The AI Strategy Apprenticeship Unit is a 30-hour Level 5 Skills England unit, designed for leaders setting their organisation's AI direction. Fully funded for eligible employers. No cost to non-levy employers, and paid from your levy if you have one.
Most teams of 6+ choose a closed cohort, your whole leadership group trained together, every module framed around your strategy, your board’s priorities and the AI decisions you are actually weighing. Same Level 5 unit, built entirely around your world.
Plus a prioritised use-case backlog scored on value × feasibility, a draft tooling strategy, and a board-ready 90-second pitch.
Every activity uses your real organisation as the case study. You bring the context, we bring the structure. By Day 5, you've got a one-page strategy signed off by your named sponsor, plus a 30/60/90 forward plan. Not theory, not a generic framework.
Six concrete capabilities, mapped to the Skills England AU0009 standard.
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30 guided learning hours per AI Apprenticeship Unit, delivered as a closed cohort from 6 leaders, with the format tailored to your sector. Got 1 to 5 leaders? Start with a taster day, then bring your doers onto the Level 4.
Too few to fill a cohort? Start with a one day AI Leadership taster drawn from this curriculum, then bring the people who do the work onto the AI and Automation Level 4.
Most teams of 6+ go closed cohort. We frame every module against your sector, your existing strategy, and the AI use cases you are actually evaluating. Real M&A scenarios or product-launch decisions become the artefacts each leader produces.
You don't need to be on the exec to take this. Anyone with autonomy to shape AI direction in their area or function fits the brief, and that's how closed cohorts from 6 become realistic across your organisation.
Coachy is the Claude-powered AI tutor we built specifically for apprenticeship learners. Every TESS L5 AI Apprenticeship Unit comes with Coachy in your learners' pockets, so when they're drafting their AI Strategy on a Page at 9pm or stress-testing a Risk Register before their next session, they're not stuck waiting until the next live day.
The only AI tutor in the UK built for L5 AI apprenticeship learners. In every learner's pocket, 24/7.
From senior leaders who joined the AI Strategy & Opportunity taster, delivered by TESS trainer Haami.
“Haami was flawless. Even in the scenario where not many seemed willing to speak up, she coped well and kept the session flowing in a way that I found very interesting and engaging.”
“Haami was really knowledgeable. She handled every question informatively and was prepared to go off script to deliver what the room required. She has a genuinely warm presentation style, and the layout of the course was just what I needed. A foundation in the questions we should be asking ourselves.”
“There were quite a lot of people in our group who know a lot about AI, and you could see that she earned their respect because she was so knowledgeable. … There was never a time where she could not answer a question or give a perspective on something. She earned the respect of the group really, really quickly.”
“The four gate process that she took us through has been really, really helpful. We have already started playing around with that and thinking about how we can apply that knowledge internally.”
“I am currently preparing an executive pack to present some of our findings from this module, and I am going to our executive team with a recommendation that, if you will have us, we roll this out further to a wider senior leadership community.”
Pick a 30-minute slot that suits you. We'll walk you through cohort dates, funding routes and how Unit 1 fits your team. No prep needed.
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