AI Bots Training South Africa. Build 5 working bots in 10 weeks.
A practical, cohort-based course that turns non-technical professionals into confident AI bot builders — using ChatGPT to solve real workplace problems, safely and without a single line of code. Grounded in POPIA-aware, responsible AI habits from day one.
Five working bots, not theory.
Every learner leaves with five working bots they can use the same afternoon — each built around a real workplace task, each assessed against a plain-English rubric.
Email Assistant Bot
Drafts, replies to, and summarises workplace emails in your own tone — teaching the core prompting formula behind every other bot.
Meeting Minutes Bot
Turns messy notes or a transcript into clean minutes with decisions and action items — with guardrails so the bot never invents what wasn't said.
Sales Report Bot
Takes a spreadsheet of raw figures and produces a formatted monthly report with totals, charts, and insights — ending manual reporting nights.
Company FAQ Bot
A Custom GPT that answers questions from your own documents — and says "I don't know" when the answer isn't there. Safe, POPIA-aware.
Workflow Automation Bot
The capstone. An end-to-end automation that chains the first four bots into a real workflow — with a human checkpoint and measured time saved.
Ten weeks. One bot at a time. Assessed to a rubric.
A tight, sustainable rhythm designed for busy professionals: five 30-minute live classes fortnightly, five two-week labs building against a real task from your own job, and a final demo where you show every bot working.
Five 30-Minute Sessions
One concept, one live demo, one clear lab per class — every second week, online, recorded for anyone who misses it.
- Class 1 — AI basics & prompt fundamentals
- Class 2 — Structured output & templates
- Class 3 — Working with data files
- Class 4 — Custom GPTs & knowledge files
- Class 5 — Automation & the capstone
Hands-On Labs
Roughly 1–2 self-paced hours a week building a bot on a real task from your own job. Every lab has a build guide, demo checklist, and shared channel for questions.
- Live demo checkpoints from Class 2 onward
- Shared Teams / Slack / WhatsApp channel
- Anonymise-first data policy taught upfront
- Every prompt saved to a personal Prompt Library
Final Demo & Rubric
In Week 10, each learner shows all five bots on assessor-provided inputs. Pass the rubric on every bot and earn the AI Bots Fundamentals Certificate.
- 10 minutes per learner in the final session
- Five criteria: works, build, relevance, understanding, safety
- One rebuild-and-retry chance within a week
- Live or recorded demo accepted
Three ways to run the cohort.
Open Enrolment
Join the next public 10-week intake on Thinkific — ideal for individuals or small teams building AI confidence alongside peers from other organisations.
- Fully online, live and recorded
- Self-paced labs between classes
- Mixed-industry cohort for cross-pollination
- Certificate on rubric-based completion
Private Team Cohort
A private cohort run for your team, with labs adapted to your industry, data, and workflows — best where multiple people should build bots on the same processes.
- Scenarios drawn from your real work
- Serving Sandton, Johannesburg, Gauteng and beyond
- Virtual or onsite delivery
- Manager summary of team results included
Private Coaching Track
Extended, tailored sessions for executives, specialists, or team leads who want a personal build alongside real deliverables from their own role.
- Hands-on with your own documents and mailbox
- Pace and depth set by you
- Pairs neatly with an in-house cohort
- Progressive AI literacy path available
Make it yours.
Industry-Specific Bot Templates
The five default bots re-scoped to your industry — legal, finance, healthcare, logistics, professional services — with sample data and prompts your team can adopt on day one.
Follow-Up Clinics
A live Q&A a few weeks after Week 10 to unblock real-world questions and share what colleagues have built since the cohort ended.
Certificates & Assessor Reports
Digital certificates for every passing learner, plus an anonymised assessor summary for L&D — useful for compliance evidence and skills matrices.
Ready to build bots that save real time?
Enrol in the next public cohort on Thinkific, or tell us about your team and we'll scope a private in-house cohort adapted to your workflows.