Free • Interactive • Certified
Practical AI training for leaders and professionals who want to use AI to better themselves and their work. Every term gets defined in plain words, and you learn by turning the knobs yourself: adjust the weights of a real neural network, denoise an image step by step, and catch a prompt injection before it catches you. Pass a 20-question exam and earn a certificate with your name on it.
The Catalog
Each course follows the same method: understand the machine at a base level first, then apply it to your work effectively, safely, and securely. Every module mixes short readings, interactive labs, and games that make you think. Nothing is graded until the final exam, so experiment freely.
Course 01 • Language AI
What a large language model actually is, from tokens and weights to attention and temperature. Build intuition on a live neural network you control, then learn to prompt, verify, and deploy LLMs at work without leaking your data.
Course 02 • Visual AI
How AI turns pure noise into images, video, and design assets. Run the noising and denoising process yourself, explore latent space, then apply it: marketing, mockups, presentations, and the rights and deepfake risks you must manage.
Course 03 • Leadership
The AI Boss method applied to a real organisation. Decide which tasks to hand to AI, protect confidential data, verify outputs before they cost you money, survive prompt injection, and roll AI out to a team that actually uses it.
Course 04 • Executive Support
Eleven seven-minute sessions for the person who runs the office of the CEO. Prompting structure, writing in the CEO voice, connectors for calendar and inbox, agendas and minutes, Claude Cowork, the browser, scheduled automations and agent skills, then a full session on catching a confident wrong answer before it reaches the boss. No code anywhere in it.
Special • Satellite Science
Same tools as NASA, zero dollars, one afternoon. Students write real code, pull a live image of Jamaica onto their screen, and go head to head in a hackathon judged by UWI scientists. Free, ages 13 to 18, certificate included. Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the West Indies.
Special • Geospatial Upskilling
An applied working session for university cohorts and professionals in disaster, agriculture, environment, and planning. Change detection, time-series, and AI classification you can reproduce on your own sites the next morning.
Practical team training · Enquiries
Check AI vendors, protect private information, verify answers and set human approval points. A practical course with Adrian Dunkley for professionals and teams using AI at work.
Contact StarApple AI to confirm availability, format, fees and any assessment requirements for this separate programme.
The Evidence
The material in these courses comes from published research, and every course cites its sources inline so you can check them yourself. The numbers below are the short version of why AI skill is now a work skill.
of organisations reported using AI in at least one business function in 2024, up from 55% a year earlier.
Stanford HAI, AI Index Report 2025 (McKinsey survey data)productivity gain for customer support agents given an AI assistant, and +34% for the least experienced agents.
Brynjolfsson, Li & Raymond, NBER Working Paper 31161 (2023)faster task completion, 12% more tasks done, and 40% higher quality for consultants using AI on tasks it suits.
Dell'Acqua et al., Harvard Business School / BCG (2023)The same study's warning: on tasks outside AI's ability, AI users were 19 percentage points MORE likely to get the answer wrong.
Dell'Acqua et al. (2023), the "jagged frontier" findingThe Method
Give your name and email. The name goes on your certificate, the email is your record of enrolment. That is all it costs.
Short readings, then hands-on labs: change a network's weights and watch the loss move, add noise to an image and remove it again, catch the hidden attack in an email.
A 20-question multiple choice exam closes each course. You need 80% to pass. Every question comes with an explanation, and retakes are unlimited.
Pass and you receive the AI Boss certificate: your name, the course, your score, the AI Boss logo, and a unique verification code. Download it or print it.
The Teaching
Richard Feynman's test was brutal and simple: if you cannot explain something in plain words, you do not understand it. These courses hold themselves to that test.