ACADEMYNow taking a small number of students

Learn to actually use AI in your own business.

Northstream Academy is one-to-one training, not a course you watch. Eight working sessions, built around your business, your files and the jobs you actually do.

You leave each session with something that works — a prompt, a workflow, a report — already running on your own work.

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  • One-to-one

    Just you and Yves — never a cohort

  • Your own work

    Built on your real files and workflows

  • Eight sessions

    Re-ordered around what you need

The learning path

Eight sessions — arranged around you

These are the themes we work through. They are a spine, not a syllabus: the order flexes, and every example comes out of your own business.

The order moves

If you arrive already comfortable with prompting, we skip ahead. If a session opens up something bigger, we spend two on it.

The examples are yours

Nothing is demonstrated on a made-up company. We work on your files, your customers and your actual backlog.

It is a conversation

One-to-one, live. You can stop me, ask the obvious question, and go at whatever pace is honest.

  1. 1

    AI Foundations & Prompting

    How these tools actually read what you write, and why being specific beats being polite.

    For you: We rewrite three replies you send every week.

  2. 2

    Build Your First AI Workflow

    Take one job you do by hand and turn it into a repeatable process end to end.

    For you: Your intake, your quoting, or your reporting — whichever costs you most.

  3. 3

    Evaluate & Improve

    How to tell whether a change actually helped, instead of guessing.

    For you: Run a V1 against a V2 on your own past jobs.

  4. 4

    Files, Data & Real Information

    Working from your documents and records rather than the model’s memory.

    For you: We connect it to your real spreadsheets and PDFs.

  5. 5

    Automating the Repetitive Work

    Getting the routine steps to happen without you starting them.

    For you: Aimed at whichever task you named in session one.

  6. 6

    Connecting Your Tools

    Making the pieces you already pay for talk to each other.

    For you: Your calendar, inbox and CRM — not a generic stack.

  7. 7

    Guardrails, Review & Quality

    Knowing when to trust the output and how to catch it when it’s wrong.

    For you: Built around what "wrong" would cost in your business.

  8. 8

    Your Operating System

    Everything assembled into something you can run without me.

    For you: You keep every prompt, file and workflow we build.

Applying

Start with a conversation

Tell us what you want out of it. Yves reads every application himself and comes back to talk it through — he will say so if the program is not the right fit.

  • No payment and no account until you have spoken
  • A small number of places, so the answer is sometimes no
  • Your details go to Yves, not a mailing list

Apply for a place

Places are limited and each one starts with a conversation. Nothing is charged and no account is created until you and Yves have spoken.

How much have you used AI so far?

A sentence or two is plenty — this is what Yves reads first.

Between sessions

Your own Academy page

Everything from the program lives in one place — so a month later you can find the exact prompt we wrote in session two without digging through your inbox.

  • Every session recorded
  • Notes, prompts and files kept together
  • Assignments with feedback
  • Your progress, always visible

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Not started yet?

A short call first — we work out whether this is actually the right fit before anyone commits.

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