Webspinner Academy
Courses that show their work.
Practical, rigorously sourced courses on the technologies reshaping how we work. Every factual claim carries a numbered endnote, every source a reliability tier, and every perishable figure the date it was verified — so you can weigh what you learn, not just take it on faith.
Courses
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Introduction to AI
Where AI came from, what it actually is, who controls it, and what it means for you. Fifteen lessons in four movements — roughly 98 minutes of video with a fully cited written course underneath, every source tiered and every volatile figure date-stamped.
15 lessons·≈ 98 min video· ≈ 3.5 hr read No prerequisitesBuilding with AI Agents
Models plus tools plus a loop. Designing agents that stay on task, the protocol layer that standardised tool access, and how to tell when you want a plain workflow instead.
In preparationPrompting & Grounding in Practice
A hands-on workshop: give the model the source instead of asking it to recall the source. Retrieval, chunking, and verification you can check against ground truth.
In preparationAI, Work & Society
What the evidence actually shows about jobs, productivity, and power — read through the general-purpose-technology lens, with the disagreements shown rather than resolved.
In preparationHow the Academy works
Four commitments distinguish every Webspinner Academy course, and they change how you should read what we publish.
Built to be used, not just watched
Every lesson downloads as a PDF, every course ships printable handouts, and the self-check questions are graded against retrieval practice rather than re-reading. You leave each course with something you built and a record of what you got wrong — the part that actually teaches.