ChatGPT
Claude
Microsoft CopilotGive your Taupō team back the hours that go on guest email, rosters and paperwork, so the busy season feels less like a scramble.
Waboom AI delivers practical AI training for businesses in Taupō and around the lake, in ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot. Your team learns to connect the tool to the apps you already use, save repeat jobs as Skills and hand whole tasks to AI, with a person checking the result. Sessions are hands-on and run face to face at your office, or virtual.
From $1,995 + GST, includes 10 people.
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TL;DR
Waboom AI runs hands-on AI training for Taupō businesses, from lake tourism and accommodation to energy, forestry and farm services. Teams learn ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot past prompting: connecting the tool to their apps, saving repeat jobs as Skills and delegating whole tasks with a person reviewing the output. Sessions run face to face at your Taupō office, or virtual. The three hour AI Foundations workshop is $1,995 + GST for up to 10 people. Leo, an experienced AI practitioner, delivers every session himself.
This is the Taupō page of our national programme. See AI training NZ for the full course, levels and FAQs.
AI training in Taupō 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 each extra person is $200 + GST.
ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot licences are billed by the vendors, not by us.
We run Taupō training face to face at your own office, lodge or boardroom in Taupō, or virtual over Teams or Zoom. We do not have a local office or venue.
Teams split between Taupō, Tūrangi and Reporoa, or with staff out on the water or on site, can join the virtual session instead.
Start with the tool your team already pays for. If your business runs on Microsoft 365, Copilot works inside the Outlook, Teams and Excel files you use every day.
Tourism and hospitality operators without Microsoft 365 often get the most from ChatGPT for guest replies and seasonal staff briefings. Consultancies and contractors with long consent and tender documents tend to prefer Claude.
If you are not sure, tell us what your team spends its week on and we will recommend one before you book.
For Taupō tourism and hospitality: guest replies, multilingual messages and seasonal staff packs, built as Skills your whole crew can run.
ChatGPT training NZFor consultants and contractors around the lake who write consents, compliance reports and tenders, with your own templates held in a Project.
Claude training NZFor Taupō energy, forestry and farm service firms on Microsoft 365: Teams notes, Excel reporting and Word procedures inside your own tenant.
Microsoft Copilot training NZTaupō work swings with the seasons and runs across tourism, energy and the land. These are the jobs we would set up first for teams here.
Training runs face to face at your Taupō office, lodge or boardroom, or virtual for teams spread around the lake and the wider district.
Areas we cover: Taupō town, Acacia Bay, Wharewaka, Nukuhau, Kinloch, Tūrangi, Mangakino, Reporoa.
Taupō District had 5,976 businesses as at February 2025.
Source: Stats NZ business demography, via Figure.NZTourism contributes $315M of GDP in the Taupō district, 9.3% of the district economy, and visitors spent $788.6m in 2024.
Source: Destination Great Lake Taupō, Statement of Intent 2025 to 20283 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. Teams in Taupō can book us face to face or virtual, and the stories below come from teams elsewhere, including Waikato Sheds and Good George, two Waikato businesses.
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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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 Taupō is a hands-on workshop that teaches tourism, energy, rural and professional teams to use ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot on 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 Taupō 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 in your own office, lodge or boardroom. Your team works on its own laptops and accounts, so what they build is ready to use the next morning.
Virtual sessions have no extra costs. For face to face sessions in Taupō, any additional costs such as travel are discussed with you over the phone before you book, so there are no surprises.
Start at AI Foundations. It is built for people who have barely used these tools and starts with jobs they already do. Teams move to AI Power User once they want Skills and delegated tasks, and the AI Builder Bootcamp suits those ready to build agents.
Start with a business plan and a short set of team rules. Business plans from OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft keep your data out of model training by default, but safety also depends on your workspace settings, who has access and your own policy. We set those rules with you in the session.
Yes. We can book the session for a quieter month, so the team has time to learn before the summer rush. A three hour session fits in a morning, and a virtual session is there if the team cannot all be in one room.
Yes. Teams draft briefings and house rules once, then use AI to produce plain English and translated versions. A manager checks each version before it goes out, especially anything about safety.
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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Leo Garcia-Curtis, Founder, Waboom AI
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Last updated 21 October 2026 · by Leonardo Garcia-Curtis
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