The pattern we saw
Experienced professionals sidelined for not yet using AI. They needed literacy to compete and prove relevance.
About Us
Human Intelligence before Artificial Intelligence
We exist because the hardest part of AI was never buying it.
Every organisation we meet has already solved deployment. Licences are live, tools are rolled out, budgets are signed off. What most of them haven’t solved is adoption getting real people to use these tools well, safely, and every single day. That gap is human, not technical, and it’s the only gap we’re in business to close.
Our Story
Peak Intelligence started with a simple observation
We started out working closely with businesses fighting workplace ageism in tech, and kept seeing the same pattern: experienced professionals overlooked because they hadn’t yet embraced AI. They needed AI literacy to compete. To prove their relevance. To beat the bias.
The obvious truth
This isn’t an age problem. Boomers, Millennials, Gen Z, the same gap plays out at every scale, all the way up to whole organisations.
The answer we built
An academy for individuals became an adoption partner for organisations. Same mission: turn deployed AI into everyday capability.
AI knows no bias. No age. No barriers. It doesn’t care how old you are, what your job title says, or where you trained. It cares whether you can use it well.
Peak Intelligence
Based in Derbyshire, serving organisations, partners and individuals everywhere. We train Gen X. Boomers. Millennials. Gen Z. Job seekers. Team leaders. Engineers. Whole workforces. Career-changers. Anyone who’s ready to climb. Because the mountain doesn’t judge who starts the journey. It only rewards those who make the climb.
Why We Exist
Deployment is easy. Adoption is the mountain.
We kept seeing the same story: organisations spending heavily on AI, then watching adoption stall a few teams in. Licences sat idle. Shadow AI crept in without anyone mapping the risk. Finance had no way to forecast spend. The tools were never the problem, the missing piece was always the human side: training, governance, and the confidence to use AI well.
So we built The Climb.
An AI adoption and enablement methodology that takes people from first orientation to confident, self-sufficient use, one stage at a time. Not a course. Not a policy document nobody reads. A live, instructor-led ascent that turns idle licences into everyday capability.
What We Believe
Five principles we run everything by
- Human Intelligence before Artificial Intelligence. People learn to work with AI from other people - not from a video, a manual, or a chatbot. Every stage of The Climb is live and instructor-led, always.
- We are tool-agnostic. Not a Copilot business, or a ChatGPT business, or a Claude business. We work across whatever your organisation actually uses. Capability is the point, not any single vendor’s tool.
- Governance comes first, not after an incident. Handing people powerful tools without ground rules scales risk as fast as productivity. We set the guardrails before people start experimenting.
- Adoption isn’t an event. It’s a habit. A single training session gets people energised for a week. Real capability comes from climbing, at your own pace, with the people around you climbing too.
- The people we train become the people who teach. Our strongest learners become internal mentors and champions, so the capability stays in the building long after we’ve stepped back.
Our mission hasn’t changed since the first Basecamp session.
Give every person the confidence, capability and clarity to use AI well. No faceless downloads. No confusing documents. No endless theory. Just simple, practical, patient training that gives people real skills they can use right away, whether you’re one person starting out or a whole workforce moving together.
How We Work
The CLIMB method
Contextualise, Learn, Iterate, Measure, Build. The Climb runs on one method, at every stage.
01
Contextualise
AI Discovery maps where your organisation stands today, content, context, cost of consumption, and risks.
02
Learn
Acclimatise gets leadership and governance right first. Basecamp brings everyone to a shared baseline of AI literacy.
03
Iterate
Elevate turns confident users into builders who ship real workflows, not just better prompts.
04
Measure
We re-run AI Discovery over time, so progress is measured, not assumed.
05
Build
Summit certifies your own champions. The capability stays in the building after we leave.
Specialist partners:
For teams ready to go further, we work alongside our security partner on governance and cyber, and Radical Geek on agentic software engineering, taking capability all the way from a first prompt to production-grade software.
Who We Work With
Four kinds of climbers
Organisations
Building AI capability across the whole workforce.
MS Partners & MSPs
Delivering adoption alongside their deployments.
Funded providers
Training and apprenticeship providers running funded programmes.
Individuals
Future-proofing their own careers.
650+
people started The Climb this year
4.9/5
average learner rating, live sessions
20%
productivity gains, teams on The Climb
Delivered with the NHS, Premier People Solutions, QSL and with our security and compliance partner on Microsoft Copilot adoption. Microsoft themselves have told us we’ve solved the Copilot adoption gap for their partners and customers.
Track record, 2026
The View From The Top
Make The Climb. Your future depends on it.
The number we care about most: idle licences turning into tools people actually reach for, every day, with the judgement to know what to trust and what to check.
Human Intelligence before Artificial Intelligence.