AI training and mentorship for teams and organisations across Southeast Asia and beyond. Built on a methodology that makes AI personal: to every role, every individual, every way of working.
For any senior professional or business leader serious about using AI properly, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend David and the Darla AI programme.
The structured methodology David brings is unlike anything else I've encountered in this space. Every session is considered and applied: relevant to each department, supportive of every individual.
In May 2026 Anthropic shipped Claude for Small Business - fifteen workflows, fifteen Skills, seven connectors, built for the work SME owners actually do. Claude built the tool. We built the training that turns it into a working operating model.
The Small Business Programme is three tiers, sixty-nine lessons, and an eighty-percent pass mark on every credential. Tier 1 Launcher lands the foundations - Personal Settings, Projects, Memory, and the first Skills that make your AI yours. Tier 2 Practitioner builds the operating environment - Projects compartmentalised by business function, Skills that hold their shape across uses, Connectors scoped properly, and the Cowork bridge that turns scattered work into one workspace.
Tier 3 Operator teaches the eight functional pairs covering thirty-two operational sub-modules - marketing campaigns, invoice chasing, month-end close, the Monday brief, customer engagement, contract management, hiring and onboarding. By the end, your SME runs on an operating model designed around how the work actually happens. Built for SME owners worldwide - APAC, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and beyond.
The Darla Method came out of practice, not theory. The way of working was already in place by early 2023, built from real experimentation beginning on approximately Day 32 of ChatGPT's public existence, taught publicly from October 2023, and refined across every corporate engagement that has followed. Persona-led, conversation-led, voice-first where it matters.
When Anthropic later published the AI Fluency Framework, the four Ds, over two years later, it formalised compatible territory. The alignment with what was already being taught was so complete that the first Anthropic Academy course was completed without working through the course material. The practice already covered it. The framework gave structured language to a method already three years deep.
Thirteen Anthropic Academy courses completed. Twelve certificates issued, including the academically co-badged Teaching the AI Fluency Framework, published jointly by Anthropic, University College Cork, Ringling College of Art and Design, the Higher Education Authority of Ireland, and the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, the full developer track (the Claude API, Claude Code, and the Model Context Protocol), and AI Fluency for Small Businesses, co-presented by Anthropic with PayPal, which informs the Darla AI Small Business Programme directly. The frameworks taught here are not borrowed; they are recognised. Read the persona-led entry move →
Three years of doing this work, before the framework existed to describe it. Darla AI teaches AI fluency the way it actually works in practice - role by role, task by task, in the operating environments our clients actually use. Not flown in, lived in. Not borrowed, recognised. A senior practitioner delivering structured programmes to leaders, teams, and organisations who need AI to do real work, not theoretical exercises.
"AI is a thinking partner,
not a tool."
Darla isn't just here to provide AI mentorship; she's here to show you how to build your own personalised AI assistant. You'll learn how to create an assistant that suits your needs, your tone, your workflow. We believe AI should be individual. We'll help you build something you'll actually use, and that works like a colleague. And yes, you can call it whatever you wish.
Find out more→Every engagement starts with a clear brief. Choose the door that fits your situation: each one is structured and delivered differently. Pricing is set against scope - let's talk about what you need.
Most AI training teaches techniques without context. The Darla Method has a specific shape: three steps in a specific order, built from three years of teaching senior professionals before any framework existed to validate it. Get this order right and the rest follows.
If the homepage convinced you we're worth a closer look, here are five places to go next. Three read the practice, the philosophy, and the framework. Two show you how Darla AI works in your specific market.
Every department
The method is built on roles, not tools - which means it works wherever there's work. In a single recent engagement we trained logistics, merchandising, finance, HR and the executive team of one major retail business, each on their own work, in their own language.
We started in Singapore with a simple idea: AI training for beginners, delivered the way we'd want to learn it. Today we work with corporate clients, universities and solo professionals across nine countries and counting.
Common questions
Darla AI delivers AI training and mentorship for individuals, teams and organisations. Every programme is built on the 4Ds AI Fluency Framework - by Anthropic, Joseph Feller and Rick Dakan - and taught through the Darla Method: conversation-led, role-specific, and applied to your actual work.
Senior professionals, functional teams, SME owners and whole organisations. Programmes run from 1:1 mentorship to organisation-wide rollouts, plus a dedicated Small Business Programme. Beginners are welcome - the method assumes professional experience, not a technical background.
Founded and based in Singapore, delivering on-site in Singapore and Malaysia, and remotely across nine countries including Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, the UK, Ireland and the US.
Each engagement is scoped and priced to the brief - the people involved, the functions covered, and the outcome you need. We don't publish rate cards; you'll have a clear, fixed proposal before anything begins, and the Audit fee is credited in full against any programme booked within sixty days.
Spark runs over six weeks. Team combines a workshop with a four-week cohort programme. Transform spans a diagnostic, multi-cohort delivery and a 90-day adoption clinic. The AI Readiness Audit takes four weeks from kickoff to readout.
Yes. Participants who complete an enterprise programme receive a Darla AI certificate, in the same style as those issued across the free training tiers.
We measure two things: bottom-line impact and the wellbeing of your people. At Gill Capital Group, the Executive Chairman puts the saving conservatively at hundreds of thousands of dollars - alongside simpler workdays, because good AI practice reduces the digital stack rather than adding another layer to it.
No - and that's a deliberate choice. Darla AI operates outside government funding schemes: programmes are priced directly, start when you're ready, and are shaped entirely around your organisation rather than an approved syllabus. The commitment works both ways - the Audit fee is credited in full against any programme booked within sixty days.
Because they end when the workshop ends. A one-day session creates awareness, not practice - people return to their desks, the habits never form, and adoption stalls. Darla AI programmes are built the other way round: role-specific application, cohort coaching over weeks, and assistants embedded in the actual work, so the capability stays after we leave. Read the full argument.
Most organisations start with the four-week AI Readiness Audit: a role-impact map, adoption-risk scorecard, and twelve-month roadmap. Individuals and SME owners can start with the free Getting Started training - no signup required.
We love our customers and are excited to help you build your personalised AI assistant. Set up an initial call during normal business hours to discuss your AI mentorship needs.