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A4A Academy · Programme 01 · Founding cohort
Business Analytics with AI
An online academy for people with a quantitative or analytical foundation (engineering, statistics, finance, economics, the sciences, computing, or hands-on data work) who want to move faster in their career. A guided program that will sharpen your craft, add AI fluency, and build the human skills to get hired, win international clients, or start something of your own, with one-on-one and networking sessions led by senior industry professionals.
Who it's for
This is for people with a quantitative or analytical foundation, whether from a degree in engineering, statistics, finance, economics, the sciences or computing, or from working with data. You don't need prior "analytics" experience; you need to be comfortable with numbers and logic. We'll build on that: we don't start from zero, teach code, or drill basic statistics.
Walk into interviews with the literacy, judgment, and AI fluency employers want, plus the confidence to show it.
Turn AI-powered analytics skills into paid work, with the client and delivery basics to earn from anywhere.
Make decisions with data from day one: the founder fundamentals to go from idea to first customers.
How it works
This is a live, guided cohort that runs about ten weeks, part-time. You'll move through it together, with people guiding you and a project to finish.
You'll learn alongside peers doing the same work, so there's accountability and shared momentum.
One-on-one sessions and networking with senior professionals: the guidance a video can't give.
Every module is built around what you'll do at work, so the concepts are ones you can use.
You'll finish with a real portfolio project: evidence you can put in front of an employer or client.
The program
Each module will build on the last. By the end, you'll be someone people trust with data.
A fast refresher on the analytics and BI fundamentals, then the best practices that separate polished, trusted work from sloppy work. We assume you're comfortable with numbers and data; we don't teach code or statistics from scratch.
Learn to interrogate every number: misleading charts, bad baselines, correlation vs. cause, bias, and uncertainty. The judgment that will keep you and your clients safe.
You'll use AI to explore, summarise, and speed up your work, and use your new critical eye to catch when it's confidently wrong. More output, brain still switched on.
Being brilliant isn't enough if no one sees it. Present yourself with confidence, build trust and visibility, and master the professional skills to land (and keep) international analytics work, from anywhere in Africa.
You'll work a real brief end-to-end with a mentor and finish with a portfolio piece you can show an employer or client. Everything you've learned, applied to one brief.
One-on-one sessions and networking with senior professionals, from module one, peaking in your capstone.
Mentoring
The difference between a course and a career head-start is someone in your corner. Every cohort will include one-on-one sessions and networking with senior industry professionals.
What you leave with
A portfolio piece that proves you can do the work: the thing employers and clients want to see.
You'll spot bad data and shaky claims, and explain your own work with honesty about what it can and can't say.
You'll use AI to work faster and smarter, and know exactly where it can't be trusted.
Recognition of what you've built, plus mentors and peers you keep long after the cohort ends.
Next cohort
Tell us you'd like to join. We'll get in touch with dates and details and confirm your place. Tuition will then be due about three weeks before the cohort begins.
● Tuition USD $1,100 · ~10 weeks, part-time · scholarships available
Also from the Academy
The same craft, pointed at public decisions. For people in government, development partners, think tanks and research who want to put evidence behind policy. It runs the same length, costs the same, and includes the same mentoring.
Questions
No. We don't teach programming or basic statistics from scratch. What you do need is comfort with numbers and logic, a quantitative or analytical foundation. We build on that: refresh the fundamentals, share best practices, and take you further.
Anyone with a quantitative or analytical foundation who wants to move faster: recent graduates and early-career professionals from engineering, statistics, finance, economics, the sciences, computing, or hands-on data roles. You don't need prior analytics experience, just comfort with numbers and logic. It's an accelerator, not a beginner's course.
We'll share each cohort's dates with everyone who's registered their interest, so register and you'll be first to know.
Tuition is USD $1,100 for the full program, with scholarships available so cost isn't a barrier to talented people. Once your place is confirmed, tuition will be due about three weeks before the cohort begins.
No. It's a guided, part-time cohort with live mentoring, so you won't be learning alone.
About 10 weeks, part-time: the four taught modules, then your mentored capstone project. It's built to fit around a job or a job hunt.
You'll have a real portfolio project, a certificate, and a network of mentors and peers, plus the skills to get hired, freelance, or build something.