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Copilot at Work

Get genuinely productive with everyday AI — ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot — for the real tasks in your week. A practical half-day for professionals, no coding.

Taught by
Amir Charkhi
Commitment
Half a day
Delivered
On-site or online · bring your own work
Assessed on
Prompts built around your own week
Now taking enquiries
Program fee (AUD, incl. GST)
$214.50
Total price — includes 10% GST, which registered businesses can usually claim back. Payment plans available on request.
Format
workshop
Duration
Half day
Level
foundation
Cohort size
25
Next intake
Tuesday 10 November 2026 · half day · live online
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No payment today — we’ll tell you honestly if it’s the wrong fit
001 — Why this course

Most people use these tools at a fraction of their potential. This half-day fixes that.

This practical half-day fixes that: the prompts, patterns and workflows that actually save time on the real work in your week — writing, analysis, planning, email — across ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot.

No coding, no hype. For any professional who wants to stop falling behind and start getting hours back.

Taught by practitioners who use these tools every day.

Generic prompt lists don't survive contact with real work

We work on the tasks in your week, so what you leave with is built around your job rather than someone else's.

A confident wrong answer is the real risk

Most of the value is learning to tell a good answer from a fluent one. That judgement is the point of the day.

Confidentiality needs a rule you can actually apply

Not a policy document. One line, simple enough to use without asking permission every time.

002 — The curriculum

Three movements. One working week, reclaimed.

Movement I · Block 01Find the timeAn honest map of your week, sorted by what a model can and cannot do.

Movement II · Blocks 02–03Build the habitPatterns that hold up across assistants, applied to your own material.

Movement III · Block 04Stay safeWhat never goes into a public model, in plain terms.

Movement I

Find the timeAn honest map of your own week, sorted by what a model can and cannot do.

Block 011 module
Block 01

Where AI actually saves you timeWe map the recurring tasks in your week and sort them honestly: the ones a model does well, the ones it does badly but confidently, and the ones not worth handing over at all.

An honest map of your week, sorted by what a model can and cannot do.

Movement II

Build the habitPatterns that hold up across assistants, applied live to your own material.

Blocks 02–032 modules
Block 02

Prompting that survives real workThe handful of patterns that hold up across ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot — context, constraints, worked examples, and asking for the reasoning before the answer.

A handful of patterns that work the same whichever assistant you are given.
Block 03

Your week, rebuiltWriting, analysis, planning and email reworked live on your own material. You leave with prompts built around your job, not a transcript of someone else’s.

A working set of prompts built around the tasks you actually repeat.

Movement III

Stay safeWhat never goes into a public model, in terms you can apply without asking permission.

Block 041 module
Block 04

What not to paste inConfidentiality, client data and the National AI Centre’s AI6 practices in plain terms — a rule simple enough that you can apply it without asking permission each time.

A one-line rule for what never goes into a public model.
Continuity
We map your actual week in the first block and rebuild it in the third — your material throughout, never invented examples.
003 — What you’ll leave with

Proof, not a certificate.

  • A working set of prompts built around the tasks you actually repeat
  • A clear view of which assistant suits which kind of work, and why
  • The judgement to tell a good answer from a confident wrong one
  • A one-line rule for what never goes into a public model
The artefact

What you take away.

You leave with a working prompt set built around the tasks you actually repeat — written on your own material during the session, not copied from a handout.

Alongside it: a one-line rule for what never goes into a public model, simple enough that you can apply it without asking permission each time.

Assessed by the faculty and your cohort. Certificate of completion — not a nationally accredited qualification.
004 — Who it’s for

For professionals who want hours back.

You’re ready if
  • You're a professional who wants hours back, not a technology overview
  • Your organisation already gives you ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot
  • You can bring two or three real tasks from your own week
  • No coding — and none is required
Not yet if
  • You want to build automations or agents — take AI Automation & Agent Builder
  • You're a developer looking for coding agents — take Building with Claude
  • You can't bring real work; the session is built on yours
Before week one

No coding and no preparation required. Bring a laptop and access to whichever assistant your organisation already uses — ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot.

It helps if you arrive with two or three real tasks from your own week. We work on those rather than on invented examples.

Level
foundation
Commitment
Half a day
Places
25
005 — Your instructor
Amir Charkhi
Amir Charkhi
Founder & Director. Twenty years building AI and data systems across energy, resources and financial services; Adjunct Associate Professor at UWA.
LinkedIn ↗

Frameworks are great. But understanding what they abstract — the loop, the parsing, the failure modes — is what lets you actually debug and design them under pressure.

  • PhD
  • 20+ yrs in industry
  • Adjunct Assoc. Prof · UWA
  • Databricks University Alliance Faculty
  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner
  • 21 yrs teaching

Amir founded, funds and directs AI Tech Institute, and still teaches. He holds a PhD and has spent more than twenty years building and leading AI, machine learning and data teams in Australian industry — the kind of work the programs here are drawn from rather than adapted to.

He currently leads asset performance and analytics at Synergy, Western Australia's state-owned electricity generator and retailer. Before that he led GenAI and MLOps program delivery at EY, working on platform modernisation for tier-one Australian banks; served as Chief AI Engineer at Hancock Prospecting, where he built enterprise GenAI platforms for executive decision support, led a Snowflake migration, stood up on-premises NVIDIA H100 infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters for production AI, and built a team of twelve engineers; and spent nearly five years as Tech Lead for ML and Data Science at Woodside Energy.

He has been teaching for twenty-one years. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, teaching quantitative analysis and decision-making at master's level, and holds Databricks University Alliance Faculty status and the AWS Certified AI Practitioner certification. He has published peer-reviewed research in Exploration Geophysics on machine learning for reservoir characterisation, and writes and records openly about the parts of AI engineering most courses skip — agent loops, termination logic and failure modes.

Teaches every live session of this cohort
006 — Upcoming intake

Twenty-five places. Everyone brings real work.

25
places, capped

Cohorts are deliberately small so every piece of work gets reviewed properly and every presentation gets heard in the room. If an intake is full we’ll say so and hold your place for the next one — we won’t quietly oversell a cohort.

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Next intake
Tuesday 10 November 2026 · half day · live online
Bookings close 6 November. This session runs at six bookings or more — we confirm fourteen days out, and if we don't reach six you are refunded in full, immediately. Also available in-house for a team on your own date.
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007 — Questions

The honest answers.

Do I need prior experience?

The prerequisites for this program are in “Who it’s for” above. Our foundation-level programs and workshops assume none. If you’re unsure, ask on a qualification call — we would rather redirect you than take your money for the wrong cohort.

How much time per week?

The commitment for this program is shown in the hero and in “Who it’s for”. Cohort programs run live sessions plus practice between them; workshops are a single block with no homework.

What do I actually leave with?

The work you shipped — defended in front of the cohort — and an honest recommendation on your next step. Sometimes that is another cohort with us, sometimes it isn’t; we will tell you which.

Is it accredited?

No. AI Tech Institute is not a Registered Training Organisation and this is not a nationally accredited qualification. It is professional education, assessed on the work you ship, with a certificate of completion from us. We won’t claim accreditation we don’t have.

Can my employer pay?

Yes — we invoice organisations directly and can supply a scope and outcomes summary for your L&D or capability budget. If three or more people from one team want in, talk to us about a private cohort instead.

What if I have to withdraw?

Full refund any time before the program starts. Once it has started we can’t refund the place, but we will carry you into a later intake where the circumstances warrant it. Ask us — we’re reasonable.

Start where you are.

Thirty minutes with us and you’ll know whether this is your right next step — or which of our programs is. No pitch, no payment, and we will say so if the answer is “not this one”.