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AI skills training for businesses & teams. In person across the UK & online. 140+ people trained. 2–5 hours saved per week. No prior AI experience needed.

Case studies

Real businesses, real hours back, and real products shipped in ten weeks. Every figure here is as reported by the participants themselves.

Outcomes reported by businesses on the Ignite AI Programme.

HandleTrade.co.uk

Hardware & wholesale

A full day

saved every week

Mapped their enquiry-to-delivery process and identified automation opportunities for follow-up emails and internal tracking, as well as streamlining communications with their external bookkeeper.

BelGray Group Ltd

Early-stage business

35+ hrs

saved during launch

Used AI tools from the programme to accelerate a company launch - designing and building a website, training an AI-powered sales and marketing agent, and starting a customer-facing chatbot.

I've designed and built my own website and trained an AI sales and marketing agent to integrate across all my feeds. This is all because of your training.

Simply Vintage Beauty

Beauty

~3 hrs

saved every week

Used AI to generate social media captions and promotional ideas, improving posting consistency and confidence.

I now don't even have to prompt the tool, it knows what I need - I just put the image into ChatGPT and it'll give me a caption in my voice.

Anderson Power Generation

Logistics

2-3 hrs

less admin per week

Used AI to draft client emails and reminders and to summarise notes, cutting the time spent on routine admin.

From Build an App with AI. Every one of these started as an idea, from people with no coding background.
Cohort presentation night: eight Barnsley founders demo the apps they built in ten weeks.

SimplrBrief

Laura Ronan-Toulson

An AI co-pilot for independent consultants drowning in admin. Surfaces invoices to chase, proposals to follow up and tasks piling up, delivered as a daily briefing you can approve in under 10 minutes.

Clean Plate

Andrew Painten

An AI-powered recipe organiser turning messy screenshots, links and handwritten notes into clean, structured recipe cards in seconds. Plan meals, build shopping lists and actually cook what you save.

APG Connect

Amy Wilkinson

A centralised platform for Anderson Power Generation, streamlining onboarding, simplifying access to key documentation and improving support team engagement.

LinkAhead

Megan Lomax

A digital networking platform helping event organisers create more structured and measurable B2B networking. Attendees plan connections before events; organisers get better engagement insights.

Ventilation Compliance

Lee Shaw

A professional assessment and reporting app for landlords, letting agents and surveyors. Room-by-room inspections, airflow readings, photo capture and compliance-style reports in line with current UK guidance.

CV MatchUp

Mark Driver

Delivers tailored insights into your CV, identifying the gaps in knowledge and experience standing between you and your next role.

Ember ESA - Reclaim Your Glow

Emma Greenwood

A wellbeing app for women in midlife. Through gentle daily rituals, grounding practices and emotionally intelligent guidance, it helps people reconnect with the quiet ember at their centre.

Safe Space Barnsley

Sofia Colton

An operations tool for a Saturday evening welfare van, a community safety initiative in Barnsley town centre. Replaces WhatsApp messages and paper notes with case logging, stock management, volunteer rotas and admin tools.