Work Lab · For Professionals · Founding Cohort Q3 2026

Stay relevant. Stay employable.

AI upskilling for professionals who'd rather drive the shift than be reorganised by it. Six weeks. One workflow per week. Five hours back on your calendar. Live online cohorts and in-person intensives in Perth.

Full refund 14+ days out · most participants get full reimbursement from L&D
A professional working with AI tools at a focused workspace
What you walk out with

Not a certificate. Time back, and a defensible point of view.

01

An agent that works

At least one working agent handling busy work for you. Not a chatbot — an actual agent that does the job.

02

Context-engineering fluency

The skill that's quietly replaced "prompting" as the difference between hobbyists and operators.

03

5+ hours a week back

Measured against your own calendar — not a vendor pitch deck.

04

Real literacy

Lead AI conversations at your org — or push back on a bad one — without bluffing.

Taught by a bench of working AI operators from product, consulting, government, and creative work. Every facilitator uses AI in their actual job every week — none of them are doing this full time as their only gig.

The gap is widening

Two professionals. Same title, same salary, same decade. In two years, only one still has the role.

Roles are being reorganised, scoped down, absorbed into smaller teams. Right now, in your industry, this quarter. The professionals who engaged with AI early are the ones still defining their own work.

9 / 10
Professionals using AI still only chat with it. The productivity gains live past the chat window.
Composite · industry read
5+hrs
Time saved per week with a deliberate AI workflow vs ad-hoc chatbot use. The delta is the workflow, not the model.
Composite · Microsoft, GitHub, practitioner data
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Universities or MBA programmes keeping pace with the release cadence. Waiting for institutional guidance = already late.
Our honest read of the landscape
Who this is for

Four kinds of professional who should already be booked in.

Deliberately mixed-discipline. A lawyer, a marketer, and a policy lead solve the same problem with AI — and take each other's answers home.

Senior leaders & partners

You're making AI decisions at your firm without using it yourself. That ends here.

Managers & team leads

The person asked to "figure out AI for the team." Walk out with a defensible POV and tools you built.

Knowledge workers

Marketing, legal, ops, finance, comms. Where AI pays back fastest.

Government & public sector

Procurement, privacy, pace — different in public service. We have a track tuned to that.

Programmes

Two equal tracks: online and in-person.

A tiered entry — start with the half-day to test the teaching, move into the full cohort once you know it lands. Corporate bookings get bespoke pricing.

Track 01 · Entry

Half-day Intensive

Four hours in Leederville. Bring a laptop and one piece of busy work. Leave with it automated.

Duration
4hrs
Format
In-person
  • Hands-on with Claude, ChatGPT, and one or two specialist tools
  • Automate one repetitive piece of admin from your week
  • Takeaway context pack, tool shortlist, next-steps brief
$349 ·  ex GST · per person
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Track 03 · Deep

Multi-week In-person

Four Friday afternoons at Panorama, 12–4pm. Same room, same twelve, no notifications.

Duration
4wks
Format
In-person
  • Four Friday afternoons, 12–4pm, same room, same 12 people
  • Connect the tools you already use into one coherent workflow
  • Lunch included. Room included. Phones off the table
$1,900 ·  ex GST · per person
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Bespoke · For C-suite & partners

Or — work with us 1:1.

For senior leaders who don't have time for group learning. Six private sessions paired with the right operator from our bench for your portfolio — finance, legal, marketing, government, ops. Shaped around your actual work and the busy stuff eating your week. Online or in-person at Panorama.

  • Private intake call to scope your goals + match an operator
  • Six 60-minute sessions, paced to your calendar
  • Automations and workflows built with you, for you
POA · based on scope
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"Worth more than the executive AI training my firm sent me to. Concrete, no fluff."
— Founding 1:1 client, partner at Perth professional services ▲ TBD-replace with real attribution
Inside the flagship

Six weeks. One agent, automation, or workflow per week.

A compressed view of the flagship six-week online cohort. The half-day samples from weeks 1–2; the in-person multi-week goes deeper on 3–5.

Flagship curriculum, week by week

6 weeks · Online
01
The Honest LandscapeWhat the current generation of models is actually good at — and what it isn't
We start with a brutal, demo-led tour of Claude, ChatGPT, and two specialist tools. You leave the first session with a calibrated sense of when to reach for AI and when not to.
02
Context, Not PromptsWhy "prompt engineering" is the wrong frame in 2026
The job has shifted. Modern models reward whoever brings the best context — your data, your constraints, your goal, your examples — not whoever knows the cleverest words. You build a personal context library against real tasks from your week. Output: 10 patterns you'll still use in a year.
03
Mapping Your Busy WorkThe repeating admin, the low-leverage tasks, the things eating your Monday
We map your week honestly and pull out the three or four repetitions worth killing first. By session end you've automated one — and seen how to spot the rest on your own.
04
Building Your First AgentFrom "I chat with AI" to "AI does the work for me"
Agents are how AI actually does work in 2026 — they read your inbox, draft the reply, update the spreadsheet, ping you only when something needs you. We walk through Claude Skills, ChatGPT Agents, and a no-code builder. You leave with one working agent handling a real task from your week, and the literacy to spec out the next five.
05
Judgment, Risk, and GovernancePrivacy · hallucinations · when not to use AI · how to brief your legal team
The one most "AI courses" skip. We cover data handling, hallucination detection, and how to have a grown-up conversation about AI risk with people who don't share your appetite for it.
06
Shipping It to the TeamRolling your new workflow out beyond yourself
Capstone: present the workflow you're taking back to your team — what it automates, what it connects, what it hands back in time or revenue. Cohort and instructors critique. You leave with something you'll actually use on Monday.
A small cohort of professionals working together at a long wooden table
Three concrete things you leave with

Not theory. Time, revenue, and clarity.

01

Busy work running without you

Two or three pieces of admin automated. Your calendar shows up to the work that actually needs you.

02

A workflow that buys back 5+ hours

Email, docs, CRM, calendar — stitched so AI does the connective work. Hours go back into revenue work, or your weekend.

03

Confidence that holds in the room

When the board asks what AI can do, you answer from experience — not a LinkedIn post. You can also say "no" with conviction.

Early word

What the first cohort is already saying.

The founding cohort ran under a private invitation. Public cohorts open for Q3 2026 intake. Testimonials below are live quotes; surnames withheld until the Q3 launch at the request of the participants.

I've paid five figures for executive AI training from global firms. Six weeks here was a better education and a fraction of the price. The automation I shipped in the capstone still runs — every week, without me touching it.

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Rachel W.Partner · professional services · Perth

I was the "AI person" on my team by default. Now I'm the AI person on merit. The difference is the workflow I walked out with — not slides, an actual running workflow the team uses.

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Mark T.Marketing director · e-commerce

The team does something almost nobody in this space does: they tell you what the tools can't do. That honesty saved me from two bad procurement decisions in the first month.

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Anika S.Director · state government
Who teaches

A bench of working operators, not full-time trainers.

Every facilitator uses AI in their actual job every week. If they ever stop, they stop teaching here. That's the quality bar — and it's the reason what we teach reflects what's actually working in production right now, not what was true six months ago.

Operator from product and engineering

Product & engineering

Operators shipping with AI weekly

Builders working with AI in production every day — automations, agents, integrations. They bring the technical reality: what works on Monday, not what pitches well at a conference.

Consultant advising orgs on AI strategy

Consulting & strategy

Advisors helping orgs adopt AI

Senior operators who advise leadership teams on AI strategy, governance, and procurement. They bring the org perspective: how to brief upward, where to start, how not to waste money.

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Domain experts

Rotating · finance, legal, marketing, gov

Every cohort meets one or two guests using AI in their specific field. They come in, they teach what's actually working for them right now, they take questions. Drinks after the in-person sessions.

For organisations

Bring the Work Lab in-house.

Private cohorts for your leadership team, your department, or a mixed group from across your org. Shaped around the tools you already use, your data, and the busy work that's eating your team's Monday. Delivered at Panorama, at your office, or online.

Minimum group size6
Typical engagement4–8 wks
DeliveryYour site · Panorama · online
PricingBespoke
Honest answers

The questions serious professionals actually ask.

I've done an AI course before. How's this different?

Most AI courses are prompt tricks taught by people who don't ship. We're operators. You leave with workflows running on Monday, not screenshots for a certificate.

Honestly — is my role at risk?

Some part of every knowledge-work role is. If a chunk of your week is repetitive output, it'll be automated within 18 months — by your employer, a competitor, or you. We train for the third option.

Will my employer expense this?

Almost always. We send a scoped proposal + line-item invoice + one-pager you can forward to your manager. Most participants get full reimbursement.

What if I'm a complete beginner?

Half-day is built for it. Flagship assumes you've opened ChatGPT once. Half-day discounts off the flagship if you carry on.

Is my data safe?

Non-training settings turned on where providers offer them. Week 5 covers exactly how to handle org data. Privacy-sensitive cohorts use synthetic case material.

How much time per week?

90-min live session + ~2 hrs of your own work. That work is automating tasks you'd have done by hand anyway — time goes back in, not on top.

What if the models change mid-cohort?

They will. Curriculum updates live. You're learning the craft, not a specific UI.

Work Lab · Founding cohort opens Q3 2026

The job's already changing. Get ahead of it.

Founding cohort capped at twelve. Pick a format, book a call, or send the syllabus to your L&D — a human reads every reply within 24 hours.

4 of 12 spots held ▲ TBD update count
Full refund 14+ days out Most participants get full L&D reimbursement
hello@howll.ai · Perth, WA · Responses within 24 hours