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General AI Education

Building the people who will build, run and govern intelligent systems.

Technology moves at the speed of the people who can use it. We teach executives, engineers, public servants, students and communities, with real systems in the room.

Teaching tied to real data and real systems
Practical
Teaching tied to real data and real systems
Examples, languages and cases from the region
Local
Examples, languages and cases from the region
Executives, engineers, public servants and students
All levels
Executives, engineers, public servants and students
Access and literacy through the Boltcliq Foundation
Foundation
Access and literacy through the Boltcliq Foundation

01Overview

What we do

Most organizations do not lack tools. They lack people who understand what the tools can and cannot do. A board that cannot judge an AI proposal will either approve too much or refuse too much. An engineering team without practice in data and agent design will rebuild old systems with new names. A public that does not understand AI is easy to mislead. Education is the cheapest way to reduce all three risks.

We teach at four levels. Executive programmes help leaders decide, govern and invest. Engineering academies train developers and analysts in data, ontology and agent engineering through projects. Public sector and professional programmes help regulators, civil servants and specialists apply AI in their field. Community and school programmes, delivered through the Boltcliq Foundation, build access and literacy for people who might otherwise be left out.

All programmes are practical. Participants work on realistic cases from African sectors, using tools they can keep using. Where possible, learning is attached to a live engagement, so that people learn on the system they will run. Our instructors include forward deployed engineers who build these systems for a living.

02

Learning with real systems

A good course is short on slides and long on practice. Participants bring data from their own organization, or a realistic sample, and work through a problem from question to result. They make mistakes in a safe environment and learn to spot them.

We design courses for the conditions people face. That means material that works on modest laptops and phones, offline options for patchy connectivity and examples set in banks, farms, clinics, ports and ministries rather than in a foreign textbook.

  • Hands-on labs on realistic African cases
  • Works on modest devices and weak connections
  • Instructors who build the systems they teach

03What you get

Capabilities

Executive programmes

Short, focused programmes for boards and senior teams. We cover what AI can and cannot do, how to choose and sequence investments, how to govern risk and how to measure return. Sessions use cases from your own sector and end with a decision, such as a prioritised roadmap or a governance policy.

  • Briefings and multi-day programmes
  • Roadmap and governance workshops
  • Sector-specific cases

Leaders set the limits that make AI safe and useful.

Engineering academies

Cohort-based training for developers, analysts and data engineers. Topics include data engineering, ontology modelling, evaluation, agent design and operations. Participants build a working system as a capstone, reviewed by engineers who have shipped similar systems.

  • Project-based curriculum
  • Capstone with expert review
  • Pathways into live engagements

Capability stays when your people have it.

Public sector and regulators

Programmes for civil servants, regulators and policy teams on procurement, risk, data protection and oversight of AI systems. We help teams ask better questions of vendors, build review processes and understand where to seek legal advice. We do not give legal advice.

  • Procurement and risk workshops
  • Oversight and audit practice
  • Guidance on when to consult counsel

Good oversight depends on understanding.

Workforce and professional upskilling

Practical training for analysts, relationship managers, clinicians, agronomists and other professionals who will work with AI tools. Courses focus on checking outputs, framing questions and recognising failure. They are short and tied to daily tasks.

  • Role-based short courses
  • Checking and challenging AI outputs
  • Use of governed tools at work

Frontline skill decides whether tools are used well.

Community and schools through the Foundation

The Boltcliq Foundation supports digital and AI literacy for students, teachers and community learners. Programmes provide devices, offline-friendly content and local facilitators. Activities and partners are published by the Foundation as they are confirmed.

  • Digital and AI literacy for students and teachers
  • Offline-friendly materials
  • Local facilitators

Access should not depend on where someone lives.

Curriculum and train-the-trainer

We help universities, training providers and companies build their own programmes. We share curriculum, labs and assessment, and train instructors to deliver them. The aim is a local teaching capacity that continues without us.

  • Curriculum design and labs
  • Instructor training
  • Assessment and certification design with your institution

Local teachers reach far more people than we can.

See how this applies to your organization.

Free 30 minutes with an engineer.

04African sectors

Where it applies

01

Situation

A bank board is asked to approve an AI programme but has little basis for judging the proposals or the risks.

02

What it does

An executive programme covers use cases, risk, governance and vendor questions, and ends with a prioritised roadmap and a draft policy.

03

Human decides

The board decides on investment and risk appetite.

06

What we do and do not do

Does

  • Teach executives, engineers, public servants and communities
  • Use realistic data and cases from the region
  • Train your instructors to continue the programme
  • Run programmes through the Boltcliq Foundation for access and literacy
  • Attach learning to live projects where possible

Does not

  • Issue accredited degrees or claim accreditation
  • Give legal advice in public sector courses
  • Promise jobs as a course outcome
  • Replace schools or universities
  • Teach tools we would not use ourselves

07FAQ

Questions we hear

  • Executives and boards, engineers and analysts, public servants and regulators, professionals who work with AI tools, and students and communities through the Foundation.

Experience you can lean on

Our team of consultants and experts brings a combined 35 years of industry experience.

Immersed in technology and across many different verticals, so the people on your project have done this before.

General AI Education

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Tell us the problem. An engineer, not a salesperson, answers.

  • Free 30 minute briefing
  • Embedded engineers, working on your real systems
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Building the people who will build, run and govern intelligent systems.