In-house training for one company
Applied AI Competency
Help your employees use your approved AI tools well, with checked work and clear human decisions.
Train your employees together on your company's work, in your approved tools and accounts. Dates, delivery, and support are agreed with your company.
What you leave with
Work your team can use again.
A checked AI-assisted work example, clear information boundaries, and an individual observed assessment.
This describes the complete course. Team Focus and Team Practice cover the narrower parts selected in your plan. A course certificate is awarded only after the employee meets the full course requirements.
Private training for your team
Help your employees use your approved AI tools well, with checked work and clear human decisions.
- Participants
- Your company's employees, in a private group.
- Delivery
- Complete course: twelve live teaching hours, online in four three-hour sessions or in person over two days. Applied work and assessment requirements may continue afterward. Focused and applied virtual options cover narrower scopes.
- Complete course price
- $12,500 plus GST covers up to eight enrolled employees. Each additional employee is $2,500 plus GST. Virtual options start at $4,500 plus GST. Materials are included; company software and travel outside Calgary are separate.
Instructor qualifications and delivery arrangements are provided with your training plan. About Cornerstone.
How it runs
Learn it. Apply it.
- Two teaching daysLearn: twelve live hours
The full curriculum is taught online in four three-hour sessions or in person over two days. Your employee learns alongside coworkers from your company, then completes the course application and assessment requirements.
- Application and practiceApply: on the job or in the office
During guided practice and the agreed application period, your employee applies the learning at work, on the task your company chose, with their manager's support. A Cornerstone facilitator supervises online.
- Week 4Finish: certificate
Your employee finishes the applied work and must meet the course assessment standard to receive a certificate.A Cornerstone certificate shows your employee met our course requirements. It is not a government accreditation or a professional licence.
Who it's for
Who the course is for.
Designed for employees who use AI tools at work, or should: office and admin staff, coordinators, estimators, bookkeepers.
Built for companies in:
- Professional offices
- The office side of trades and oilfield services
- Retail and wholesale
- Any team already using AI tools at work
Your employee will need to be:
- Comfortable with technology. Uses email, video calls, and shared online documents without help.
- Reads and writes well. Reads carefully, understands what they read, and writes clearly in English.
- Organized and trusted. Someone you already rely on, who can ask good questions and follow through.
- Has the time. Twelve live teaching hours, online in sessions or in person over two days, plus applied work and assessment requirements.
Readiness call. Before we send the invoice, we hold a short readiness call with your employee. The course only pays off if your employee can do the work, so we check first. If it isn't the right fit yet, we'll tell you, and nothing is owed.
What your employee will learn
By the end, your employee will be able to:
- Find where AI genuinely helps in their daily work, and where it would make things worse.
- Get reliable work out of the AI tools your company already provides, on real tasks, and check it before it goes anywhere.
- Keep company and client information out of places it shouldn't go.
- Know which calls a person has to make, and build that checkpoint into the work.
- Pass an observed assessment of applied judgment, scored against a written standard.
Course format
What happens in each class.
- Module 1. Where AI belongs in the daily work, and where it doesn't.
- Module 2. Using AI on real work: asking well, and checking the answer.
- Module 3. Protecting company and client information, and keeping a person in charge of the calls that matter.
- Module 4. The observed assessment: each employee applies AI to a real task from their own work, scored against the Cornerstone standard.
Certificate. Issued to your employee after the full teaching program and a passed observed assessment.A Cornerstone certificate shows your employee met our course requirements. It is not a government accreditation or a professional licence.
An example of the work
A useful result you can inspect.
A coordinator could learn to turn approved job notes into a draft customer update, check every date and commitment against the source, and get the right person to approve it before sending.
The assessment observes the employee doing the work: choosing an appropriate use of AI, protecting information, checking the output, and knowing when a person must decide. This is an illustration, not a customer result.
Your information
Your work stays in your own accounts.
You do not send company files to Cornerstone. Work remains in your company's accounts; your approved software providers process data under your own settings and agreements. Your employee works in your own in-house documents, software, and systems, on the work device your company already gives them, whether they're in the office or working remotely. The facilitator reviews the work on a live call, where your employee chooses what to show. Nothing is recorded or copied, and no files come to us. We only ask for the enrolment details the invoice and the grant need.
We teach your employee to use what your company already has in house. Everything they build stays in your company's accounts from the first day.
Why it matters
Give your employees a shared standard for AI at work.
Your employees are already using AI, each in their own way. That leaves two questions most owners can't answer:
- Is the company actually benefiting? Or is AI saving one person a few minutes while the work itself doesn't get better?
- Is client and company information safe? Or is the way your people use AI putting it somewhere it shouldn't go?
The AI Competency Assessment answers both, employee by employee. This course closes the gaps it finds. We meet your employees where they already work, on the devices and software they already use, and bring them up to a written standard that serves the company.
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Watch the story
The answer looked right
Follow a fictional customer update from a polished AI draft to a checked piece of work.
Read the video transcript
Imagine this happens in your office.
An employee uses AI to draft a customer update. It reads well. The tone is professional. They are about to send it.
Then you notice the delivery date. The draft says Friday. The approved job notes say Monday.
That is why I would never stop the lesson at, "Here is how to write a prompt."
I would put the draft beside the source. Check the date. Check the promise. Check whether that information belongs in the tool at all. Then decide who needs to approve the message.
Applied AI Competency gives your employees practice doing that on an agreed workplace task, using your company's approved tools.
The complete course includes an individual observed assessment. A Cornerstone course certificate depends on meeting the requirements. It is not government accreditation or a professional licence.
If you want your team to use AI and check its work, start with the planner. Choose your team size and training format. Read the outline and price before we talk.
Before booking
Agree the work and the scope.
We confirm learning goals, participants, manager support, tools, training hours, applied work, assessment arrangements, support, and payment and cancellation terms in your written quote. Training is for your company and its employees.
Employees receive a Cornerstone course certificate after meeting the attendance, applied work, and assessment requirements.
A Cornerstone certificate shows your employee met our course requirements. It is not a government accreditation or a professional licence.
For your company
Discuss training for your employees.
Calculate your package price first. Then send your selected course, team size and preferred timing. We confirm scope, group arrangements, delivery dates, and any travel or software costs before booking.