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Is your team generating value from AI, or just paying for it?

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Tools are just overhead until your team knows how to command them.

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AI Upskilling Report

AI Upskilling Report

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Real data from real teams

Engineers trained with Skiller Whale were 28% more productive, with 35% less token spend.

In a study of 1,400 engineers who all use AI heavily, trained teams outperformed a control group with the same tools.

PR throughput, DX study with a large global retailer

METR found experienced developers using AI tools were 19% slower.

Yet they believed they were 20% faster.

The good news: our research with DX shows that teams with the skills, not just the tools, see significant productivity gains.

In 2026, METR reported AI is now so embedded in developers’ work that controlled studies are hard to run: developers won’t work without it. Read the update →

20x

20x

AI upskilling delivers at least a 20x return
AI upskilling delivers at least a 20x return

Based on impact measured with DX at a large global retailer

20x

AI upskilling delivers at least a 20x return

Based on impact measured with DX at a large global retailer

AI upskilling Tailored to your team

Built for how your team actually works

AI for Software Engineers

AI for Product Teams

AI for Everyone

AI FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS

Ship faster with AI-fluent engineers

Your engineers already have the tools.

We make sure they have the skills to use them.

Proven in a study of 1,400 engineers.

Your engineers already have the tools. We make sure they have the skills to use them.


Structured upskilling that doubled PR throughput in 3 months, backed by real data.

Agent foundations

Customising agents

Agentic workflows

Agent security

AI FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS

Ship faster with AI-fluent engineers

Your engineers already have the tools.

We make sure they have the skills to use them.

Proven in a study of 1,400 engineers.

Agent foundations

Customising agents

Agentic workflows

Agent security

21 modules · 21 hours

  • LLMs at Inference Time60 minsThe anatomy of an LLM at inference time (tokens, sampling, reasoning models, context) and what they mean in practice.
  • LLMs at Training Time60 minsThe three-stage training pipeline (pre-training, fine-tuning, RLHF) and using it to anticipate unwanted behaviour.
  • The Agent Loop60 minsFrom language models to coding agents: the model, the harness, and the tool-call loop between them.
  • Prompting and Context60 minsWell-structured prompts, documentation agents can read, and version-controlled rules files that hold your conventions.
  • Agent Autonomy and Verification60 minsGiving agents more rope: plan-and-execute workflows, self-verification, and feedback loops.

21 modules · 21 hours

ai FOR PRODUCT TEAMS

Build better AI products

How the models work, where they fail, and how to design around both.


Plus enough hands-on agent work to prototype ideas yourself.

How models work

AI product design

Responsible AI

Prototyping with agents

  • Introduction to Generative AI90 minsWhat generative AI is, why it's becoming ubiquitous, and how to think clearly about its strengths, weaknesses and risks.
  • Machine Learning45 minsA quick practical introduction to the key points of machine learning from data, and its limitations.
  • Language Models45 minsA quick practical introduction to large language models, the conversational turn structure, and the system prompt.
  • Image and Multimodal Models45 minsA quick practical introduction to multimodal models and image generation using diffusion.
  • Agents45 minsA quick practical introduction to agents, tools, and creating your own.
  • Responsible AI90 minsHow to use generative AI responsibly, mindful of privacy, governance, bias and toxicity.
  • AI-Enabled Product Design90 minsHow AI makes products better or worse, with real-world examples, patterns that work, and principles to guide you.
  • Agentic Software Development90 minsHow non-developers can use coding agents to build prototypes or make small changes to existing systems, safely.

AI FOR EVERYONE

Give every team an AI advantage

Practical sessions for Sales, Operations, Marketing, People, Finance, Support and Leadership.


Tailored to your team’s real tools and daily workflows, not a generic AI crash course.

Productivity workflows

Responsible AI

Agent workflows

AI and media

AI FOR EVERYONE

Give every team an AI advantage

Practical sessions for Sales, Operations, Marketing, People, Finance, Support and Leadership.


Tailored to your team’s real tools and daily workflows, not a generic AI crash course.

Productivity workflows

Responsible AI

Agent workflows

AI and media

11 modules · 16 hours

  • Introduction to Generative AI90 minsWhat generative AI is, why it's becoming ubiquitous, and how to think clearly about its strengths, weaknesses and risks.
  • Responsible AI for Everyone90 minsHow to use generative AI responsibly, mindful of privacy, governance, bias and toxicity.
  • Creating Productivity Workflows60 minsHow to improve your productivity with AI by picking the right use cases, and using chatbots, agents or custom AI systems.
  • Debugging Productivity Workflows60 minsEarly results from AI workflows can be disappointing. Learn to find the root causes and iterate for better quality and consistency.

11 modules · 16 hours

11 modules · 16 hours

At 20x ROI, training pays for itself within months.

At 20x ROI, training pays for itself within months.

£68to£110per person
per 60 min module

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AI Upskilling Impact Report

Baseline AI skills, the productivity gains we helped teams achieve, and the data behind them.

The productivity gains, and the data behind them.

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Structured AI upskilling backed by real productivity data

Structured AI upskilling backed by real productivity data

Live coaching sessions, not self-paced courses your team won't finish

Live coaching sessions, not self-paced courses your team won't finish

See measurable impact within two months

See measurable impact within two months

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