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AI TRAINING,
FILED UNDER THE DESK
YOU ACTUALLY SIT AT.

Not a course about AI. A course about your Monday.

Month-end close. The three-way match. The reorder report. The weekly pack. We take the work that is already on your desk and show you how it gets done with Copilot, Claude, Gemini or Meta AI — step by step, in the words your job actually uses. No coding, no jargon. If you can send a text message, you can do this.

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Records from $49 — one-time, yours for life. Every update included.
Real workflows · Not theory · Built for teams & individuals
Self-paced AI trainingfor people with a real job to do
Nine coursesone per platform, one per kind of desk
From $49one payment, yours for life
No tech backgroundif you can send a text message, you can do this
Consulting & Team Enablement

AI management consulting for small and medium‑sized businesses — on a budget.

Most firms your size are told to hire a consultancy that bills like one. We work the other way: a short engagement, on your real work, with your own people doing it by the end — so the capability stays after we leave.

01

Consulting on the tool you already pay for

Copilot, Claude, Gemini or Meta AI — hands‑on with your actual work, not a slide deck. Usually you are already licensed for more than you are using.

02

Training built around your team’s week

Not a generic course. We take the jobs your people actually repeat and teach those, in the words your business already uses.

03

Custom bots and agents

Including Copilot Studio builds, connected securely to your own data, scoped to one clear job and handed over documented — yours to run.

04

Governance and adoption

Who is allowed to build what, what it is allowed to reach, and how you get people genuinely using it instead of quietly ignoring it.

Start with a free call. Half an hour, no pitch — we look at what your team does every week and tell you honestly where AI helps and where it does not.
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Find your desk

WHATEVER YOU DO ALL DAY,
THERE'S A SESSION FOR IT.

The libraries aren't filed by software — they're filed by the job. Not a pile — the ones worth running. Pick a desk and read a real one, word for word, exactly as it ships.

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Money DeskMicrosoft Copilot

Explain a variance to a non-finance manager

Turn a confusing budget variance into a plain-English note an operations manager will actually understand.

The prompt, exactly as it ships 
Goal: Write a short plain-English explanation of this month's freight cost variance
Context: Freight came in $38K over budget; I need to explain it to our ops manager who isn't a finance person
Expectations: 3-4 sentences, no jargon, name the likely drivers (rates, volume, expedites), and one suggested action
Source: The variance report I have open and last month's freight summary
Also on this desk
  • Automate month-end close checklist
  • Analyze monthly P&L variance
  • Spot duplicate invoice payments
  • Design a cash-application automation
Sales & CustomersMicrosoft Copilot

Build a weekly retailer scorecard

Turn raw retailer POS data into a weekly performance scorecard the buyer will actually read.

The prompt, exactly as it ships 
Goal: Build a weekly retailer scorecard for our top 5 accounts
Context: Distributed every Monday to sales leadership
Expectations: 1 page per account — units sold this week vs last week vs LY, top 5 SKUs by velocity, any out-of-stocks reported, promo lift if running, action items. Color-coded.
Source: The retailer POS export and the promo calendar
Also on this desk
  • Build a pipeline health view
  • Build a Proposal Drafting Agent
  • Analyze a customer complaint pattern
  • Build a customer KPI scorecard
Buying & ProductsClaude

Compare quotes from three suppliers

Normalize three supplier quotes to true landed cost so you compare apples to apples.

The prompt, exactly as it ships 
I have three supplier quotes for the same canned tuna SKU with different Incoterms, pack sizes, and MOQs. Normalize all three to landed cost per retail unit in USD, accounting for freight, duty, and pack differences. Present a comparison table and tell me which is genuinely cheapest once everything is equalized, and what non-price factors I should weigh.
Also on this desk
  • Build a price negotiation prep doc
  • Analyze landed-cost drivers across lanes
  • Flag a suspicious price change
  • Build a Price Analyst Agent
Supply Chain & WarehouseMicrosoft Copilot

Generate a reorder report

Auto-flag items below reorder points in Excel and generate a purchase recommendation.

The prompt, exactly as it ships 
Goal: Create a reorder recommendation report
Context: Pre-purchasing meeting review
Expectations: Table — item, current stock, reorder point, recommended order qty, estimated cost. Sort by urgency.
Source: The inventory Excel file I have open
Also on this desk
  • Build a Freight-Audit Agent
  • Build a shipment-exception tracker
  • Identify slow-moving stock
  • Build a daily warehouse stand-up
Reporting & BIClaude

Translate a stakeholder complaint into a fix

Turn "the numbers look wrong" into a concrete investigation.

The prompt, exactly as it ships 
A stakeholder says 'the revenue number on this report looks wrong.' Before I panic, give me a structured triage: the questions to ask them, the usual culprits (filter context, date range, duplicates in the model, a measure summing instead of using a proper aggregation, currency/units), and the order to check them. I want to confirm the cause with evidence, not just tweak things.
Also on this desk
  • Audit a dashboard portfolio
  • Diagnose a slow report
  • Audit someone else’s measure
  • Architect a multi-page report standard
IT & SystemsCopilot & Claude

Write a runbook for a routine task

Document a procedure so anyone can follow it.

The prompt, exactly as it ships 
Help me write a clear runbook for [a routine admin task, e.g. onboarding a new server / the monthly patch process]. Ask me the steps, then turn them into a numbered procedure with the exact commands, how to confirm each step worked, what to do if a step fails, and who to escalate to. Make it good enough for a new hire to follow.
Also on this desk
  • Build an incident response runbook
  • Build a knowledge-base from past tickets
  • Build a server hardening baseline
  • Build a patching habit
Network & InfrastructureCopilot & Claude

Plan a network change safely

Make a change without taking everything down.

The prompt, exactly as it ships 
I need to make a network change: [describe — e.g. re-IP a subnet, replace a switch, change firewall rules]. Help me plan it to minimize risk: the pre-checks, the order of operations, what to verify after each step, the rollback, and the blast radius if it goes wrong. Give me a change runbook with go/no-go checkpoints.
Also on this desk
  • Configure firewall rules correctly
  • Capture and read network traffic
  • Decide what’s actually worth monitoring
  • Audit and improve existing monitoring
Meetings & NotesMicrosoft Copilot

Turn a recap into a follow-up email

Convert AI meeting notes into a clean, send-ready summary.

The prompt, exactly as it ships 
Using the recap and notes from a Teams meeting where Facilitator was active, give me a prompt that drafts a follow-up email to attendees: decisions made, action items with owners, and next meeting date. Remind me to verify the names and commitments before sending, since AI notes can misattribute.
Also on this desk
  • Add Facilitator to a meeting
  • Build a meeting summary table across the week
  • Audit how meetings are run
  • Build a meeting-notes operating standard

Goal, Context, Expectations, Source. Every session in every academy is built on that frame — the part you keep long after the tools change.

Also filed by desk
  • Quality & Safety
  • People & Legal
  • Security & Access
  • Data & Analysis
  • Automation & Scripts
  • Helpdesk & Support
  • Writing & Email
  • Research & Summaries
  • Planning & Projects
  • Numbers & Formulas
  • Creative & Content
  • Everyday Admin
The Catalog

NINE COURSES.
ONE FOR YOUR DESK.

Each one is a complete, self-paced training course built for a specific job — or for a specific AI. Buy the one that fits your work, own it for life, and every update we press gets added to your copy. Eight are below; the ninth, the Control Room, follows them.

A wall of hanging brass bells, the cover of The Trading Desk THE TRADING
DESK Finance & Deals Pitch books, models, memos and pipelines — hours of manual work turned into minutes, tuned to how deal teams actually run. $99Look inside → A studio mixing console, the cover of The Microsoft Copilot Academy MICROSOFT
COPILOT Microsoft 365 · every desk Chat, Cowork, Notebooks and agents — the tool already on your desktop, finally earning its keep. The full course on film, plus 244 sessions across ten desks. $89Look inside → A turntable with the needle down, the cover of The Claude Academy CLAUDE Anthropic Claude · every desk Projects, Artifacts, Skills and agents that reach into your own systems. The full course on film, plus 262 sessions across ten desks. $89Look inside → A drummer mid-hit on an acoustic kit under stage light, the cover of Rock & Roll ROCK &
ROLL Every desk The one that started the label — 21 agent builds, more than any other academy, the full scenario floor and the prompt vault. $89Look inside → A full orchestral score, every instrument part stacked, the cover of The Data Desk THE DATA
DESK Analysts & BI Reporting, BI and the data clean-up nobody volunteers for — scenarios, agent builds and a 28-prompt vault. $69Look inside → A road-worn four-string bass being played, the cover of The Geeky Nerds THE GEEKY
NERDS IT & Tech Troubleshooting, systems, scripting and security — the work that keeps the lights on, with a 24-prompt vault. $69Look inside → A wall of vintage guitars, the cover of The Gemini Academy GOOGLE
GEMINI Google Gemini · every desk Gems, Deep Research, Canvas and the Gemini Notebook — the full course on film, plus 35 sessions across seven desks. $49Look inside → A museum wall of framed gold records, the cover of The Meta AI Academy META AI Meta AI · every desk The assistant already sitting inside the apps you use all day — the full course on film, plus 35 sessions across seven desks. $49Look inside →
Free with any purchase · never sold The B-Side — Windows to Mac Not a macOS tutorial — a translation dictionary. Twenty years of Windows habits mapped straight onto the Mac: the pointer, where your files actually live, why Finder is not Explorer, and why the Dock is not the taskbar. Yours with whichever record you buy. Included — no extra charge

Buy once, own it for life. Every update we press gets added to your copy at no extra cost — nothing to renew, nothing to cancel.

A rack of studio outboard gear, the cover of The Control Room
The ninth record

THE CONTROL
ROOM.

The other eight each do one thing. This is the only room where all four platforms live together — Copilot, Claude, Gemini and Meta AI, each with its own complete course — on top of the picked sessions across eight desks for the people who have to know everything.

Bought separately
  • Microsoft Copilot$89
  • Claude$89
  • Google Gemini$49
  • Meta AI$49
Four records apart$276
The Control Room, together$149

Not a bundle of everything we sell — the technical rooms, priced under the sum of its platform courses because they belong together.

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Why Now

This is the biggest shift of our working lives — and it's still early.

AI is moving into nearly every job, and it only gets more capable from here. The people who learn to work with it now won't just keep up — they'll be the ones everyone else turns to. Waiting is the only losing move.

01

Become the Indispensable One

While others guess, you'll get real results from AI — and your value to any team climbs with it.

02

Win Back Your Hours

The right prompts and workflows turn afternoons of manual work into minutes. That time is yours again.

03

Stay Ahead as It Evolves

You won't just learn today's tools. You'll learn how to keep adapting as they change — which they will.

Run The Numbers

What Could AI Save Your Team?

Enter your own numbers. This is an illustration of what that time could be worth once your team actually knows how to use AI — not a forecast.

Estimated Annual Value Back
$36,000
Sample team — change the numbers to match yours
720 hrsHours Reclaimed / Year

Estimate only. Math: people × hours saved/week × hourly cost × 48 weeks. Adjust the inputs to match your team — the result updates live.

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★ Your Always-On Learning Hub

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Your Forever AI Hub.

AI changes every week — your team's training should keep up. The Vinyl Academy is built to be your company's ongoing learning hub: train the team you have today, onboard every new hire tomorrow, and stay current as AI evolves. Affordable, flexible, and always fresh.

For Businesses · Teams

Consulting & Team Enablement

Get your people genuinely productive with AI — fast, and built around the way your business actually works. Subscribe monthly, or buy a system outright and make it yours — we price both on a short call, once we know what you actually need.

  • Copilot, Claude, Gemini & Meta AI consulting — hands-on with your real work
  • Custom training around your team's tools and tasks
  • Adoption & onboarding that gets people actually using it
  • Weekly live drops, new prompts daily, new agents weekly
  • Custom builds connected securely to your own data
Subscribe or own it — your whole team, always current.
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For Individuals

Professional Training

New to AI and need it for your job? Get hands-on training that puts you a step ahead of everyone around you.

  • Guided, practical lessons — plain language, no jargon
  • Copilot, Claude, Gemini and Meta AI from the ground up
  • Real workflows you'll put to use the very same day
  • A clear path from "nervous beginner" to confident operator
Buy an academy once, own it for life.
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Built for HR & Team Leaders

Make AI fluency part of how your company runs. Onboard every new hire with the same proven training, keep your current team sharp as tools change, and give leadership a consistent, measurable program — not a one-off lunch-and-learn that's forgotten by Friday. It grows with your team, for years.

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AI insights on the go

Weekly Live Drops

Fresh examples every week

Constant Updates

Always current with AI

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Onboard anyone, anytime

Surprisingly affordable — a fraction of the time and money AI saves you. Run your own numbers in the calculator
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