02 / Training
A practitioner-led course catalogue.
Linear Horizon training is designed and delivered by experienced practitioners. Courses combine technical depth, clear explanation and hands-on work, and can be adapted to your organisation, technology stack and objectives.
27 courses · private corporate training · on-site or remote
01
Foundations
Build an accurate picture of how generative AI works, and how to use it with judgement.
1 day · Foundation · Foundations
Generative AI Fundamentals
A technically accurate, practical introduction to modern generative AI for mixed technical and non-technical audiences. Enough depth to make sound decisions, with no requirement to write code.
Mixed technical and non-technical professionals
1 day · Foundation · Foundations
Practical Generative AI at Work
A working day for knowledge workers and business teams: using generative AI for research, writing, analysis and document work, with enough discipline to trust the output.
Knowledge workers and business teams
1 day · Intermediate · Foundations
How Large Language Models Work
A one-day explanation of LLM internals for developers, architects and technically curious professionals. Enough mechanism to improve engineering decisions, without a research-paper prerequisite.
Developers, architects and technical professionals
02
Leadership
Architectural, commercial and organisational decisions about AI that you can stand behind.
1 day · Leadership · Leadership
AI for Technical Leaders
A decision-making course for CTOs, engineering managers, architects and senior technical product leaders. How to choose architectures, vendors and investments that will still make sense in production.
CTOs, engineering managers, architects and technical leaders
Half day or 1 day · Leadership · Leadership
AI for Business Leaders
A concise course for senior leaders and directors: where AI creates actual value, where it does not, and how to judge investment, risk and organisational readiness.
Senior leaders, directors and business decision-makers
03
AI Engineering
Build, test, secure and operate applications that use large language models.
3 days · Intermediate · AI Engineering
AI Engineering for Software Developers
A three-day programme for professional software engineers: how to build real applications with modern AI, from model APIs and RAG through agents, evaluation and production patterns.
Software developers
2–3 days · Intermediate · AI Engineering
Building Applications with Generative AI
A two-to-three-day build course for software engineers: take an AI-powered application from architecture through RAG, tools, evaluation and deployment, ending with an end-to-end system.
Software engineers and technical teams
1 day · Intermediate · AI Engineering
Evaluating and Testing LLM Applications
A one-day course on evaluating non-deterministic systems: golden datasets, semantic checks, LLM-as-judge, retrieval and agent evaluation, and the pipeline that keeps quality from drifting.
AI developers, QA engineers and technical leads
1 day · Intermediate · AI Engineering
Securing Generative AI Applications
A one-day security course for developers, security engineers and architects: the specific risks created by LLM applications, and the controls that actually reduce them.
Developers, security engineers and architects
04
RAG & Agents
Design retrieval systems, tool-using agents, and the combination of the two.
2 days · Intermediate · RAG & Agents
RAG: From Fundamentals to Production
A two-day course on retrieval-augmented generation as an engineering discipline: why naive RAG fails, and how to design a system that can be evaluated, secured and operated.
Developers, ML engineers and architects
2 days · Advanced · RAG & Agents
Building AI Agents
A two-day course for intermediate and advanced developers: design and build useful agents with tools, state, permissions and evaluation, rather than unsupervised demos.
Intermediate and advanced developers
2 days · Advanced · RAG & Agents
Agentic RAG Systems
A two-day advanced course combining retrieval with agentic reasoning and tool use: multi-step retrieval, query planning, structured sources and a production architecture for complex knowledge work.
Experienced AI engineers, developers and architects
05
Architecture
Give AI a production shape: platforms, assistants, security boundaries and the operational work that follows.
2 days · Advanced · Architecture
Production AI Architecture
A two-day architecture course for senior engineers and technical leaders: reference architectures, model gateways, RAG, agents, security, evaluation and the operational concerns that decide whether a system can leave the lab.
Architects, senior engineers and platform engineers
2 days · Intermediate · Architecture
Building Enterprise AI Assistants
A two-day course for developers and platform teams: build a secure internal assistant that can use organisational knowledge and systems, with identity, permissions, citations and evaluation.
Developers and enterprise platform teams
2 days · Advanced · Architecture
Architecting Enterprise Generative AI
A two-day course for architects and senior technical leaders: design enterprise-scale AI capability as a platform, not as a sequence of isolated projects.
Architects and senior technical leaders
06
Models & Machine Learning
How models work, how they are adapted, and how they are run in practice.
2 days · Advanced · Models & Machine Learning
Transformers from First Principles
A two-day course for technically strong practitioners: build a usable understanding of transformer models by implementing simplified components, without unnecessary mathematical formalism.
Developers, ML engineers and strong practitioners
2 days · Advanced · Models & Machine Learning
Fine-Tuning Language Models
A two-day course for ML engineers and experienced AI developers: when to adapt a model, how to do it with parameter-efficient methods, and how to evaluate and deploy the result.
ML engineers and experienced AI developers
2–3 days · Advanced · Models & Machine Learning
Training Your Own Language Model
A two-to-three-day course for advanced developers and ML engineers: build and train a small language model in order to understand the process, not to compete with frontier systems.
Advanced developers and ML engineers
1 day · Intermediate · Models & Machine Learning
Running LLMs Locally
A one-day practical course on local and private inference: model formats, hardware, quantisation, engines, benchmarking and the privacy and cost reasons to run models yourself.
Developers, infrastructure and AI engineers
07
Cloud & Platform
Cloud implementations, and the internal platforms that make AI usable across your teams.
2 days · Intermediate · Cloud & Platform
AI Systems on AWS
A two-day course for cloud engineers, developers and architects: design and build AI systems on AWS, with architecture first and managed services in their proper place.
Cloud engineers, developers and architects
2 days · Intermediate · Cloud & Platform
AI Systems on Azure
A two-day course for cloud engineers, developers and architects: design enterprise AI systems on Azure, including identity, search, model APIs and the architecture those services should sit inside.
Cloud engineers, developers and architects
2 days · Advanced · Cloud & Platform
AI Platform Engineering
A two-day course for platform engineers, architects and senior developers: build the internal infrastructure that lets multiple product teams use AI safely and consistently.
Platform engineers, architects and senior developers
08
Workshops
Focused build days and facilitated working sessions around a problem your team actually has.
1 day · Intermediate · Workshops
RAG in a Day
A focused workshop for developers: build a complete retrieval-augmented generation system in one day, from ingestion and chunking through citations and a first evaluation.
Developers
1 day · Intermediate · Workshops
Build an AI Agent in a Day
A hands-on workshop for developers: build a working agent with tool calling, state, structured outputs, error handling, permissions and a first evaluation.
Developers
1 day · Intermediate · Workshops
From Chatbot to Agent
A one-day workshop that starts with a basic LLM chat application and evolves it, step by step, into a useful agentic system with retrieval, tools, state and production safeguards.
Developers and technical teams
1 day · Leadership · Workshops
AI Architecture Workshop
A facilitated workshop for technical teams, architects and engineering leaders around a real customer problem. The output is an architecture and a next-step roadmap, not a training certificate.
Technical teams, architects and engineering leaders
Half day or 1 day · Leadership · Workshops
AI Use-Case Discovery Workshop
A discovery workshop for business and technical leaders: identify where AI can create meaningful value, score the opportunities, and leave with a ranked list and recommended next steps.
Business and technical leaders
Pathways
Suggested learning pathways
These are starting points, not prescriptions. Most organisations mix courses, shorten them, or commission a programme around their own stack and objectives.
Developer pathway
For software engineers who need to move from a working understanding of generative AI to systems they can run in production.
- 01Generative AI Fundamentals
1 day · Foundation
- 02AI Engineering for Software Developers
3 days · Intermediate
- 03RAG: From Fundamentals to Production
2 days · Intermediate
- 04Building AI Agents
2 days · Advanced
- 05Production AI Architecture
2 days · Advanced
Architect pathway
For architects and senior technical leaders who set the shape of AI systems and the platform around them.
- 01Generative AI Fundamentals
1 day · Foundation
- 02AI for Technical Leaders
1 day · Leadership
- 03Production AI Architecture
2 days · Advanced
- 04Architecting Enterprise Generative AI
2 days · Advanced
- 05AI Platform Engineering
2 days · Advanced
Leadership pathway
For business and technical leaders who need to judge where AI is useful, and how to take a first serious step.
- 01Generative AI Fundamentals
1 day · Foundation
- 02AI for Business Leaders
Half day or 1 day · Leadership
- 03AI Use-Case Discovery Workshop
Half day or 1 day · Leadership
- 04AI Architecture Workshop
1 day · Leadership
Advanced AI pathway
For practitioners who need a deeper picture of how language models work, and how they are trained and adapted.
- 01How Large Language Models Work
1 day · Intermediate
- 02Transformers from First Principles
2 days · Advanced
- 03Fine-Tuning Language Models
2 days · Advanced
- 04Training Your Own Language Model
2–3 days · Advanced
Bespoke
Bespoke training
Most engagements are shaped to your organisation. The published catalogue is a starting point, not a constraint.
- 01
Tailor an existing course to a particular stack, domain or experience level.
- 02
Combine modules from several courses into a single programme.
- 03
Build a programme around your organisation’s architecture, data and constraints.
- 04
Use organisation-specific case studies, systems and design problems.
- 05
Create multi-day or multi-week learning programmes for engineering teams.
- 06
Deliver technical enablement alongside consultancy or implementation, so the people who will own the system stay involved.
Python programmes
Flagship Python programmes
Two priced, lab-intensive programmes taught in Python. They sit alongside the catalogue and can be tailored to your team in the same way as the rest of the courses.
3 days
AI Engineering with Python
From £10,000
Working agents, retrieval and production systems in Python.
2 days
Applied NLP with Python
From £7,000
Classical NLP through transformers, in Python.
Delivery
Linear Horizon delivers private corporate training, on-site or as remote live training. Courses can be run as published, or adapted to your organisation’s stack, domain and experience level.