Free practical training for small businesses in Ireland
Learn to take the repetitive admin off your plate.
The Academy teaches owners and office staff of small Irish businesses how to handle everyday work like customer enquiries, follow-ups and weekly reports with free tools and a bit of AI, checked by a person. Every tutorial is free, complete and doesn't need a signup.
- Free tutorials
- Free live classes
- No signup to learn
- Made-up example data
- Paid help only if you want it
Start with one job
Each tutorial takes one real piece of work from start to finish, with a sample file to practise on and a check at the end so you know it worked.
Turn customer enquiries into a simple follow-up workflow
A free tracker so nothing slips, and an AI-drafted reply that only uses facts you've approved. You check it, then send it.
Open the tutorial on customer enquiriesCreate a weekly update from a spreadsheet, and check the numbers
Let the spreadsheet do the sums and the AI write the summary, then check every figure before it goes to anyone.
Open the tutorial on weekly reportsHow The Academy works
Take as much or as little as you need. You can stop at any step and keep what you've made.
- FreeLearnFollow a tutorial at your own pace and download the starter files.
- FreePractise liveJoin a free online class and build the workflow with us, using made-up examples.
- Paid, optionalGet it builtIf you'd rather we connect it to your real inbox, forms or systems, we can scope a fixed-price job.
The first free class
From Enquiry to Follow-Up: Build a Simple AI-Assisted Workflow. It's online and free, and you leave with a working tracker and a reply playbook. We set the date as soon as 10 people have signed up.
What "free" means here
Free means you get the useful result without paying us. You don't need a work email, a card, a sales call or a budget, and we'll never ask for a testimonial or permission to use your name as a condition of anything. If a tutorial uses a tool that has paid plans, we say so before step 1 and show a free way through.
Who's behind it
The Academy is run by Brian, who builds and runs a portfolio of around 50 Irish websites and the systems behind them: the enquiry handling, the reporting and the monitoring. The tutorials teach the same patterns using made-up data. Those are our own systems, not client case studies. About The Academy