AI upskilling for mid-market companies and SMEs
AI upskilling for mid-market companies and SMEs, hands-on on challenges like invoice processing and quoting, no in-house IT department needed.
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Original posts from participants and teams right after their Corporathon.
Intro
Mid-market companies rarely have a dedicated AI department pushing projects forward. Usually it is generalists who keep accounting, customer service or sales running alongside Excel and email. An AI upskilling programme that only shows theory does not help much there. With us, your team spends a week building a real challenge from your own operations, for example invoice processing that reads documents automatically, or a customer-service bot that answers standard requests from your own materials. Instead of a certificate, what remains is a working prototype plus certificate that you keep running without your own IT department. Classic training delivers no solid proof of impact without transfer measurement, our hackathon format measurable through prototype, usage and handoff, and a significant share never apply what they learned otherwise. Funding eligibility through Bildungsscheck, Bildungsprämie or the Qualifizierungschancengesetz is a real lever especially for mid-market companies, because budgets are often tighter than at large corporates, including a competence record.
Next steps to your hackathon
- 1Intro call. Clarify the starting point, teams and goals, including funding options.
- 2Tools and challenges call. Pick the real challenge, set the tool stack.
- 3Finalisation and preparation. Set up access and data in a data-protection-compliant way.
- 4Tool workshop and sprint. Hands-on on your own case, with live coaching.
- 5Result pitches. Every team shows its prototype, plus a certificate and competence record.
Challenges for mid-market and SMEs
Typical challenges are an invoice-processing automation, a customer-service bot, a reporting tool for management and a quoting automation. Your challenge comes from your real day-to-day operations, with no in-house IT department behind you.
AI upskilling vs. AI hackathon (short)
Classic upskilling ends with a certificate and unclear retention without transfer measurement. The hackathon ends with a certificate plus a working prototype, and retention measurable through the prototype, usage and handoff, often the only way for mid-market companies to show a provable ROI. Find the full comparison at /en/vergleich-weiterbildung-vs-ki-hackathon.
Your Corporathon, in just 1 week.
30-minute discovery call: clarify the need, pick a challenge, set the schedule.
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Frequently asked questions
Short answers to the questions that come up most before booking.
No. The prototype is built so your existing team keeps it running without an in-house IT department. Tools like Lovable and n8n are deliberately low-threshold. More at /en/ki-weiterbildung.
Depending on the federal state and company size, Bildungsscheck, Bildungsprämie or the Qualifizierungschancengesetz can apply. We check the right option in the first conversation, details at /en/ki-weiterbildung-foerderung.
No problem. The tool workshop at the start meets teams at zero, with no prior knowledge required. Even pure Excel and email users build a working prototype by the end. The process is at /en/ablauf.