About

A small school, run by practitioners.

We teach the parts of applied AI that are hard to learn alone: evaluation, deployment, and the judgement to stop a project early.

Founded 2024Remote and London3 lead instructorsSubscription funded

Skillo started because a group of engineers kept being asked the same question by colleagues: how do I tell whether this model is actually working. The honest answer took a fortnight to explain properly, and no course covered it.

What we are not

We are not a video library. Nothing here is a recording you watch alone at your own pace with a quiz at the end. Every programme has a cohort, a calendar, an assignment every fortnight and a person who reads what you submit.

We are also not a certification body. The certificate records a brief that two practitioners assessed. It carries the weight of the work behind it, and we say so plainly rather than implying an accreditation we do not hold.

How we are funded

Subscriptions, and nothing else. No vendor sponsors a module, no cloud provider pays for placement in the curriculum, and no tool appears in a programme because someone bought its way in. When we teach a specific product it is because the instructor uses it at work and will say what is wrong with it.

Where we are going

Slowly, on purpose.

The constraint is deliberate: the thing that makes the programmes work is the one that does not scale.

2024

Founded

Six engineers, one evaluation programme, a cohort of nineteen. The first assignment was marked at a kitchen table.
2025

Four tracks

Data analysis, systems and product design join the LLM track. The thirty-place cap is written into the terms, not the marketing.
2026

Sixty-one practitioners

The journal opens. Every module is now rewritten after each cohort, and the certificate starts naming the assessed brief.
2027

January cohort

Enrolment opens on 6 November. Same cap, same calendar, same people reading your work.

What we hold to

01

Instructors are in practice

Every track is written by someone who currently does the job. When the practice changes, the module changes.
02

Marking is done by hand

No automated grader, no peer marking. It is the most expensive thing we do and the reason completion sits at 94 per cent.
03

The calendar does not move

Published before enrolment opens, fixed for the cycle. A cohort is a group of people in the same week, or it is nothing.

What we refuse

Sponsored modules

No vendor pays for placement. When we teach a product, the instructor uses it at work and will say what is wrong with it.
Cohorts above thirty

The obvious growth path, turned down more than once. Above thirty the forum stops being honest.
Certificates that imply accreditation

Ours records a brief two practitioners assessed. It carries the weight of the work, and we say so plainly.