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Waboom AI delivers practical AI training for businesses in New Plymouth and Taranaki, in ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot. Your team learns to connect the tool to your apps, save repeat jobs as Skills and delegate whole tasks, with a person approving the result. Every session is practical, run face to face at your own office, or virtual.
From $1,995 + GST, includes 10 people.
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TL;DR
Waboom AI provides hands-on AI training for New Plymouth and Taranaki businesses, from energy companies and engineering consultancies to dairy, rural services and trades. Your people go past prompting in ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot: linking the tool to the systems you use, turning routine work into Skills and handing over full tasks that a person then reviews. Sessions run face to face at your New Plymouth office, or virtual. The three hour AI Foundations workshop is $1,995 + GST for up to 10 people, and Leo, an experienced AI practitioner, delivers each one.
This is the New Plymouth page of our national programme. See AI training NZ for the full course, levels and FAQs.
AI training in New Plymouth starts at $1,995 + GST for the three hour AI Foundations workshop, which includes 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.
ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot licences are billed by the vendors.
We run New Plymouth training face to face at your office, site office or boardroom in New Plymouth, or virtual over Teams or Zoom. There is no local Waboom AI office or venue.
Staff in Stratford, Inglewood or Waitara, or out on site, can join virtually.
Energy companies and engineering contractors that run on Microsoft 365 usually start with Copilot, since procedures, project meetings and maintenance data already sit in Word, Teams and Excel.
Consultancies writing long technical reports and tender responses often prefer Claude. Dairy, rural service and trade businesses without Microsoft 365 tend to get most from ChatGPT for quotes and customer email.
We are happy to recommend one once we know what your team spends its week on.
For Taranaki dairy support, rural services and trades: quotes, compliance paperwork and customer email built on your own rates and templates.
ChatGPT training NZFor New Plymouth engineering consultancies writing technical reports, tender responses and regulatory submissions from their own standards.
Claude training NZFor energy companies and contractors on Microsoft 365: Word procedures, Teams project meetings, Excel maintenance data and agents.
Microsoft Copilot training NZTaranaki leans on energy, engineering and dairy. These are the jobs each tool can take on for New Plymouth teams.
Training runs face to face at your New Plymouth office, site or boardroom, or virtual for teams across Taranaki.
Areas we cover: New Plymouth central, Fitzroy, Merrilands, Bell Block, Waitara, Ōākura, Inglewood, Stratford.
New Plymouth District had 10,689 businesses as at February 2025.
Source: Stats NZ business demography, via Figure.NZDairy farming and processing, and oil and gas, together make up 34% of the Taranaki economy.
Source: Taranaki Mayoral Forum, citing Stats NZ, March 20253 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. New Plymouth teams can book us face to face or virtual, and the stories below are from teams in other regions.
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 New Plymouth is a hands-on workshop that teaches Taranaki energy, engineering, rural and business teams to use ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot on their real work: connected apps, repeat jobs saved as Skills and whole tasks delegated 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 New Plymouth or virtual. Waboom AI is an independent New Zealand company and is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic or Microsoft.
Yes. Leo runs the session face to face in your office, site office or boardroom. Your team works on its own laptops and accounts, so what they build is ready the next day.
Virtual sessions have no extra costs. For face to face sessions in New Plymouth, any additional costs such as travel are discussed with you over the phone before you book, so there are no surprises.
Most technical teams start at AI Foundations, then move quickly to AI Power User for Skills, connectors and delegated tasks. Teams that want to build agents and automations go on to the AI Builder Bootcamp.
Keep company material on a business plan, never a personal account. OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft business plans keep your data out of model training by default, but safety also depends on your workspace settings, permissions and policy. We write those rules with your team during the workshop.
Yes. We train inside the tools and settings your IT team has approved, and we can work with them beforehand on which Copilot features are switched on. Staff only use approved tools during the session.
AI can draft and tidy procedures, but it does not replace engineering judgement. We teach teams to treat every AI draft as a starting point that a qualified person checks and approves before it is used on site.
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
AI training New Plymouth
From $1,995 + GST