The Academy
Learn the method where you will use it.
AI Career Pro now delivers its courses through Balcony. The Academy is where they live — so the method you are taught and the board you build on are the same place. Courses that end in certification, skills you practise rather than watch, and everything you finish landing on one map of the field, filling in as you master it.
1,000+ practitioners trained through this curriculum
Courses
Taught by people who do this work.
Courses are the backbone of the Academy — video-led teaching organised into modules that build up the whole picture of AI governance, from the foundations through to certification.
Enrol and the entire course opens at once. Work through it front to back, or go straight to the thing you need this week and come back for the rest. It is yours either way.
And you are never just watching. Every lesson asks you to do something with what you have just been shown.
What a lesson looks like
What this is for
Every lesson opens by saying what you should be able to do by the end of it.
Watch it taught
Video from people who do this work, with the transcript alongside if you would rather read.
Terms explained where they appear
The vocabulary is defined in place, the first time it comes up — no separate tab, no assumed knowledge.
Try it yourself
Order the steps, match the obligations, set the threshold, defend the call. Questions that need thought, not recognition.
Go further if you want to
The regulations, standards and papers behind the lesson, one click away and worth reading.
Stuck? Ask, without leaving the lesson.
There is an assistant in the player that has read the lesson you are on, so you can ask it to explain something a second way instead of going hunting. It will talk you through a question you are stuck on. It will not tell you the answer.
Skills
One capability, one sitting.
A Skill is smaller than a course and sharper: a single thing you need to be able to do in this job, taken from method to practice in an hour or so.
It always ends the same way — with you doing the work, on a real scenario, in a tool built for that particular task.
Learn the method
The way it is actually done, not the theory of it.
See it done well, and badly
Side by side, so you can tell the difference yourself.
Do it for real
In a tool built for that specific piece of work.
Three of the skills, and what you do in them
You pick an organisation — a regional health network, say — and you are the person who has to put its AI principles in writing.
- 01Draft your principles, each one carrying commitments written plainly as “we will” and “we won’t”.
- 02Take them to the CEO. They have their own worries about their own business, and they ask about the specific words you chose.
- 03Keep editing as they push. Your draft sits open beside the conversation the whole time.
You leave with: A principle set that has already survived the questions it would face in the room.
How it goes
CEO
Walk me through these. We’re shipping the triage model in six weeks, so I want to know what this actually changes.
You
The first is human oversight. We will keep a clinician in the loop for any recommendation that changes a care pathway.
CEO
Every recommendation? That’s the whole product. Who decides which ones change a pathway — and is that written down, or is it a judgement call on the day?
Exams & certification
Sit the paper properly.
Courses that lead to a certification carry full practice exams — timed papers with a pass mark, sat under the conditions of the real thing. Questions come from a shared bank and are shuffled each time, so you are learning the material rather than the running order.
The same paper can be opened in study mode instead: no clock, every question marked as you answer it, with the reasoning. One paper, two ways to use it — and it is your choice which, every time you sit down.
The point is to walk into the real exam having already had the experience of sitting it.
The real thing
Exam mode
- The clock runs
- Nothing is revealed until you submit
- Counts toward your best score
The same paper, opened up
Study mode
- No clock
- Marked as you go, with the reasoning
- No score on the record
Finish it and it is on the record
Complete a course and the certificate is yours. Clear almost everything in it — the quizzes, the checkpoints, the exercises, not just the videos — and it says so.
Your Journey
One field, eleven disciplines.
AI governance cannot be run from inside one lane. It draws on how the technology works, how organisations make decisions, how risk is assessed, how systems are secured and audited. So the Academy maps the field as eleven disciplines rather than one subject.
Three are foundations — Governance, Technology and Use. Everyone working in this field needs them, whatever their job title, and they sit at the centre of the map. The other eight are specialties— Risk, Compliance, Audit, Security and the rest — grown around that centre. Nobody masters all eight. You go deep in the two or three your role actually calls for.
Every lesson and skill credits the concepts it teaches, and each concept is a cell on the map. Master it and the cell fills in.
Which means the map is a plan as much as a record. It shows what you have covered, and it shows the untouched ground sitting right beside it.
Every discipline carries a badge
You rise through five grades in each one — Explorer, Practitioner, Specialist, Expert, Authority — and the badge is redrawn at every grade, so where you stand in a discipline is legible at a glance.
Governance
Risk
Evaluation
Use
Compliance
Audit
Technology
Security
Engineering
Operations
Leadership
Around the courses
Somewhere to keep what you learn.
Most of what you read in a course you will need again six months later, on a day when you are not studying. So the Academy is built around the lessons as well as out of them: a reference library, a journal of your own, the people doing the same work, and something small for the days you only have two minutes.
Library
Glossary · Resources · CasesEverything the courses draw on, in one searchable place you can come back to long after you have finished them — the vocabulary, the source documents, and the cases where this went right or badly wrong in the real world.
Glossary
The terms you will be expected to use precisely, including the ones the certification bodies define their own way.
Case studies — ten kinds
Dated timelines, the organisations involved, the systems at issue, and a last-verified date — including non-AI cases, because the safety and organisational failures worth learning from predate all of this.
Journal
One tap saves anything — a lesson, a course, a case study, a definition, a source. Then add a note in your own words, which is the part that makes it yours.
Definition
Substantial modification
“This is the one that decides whether our retraining cadence puts us back in scope. Raise at the December review.”
Six months later, when it finally comes up at work, it is the note you wrote that you will be glad of — not the highlight.
Community
Channels across the whole Academy, plus one per course — so a course discussion is a room in the same building, not a comment box bolted to a lesson.
- general
- governance
- regulation
- hiring
- aigp-exam-prep
Most of this work is judgement calls, and the fastest way to calibrate yours is against people making the same ones.
A daily puzzle
Two minutesSix guesses to find the day’s word. It is there for the days you have two minutes rather than an hour — and it keeps your streak alive, which is the whole point of it.
How progress works
Nothing is locked.
You are an adult with a job. The Academy assumes you can decide what to learn next, and everything you finish is recorded against the field so you can see where you are strong and where you have not been yet.
The whole course, from the first minute
Enrolling opens all of it. No weekly drip, no prerequisite chain, no quiz standing between you and the next lesson — go in the order that suits the week you are having.
Progress you can see the shape of
Finishing something does not just move a bar. It credits the specific concepts that lesson taught, so what you know and what you have not touched yet are both visible on your map.
Coming back regularly is worth more
A run of consecutive days counts for more than the same hours crammed into a weekend, because that is genuinely how this sticks.
Levels and badges follow the work
They are a record of what you have done, not a currency you spend. Nothing in the Academy is bought back with them.
Start your journey.
Start with a full course, or with a single skill you need this week. Either way the first cells of your map fill in, and the rest of the field is waiting.