AI training vs AI consulting: which one does your business need?

You have a task your business repeats every week. A quote after a site visit, a reply to the same customer question, a report that pulls the same numbers into the same shape. AI can draft that work from information you supply, and you check it before it reaches a customer. The question is who does the building: your own team, or someone you pay to decide and build it for you.

Choose AI training when you want your own team to do the work with AI on tasks your business repeats. Choose AI consulting when you want someone else to decide and build the AI work for you.

We teach business owners and teams how to use AI on the work their business repeats. We help you build and test a workflow you can use again. Bring one task that wastes your time, and you leave with a workflow you can use next week.

Key takeaways

• AI training teaches your team how to use AI well. 1 AI consulting helps you decide what to do about AI in the first place. 2
• Our public Sunshine Coast workshop runs four hours at A$495 including GST per person. Private onsite training gets a fixed quote after a scoping conversation about your team's tasks, location and experience.
• You keep the written instructions and the example you tested, so the workflow stays with your team.
• Commissioned implementation suits work you want built and owned outside the team, like the internal process automation we did for Radiant Roof Repairs. Organisations want someone accountable for turning AI into safe, measurable business impact. 3
• Many organisations move from structured education into full consulting, roadmap development or deeper execution support as needed. 4 That staged model keeps investment proportional to readiness and maturity. 5

What is the difference between AI training and AI consulting?

AI training teaches your team how to use AI well. 1 AI consulting helps you decide what to do about AI in the first place. 2

The difference shows up in who holds the work afterwards. Training puts the instructions in your team's hands. Consulting puts the decision and the build in someone else's.

We build training around your business tasks, source material and the output you need. AI drafts quotes, replies, reports and admin documents from information you supply. You check the work before it reaches a customer.

How do AI training and AI consulting compare on cost, time and who does the work?

Training has a published price and a fixed length. Consulting is scoped to your business, and it does not have to begin with a large retainer. 6

Private onsite training works differently. A fixed quote follows a conversation about the team's tasks, location and experience. Team size, session length and travel determine the price. We scope private sessions for roughly 4 to 20 people, and larger teams can be split across sessions.

On who does the work: in training, your people build the workflow on their own laptops. In commissioned implementation, we build it and you use the result.

What do you leave with after hands-on AI training?

You leave with a written AI workflow for one repeated business task, tested on a real example.

Our public Sunshine Coast workshop gives you four hours to work on one repeated business task. You build on your own laptop with hands-on help. You keep the instructions and the example you tested during the session.

The workflow uses five inputs: Context, Task, Source, Rules and Output.

• Context describes the business, customer and situation.
• Task names the job the AI assistant needs to do.
• Source supplies the notes, documents or approved facts for that job.
• Rules set the limits and identify missing information to flag.
• Output describes the format and information the finished draft needs to contain.

Participants test the workflow on a safe example and check the result against their source material. That check is the habit you take back to work with the instructions.

When is commissioning AI implementation the better call?

Commission the build when you want the work done and owned outside the team, and nobody in the business has time to run it.

We helped automate Radiant Roof Repairs' internal processes using AI. We used AI to automate SEO, enquiries and admin for Glen House Homoeopathy. In our own business, Searchmaxxed, we built AI workflows for creating blog posts, doing SEO and preparing custom proposals.

This kind of work is spreading across retail, financial services, healthcare and technology. 7 Organisations want someone accountable for turning AI into safe, measurable business impact. 3 They are hiring leaders who can connect customer experience, operations, data, governance and value realisation. 8

Which option fits your team's tasks, size and experience?

Start with training when the task is one your team already does and wants to keep doing faster.

We work with business owners and teams across industries. Your business task determines the training example. Pick a specific piece of work: a quote from one site visit, a reply to one customer question or a weekly update for one property. Bring the information needed for that task.

Training suits you when you have tried AI and want to build a repeatable process around your own notes, templates and rules. It also suits you when your team does the same work in different ways and needs a shared starting point.

Many organisations start with structured AI education and executive alignment sessions to build a shared foundation. 9 Structured AI training programs help leadership teams and operational groups understand practical use cases, governance implications and ROI frameworks before moving into broader transformation work. 10 These programs meet organisations where they are, whether that means executive briefings, department-level enablement or cross-functional workshops focused on measurable business outcomes. 11

Can you start with AI training and add consulting later?

Yes. Training first gives you a working example and a team that understands the task before you spend on anything larger.

We help your team agree on the source material, instructions and review process for a repeated task. You check the output against the information your business supplied. That agreement is what makes the next step cheaper to scope, because you already know which tasks hold up and which ones need more thought.

From structured education, organisations transition into full consulting, roadmap development or deeper execution support as needed. 4 That staged model keeps investment proportional to readiness and maturity. 5

How do you arrange AI training for your team?

Send an enquiry, then we talk. After your enquiry, we discuss your team's tasks, location and experience. We agree on the training scope and prepare a fixed quote. Team size, session length and travel determine the price.

We bring private AI training to your workplace. Private onsite AI training is available on the Sunshine Coast and in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Ipswich, Noosa, Moreton Bay, Logan, Redlands, Toowoomba and Gympie. Sunshine Coast onsite training covers Maroochydore, Caloundra, Mooloolaba, Buderim, Birtinya, Nambour and Coolum. Private training takes place at the team's workplace.

Each person brings the laptop they will use afterwards. Tool and account requirements are confirmed during scoping.

You can also travel to the Sunshine Coast for our public workshop. People from other areas do exactly that. Request a team quote for private training, or join the waitlist for the public workshop.

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