AI training that improves the work your team produces
The AI Stairway™ is practical online AI training for staff and teams. Give your people the skills to brief AI well, check its work and share what works—then build team rules and a workflow plan you can test.
Free 22-minute introduction · No card needed · Phone or desktop
Everyone has AI. Who showed them how to use it?
The AI Stairway™ is Scorchsoft’s online AI training course for staff and teams: ten core modules across Foundation and Advanced series, plus a free introduction.
A confident summary cites the wrong source. A three-week chat keeps losing decisions. One colleague gets brilliant results, but nobody knows how she does it.
The course turns those everyday problems into practical exercises. Learners try a better brief, check an answer and build methods they can use again. The short film shows the course and how to start.
What changes when people know how to use AI
The course builds skills you can recognise in the work, with practical outputs to use afterwards.
Individual practice
Work people can put their name to
Clearer briefs, more useful outputs and checks matched to the stakes. People learn what is safe to share and when a confident answer still needs evidence.
Shared practice
Team rules and reusable skills
Turn successful chats into written methods with an owner and review date. Draft a one-page AI rule so useful techniques can spread beyond the keenest colleague.
A next step you can judge
A workflow plan with a 90-day test
Choose a repeated task, specify the workflow and define a baseline, success evidence and stop rule. Give whoever decides enough detail to weigh the idea.
Find the AI habit to fix first
In Know Your AI Blind Spots, six short workplace scenes help you recognise habits that waste time or weaken your work. You try three fixes and leave with your own blind-spot map and a route through the course.
The example alongside shows the distinction: some habits get worse over time, some add up with every use, and some cost you the same effort each time. Your answers help identify where to start.
It is a complete first step. You can try it before deciding whether to buy anything.
Two series. Start where you are.
Build everyday competence first, or take experienced users further into team practice, connected tools and agents.
Foundation · Modules 1–5
Get useful work from AI, safely
For people who have been given AI and want to use it well. Practise the habits behind clear briefs, finished work and reliable checks.
- 1 · From Unsure to Useful — how AI works and what is safe to share.
- 2 · Work You’d Put Your Name To — brief well and catch mistakes.
- 3 · Better Than Fine — get finished documents, slides and analysis.
- 4 · Precise, Not Psychic — define good work and improve weak outputs.
- 5 · Let It Run — repair messy chats and organise lasting context.
Advanced · Modules 6–10
Make good practice work for the team
For people who already use AI and want to share methods, judge connected tools and plan the first workflow worth building.
- 6 · One Chat, Whole Team — reusable skills and practical team rules.
- 7 · Forming an AI Culture — habits, job worries and responsible adoption.
- 8 · Stop Being the Glue — connected tools and controls.
- 9 · Hand It Over, Keep the Outcome — agent briefs, trust and rules.
- 10 · From Glue to Workflow — specify a workflow and a 90-day test.
Try it. Make a judgement. Check what you learned.
Short lessons combine workplace scenes, narrated explainers and exercises in your own AI tool. The example shown is a real course screen: learners sort what they can share into green, amber and red, then see how they did.
- Fit learning around work. Lessons can be taken in separate sittings, on phone or desktop, with your place saved. Allow roughly an hour per core module, including its check.
- Practise without exposing work data. Exercises use invented or public information.
- Leave with something useful. Module resources and printable cheat sheets help you apply the lesson. Pass the end-of-module check to earn its certificate.
The course teaches habits across ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini and other tools. Specific features depend on your product and account.
Built from introducing AI in a real software business
Andrew Ward, founder and Managing Director of Scorchsoft, wrote the AI Stairway™ after introducing AI practice within his own team. Building AI systems is part of Scorchsoft’s work; the training brings that experience into the decisions people face each day.
That is why the later modules ask who owns the outcome, what a connected tool may reach and which rules need to live in code. Learners finish able to specify and test a workflow, with the judgement to recognise what needs technical help.
Scorchsoft’s AI opportunity planning service can help you assess a candidate workflow when you are ready.
Give the whole team a common starting point
For managers, the value is a team that can make better decisions together—and a record of what people have learned.
Choose the route
A common approach is Foundation for everyone, with Advanced for those leading AI adoption. Tell us your team size and what you want to change.
Invite your people
Learners receive their own accounts and can start with the free introduction. They learn at their own pace with their progress saved.
See the progress
Managers can see who has started, who has finished and their module-check scores. For larger orders, ask about a licence for your own learning platform.
Start free. Choose how far to go.
Prices are per learner. Add VAT if you can reclaim it; if you cannot, we discount the price so you pay the stated amount in total, including VAT.
A focused skill
£100 · One module
Choose a core module that addresses the task or habit you want to improve.
Choose a moduleA five-module route
£400 · Either series
Take Foundation or Advanced: five modules for the price of four.
Choose a seriesThe full course
£500 · All ten modules
Foundation and Advanced together: £100 more than one series, or £500 less than buying all ten separately.
Explore the full courseTraining several people? Ask for a team price.
Team discounts are available, with payment by card or invoice. Start with the free introduction to judge the fit before choosing your route.
First paid module not worth it? Tell us within 30 days of it unlocking. Bundle refunds apply if you have not started a second module; see the course terms.
Before you choose
Access gives people a tool; training helps them judge what to put in, how to brief it and what to check before using the result. The course works with the tools people already have and helps the team share effective methods.
Yes. Foundation assumes no previous experience and is complete in itself. Advanced suits people who already use AI and want to understand team practice, connected tools and agents. Learners practise briefing and judging these systems, without needing to write code.
For larger orders, Scorchsoft can agree a licence to deliver the modules in your own learning management system. SCORM 1.2 packages are available, with SCORM 2004 on request. Tell us your platform and learner numbers so we can confirm the arrangement.
Yes. The team page records who has started and completed modules, and their module-check scores. You can choose different learning routes for different roles.
It is practical professional development rather than a regulated qualification. Passing a module check earns a module certificate. Check the course site for the current course details and terms.
Yes. The course helps you specify an idea and design a test. If it merits a build, Scorchsoft can discuss the data access, permissions, ownership and engineering involved. You can also use the free AI Readiness assessment to identify foundations to strengthen.
Find your AI blind spots. Fix the first one.
Try the free 22-minute introductory module and leave with a personal map, three fixes you have practised and a clear next step.
No card needed · On phone or desktop · For individuals and teams