Go From AI Curious to
AI Fluent at Your Own Pace
A self-paced journey through the AI capabilities shaping the future of work. Learn through beautiful tutorials, submit your real work, and when it meets the bar your verifiable AI Badge cert is issued. €49 one-time, only at issue. Free for NCI students.
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AI Literacy Is No Longer Optional.
It Is a Career Requirement.
Between January and March 2026 alone, every major employer began listing AI proficiency as a baseline expectation. Not a bonus. Not a nice-to-have. A filter. The professionals who invested early are now being promoted, recruited, and trusted with bigger decisions. Those who waited are being left behind.
92%
of executives say AI skills will be required for most roles within 18 months
68%
of hiring managers now filter candidates by demonstrated AI capability
3x
faster promotion rate for professionals with verified AI competency
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Free to Learn. Pay Only When You Earn.
Every tutorial is free. You only pay the €49 cert-issue fee when your submitted work has been reviewed and approved. If your work doesn’t meet the bar, you don’t pay — you get notes, refine, and resubmit.
No tuition. No subscription. Free for NCI students.
Earn Your AI Badge Credential
Work through the self-paced tutorials, submit your real work, and when it meets the bar Victor approves the badge and issues your verifiable cert — a beautiful, signed credential you’ll be proud to share on LinkedIn. €49 one-time at cert-issue. Free for NCI students.
AI Foundations
Critical Evaluation
Productive Creation
Technical Building
Ethics & Governance
Tool Fluency
Issued by fiveinnolabs. Open Badges 3.0 Verifiable Credential, cryptographically signed (Ed25519), hostable, and confirmable any time from the public link. See a real cert (Victor’s own) →
Six Dimensions of AI Capability
A comprehensive framework mapping the full spectrum of AI competency.
AI Foundations
Core concepts: how models work, types of AI, capabilities and limitations.
Critical Evaluation
Assessing AI outputs for accuracy, bias, and fitness for purpose.
Productive Creation
Using AI to generate, iterate, and produce work at a higher level.
Technical Building
Building applications, automations, and systems with AI.
Ethics & Governance
Understanding responsible use, regulation, risk, and organisational policy.
Tool Fluency
Practical skill with AI tools: prompting, configuration, and workflow integration.
Grounded in UNESCO, Alan Turing Institute, DigComp, EU AI Act, and OECD frameworks.
Your Journey
Four steps from curious to credentialed. At your own pace.
Learn
Work through beautiful, self-paced tutorials on the AI of the future of work.
Build
Apply each lesson to your real work. No toy exercises.
Submit
Send your work for personal review. Notes back if it’s not yet there; resubmit anytime.
Earn
When your work meets the bar, your verifiable cert is issued. €49 one-time. Free for NCI.
Is This For You?
- ✓Mid-career professionals who want structured AI development, not random YouTube tutorials.
- ✓Non-technical leaders who need to understand AI deeply without writing code.
- ✓Anyone who has tried AI tools but wants a guided path from curious to confident.
If you have been meaning to "get good at AI" but don't know where to start, this is your starting point.
What’s Inside
Beautiful, self-paced tutorials across the AI capabilities shaping the future of work. Curiosity, kindness, and a quiet sense of wonder by design.
AI Foundations
How frontier AI actually works, told without jargon. The mental models that make every later tutorial click.
Thinking Partner
Use AI to think more clearly, not less. The evaluator’s mindset: prompt, push back, verify, refine.
AI for Real Work
Apply AI to your actual workflow — the report, the deck, the inbox, the decision — with judgement intact.
Power Tools
Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, GitHub: the fluent toolkit of the agentic era, taught from first principles.
AI on the Terminal
Drop the GUI, talk to your computer in plain English, and feel the future of work in your own hands.
EU AI Act & Ethics
Use AI responsibly, lawfully, and humanely. The frameworks every literate professional now needs.
📚Every tutorial free to access — learn before you ever pay
⚡Built to make you curious, kind, and quietly capable (ECHO5)
✅Submit your real work — Victor reviews it personally
🏆Verifiable, signed cert issued only when it meets the bar
⏰Fully self-paced: start, pause, and resume any time
The AI Badge
Your proof of AI fluency. Earned through real work, reviewed personally, and issued only when it meets the bar. A lively, verifiable credential you’ll be proud to share.
Meet Your Guide
Victor del Rosal is an award-winning AI educator and author of HUMANLIKE: The AI Transformation and Disruption. He has trained Fortune 500 senior managers and business leaders on generative AI with the UCD Professional Academy, and currently serves as Chief AI Officer at fiveinnolabs and co-founder of Agentive, an AI consulting practice.
He is an Adjunct Professor at the National College of Ireland, where he teaches AI for Business at the Master's level. He holds degrees from Tec de Monterrey, UCD Smurfit, Oxford, and Harvard. He is the creator of the Five Innovators Framework and the ECHO5 methodology, and a recipient of the Ohtli Prize from the Mexican Embassy in Ireland.
Victor delivers sessions using his ECHO5 method: Enlighten, Encourage, Envision, Empower, Equip. Whether you are new to AI or at an intermediate level, you will feel guided, challenged, and supported. He has 170+ GitHub repositories and builds the tools he teaches with.
Delivered genAI training at
Recognised with the Teaching Award by the National Forum of T&L Enhancement in Higher Education and the NCI President's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
What Participants Say
The team's officially AI-empowered. We covered everything from how AI can automate the boring stuff, to how generative models can help us brainstorm, create, and bring procurement into a new era.
Victor is incredibly knowledgeable in all things digital and has a desire to continue to learn and help people and businesses pursue their digital transformation.
Victor delivered the keynote at our GenAI hackathon. It was a big hit and opened people's eyes at all levels to what can be achieved with GenAI.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does it actually work?
Sign in (free), work through the self-paced tutorials, and apply what you learn to your real work. When you’re ready, submit your work for review. If it meets the bar, your AI Badge is approved and your verifiable cert is issued for €49 (one-time, only at issue). If it’s not quite there, you’ll get notes and can resubmit — no extra cost.
What does the €49 cover, and when do I pay?
€49 is a one-time cert-issue fee, paid only when your work has been reviewed and approved. It covers the personal review, the verifiable cryptographic credential (signed Ed25519, Open Badges 3.0), the lively certificate, and a permanent verification URL. NCI students pay nothing — the entire programme is free for them.
How much time do I need?
The tutorials are designed for working professionals: short, dense, and beautiful. Most people complete what they need in a handful of evenings. There’s no deadline — pause, resume, and submit when you’re ready.
Do I need technical experience?
No. The tutorials are calibrated for non-technical professionals first, then go as deep as you want. Beginners are welcome. If you’re more experienced, the “Power Tools” and “AI on the Terminal” modules will stretch you.
What if my submission isn’t approved?
You get specific, kind notes on what to improve, and you resubmit whenever you’re ready. There’s no extra fee for re-review — you only ever pay the one-time €49 when your work is approved and your cert is issued.
What does the certificate actually look like?
A lively, signed cert with your name, a verifiable QR code, the AI Badge mark, and framework alignment (UNESCO, Turing, DigComp 3.0, SFIA 9, EU AI Act, OECD/EC AILit). Cryptographically signed Ed25519 as an Open Badges 3.0 Verifiable Credential — tamper-evident, hostable, and confirmable any time from the public link. See a real one.
Can my employer sponsor this?
Yes. Email Victor for corporate arrangements, team packages, or invoice-based payment.