you get the full programme fee back. We would rather get you the result than give you a refund, which is why the six weeks come first. The guarantee holds provided your team met the obligations, which we go through with you and write into the contract.
The draft AI policy arrives with the audit report, within 24 hours of the last assessment call and before any training starts, so the rules are in place from day one. Security is then the second session, in week two, before real client work goes into the tool: what can and cannot go in, how to make that judgement in the middle of real work rather than by reading a policy afterwards, and which settings decide where your data goes.
Because the capacity may already be in the team you have. Ten people saving an hour a day each is about 50 hours a week, the working time of more than one full-time person, without the salary, recruitment, National Insurance or pension. The audit tells you whether those hours are there before you commit to either.
Yes, and it is how we know what is worth teaching. It is a separate service though, not part of the programme. If something worth building comes up during the twelve weeks, we will tell you, and that is a different conversation.
Still deciding? The call is fifteen minutes and there is nothing to prepare.
Book the call.
Fifteen minutes on your team size, the tools you already run, and the jobs eating the most time. It is a qualification call, not a pitch.
If you are the right size and the right sort of business, the next step is the audit, and we will give you the numbers on the call. If the hours are not there, we will say so.
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