For: Managers who make or approve decisions using an AI assistant.
Half day, one day or two days, and a certification edition of any of them.
In person, led by a facilitator, with decision practice on StepSim, the AIR APAC simulator.
Record of Completion for everyone. An optional, separate assessment can lead to an AIR APAC credential.
Status: designed, not yet delivered. Available to commission for your group. Case files and materials are completed for the first group that confirms.
Managers who use AI are getting faster at producing work, and may be checking less of the part that matters. The habits that worked before AI now fail: take the task as given, judge work by how complete it looks, send it when it is done, and follow the recommendation.
AI starts at once on whatever it is asked, its output always looks complete and professional, it makes it easy to act alone, and it always offers a confident recommendation. This programme replaces the four old habits with four questions a manager asks before acting on an AI answer.
The same seven steps run in every length: decide your usual way in a StepSim Practice mission; see what your usual way missed; learn the four questions; practise with an AI tool on fictional case material; play a second mission with the four questions; write one change to how you and your team check AI work; then decide again in an unseen mission of the same kind.
The half day runs five of the steps in about four hours. The two-day edition adds practice labs and a manager review.
| STEP | The question a manager asks before acting |
|---|---|
| Structure | What is the real decision here, and what is fixed? |
| Test | What would show this answer is wrong, and have I checked it? |
| Engage | Who must agree, who must know, and what must I not hand over to AI? |
| Perform | What will I commit to, on what basis, and what would change my mind? |
Each facilitated edition opens with a StepSim Practice mission played the participant’s usual way and closes with an unseen one of the same kind. The programme formats page describes the half day, the one day, the two days and the certification edition.
Half day, one day or two days, and a certification edition of any of them.
Five situations a manager will recognise, each written for the programme: the polished answer, the wrong problem, the missing context, the borrowed decision and the quiet hand-off.
All four domains of AIRS-J/1: Structure, Test, Engage and Perform.
The half day ends with a written session report. The one day ends with a transfer file that goes back to the desk. The two days end with a transfer workshop, a report for the sponsor, and a manager review within ten working days.
For a first delivery, the lead facilitator is Indhran Seghar, director of AIR APAC Pte. Ltd. and the author of AIRS-J/1, the standard this programme is built on. Later deliveries may be led by a training provider's facilitator, named in the proposal.
AIR APAC certifies facilitators under section 20.6 of AIRS-J/1. No facilitator holds that certification yet, because the first facilitator cohort has not run. If your organisation needs a trainer accredited under a national training framework, say so in your request; we will tell you plainly whether it can be met.
| What | What it is | In this programme |
|---|---|---|
| Record of Completion | A record, issued by AIR APAC, of what the person attended and practised. It carries no score or level. | Included for everyone who completes. |
| AIRS-J/1 certification, Professional track | AIR APAC’s own credential for judgment in AI-enabled work, under a published standard. Verified free by code on a public register, valid for two years. No regulator, university or professional body recognises it, and no certifying sitting has run yet. | Optional. The certification edition adds a separate half-day assessment sitting within 30 days of the programme. Attending the programme does not count toward the result. |
| A qualification from an outside professional body | A qualification, or continuing professional development hours, from a professional body in your field. | Not offered. It would need an arrangement with that body, which does not exist today. |
StepSim is a decision simulator, an AIR APAC initiative built and operated by Exeter Labs. Participants play short workplace missions in which AI tools give advice, and they decide what to do. STEP is the method every AIR Academy programme teaches: four questions a person asks before acting on an AI answer (Structure, Test, Engage, Perform). AIRS-J/1 is the AIR APAC standard for judgment in AI-enabled work, which defines those four areas.
The cases are written for the programme and can be set in your sector and your country’s rules; say which in your request. Cases about your own organisation are used only with its written consent. Programmes are delivered in English today; if your group needs another language, say so, and we will tell you plainly whether it can be arranged.
The facilitated editions are led in the room. The half day is built for 15 to 30 people; group size for the longer editions is agreed in the proposal. Whether a live online edition is possible is also agreed in the proposal.
The price is quoted per group in the proposal. It depends on the edition, the number of participants, the location, and whether the certification edition is included. No price is published. The programme is designed but has not yet been delivered: case files and materials are completed for the first group that confirms, so the earliest date is agreed in the proposal.
No. The exercises use fictional case files. Where participants work on their own tasks, they use only an AI tool their organisation permits for that information, remove identifying and confidential details first, or use a fictional version instead. Nothing they show in the session is kept or recorded, and it is never used for certification. Your organisation receives these conditions before the programme starts.
Each edition opens with a Practice mission played the usual way and closes with an unseen one of the same kind, so the group can see what changed in how it checked AI work. The half day ends with a written session report. The one day ends with a transfer file that goes back to the desk. The two days end with a transfer workshop, a report for the sponsor, and a manager review within ten working days. This is evidence from the programme, not proof of better results at work.
Not on its own. Everyone who completes receives a Record of Completion. Participants who take a certification edition can earn AIRS-J/1 certification, issued by AIR APAC; no regulator, university or professional body recognises it. See the credentials table.
AIR Academy programmes are delivered through training providers, who own the client relationship and invoice the client. For a first delivery AIR APAC provides the programme design, the case files, StepSim Practice missions and the lead facilitator. The fit to your client, the subject co-facilitator and the commercial terms are agreed directly; no terms are published. Facilitators who want to run StepSim sessions in their own programmes can join the facilitator programme.