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.
Nine Anthropic Academy courses completed. Eight 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 - and the most recent, 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.
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.
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.