Practical AI Training for SMEs
From everyday productivity to advanced agentic automation, SFG Academy helps your team adopt AI with confidence, governance, and measurable business value.
AI is the accelerator, not the engine.
- • You cannot automate what you do not understand.
- • Process mapping is gold. Value stream mapping is platinum.
- • Dashboards on dirty data create a false sense of control.
- • Human-in-the-loop governance is essential.
Fix the work. See the truth. Accelerate the outcome.
A grounded approach to AI adoption that puts the business problem first.
Fix the work
Map your processes, remove friction and build the operational foundation that AI can safely accelerate.
See the truth
Get clean, trusted data into the hands of decision-makers — because dashboards on dirty data create a false sense of control.
Accelerate the outcome
Apply AI where it pays — with human-in-the-loop governance and measurable business outcomes.
Built for SMEs that need AI to actually work.
SFG Academy isn't generic online education. Every course is anchored in the SFG CBA Framework, written in plain English, and pressure-tested against the realities of running a small or medium business.
Acceptable use, data governance and human-in-the-loop patterns baked in.
Every lesson ends with an implementation action, not just a quiz.
We measure adoption in saved hours and improved outputs.
Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Creative AI and agentic tooling.
Choose your route to AI confidence
Prompting for Business Productivity
Save hours every week with reusable prompts
View pathwayChatGPT for Everyday Business
Automate everyday admin, comms and content tasks
View pathwayMicrosoft Copilot for SMEs
Embed AI across Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams
View pathwayGoogle Gemini and NotebookLM for Business
Turn unstructured knowledge into business intelligence
View pathwayClaude for Strategy, Writing and Coding
Use Claude as a senior strategy and writing partner
View pathway"SFG Academy gave our team the confidence and the guardrails to actually adopt AI — not just talk about it. We've measured the hours back in week one."
Plans for owners, teams and full implementations
- • AI Readiness Quiz
- • Sample lessons
- • Starter prompt pack
- • AI Essentials pathway
- • Prompting for Productivity
- • Community resources
- • Full access: Microsoft, ChatGPT, Google, Claude, Creative AI
- • All templates & checklists
- • Certificate-eligible courses