AI used like a search box
People type a few keywords, copy the first answer and move on. They ask AI for facts instead of giving it real work — drafting, summarizing, analyzing, checking.
Core AI Academy · by Core Consultancy
Your company may already pay for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok — yet most people use it like a search box, or not at all. CORE: AI Foundations is a hands-on, 10-session program that teaches every employee, from entry level to managers, to get real work done with AI — safely, verifiably, and with records your ISO 9001 auditor can review.
Works with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot & Grok Simple English — Taglish welcome
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gawa mo ako ng memo
MEMORANDUM
TO: All Employees
FROM: [Your Name]
SUBJECT: [Subject]
Please be informed that [insert details here]. For your guidance and strict compliance.
Generic draft — you still have to explain everything.
Same request. Same AI. The difference is how you ask — and how you check.
The problem
This is what we see again and again in Philippine companies — from family-run SMEs to ISO-certified manufacturers. None of it is anyone’s fault: most people were simply never taught how.
People type a few keywords, copy the first answer and move on. They ask AI for facts instead of giving it real work — drafting, summarizing, analyzing, checking.
Leading questions get agreeable answers. AI tends to go along with the user, so without training people mistake agreement for accuracy.
The company pays for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok, but Projects, custom instructions and instruction files go unused and usage limits run out — so every chat starts from zero.
Many employees have never had structured AI training, and some hold back because they think they need perfect English. They don’t — Taglish works.
HR, Finance, Admin and Procurement do the most text-heavy, repetitive work — yet they are often the last to learn how to use AI as a tool.
Even when training happens, nobody records who learned what. There’s nothing a manager — or an ISO 9001 auditor — can review.
What changes after CORE
Searching for answers
Delegating real work
Accepting the first reply
Checking with the 3C Check
Starting every chat from zero
Configured Projects & instruction files
Scattered, invisible habits
Assessed, documented competence
The solution · three signature methods
CORE: AI Foundations turns AI from a search box into an everyday work tool. Every lesson comes back to the same three methods — easy to remember, easy to check, and they work in any AI assistant.
Our signature method turns vague one-liners into prompts that produce a useful first draft — in simple English, Taglish or Filipino. Four parts, one word to remember.
Example prompt · HR
C · Context
I’m the HR officer of a 60-person food manufacturer in Laguna. Most of our staff read basic English.
O · Objective
Write a memo announcing our new overtime request process, starting October 1.
R · Rules
Simple English, under 150 words, polite but firm, 3 numbered steps, end with who to ask.
E · Examples
Match the tone of the memo I pasted below (between the --- lines).
Thinking in Taglish? Write the prompt the way you think, and ask for the output in simple English — then check the meaning didn’t change.
A 60-second checklist before anything AI helped you make is used, sent or filed. The person who checks the output is the person who owns it.
Try it on an AI-drafted supplier email
Anthropic’s AI Fluency framework describes four ways people work well with AI. We use it as the backbone of our seven competencies — and teach it with Philippine workplace examples.
Deciding what work to give AI — and how: automation, augmentation or agency.
At work: Choosing the right task, tool and mode, and keeping people on the judgment calls.
Main focus on Day 1, 2, 8, 9
Communicating clearly with AI: the product you want, the process to follow and how it should behave.
At work: CORE prompts, good follow-ups, Projects and instruction files that stop you repeating yourself.
Main focus on Day 3, 4, 7
Critically evaluating what AI produces and how it behaves — the Description–Discernment loop.
At work: Spotting hallucinations and flattery, checking facts and numbers, fixing weak output.
Main focus on Day 5, 10
Taking responsibility for how AI is used: what you create, how open you are about it and what you deploy.
At work: Protecting personal data, following policy, disclosing AI help and owning the result.
Main focus on Day 6
Programs
CORE builds the habits every employee needs. ADVANCED and EXPERT build on them — by department, and for the people who will automate and govern AI across the company.
From asking AI questions to getting real work done.
A 2-week, 10-session program (2 hours per session) that builds AI core competency for every employee — entry level to professional. Learners master the CORE Prompt Method, the 3C Check and the AI Fluency 4D framework, then apply them to real back-office work. Every day ends with a quiz; the program closes with a final exam and a post-training workplace competency assessment two weeks later.
What’s included
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Deep, role-specific AI workflows for each department.
CORE graduates, team leads and process owners.
Function tracks
Design, automate and govern AI across the organization.
AI champions, analysts, IT and developers.
Aligned with the exam domains of the Claude Certified Developer and Claude Certified Architect credentials — plus AI governance with ISO/IEC 42001.
Builder & architect tracks
How learning works
Each day is a guided lesson of about 11 short steps. Learners read one idea at a time, see it work, try it in their own AI tool and check what they learned — at their own pace, on a phone or a laptop.
Run it live online, on-site or hybrid with a facilitator — or self-paced. Progress saves automatically, so nobody loses their place.
Day 03 · CORE
The CORE Prompt Method
Step 3 of 12
Concept
AI can’t read your mind. Context tells it who you are, what is happening and who will read the result.
Tip · Taglish is OK. Write the context the way you think. Then ask for the answer in simple English.
A preview of Day 3. Every day follows the same rhythm: learn, see it, try it, check it.
CORE: AI Foundations · curriculum
Week 1 builds the core skills: understand, prompt, verify. Week 2 makes them safe and practical: privacy, workspace setup, and real back-office work. Every day is a 2-hour, step-by-step lesson that ends with a 15-item quiz.
Tap a day to see its objectives and topics.
Understand · prompt · verify
Move from the “search engine” mindset to the “capable assistant you direct and check” mindset. Learn how large language models actually produce answers, what they do well, where they fail, and the 4D framework that guides the whole program.
By the end of the day you can
Topics
2 hours, step by step Ends with a 15-item quiz
Get full value from the subscription your company already pays for: what paid plans add, why usage limits exist and how to stretch them, the context window, choosing a model or mode, the feature map, and the privacy settings every employee should check.
By the end of the day you can
Topics
2 hours, step by step Ends with a 15-item quiz
The signature method of the program: Context, Objective, Rules, Examples. Turn vague one-liners into prompts that produce useful first drafts — in simple English, Taglish or Filipino.
By the end of the day you can
Topics
2 hours, step by step Ends with a 15-item quiz
Great results come from conversations, not single prompts. Practice the Description–Discernment loop, targeted follow-ups, clarifying questions, task decomposition, few-shot examples and structured outputs you can paste into Excel.
By the end of the day you can
Topics
2 hours, step by step Ends with a 15-item quiz
The most important habit of the program. Learn why AI hallucinates, how its tendency to agree with you can confirm your biases, how to fact-check and number-check efficiently, and when a qualified human must review — all summarized in the 3C Check.
By the end of the day you can
Topics
2 hours, step by step Ends with a 15-item quiz
Use safely · set up · apply
Use AI without putting customers, colleagues or the company at risk: the Data Privacy Act basics, what never to paste, anonymization, company AI policy, accountability and disclosure, fairness in people decisions, AI-powered scams and prompt injection.
By the end of the day you can
Topics
2 hours, step by step Ends with a 15-item quiz
Stop re-explaining yourself in every chat. Configure custom instructions, create Projects with instructions and knowledge files, write clean Markdown (.md) files the AI understands, and maintain them like controlled documents.
By the end of the day you can
Topics
2 hours, step by step Ends with a 15-item quiz
Hands-on labs for the departments that benefit most: HR, Finance and Accounting, Admin, Procurement, Sales and Customer Service. Pick the right tasks to delegate, keep humans on the judgment calls, and measure the time you save.
By the end of the day you can
Topics
2 hours, step by step Ends with a 15-item quiz
Use AI on long documents, data and quality-system work: summaries and extraction you verify, spreadsheet help, SOPs and work instructions as ISO 9001 documented information, process maps, internal-audit checklists and root-cause analysis with 5-Why and 6M.
By the end of the day you can
Topics
2 hours, step by step Ends with a 15-item quiz
Bring it all together: inventory your tasks, decide what to automate or augment, design a repeatable AI workflow with human checkpoints, troubleshoot weak outputs, measure impact, and commit to a 30-day adoption plan that the post-training assessment will check.
By the end of the day you can
Topics
2 hours, step by step Ends with a 15-item quiz
After Day 10
Final exam · 50 items
5 questions from each training day, so every learner sits an equivalent exam.
2 weeks later
Post-training competency assessment
30 workplace scenarios plus a short survey on how AI is actually being used at work.
Assessments & grading
Competence isn’t attendance. Every learner is assessed three ways, and every attempt is recorded — so you know who can actually use AI well.
15 items · 20 min
50 items · 75 min
30 items · 45 min
Every result shows a score, a performance band and a verdict.
Pass mark: 75%
Competent
Score at or above the 75% pass mark.
Not Yet Competent
Below the pass mark — the competency breakdown shows exactly what to review before a retake.
Every learner, a different paper
Each daily quiz draws 15 random questions from that day’s 150-item pool. The final exam and the post-training assessment draw evenly from all 10 days.
Learner 1 · 15 questions
Drawn for this learner Rest of the pool
2,100 reviewed questions are active in the bank today — 1,500 for the daily quizzes, 300 for the final exam and 300 for the post-training assessment.
Every learner gets a different set of questions, drawn from large pools.
Choices appear in a different order for each learner, so answers can’t simply be passed around.
Answers save as learners go. If the connection drops, nothing is lost.
Exams draw evenly from every training day and balance difficulty — every exam is equivalent.
Results show strengths and gaps for each competency, C1–C7 — not just a total.
Every question is reviewed at least every 6 months for relevancy. Item statistics help us fix or retire items that are too easy, too hard or unclear.
ISO 9001:2015 integration
Core Consultancy is an ISO 9001 consultancy first. The Academy was built to produce the documented information your quality management system needs — not just a certificate of attendance.
The standard asks you to determine the competence people need, make sure they are competent, evaluate whether the training worked, and keep evidence. The Academy covers all four:
People understand your AI use policy, how their work contributes, and what happens when rules aren’t followed. Day 6 covers the Data Privacy Act, accountability and disclosure — and the 3C Check makes it a daily habit.
Records are kept on the platform, access-controlled by role and exportable to your document control system. Day 9 also teaches teams to draft SOPs with AI — while people review and approve.
What the platform records
| Learner | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | C5 | C6 | C7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Learner A · Admin | Exemplary | Exemplary | Proficient | Exemplary | Proficient | Exemplary | Proficient |
| Learner B · Finance | Exemplary | Proficient | Exemplary | Proficient | Exemplary | Exemplary | Exemplary |
| Learner C · HR | Proficient | Exemplary | Exemplary | Exemplary | Developing | Exemplary | Proficient |
| Learner D · Sales | Exemplary | Exemplary | Developing | Proficient | Proficient | Proficient | Exemplary |
Exemplary Proficient Developing
Claude-aligned competencies
Our competency framework follows the domain structure reported for Anthropic’s Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam, and every competency sits in the AI Fluency 4D framework. The skills stay tool-neutral.
AI Literacy & Tool Selection
DelegationClaude domain: CCAO-F · Product & Model Selection
Prompting & Task Execution
DescriptionClaude domain: CCAO-F · Prompting & Task Execution
Output Evaluation & Validation
DiscernmentClaude domain: CCAO-F · Output Evaluation & Validation
Workflow Integration & Solution Design
DelegationClaude domain: CCAO-F · Workflow Integration & Solution Design
Configuration & Knowledge Management
DescriptionClaude domain: CCAO-F · Configuration & Knowledge Management
Governance, Risk & Responsible Use
DiligenceClaude domain: CCAO-F · Governance, Risk & Responsible Use
Troubleshooting & Optimization
DiscernmentClaude domain: CCAO-F · Troubleshooting & Optimization
Aligned with the domains of the Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam. Weights shown are the reported domain weights and may change.
Coming soon — aligned with the domains of the Claude Certified Developer and Architect exams.
Who it’s for
All employees — entry, mid and professional levels. No technical background needed. Everyone learns the same core habits, then applies them to the work they actually do.
Staff, assistants, clerks, operators
Supervisors, team leads, officers
Managers, specialists, owners
Day 8 and Day 9 labs use real tasks from each function.
Learners getConfidence with AI at work, a verifiable certificate and a personal 30-day AI plan.
HR & training coordinators getA live gradebook for their company’s cohorts and a competency matrix export.
Owners & management getISO 9001 competence evidence and a clear view of who can use AI well.
AI readiness check
Seven quick questions. About two minutes. Get a readiness score, your level and practical next steps — no sign-up needed.
Question 1 of 7
Everyday useBook a consultation
Tell us a little about your company. We’ll recommend where to start, who to train first and the best format for your teams.
Discovery call
We learn about your people, current AI tools, policies and priorities.
Recommendation
A training plan: which teams first, schedule, and online, on-site or hybrid delivery.
Proposal
Clear scope and pricing for your headcount — with the ISO 9001 records included.
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FAQ
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Everyone in the company — entry-level staff, supervisors, managers and professionals. No technical background is needed. Lessons use simple English, and every day includes practice on tasks from the learner’s own job.
No. The free versions of Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot are enough to complete the program. If your company already pays for plans, Days 2 and 7 show how to get much more out of them — usage limits, Projects, custom instructions and instruction files.
The skills are tool-neutral: the CORE Prompt Method, the 3C Check and the 4D framework work in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Grok. Learners practice in whichever approved tool your company uses, and lessons show where features differ — for example Projects, Gems and custom GPTs.
Simple, clear English. Taglish is welcome — in class and in prompts. Day 3 shows how to prompt in Taglish or Filipino, get professional English output and check that the meaning didn’t change.
After we agree the plan, your HR team receives an enrollment code for each batch. Employees create their Academy account with that code (“Have an enrollment code?” at the top of this page), then log in to follow the lessons, take the quizzes and see their own records. HR coordinators get a read-only view of their company’s gradebook.
All three. Sessions can run live online, on-site at your office, or as a mix. Learners follow the same step-by-step lessons on the Academy platform either way, so progress and results are recorded the same way.
Each day ends with a 15-item quiz. The final exam has 50 items, 5 from each day. 2 weeks after training, a 30-item scenario assessment checks how people apply AI at work. Every learner gets different questions from large pools, answer options are shuffled, exams are timed with autosave, and difficulty is balanced so every exam is equivalent.
Daily quizzes can be taken up to 3 times, and the highest score counts. The final exam allows one retake after 24 hours. Anyone below the 75% pass mark is marked “Not Yet Competent” — not “failed” — and their competency breakdown shows exactly what to review. We agree a refresher plan with your HR team.
Clause 7.2 asks you to determine competence, train, evaluate the effectiveness of training and keep documented information as evidence. The Academy does all four: a defined competency framework (C1–C7), recorded training progress, a post-training effectiveness assessment and exportable records — including a competency matrix you can keep in IMPAQMS.
Learner accounts hold only what training records need — name, work email, job title or department, and assessment results. Records are visible only to the learner, your authorized HR coordinators and our facilitators, and we handle personal information in line with the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (RA 10173). Day 6 also teaches your people what never to paste into an AI tool.
No. Core AI Academy is an independent program and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. Our competencies are aligned with the domain structure of Anthropic’s Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam and the AI Fluency framework, so graduates build a strong foundation if they choose to pursue Anthropic’s own certification, which is administered only by Anthropic.
Yes. Practice tasks, examples and the Day 8–9 labs can be tailored to your industry and departments — manufacturing, services, retail, logistics and more — and to your company’s AI policy and approved tools.
It depends on your headcount, the delivery format (online, on-site or hybrid) and any customization. Send us an inquiry and we’ll prepare a proposal for your team.
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