Applied AI Academy exists because there’s a generation of mid-career professionals who deserve a serious, calm, bilingual way to learn AI — without being talked down to, and without giving up their evenings to a 40-hour course.
We believe AI literacy is the single most consequential professional skill of this decade. We also believe the way it’s currently taught — long lectures, abstract theory, English-only — locks out millions of professionals over 35 who could most benefit from it. We’re building the alternative.
Working adults — HR managers, finance directors, legal admins, operations leads — kept asking the same question: "I know AI matters, but where do I start?" Existing courses were either too technical or too superficial.
We ran live workshops at universities, accelerators, and inside corporate teams. The pattern was clear: small daily practice on real work tasks beats any course with hours of video.
The 30-day mobile challenge, online courses for deep tracks, in-person workshops for teams, and 1:1 / corporate consulting for bespoke rollouts. One curriculum, four formats, two languages.
A classroom-trained educator, a frontier-AI product builder, a chartered engineer and a financial-advisory veteran — four working professionals building the course we wished we’d had.
Co-founder · CEO
From a classroom teacher to a product manager to a founder and creator, Zoe makes AI feel less intimidating, and a lot more human, for everyone.
Co-founder · CTO
Jerome has built AI products with teams that worked at the frontier of large-model research, and lectures on applied AI as a guest of the University of Hong Kong.
Co-founder · CCO
Sky is a Chartered Engineer with 9+ years in construction, bringing an engineer’s rigour to how AI gets applied to real, on-the-ground work.
Co-founder · CMO
With 10+ years in financial advisory and MDRT recognition, Xanthe understands how working professionals weigh where their time and money go.
The AI coach teaches you. Our team designs the lessons, curates the tools, and makes sure every session earns its 10 minutes.
Team credentials
Backed by teams behind OpenAI
AI builders with frontier-model experience
HKU Guest Lecturer
Teaches AI at the University of Hong Kong
10+ years teaching
At one of Hong Kong’s top-3 schools
UAL Alumna
Top-tier design & curriculum training
Two more on the Home page, one on the Apps page — six in total. Distributed so you see a fresh voice wherever you land.
My younger colleagues were amazed I could summarise a 30-page report in 2 minutes. I didn't tell them it only took me 10 minutes to learn how.
Patricia L.
Operations Manager, 52
I was terrified of AI. Now I use it every morning before my first meeting. The sandbox is what got me over the fear.
Robert T.
Account Manager, 42