Do I need to be technical to attend AI training?

No. If you can use email and a browser, you're in. We go step by step, and there are never more than fifteen people in the room.

What does the AI training cost?

Short courses are £139 and on-site days start at £1,100. No VAT. A 30-minute call is free.

Suffolk & the East of England

AI training for small businesses in Suffolk.

Q: I tried ChatGPT and got nothing useful — is this different?

Yes. Most disappointment with AI is a briefing problem, not the tool. Learn to ask properly and point it at a real job in your business and it changes completely — that is exactly what the training covers.

Practical, in-person help to get AI actually working in your business — no jargon, no code, and no consultant who's never run one. Short courses to do it yourself, and on-site help if you want it. Across Ipswich, Suffolk and the East.

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Sound familiar?

You've heard about AI for two years and quietly not got on board.

You had a go on ChatGPT once, got a load of waffle back, thought is that it, and never went back. Meanwhile everyone at the networking breakfast is banging on about it and you're nodding along.

Here's the truth of it: you didn't fail at AI. Nobody ever showed you what it looks like pointed at your business — the quotes, the enquiries, the invoice-chasing, the job adverts. That's all this is. AI aimed at the boring, weekly jobs that eat your evenings, taught by someone who runs real businesses in Suffolk.

What it actually does

The jobs AI is genuinely good at for a small business.

Conservative, and none of it needs any technical work:

First drafts of anything written — quotes, adverts, listings, tender responses, letters. Hours back a week.
Turning a call or meeting into notes, actions and a follow-up email — before you've made a cup of tea.
Reading long documents and answering questions about them — contracts, leases, surveys.
Triaging and drafting replies to enquiries — so a lead never sits unanswered.
Writing the checklist or process that lives in someone's head — the one nobody's written down.

Three ways to work together

Start where it's cheapest.

Short courses

£139 each · self-paced · online

One job, done properly, at your own pace. Get found on Google and AI, a week of posts, video without your face, and more.

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On-site with you

From £1,100 · at your place

A half-day deep dive or a full implementation day at your business — we find where your hours go and put AI to work on them.

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Local

Based in Suffolk, working across the East.

I'm in Suffolk and I work across the East of England — Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Colchester, Norwich and the towns in between. The on-site days happen at your place. Everything's tested on my own businesses here first.

Based

Suffolk

Covering

The East of England

In person

On site, at your business

Who's running it

Paul Rudland & Halstead Ottley.

Paul — twenty-five years self-employed in IT, building AI into how his own businesses run: investment software, landlord compliance, a wedding venue, a café, drone services and property.

Halstead — 35+ years in property and mentoring, with a knack for spotting what's actually holding a business back and fixing the real problem. Between us: the tech and the business sense, in the room together.

The questions people ask

Straight answers.

Do I need to be technical?

No. If you can use email and a browser, you're in. We go step by step, and there's never more than fifteen in the room.

Where in the East do you cover?

Suffolk and the wider East of England — Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Colchester, Norwich and around. Short courses are online, and on-site days come to you.

I tried ChatGPT and got nothing useful — is this different?

Yes, because most disappointment with AI is a briefing problem, not the tool. Show you how to ask properly and point it at a real job in your business, and it changes completely. That's exactly what we do.

What does it cost?

Short courses are £139 and on-site days start at £1,100. No VAT, we're not VAT registered. A 30-minute call is free.

See the short courses