Upskilling & Reskilling
We help professionals and organisations upskill, reskill and grow into what an AI-shaped world of work demands.
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We can either drown or learn to take control and surf on it.
The world of work is being rewritten in real time. The question is:
are your teams equipped to ride the wave - or will they be left behind?
AI tools change every few months. How you think with them doesn't. So we don't teach buttons: we teach people to work and build with AI, side by side with practitioners who use it every day. From the Singapore AI Association to Derana, ICTA and Google's Build with AI stage, this is what that looks like in the room.
Real teams, real sessions, in their words. Every programme is built around the work they actually do.
Cocoon designed the curriculum, led the sessions and brought in the practitioner trainers for the BuildrLabs Applied AI Bootcamp at Hatch Works, Colombo.
Read the case study →
A two-month custom AI for Creativity programme: hands-on sessions on real creative work, from JSON prompting to a three-day hackathon where five teams built for five brands.
See the hackathon →“Their sessions are well structured, engaging, and focused on real-world use cases.”
Digital strategy agency
Lines Strategy’s team wanted AI to strengthen their research and planning, take on recurring tasks through agents, and make content that serves each brand, from advertising to audience engagement.
Corporate AI training →“With AI evolving so quickly, I would definitely have my team train with them again.”
A hands-on session for SA Ventures (St. Anthony’s) business leaders on building a personal brand on LinkedIn, from what you stand for to a published post in five steps.
p> Personal branding training →Built around your team’s tools and the work they actually do. Tell us about the team and we design the sessions.
Ready-made, hands-on programmes you can join, each taught by people who use AI in their own work every day.
Hands-on, practical, and immediately useful. Every program is delivered by experts who use AI in their day-to-day work.
Team workshopDesigned to make AI accessible, practical, and immediately useful by connecting it to everyday impactful routines. Participants will see AI in action, interact with tools, and build real solutions.
Hands-on sessionHands-on program to make AI practical and directly relevant to everyday work. Whether you're in marketing, HR, finance, or tech - move beyond buzzwords and experience AI in action.
Creative sessionBuilt for designers, writers, artists, filmmakers, and storytellers - to harness the power of AI in your craft. Amplify your imagination and open doors to possibilities you've never had before.
Demo day · Applied AIBuilt for entrepreneurs and business leaders who want to grow smarter, faster, and more efficiently. Use AI as a growth partner - from product development to competitive research and market expansion.
Leadership sessionStrategic AI transformation programme for C-suite and senior leaders. Build governance frameworks, develop AI strategy, lead organizational change, and create board-ready business cases for AI initiatives.
Student sessionEquips undergraduates with skills to thrive in an AI-first world. Study smarter, streamline research, boost creativity, and build habits for productivity and innovation. Prepare for the future of work.
Bespoke · CorporateNot every organisation fits a standard programme. We build the training around your team's tools, workflows and goals, from a single department to a company-wide rollout.
Our programme counsellor asks a few questions about you and your work, then points you to the right Cocoon programme. Chat, or talk to him face to face.
Can't get your whole organisation on board yet? Join as an individual. Public cohorts run periodically - small groups, live sessions, the same hands-on Cocoon experience. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out when the next one opens.
Leave your details and we'll reach out when the next cohort is confirmed.
Not a quiz about which tools you have heard of. Fifteen questions about what you actually did the last time it mattered, scored across five dimensions, with a report that names the one thing to fix first.
Answer out loud and it takes about two minutes. Or run it across your whole team and see where the organisation is actually weak.
Taught by practitioners, not presenters. 30+ founders, engineers, marketers and leaders who put AI to work every day in their own jobs, then show you exactly how they do it.
Ammar AhamedFounder, Cocoon
Prasanna RodrigoSoftware Architect, CodeGen
Kasun DananjayaCTO, Surge Global & Calcey
Faahika FakirHead of Operations, Oceans
Abubakker BakthathiFounder & CEO, Paralox Media
Dilusha PereraHead of Agentic AI, MAS Holdings
Naseef Athaur RahmanFounder, Cravix
Ayyash AhamedCo-founder & CEO, Buildin Blocks
Dr Akshika WijesundaraCo-founder & Instructor, The AI Internship
Minsara SamarakkodiCo-founder & CTO, Boring Host AIHNHansa NaurunnaAssociate Tech Lead, AI/ML, Gapstars
Anas IlyasAssociate Lead, IAM & Cyber Security, Sysco LABS Sri Lanka
Tharindu KarunarathneSenior Brand Manager, Dialog Axiata
Mevan LiyanageSenior Technology Consultant, EvenSys
Hasara MunasingheLead Project Manager, Octave, John Keells Group
Kavindu EsharaCEO & Founder, ABSOLX CORE AI
Lishan PeirisAssistant Manager, Brand, Wavenet
Kavinda KumarasingheSenior Executive, Digital Transformation, MAS KREEDA
Sudeshi JayasuriyaFounder, Mira AI
Isuru AlagiyawannaFounder, Zuu Crew AI
Affan AhamedFounder, Linkify
Kevin MusprettCo-founder & CEO, Boring Host AI
Dr Sithira AmbepitiyaHead of AI, AIGP
Jameel Ur RahmanPrincipal Software Engineer, ExpressVPN
Saad MazharBusiness Development, Spectrify AI
Nishadha SilvaFreelance SEO, SEM & PPC SpecialistEvery team is scrambling to figure out AI, and most are stuck. The person who figures it out first, who can build it, automate with it, and teach it, becomes the one everyone turns to. In four weeks, we make that person you.
Become the AI Champion →A promise we want to build on
All trainers are experts in their own fields, who use AI in their day-to-day and who are actively seeing returns. We don't teach theory - we teach what works, right now.
The things people ask us most about Cocoon, our programmes and how we train. Anything else? Book a call or read who we are.
Cocoon is an AI training and consultancy company based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, founded by Ammar Ahamed. We train professionals and organisations across Asia in the whole range of AI work: from assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, to automation with Make.com and Zapier, to creative tools for image, video and sound, all the way to building with APIs and creating your own AI tools and agents. We also run custom sessions on the tools your company already owns.
Cocoon was founded by Ammar Ahamed. Ammar heads growth and marketing for two AI companies, one in agentic AI and one in enterprise AI, and was previously head of growth at a UK-based AI company. Before that he worked across corporates, agencies and multinationals in HR, sales, marketing and operations, including in leadership roles. Read the story on our About page.
Cocoon has 30+ practitioner trainers who use AI in their own work every day, then teach exactly how they do it. They range from founders and CEOs to business leaders and directors who have built and grown companies, and they cover every function: business strategy, HR, finance, operations, marketing and sales, as well as technology, with CTOs, heads of AI, engineers and security leads. Practitioners, not presenters. Meet the trainers.
Cocoon is based in Colombo and trains people and teams all over Sri Lanka in three ways: in person at your office or a venue, live online, or hybrid, with part of the group in the room and the rest joining online. Every format is hands-on: you build something real in every session. Beyond Sri Lanka, we train in person in Singapore and online for teams across Asia, including Malaysia, India, Cambodia and the UAE. See AI training in Sri Lanka.
AI for All, AI for Professionals, AI for Creatives, AI for Startups, AI for Educators and the free AI for Students, plus 1:1 AI coaching, bespoke training for teams and enterprise AI and digital transformation. Programmes run in person and online.
Yes. We run bespoke corporate AI training for businesses of all sizes, from half-day workshops to multi-week programmes, on-site or online. Each programme is built around your team’s own tools, workflows and industry. See training for teams.
The tools that matter for each team’s work, including but not limited to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, Runway, Higgsfield, Canva AI, Notion AI, Make.com, Zapier and GitHub Copilot, across writing, design, video, marketing, operations and coding. We also keep a free directory of 2,700+ AI tools, and we have built 50+ tools of our own that make our training more hands-on.
Yes. Cocoon is a member of Anthropic’s Claude Startups programme. We teach teams to use Claude for writing, research, coding, analysis and workflow automation, including advanced prompting, Projects, Claude Code and the Anthropic API, as a standalone workshop or inside any Cocoon programme.
Start with the human skills, because AI makes them worth more: thinking clearly, judgment and decision-making, taste, creativity, collaboration and teamwork, and knowing what is right to do with AI and what is not. Then the practical layer: using AI properly, choosing the right tool for each job, and making sure the productivity gains are real. Our programmes build both, with hands-on projects, not theory.
AI training builds your team’s skills so they can use AI tools on their own. AI consulting implements solutions for you. Cocoon does both: we start with training so your team understands AI, then help with implementation, strategy and digital transformation.
Yes. The Cocoon AI Tools Directory lists 2,700+ AI tools across 58 categories, free to browse, organised by use case and tagged free, freemium or paid.
Book a free call, email ammar@mycocoon.life or message +94 77 587 5997 on WhatsApp.
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Whether you're an individual, a team, or an enterprise - Cocoon has a program built for you.
Or reach out directly to Ammar - 077 587 5997 · mycocoon.life
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