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Waboom AI delivers practical AI training for businesses in Nelson and Tasman, in ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot. Your team learns to connect AI to its email and files, turn repeat jobs into Skills, and delegate whole tasks while a person stays in charge of the result. Every session is hands-on, face to face at your office, or virtual.
From $1,995 + GST, includes 10 people.
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TL;DR
Waboom AI provides hands-on AI training for Nelson and Tasman businesses, including seafood, aquaculture, marine science and horticulture teams. Sessions cover ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot well beyond prompting: connecting tools to your apps, building Skills for repeat work and handing off whole tasks with a person reviewing the output. Training runs face to face at your Nelson or Richmond office, or virtual. AI Foundations, three hours for up to 10 people, is $1,995 + GST. Leo, an experienced AI practitioner, delivers every session.
This is the Nelson page of our national programme. See AI training NZ for the full course, levels and FAQs.
AI training in Nelson costs $1,995 + GST for AI Foundations, which is three hours for up to 10 people. AI Power User is $3,995 + GST, the six hour AI Builder Bootcamp is $5,995 + GST, and extra people are $200 + GST each.
Licences for ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot are billed by the vendor, not included in our fee.
We run Nelson sessions face to face at your own office, site or boardroom, in the city, Stoke, Richmond or Motueka, or virtual over Teams or Zoom.
Teams spread across Nelson Tasman, or with staff at sea or in the orchards, can join a virtual session.
Pick the tool that fits your work and your systems. Seafood processors and port linked firms that already run on Microsoft 365 usually get the most from Copilot, since it works inside their Outlook, Excel and Teams.
Science and aquaculture teams writing long reports and funding applications often prefer Claude. Orchards, vineyards and hop growers who need quick crew instructions and buyer email often start with ChatGPT.
If you are unsure, we look at your week with you and recommend one before the session.
For Nelson orchards, vineyards and hop growers: Skills for crew instructions, plugins for buyer email, and ChatGPT Work for full seasonal document sets.
ChatGPT training NZFor marine science, aquaculture and seafood exporters: Projects for research and bids, Claude for Microsoft 365 for export paperwork, and whole reports handed to Claude to draft.
Claude training NZFor Nelson processors and port linked firms on Microsoft 365: Copilot in Excel for production reports, Outlook for shipment threads, and agents built in Agent Builder.
Microsoft Copilot training NZNelson Tasman has Australasia's biggest fishing port, New Zealand's largest independent science organisation and a busy growing season. These are the jobs we shape Nelson sessions around.
Training runs face to face at your Nelson or Richmond office or boardroom, or virtual for teams across Nelson Tasman.
Areas we cover: Nelson central, Stoke, Tāhunanui, Atawhai, Richmond, Māpua, Motueka, Brightwater.
Nelson City had 6,804 businesses as at February 2025.
Source: Stats NZ business demography, via Figure.NZThe Nelson Tasman blue economy, including seafood and aquaculture, contributes $366m of GDP and 3,250 jobs, about 5% of each.
Source: Nelson Regional Development Agency, Infometrics profile January 20263 hours, includes 10 people
Build confidence, learn effective prompting, understand safe use and start applying AI to everyday work.
Platform: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot
From $1,995+ GST
3 hours, includes 10 people
Go beyond prompts to connect tools, create reusable workflows and build practical AI solutions with the platform your team already uses.
Platform: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot
From $3,995+ GST
6 hours, includes 10 people
For teams ready to build applications, agents, automations and business tools.
Platform: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot
From $5,995+ GST
Tailored programmes across departments
For organisations wanting to train multiple departments, develop internal AI champions and build long-term workforce capability.
Every workshop includes 10 people and access to our training videos afterwards. Bringing more people? It's $200 each + GST.
We have trained more than 2,000 people in AI across New Zealand and Australia. Nelson teams can book us face to face or virtual, and the stories below are from teams in other parts of the country.
Xero
Making AI accessible across teams
“Waboom trained 50+ Xero employees across all skill levels. The feedback from the team was unanimous: life-changing. Their hands-on approach makes AI genuinely accessible.”
Regan AshworthHead of Ecosystem Governance, XeroWaikato Sheds
From AI interest to daily adoption
“Had Leo and the Waboom team run AI training for our crew at Waikato Sheds. Wasn't sure what to expect, but they made it practical — prompt engineering, real use cases, stuff we could apply straight away. Team's now using AI daily instead of just talking about it.”
Jason DavisOwner, Waikato Sheds
Good George
Greater marketing productivity
“Your training made an immediate impact. Our marketing team is now more productive than ever.”
Damon YoudaleBrand marketing and product innovation, Good George
2,000+
people trained in AI across New Zealand and Australia
2,000+
people trained in AI across NZ and Australia
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Reviews from our Google Business Profile.
Rhys Black
Great foundation builder for anyone looking to develop their AI skillset with Claude. Particularly good at bringing the audience into thinking about how to reverse engineer the pro...
Dawn Engelbrecht
Fabulous introductory session on how to use Claude Looking forward to implementing it in my business Thanks !
Jay Vyas
Leo is very well informed and gives hands on technical walk throughs for your business problems. His approach is what suits your infrastructure and works according to your availabl...
Leo Garcia-Curtis, Founder, Waboom AI. Leo has trained more than 2,000 people in AI across New Zealand and Australia and builds AI systems for businesses every week, from voice agents to internal tools. You learn what is working in real businesses right now, from the person who builds it, not from a slide deck.
Waboom AI training in Nelson is a hands-on workshop that teaches seafood, science, horticulture and other business teams to use ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot on their own work, from connecting the tool to their apps to saving Skills and delegating whole tasks with human review. It runs at three levels, AI Foundations, AI Power User and AI Builder Bootcamp, from $1,995 + GST including 10 people, face to face in Nelson or virtual. Waboom AI is an independent New Zealand company and is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic or Microsoft.
Yes. We run the session face to face at your office or boardroom in Nelson, Stoke or Richmond. Your team uses its own laptops and accounts, so the Skills and Projects they build are ready to use straight away.
Virtual sessions have no extra costs. For face to face sessions in Nelson, any additional costs such as travel are discussed with you over the phone before you book, so there are no surprises.
Yes. AI Foundations starts from zero and uses jobs your team already does, like a crew briefing or a supplier email. Office staff can build the Skills for supervisors to run.
Yes, with care. ChatGPT and Claude can draft translated instructions quickly, but we teach teams to have a fluent speaker check anything about safety before it reaches a crew. AI does the first draft, and a person stays responsible for the final version.
Use a business plan and set rules first. On business plans from OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft, your data is not used to train their models by default, but your workspace settings, permissions and your own data policy all matter. For unpublished research or client data, we help you decide what goes into a prompt and what stays out.
Yes. We book around your busiest months, and a three hour session fits before or after a shift. Staff who miss the face to face day can join a virtual session instead.
No. Waboom AI is an independent New Zealand AI company. We are not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic or Microsoft, and none of them run or endorse this training. We teach what works in real businesses.
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Last updated 21 October 2026 · by Leonardo Garcia-Curtis
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