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Why We Still Run Sessions in a Room
Most of our AI training works fine over Zoom. The in-person sessions do one thing online cannot, and it has nothing to do with the slides.
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Short notes from AICoach.my - what happened at our events, practical AI tips you can use today, and things worth sharing.
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Inno Day #6: Design, Leads, and Being Found by AI
Making app interfaces from plain text, generating leads with Claude, and optimising content so AI answer engines recommend you. Three talks, one Sunday.
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A Pretty Page Is Not the Same as a Converting Page
James Chong broke down what actually makes a landing page fill seats: promise the result first, put the form early, and repeat one call to action.
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Build Your Own App With Claude Code: 300 People Signed Up
A National Training Week session on the Claude ecosystem, building a working web app live, and publishing it. Over 300 registered and more than half turned up on the night.
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The Claude Program's First Night, and What People Built by Morning
Session one covered prompting, fact-checking and artifacts. Several participants had already turned it into real reports and dashboards for their own work.
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A Full Day With the Third Batch at an Insurance Company
A big room, a wide spread of roles, and a full day of AI training. The third group from the same company to come through, which tells its own story.
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A Marketing Team That Was Already Halfway There
A team of marketers, copywriters and social media managers spent a day on prompting, image generation and building their own AI tools. The pace was quick.
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A Reunion Session for People Moving From ChatGPT to Claude
Past participants from several programs came back for one evening to see what Claude does differently, and how to bring their AI memory across with them.
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Ten Presenters, Eleven Things Built Without Writing Code
Demo Day #18 ran through a currency tracker, a burnout monitor, a property defect form and eight more, all built by people with no programming background.
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Two Days of Claude, In-House
A company brought us in for two full days on Claude AI. Two groups through the same boardroom, and a lot of work that will not be done by hand again.
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Inno Day #5: Three Talks on Getting Real Work Out of Claude
What Claude can actually do, how to automate WhatsApp with it, and how to get more done using Claude Skills. Then everyone built something.
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Automating WhatsApp for a Room That Runs on It
A session with an asset management team on letting Claude handle inbound enquiries, log them to a spreadsheet, and start conversations. No code involved.
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Group 23 Opens the First Claude Creator Cohort
The pioneer group started with projects, custom skills, and the browser extension. Being first means nobody can tell you how it usually goes.
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Putting AI Inside the Spreadsheet People Already Use
A hands-on hour installing an AI add-in for Excel, building dashboards, and running a real salary equity analysis on a school administrator's data.
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Three Participants, Three Apps, One Evening
A bilingual business diagnostic, a financial ratio analyser, and a family planning tool - the apps three participants built to complete the Google AI Program.
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A Pharmacist, a Marketer and an Educator Walk Into a Demo
Three participants from Groups 19 and 21 presented working apps: a health planner, a decision compiler, and a platform matching parents with tutors.
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Inno Day #4: What Businesses Can Learn from Duolingo
Two talks on why a language app keeps people coming back every day, and what small businesses can borrow from it. Then three hours of building.
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Inno Day #3: Learning AI by Actually Building Something
Three talks, then everyone opened a laptop and built. A calendar app, a feedback tool, and a website - all made in one Sunday afternoon in January.
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Four Hours to Your First Working App
The DIY Your App & Website with AI workshop: write a product requirement document, build a functional app with no coding, and share it for people to try.
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Inno Day #2: Voice Assistants, Study Tools and Google Apps
Three talks from Yee Peng, Li Hong and Ricky Soo, then a room full of people building nutrition assistants, speechwriting tools and an accounting website.
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Gemini, Gems and Nano Banana in One Evening
An hour on Google's Gemini: generating and editing images with Nano Banana, and building Gems, the small custom assistants that save repeat work.
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ChatGPT Team Essentials With Two Groups in One Day
Team accounts, prompt engineering, and Custom GPTs, run twice in a day for management and departmental staff at a corporate client.
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Build an AI Agent That Works While You Sleep
An AI agent can answer customer questions, draft content and watch your data overnight. Start by naming the one job you want it to own.
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Upgrade to AI Chatbots
The old website chatbot answered five questions and gave up. An AI chatbot reads your own material and answers in your own words instead.
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Streamline Your Business With Automation
The tasks worth automating are rarely the big ones. They are the small repeats nobody notices until you add up the hours they quietly take.
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Inno Day #1: Eighteen People and Three Hours to Build Something
The first Inno Day packed Keep In Touch Co-Working Space for over three hours of building websites, AI agents and automations from scratch.
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Boost Your Copywriting With AI
AI is poor at knowing what you want to say and good at getting it said. Used in that order, it turns a blank page into a working draft.
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Your Forms Could Be Doing a Lot More
A form does not have to just collect a name and sit there. With AI behind it, it can answer, qualify, book and follow up on its own.
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Chatbots That Talk Like You
A chatbot with a personality is not a gimmick. Character shapes how people talk to it, and how much they are willing to tell it.
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From a Silly Idea to a Palm Reading AI
Someone floated the idea of an AI that reads palms. Three months later it was live, with a seven-episode video story attached.
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Boost Your Productivity With an AI Assistant
The useful assistants are not the ones that think for you. They are the ones that handle the admin around the thinking.
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Boost Your Ads With AI
Good ads are usually the tenth version, not the first. AI matters because it makes getting to the tenth version cheap.
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Vibe Check Your Marketing
People remember how a brand made them feel long after they have forgotten what it claimed. That feeling is something you can work on deliberately.
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Draft a Deck in Minutes Instead of an Evening
Brainstorm with AI, then let a design tool turn the content into slides. The point is not speed for its own sake - it is getting a draft to react to.
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Building an MVP With AI
The hardest part of a first product is not building it. It is finding out whether anyone wants it before you have spent six months.
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From Zero to Hero in the Digital World
One line from a participant sums up the change better than anything we could write. Previously the non-tech could not do anything. But now they can do it.
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Social Media Magic With Automation
A spreadsheet, a writing tool and a connector are enough to keep a posting schedule running without anyone remembering to post.
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When AI Is Good Company
We expected the technical sessions to be the memorable ones. Some of the tools people liked most were the ones that simply said something kind.
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AI Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
One prompt trying to do five jobs usually does none of them well. Splitting the work between several agents is what changes the output.
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Get Your Tools Talking to Each Other
Most business software works fine alone and badly together. Connecting them is usually a bigger win than adding another tool to the pile.
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Your Voice Is the Interface
How you say a thing shapes what comes back, whether you are talking to a person or to a model. Vagueness in, vagueness out.
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Custom GPTs Are More Fun Built Together
Naming it, writing the instructions, choosing the conversation starters. Building a Custom GPT works better as a group activity than a solo one.
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E-Invoicing Does Not Have to Eat Your Week
One business owner automated about 80 percent of their e-invoicing work with AI. Less data entry, faster payments, and it is not only for big companies.
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Chatbots as Your Front Desk
A good chatbot is not clever. It is the receptionist who greets everyone, answers the ordinary questions, and passes on the ones that need you.
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The Jarvis Idea, Minus the Suit
What made Iron Man's assistant appealing was not the technology. It was that it anticipated, decided and acted without being asked twice.
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Content Created While You Watch
A blog post, a Facebook post and a matching image, produced end to end without anyone touching a keyboard. The first run was rough. It got better.
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A GPT That Tells Jokes
Building a joke-telling GPT sounds like a waste of an afternoon. It teaches more about tone, instructions and taste than most serious projects.
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AI for Everyone, Not Just Coders
The goal we keep coming back to is unglamorous. Give people who have never written a line of code the ability to build the thing they need.
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Ricky and Co Opens Its Doors
We invented a law firm that does not exist, built its website, and gave it a chatbot. The point was to see how far an afternoon goes.
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Diagrams Without the Dragging
Flowcharts usually mean an hour of nudging boxes into alignment. Describing the process in plain text and letting the diagram draw itself is quicker.
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Practising a Talk With AI
Most nerves before a talk come from not knowing whether the thing works. AI will not stand on the stage for you, but it will listen first.
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A Morning News Briefing Built for You
Someone wanted the news that matters to them and nothing else. Getting there turned out to be less about fetching stories and more about choosing sources.
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Letting AI Grade Its Own SEO
Getting AI to write an article is old news. Getting it to review the article against what search engines reward is the more useful trick.
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Research Reports in Minutes
A business report used to be a week of gathering and a weekend of writing. We built a version where you fill in a form and read the result.
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AI Writes Your Hari Raya Pantun
Not everyone can produce a good pantun on demand. One participant built something that can, and it turned a chore back into a pleasure.
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AI as a Fact-Checker
The same technology that makes it easy to produce convincing nonsense also makes it faster to check. Which side wins depends on how you use it.
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Turning Telegram Into a Life Coach
A bot that listens to whatever is on your mind, replies with something useful, and emails you a summary afterwards. Built inside an app you already have.
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Landing Pages That Ask for One Thing
A landing page is not a smaller website. It has a single job, and most of the craft is in removing everything that gets in its way.
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AI as the Eager Intern
The most useful way to picture AI in a small business is not a genius. It is a capable new hire who never gets bored of the boring parts.
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What Teachers Do With the Time Back
The interesting part of AI in education is not the technology. It is what a teacher with twenty years of experience does once the paperwork shrinks.
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A Website in an Afternoon
Building a website used to mean HTML or a budget. In one session, people went from a topic to a published page in about ten minutes.
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A Chatbot Is Only as Good as Its Material
Some chatbots are a menu with extra steps. The difference between those and the useful ones is almost entirely what you feed them.
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Where AI Stops and You Start
A session that turned into a debate. AI can produce endless variations of a thing, but variation is not the same as having something to say.
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A Spreadsheet That Updates Itself
Checking prices by hand every morning is a habit, not a job. One session replaced it with a sheet that fills itself before anyone arrives.
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Talking to Gemini Live, With Yee Peng Tan
A demonstration of Google's Gemini and what changes when the AI can see and hear rather than only read what you type.
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Module 2: Websites, Blogs and Landing Pages by Description
Generative AI for content creation, run for Group 4 in January 2025 - building the pages a small business actually needs, without a designer.
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A Chatbot on Your Website Without the Development Project
Handling enquiries, capturing leads and answering in more than one language - the session covered what a chatbot actually changes for a small business.
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Module 1: Where Every Cohort Starts
Prompt engineering ran twice that winter, for Group 4 and again for Group 1. It is the first module for a reason - everything after it depends on it.
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AI Untuk Rakyat, and a Kahoot to Go With It
An introduction to Malaysia's free national AI literacy course, run as a live session with a quiz. The response was better than expected.
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Modules 5 and 6: Making the Repetitive Work Disappear
Basic workflows with Make.com, then connecting apps so they talk to each other. No code, and the sessions ran across three groups that winter.
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Woo Hui Qin on Presenting Better With AI
An online session on using AI to lift a presentation - not just to generate the slides, but to sharpen what you actually say.
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Custom GPTs and ChatGPT Projects, Side by Side
Two features that sound similar and do different jobs. Live demos of when to reach for a Custom GPT and when a Project is the better fit.
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Modules 3 and 4: Building Your Own AI Assistant
First a Custom GPT from scratch, then connecting it to outside systems. Beginners with no coding background built working tools in a single session.
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AI for Kids, and the Teachers Who Got There First
Custom GPTs for language learning and test prep, then a session where children learned to spot AI-generated content through games.
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