Corporate AI training · Jeddah
A half-day or full-day hands-on AI class, delivered at your own office in Jeddah — Al Andalus, Al Rawdah, Al Hamra, Ash Shati, King Abdulaziz Road or the port-side offices. Jeddah is a trading city, and trading runs on documents: invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, customs paperwork, supplier quotations, letters of credit, and the endless follow-up chain that surrounds all of it. This class takes that pile and shows a team how to make AI do the reading, the comparing and the drafting — on their own files, in one day.
A Jeddah class covers the same four blocks as anywhere — prompting on real work, automating one recurring weekly task, building one small internal tool per department, and a Saudi PDPL data-safety session — but the exercises are drawn from the document types a trading, import-export, logistics, retail or hospitality business actually handles. That means supplier quotation comparison, extracting data out of invoices and packing lists, reconciling a supplier statement, drafting bilingual customer correspondence, and turning a shipment enquiry chain into a tracked follow-up list. Delivered at your office, in English, materials in English and Arabic, Sunday to Thursday, six to twenty-five people, fixed fee per group.
Jeddah's commercial base is import, distribution, retail and hospitality — family trading houses, freight and clearing agents, wholesalers, retail groups and the service economy around Hajj and Umrah. Every one of them is document-heavy, and none of them has a spare headcount to throw at it.
Comparing supplier quotations across currencies and incoterms, pulling line items out of proforma invoices and packing lists, reconciling supplier statements, chasing the follow-up chain. The quotation comparison tool is the live exercise.
Reading a bill of lading or a customs declaration into a structured record, drafting the same five client-update messages twenty times a day, and flagging the document that is missing before the shipment is at the port, not after.
Range and price-list management across branches, supplier negotiation packs, bilingual product content, and store-level reporting that currently gets rebuilt in a spreadsheet every single week.
Hotels, transport operators and travel businesses serving pilgrims — multilingual guest correspondence, group booking admin, itinerary drafting and review-response handling at volume.
Bank reconciliation, supplier statement matching, VAT schedules and the month-end commentary that gets written from scratch every period. The reconciliation tool is the exercise.
The mixed admin function that does a bit of everything — HR files, petty cash, correspondence, licence renewals. Usually the single biggest hidden win in a Jeddah company, and the one nobody thinks to automate.
Two things shape how the class runs in Jeddah.
Jeddah Islamic Port · import · distribution
Jeddah Islamic Port is the Kingdom's principal Red Sea gateway, and the commercial ecosystem around it — importers, clearing agents, freight forwarders, warehouse and distribution operators — is the city's white-collar employer.
The work has a very particular shape: the same document types arrive endlessly from different senders in different formats, and a human reads each one and retypes the useful parts into a system. That is close to a textbook description of what AI handles well, and it is why a Jeddah class spends its build block on document extraction rather than on content writing.
SASO and SABER conformity paperwork, and the 15% VAT treatment that sits on top of an import, are handled as worked examples rather than in the abstract.
Arabic ↔ English
A Jeddah trading office typically works in Arabic internally and in English with overseas suppliers, and a great deal of staff time disappears into moving accurately between the two — correspondence, specifications, contracts, product descriptions.
This is one of the clearest and fastest wins available, so it gets its own exercise. Participants work on their own real bilingual documents, and build reusable prompts that hold their company's terminology rather than producing generic translation.
The class is delivered in English. Materials, the prompt library and the tools built in the session are produced in both languages.
The half-day class runs the same shape with the build block shortened and one department in focus instead of three. Timings flex around prayer breaks and lunch, and the Saudi working week means classes run Sunday to Thursday.
Where AI actually helps — and where it does not. A short, honest framing using examples from your own industry. The failure cases get equal time with the wins.
Prompting on real work. Everyone opens the task they brought. We write, break and rewrite prompts until each person has three that reliably produce something they would send to their manager.
Break.
Automating one weekly task. We pick one recurring task from the room and take it from manual to automated together, narrating every decision so it can be repeated without me.
Lunch & prayer.
Build your own tool. Groups of three or four build one small working tool for their department, using AI to write it. Nothing is installed — it runs in the browser.
Data safety and the PDPL block. What must never be pasted into a consumer AI tool, how to redact before prompting, and what a workable internal AI policy looks like on one page.
What happens Monday. Each department leaves with a named owner, a written recap and the files built in the room.
The fastest way for a team to create a problem with AI is to paste a customer list, a salary sheet or a signed contract into a consumer chatbot. Saudi Arabia's Personal Data Protection Law, administered by SDAIA, makes that a governance question and not just a habit. So a block of every class is spent on it.
National ID and Iqama numbers, salary and payroll detail, patient and client records, signed contracts, bank data. The class works through your own document types and marks each one.
Most real tasks work perfectly on a redacted version. Participants practise stripping identifiers out of their own files and still getting the output they needed.
Your team drafts it in the room — approved tools, banned data categories, who signs off. One page people will actually read, not a twelve-page document nobody opens.
This is the part most AI trainers cannot show. Everything below is live, free and open right now — built by the person who would be standing in front of your team, and used as teaching material in the class. Open any of them before you book.
A fixed fee per group, quoted after a free 20-minute call. Group size, travel and how much material you want branded to your company move the number.
| Format | Length | Best for | What they leave with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taster session | 90 minutes | Leadership buy-in before committing the whole team | A clear picture of the 5 tasks worth automating first |
| Half-day class | 4 hours | One department — finance, HR or marketing | Prompt library + one task automated |
| Full-day class | 7 hours | Mixed teams across departments | Prompt library + automation + a tool built |
| Programme | 4 sessions | Training institutes running a certificated batch | Assessed outcomes + certificates |
ورشة عمل تطبيقية تُقدَّم داخل مقر شركتكم في جدة — الأندلس، الروضة، الحمراء، الشاطئ، طريق الملك عبدالعزيز، أو المكاتب القريبة من الميناء. جدة مدينة تجارية، والتجارة تعمل بالمستندات: الفواتير، وقوائم التعبئة، وبوالص الشحن، والمعاملات الجمركية، وعروض أسعار الموردين، وسلسلة المتابعة التي لا تنتهي حولها جميعاً.
بيوت التجارة والاستيراد والتصدير، وشركات الشحن والتخليص الجمركي واللوجستيات، ومجموعات التجزئة والتوزيع، وقطاع الضيافة وخدمات الحج والعمرة، وأقسام المالية والحسابات، والمكاتب الإدارية في الشركات العائلية.
نصف يوم (٤ ساعات) أو يوم كامل (٧ ساعات)، من ٦ إلى ٢٥ مشاركاً، من الأحد إلى الخميس، والتقديم بالإنجليزية مع توفير جميع المواد والتمارين بالعربية والإنجليزية. الرسوم مبلغ ثابت للمجموعة يُحدَّد بعد مكالمة مجانية مدتها ٢٠ دقيقة. ويتضمن اليوم جزءاً مخصصاً لنظام حماية البيانات الشخصية (PDPL).
At your own office, anywhere in the city — Al Andalus, Al Rawdah, Al Hamra, Ash Shati, King Abdulaziz Road, Al Balad or the port-side commercial districts. The class runs on your screens and your files, so there is no fixed training centre.
It is the case the Jeddah class is built around. Quotation comparison across suppliers, extracting line items out of proforma invoices and packing lists, matching a supplier statement against your ledger, and turning an enquiry thread into a tracked follow-up list are all live exercises rather than examples.
Yes. The document-extraction block works directly on bills of lading, customs declarations and shipping instructions, and the drafting block covers the repetitive client-update messages that a clearing desk sends dozens of times a day.
Yes, and in Jeddah that is usually the fastest win. Most offices work in Arabic internally and in English with overseas suppliers. Participants build reusable prompts that hold their own company's terminology, so the output is not generic translation.
Both. Classes are delivered on-site at your own office in the Kingdom, or live online for distributed teams. On-site delivery is the default for a full-day class, because the build block works better in one room with one screen.
The class is delivered in English. Materials, the prompt library and the tools your team builds during the session can be produced in both English and Arabic, and exercises can be run on Arabic-language documents — Arabic contracts, invoices and correspondence are part of the working material, not an afterthought.
Yes. The Saudi weekend is Friday and Saturday, so classes run Sunday to Thursday by default. Timings flex around prayer breaks and lunch, and evening or weekend batches can be arranged for teams that cannot release staff during business hours.
A dedicated block covers it. The Kingdom's Personal Data Protection Law is administered by SDAIA, and the single most common mistake teams make with AI tools is pasting personal or customer data into a consumer chatbot. The class teaches which categories of data must never leave your systems, how to redact before prompting, and which deployment options keep data inside your own tenancy.
Possibly — the Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF / Hadaf) runs training-support programmes for Saudi nationals, and corporate AI upskilling is the kind of activity those programmes exist for. Eligibility and the claim route depend on your establishment's status, so confirm with HRDF directly before you budget against it. An invoice and a course outline with stated learning outcomes are supplied for whatever documentation you need.
No. The class is built for finance, HR, admin, sales and operations staff with no coding background. Nothing is installed, no programming is taught, and every exercise runs on the team's own real work. A deeper technical track is available on request.
A fixed fee per group, quoted after a free 20-minute scoping call — never per seat, never a retainer. Group size, class length, travel and how much of the material you want branded to your company move the figure.
Yes, on request — in your company's branding, or in a training institute's branding when the class is delivered under their licence. A pre-class skills check, exercise rubrics and a post-class assessment are supplied for teams that must evidence learning outcomes.
Yes. Training institutes and corporate training companies in the Kingdom can engage me as a sub-contracted trainer and deliver the AI or ChatGPT-for-business course under their own licence and certificates. The course outline, learning outcomes, exercises and assessments are supplied ready to drop into a catalogue.
Six to twenty-five participants per class. Larger headcounts run as repeat batches rather than one big room — the build block only works when the trainer can reach every screen.
Because the exercises come out of tools that were actually shipped. The teaching material is live and public — bank reconciliation, CV screening, quotation comparison, renovation estimating — and you can open every one of them before you book.