Corporate AI Workshops

Transform How Your Organisation Works with AI

Hands-on AI workshops for large enterprises, designed around your security policies, your sensitive data and the tools your teams are approved to use.

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Starts with A 30-minute discovery call
2 Days Learn on Day 1, build on Day 2
On-site At your office
All levels Analysts to CXOs

Trusted by Major Brands

Workshops delivered for teams at ITC, Sun Pharma, Tata Consumer Products and more

Why hAIckathon

Most AI Workshops Are Built for Individuals. hAIckathon Is Built for Enterprises.

Freelancers and founders can use any AI tool, upload any file and decide on the spot. People inside large organisations can't. Their data is confidential and enormous, their tools are chosen by IT, and everything they do sits inside security and compliance policy.

Generic AI training ignores all of this. Our workshop starts from it.

Same task, two realities Find out why sales dipped in one region last quarter.
What a typical AI workshop teaches

Upload the sales file to ChatGPT and ask it why.

ChatGPT is blockedData is confidentialFile runs to millions of rows
What hAIckathon teaches

Use Copilot, which IT has already approved, to build the formulas, pivots and queries that analyse the full dataset inside your own systems.

Approved toolData stays in-houseWorks at full scale
Inside a large enterprise How hAIckathon handles it
01

Only approved tools, often just Microsoft Copilot

We teach on the tools your IT team has approved, and show how far they can be pushed. Nothing people can't use on Monday morning.

02

Confidential data that cannot be uploaded

Techniques that keep data inside your systems. AI works with structure, samples and instructions, never the sensitive records themselves.

03

Data far too large to paste or upload

AI writes the formulas, queries and scripts that run where your data already lives, at full scale.

04

IT, security and compliance policies

Every use case is scoped to what your policies allow, so nothing learned in the room is off-limits at work.

05

Decisions that move through layers of approval

Teams leave with use cases they can start on straight away, and a clear case for the ones that need sign-off.

The Workshop

One Workshop. Skills That Stay.

Not a lecture on AI. A hands-on session where your teams learn to make AI work for them, on tasks taken from their own jobs.

AI-generated image of misty mountain ridges in black and white

Generate Professional Visuals

Create work-ready images, decks and short videos with AI

Prompt Misty mountain ridges at dawn, a lone figure facing the light, cinematic, black and white.

Build AI Applications

Create custom assistants and simple internal tools, no code

Automate Workflows

Connect AI to your tools and save hours

Master Prompt Engineering

Get consistently better output from any AI tool

Build AI Agents

Assistants that research, draft and follow up for you

Two Days. Learn It, Then Build It.

Day 1 builds a shared foundation through hands-on sessions. Day 2 is the hAIckathon, where teams use what they learned to solve real problems from your business.

Day 1 · Session 01

Getting Started with Generative AI

Understand how AI really works and where it fits in your business: the foundation for everything that follows.

  • How large language models work, without the jargon
  • What AI does well, where it fails, and why
  • A simple prompt framework that works across any AI tool
  • A map of today's assistants: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot
  • Using AI safely with company data
Day 1 · Session 02

Building Personalised AI Assistants

Create assistants tailored to each role, that know your context and follow your rules.

  • Custom assistants in Copilot, ChatGPT or Gemini, whichever your organisation uses
  • Writing instructions that control how an assistant behaves
  • Grounding assistants in your own documents
  • Deploying one to solve a real problem in your work
Day 1 · Session 03

Automating Work & Creating Content

Hand repetitive tasks to AI, and create professional visuals and presentations in minutes.

  • Spotting the tasks worth automating
  • Reports, summaries and email drafts on autopilot
  • Images and slides for campaigns and reviews
  • Keeping AI output on-brand
Day 2 · The hAIckathon

Build Solutions to Real Business Problems

Teams take a real problem from their own function and build an AI-powered solution, with mentors at every table.

  • Teams form around problems from your business
  • Mentors guide each table through the build
  • Prototypes built with the tools from Day 1
  • Check-ins through the day keep every team on track
Day 2 · Presentations

Present & Take It Forward

Each team presents its solution to the room, and everyone leaves with a playbook to keep using.

  • Team presentations to peers and leaders
  • Feedback from facilitators on every solution
  • A playbook of prompts and workflows to keep
  • A shortlist of use cases worth scaling

AI for every level

Who Is hAIckathon For?

We teach the fundamentals, so each level takes away something different, and the whole organisation ends up speaking the same language.

Teams& individual contributors

Faster, better everyday work with AI tools.

ManagersTeam leads

Spot use cases and lead adoption in their teams.

Senior LeadersFunction heads

Redesign workflows and decide where to invest.

CXOs& leadership

Set AI strategy, governance and the pace of change.

Teams & individual contributorsFaster, better everyday work with AI tools.
ManagersSpot use cases and lead adoption in their teams.
Senior leadersRedesign workflows and decide where to invest.
CXOs & leadershipSet AI strategy, governance and the pace of change.
Common to everyone
How AI works What it can and can't do Using it safely with company data A shared AI vocabulary

Recent workshops

Teams We've Worked With

From finance and analytics to R&D and the company secretariat, every workshop is shaped around the function in the room.

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ITC

GenAIssance: GenAI for Managers · Kolkata
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Sun Pharma

Mumbai
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ITC Foods

Business Finance
Group photo from a ITC Personal Care Products workshop

ITC Personal Care Products

GenAI for Analytics · Kolkata
Group photo from a ITC Personal Care Products workshop

ITC Personal Care Products

GenAI for R&D · Bangalore
Group photo from a ITC Corporate workshop

ITC Corporate

Secretarial
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About Us

We Help Companies Use AI, Not Just Talk About It

We conduct AI workshops for large enterprises. We understand the constraints these organisations work under: sensitive data, strict security requirements and a limited set of approved tools, often within the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem. hAIckathon, our workshop, helps teams navigate those challenges and get real value from AI inside them.

Husain Jafar Lead Trainer Founder, BrandMaska & Lighthouse · Co-founder, Cognotools.dev
  • XLRI alumnus
  • Runs BrandMaska, a creative agency, and Lighthouse, a video production house
  • Co-founder of Cognotools.dev, an agency dedicated to building enterprise AI tools
  • Has deployed AI in marketing across the spectrum: brand consulting, video production, marketing strategy, social media, and website & app design and development
  • Key accounts include Engage, Aashirwad, Dermafique, Dark Fantasy, Philips, Tata Salt, Vivel, Ola, Ecolink, Nature's Basket, Prohance, Revital, Tetley, Tata Grand Coffee, AON, Asian Infrastructure Development Bank and Bombay Shaving Company
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Corporate AI Workshops
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