The full session: the case, the four questions, a guided exercise, the pilot follow-up, the toolkit. The form to run first. Best in a room of 20 to 120 people.
AIR Academy · From Answers to Decisions · Session 1 of 4 · Free
Checking an AI Answer Before Making a Business Decision
A free one-hour session for managers and business owners on checking an AI answer before acting on it. You read one recommendation an AI assistant gave a business owner, decide what you would do, and then examine it with four questions. You leave with a card, a prompt for your own AI assistant and five short practice exercises.
Who should attend
Managers, business owners and professionals who receive recommendations from an AI assistant and are responsible for what happens next. Any sector. No technical background needed.
Length
60 minutes. A 30-minute online introduction and a 15-minute conference teaser use the same case.
Delivery
In a conference, an association event or a company meeting, hosted by the organiser. Led by an AIR Academy facilitator.
Price
Free for attendees. Free for the organiser on the conditions below.
What happens in the hour
The hour: a case, four questions and a decision written in full
One fictional company, Meridian Supplies. Its AI assistant, KessidAI, recommends buying a reporting tool. The sum is right. The hour is about what happens next.
| Clock | Part | Minutes | What happens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | Open | 3 | Purpose, AIR Academy in two sentences, the declared interest, one promise. |
| 0:03 | The case | 6 | Silent reading of KessidAI's recommendation. Each person chooses an action and writes the assumption it depends on. Reasons heard from each side. |
| 0:09 | The four questions | 10 | Structure, Test, Engage, Perform, each taught through the case: what KessidAI answered, what the recommendation did not ask. |
| 0:19 | One completed decision | 4 | Two defensible decisions written in full: action, reason, owner, evidence, condition for change, check date. |
| 0:23 | Guided exercise | 14 | KessidAI's second recommendation. The four questions on paper, then pairs compare the decision and the evidence it rests on. |
| 0:37 | Back to the case | 7 | The room decides again. Any of the three actions, written in full, stands. |
| 0:44 | Eight weeks later | 5 | The pilot report, two managers, one question: what does this pilot justify approving? |
| 0:49 | Questions | 5 | Open questions and the slack the hour needs. |
| 0:54 | Toolkit and close | 6 | Open the toolkit while the facilitator is in the room; request the five practice exercises; the next session and the team programme named once. |
The method is STEP, the four questions every AIR Academy programme teaches: Structure, Test, Engage, Perform. They come from AIRS-J/1, the AIR APAC Standard for Judgment in AI-Enabled Work. Judgment is how well a person decides once AI has given the answer.
Outcomes
By the end, attendees can
- Tell the decision you are making from the question the AI answered.
- Separate the facts in an AI recommendation from its estimates and assumptions.
- Name one check that would show the recommendation is wrong, and do it.
- Say who must agree and who must know before an AI-assisted decision is acted on.
- Write a decision you can defend in six lines: the action, the reason, the owner, the evidence, the condition that would change it, and the date to check.
Three lengths
Session lengths
Online introduction: the case, the four questions through the case, the pilot follow-up, the toolkit. No exercise.
Conference teaser: the case, the vote, the four questions in one slide each, the toolkit.
The series
Session 1 is free. Sessions 2 to 4 go deeper.
Session 1 is free and runs inside a conference or a company event. Sessions 2 to 4 are paid half-day sessions, each an existing AIR Academy programme: Session 2 goes further into testing the evidence (the Test question), Session 3 into deciding under uncertainty (the Perform question), Session 4 into leading a team's change (the Engage question). The Structure question is covered in Session 1. Sessions 2 and 3 run for one company or as open sessions that individuals join one at a time; Session 4 runs for one company's management team.
| Session | Programme | Outcome | Who | Length | How to join |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Checking an AI Answer Before Making a Business Decision | Examine one AI recommendation with the four questions and write one decision you can defend. | Managers, business owners and professionals, any sector. | 60 minutes | Hosted by a conference organiser, a partner or a company. Request a date below. |
| 2 | Critical Thinking with AI: test the claim the decision rests on | Find the one claim a recommendation depends on, check the source rather than its wording, and tell evidence from confident language. | Anyone who reviews, approves or forwards work that AI helped produce. | Half day | Open session, or in-company for 15 to 30 people. |
| 3 | Deciding Under Uncertainty with AI: what to decide now, what to postpone, and when to change course | Separate what is known from what is not, decide what to commit to now and what to keep open, and name in advance what would change course. | Managers and senior leaders who must decide while conditions keep changing. | Half-day edition (the full programme is one or two days) | Open session, or in-company. The one-day and two-day editions add the full case work. |
| 4 | Leading Teams Through AI Change: test the change, then correct it | Set what a team may hand to AI and what stays with people, test a change before it is rolled out, and correct it on evidence. | Line managers, transformation leads and the people responsible for how a team works with AI. | Half-day edition | In-company, for a management team that works together. |
- For one company there is also the one-day programme, From Answers to Decisions: all four questions in one day, practised on StepSim, the AIR APAC decision simulator built by Exeter Labs. It is the recommended start for a management team. Sessions 2 to 4 are separate half days a company can add afterwards, or book on their own; none requires another first.
- An individual joins open sessions one at a time. Dates are published on this page when set, and sent to those who asked for the next session.
- Everyone who completes a paid session receives a Record of Completion. A separate, optional assessment can lead to AIRS-J/1 certification.
- Prices are quoted for each group. They depend on the edition, the number of participants and the location. No price is published.
The offer sheet as a one-page PDF · From Answers to Decisions for one company
For organisers
Host it at your event
Everything an organiser needs is on one page: the 100-word description, the speaker bio, the graphic, what you provide and what we provide, the event sheet, and how follow-up enquiries are handled.
Questions
Before you host or attend
Is the session really free?
There is no charge to attendees. For the organiser, what is needed from each side (promotion, the room, printing, the QR moment at the end) and whether anything is payable are agreed on the event sheet in a first conversation.
Do attendees need an AI account, a laptop or any software?
No. The case is on paper and on the screen. The optional page for phones needs nothing installed and asks for nothing. Those who have an AI tool their organisation permits may use it on their own work, under rules stated in the room; nobody is asked to.
Which language, and can the case be set in our country?
English, with other languages on request and with notice. The case is a fictional distributor. Its currency and the sector of the opening example are set for each country; the method and the hour are the same everywhere.
Can it be delivered online?
The 30-minute introduction is built for online delivery. The full hour works best in a room where people can write.
What happens to attendees' email addresses?
Nothing unless they ask. The toolkit page gives the card, the prompt and the worked case with no form. An attendee who wants the five practice exercises sends us one email. Five emails over five working days, sent by AIR Academy from indhran@airapac.org. Each is one exercise of about ten minutes. Reply "stop" at any time and they end. Your address is used for these five emails and, only if you ask, for the date of the next session. Nothing else. Nobody else sees it. The event code in the subject line tells us which event you came from, so that we can tell the organiser how many people asked, as a count, without names.
Who leads it?
Indhran Seghar, Founding Director of AIR APAC, leads the first deliveries. Facilitators certified by AIR APAC lead later ones.
Is this a sales pitch?
The hour teaches a method and practises it. The next session and the team programme are named once, at the end, with the specific next step. Nothing is sold in the room.