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Local AI Training for Developer Teams

Our customized AI training teaches your team how to use AI efficiently in your organization, from analyzing its potential to implementing production-ready solutions with LLMs and RAG. The training is fully tailored to your specific use case and required setup.

The best part: You choose exactly the knowledge you and your team need.

Goal of our AI training

In the makandra Academy training program, you and your team will learn how to design and implement your own AI solution for your company. We provide the necessary knowledge on methodology, architecture, and technology so that you can make informed decisions on your own.


About us

Since its founding in 2009, makandra—with over 50 employees—has established itself as a specialist in business-critical custom software, on-premises AI, and DevOps. Our client base ranges from SMEs to major corporations such as Siemens, Volkswagen, and ProSiebenSat.1. With experience gained from over 200 successful projects, our team is known for building stable and technically excellent applications for our clients that will remain highly maintainable well into the future.

What we offer

You tell us your requirements and prior knowledge, and we’ll put together an interactive, customized AI training program for you. The focus is on practical implementation: architecture, local LLMs, RAG, and infrastructure—all tailored to your specific use case.
Benefits

AI Training with makandra

Complete AI Package for Your Business

Everything you need to know about strategic modules, LLMOps, orchestration, prompt engineering, architectures (RAGs or agents), with hands-on application to your use case.

Breaking Decision-Making Barriers

Unsure where to begin with AI? Our training helps you become more decisive with comprehensive knowledge and insights.

Utilizing RAG for Company Data

A great search combined with an LLM: With Retrieval Augmented Generation, you can leverage LLMs for your internal data. Our training includes best practices and guides for your specific use case.

Available AI Modules

Our training programs are tailored to your needs. This means you can help decide which topics your team should cover. You can choose from the suggested modules and topics listed here to select what you need and what interests you. We’ll advise you throughout the process and put together a customized training program for you.

For whom:

This Module is designed for companies that want to understand the methodology behind an AI potential analysis—knowledge that your team can apply on its own in the future.

Content:

  • How do you generally identify AI use cases in business models, processes, and data?
  • Evaluation criteria for use cases: benefits, feasibility, data protection/compliance, cost-effectiveness
  • Overview of common technologies and architectural approaches
  • Typical pitfalls in AI implementation and how to avoid them

Outcomes:

  • An understanding of the methodology for systematically evaluating AI potential
  • A practical framework that your team can independently apply to future use cases.

    (Note: This module provides a general overview of the methodology. For a customized, documented analysis of your company, we offer our AI workshop.)

For whom:

This module is designed for companies that want to understand how large language models work and which deployment options (from the cloud to on-premises) are best suited to their use case.

Content:

  • Technical fundamentals of LLMs: embeddings, attention, context window, system prompts, reasoning models
  • Pretraining and fine-tuning
  • Overview of deployment options: cloud, on-premises, private cloud, hybrid
  • On-premises LLMs with Ollama as a possible option: model selection and use cases
  • Integration into existing systems: APIs, access concepts, user roles; security and data protection requirements depending on the infrastructure

Outcomes:

  • A solid understanding of how LLMs work
  • An assessment of which model and deployment options—including on-premises AI—are best suited to your use case
  • Concrete next steps for your technical implementation

For whom:

This module is designed for companies that want to effectively link their own corporate data with large language models (LLMs) to achieve more precise and context-aware results.

Content:

  • How RAG works: embeddings, vector databases
  • The interplay between prompts and retrieval
  • Applications for internal company data—examples and use cases
  • Prompt engineering: fundamentals, advanced techniques, collaborative solutions

Outcomes:

  • Understanding of the RAG architecture and how it works
  • Concrete ideas for using RAG with your own data
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Starter Kits: AI MVP or AI Workshop
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Your AI training schedule

  • Get out of your own office and away from your daily work routine—this allows you to focus fully on the training content. That’s why we’d love to invite you to join us.
  • The training days are demanding, so we don’t hold 8 hours of lecture-style instruction.
  • We’ll start with tea or espresso and a light snack. At lunchtime, we’ll eat together in our cafeteria, and then we’ll get back to work.
  • Depending on the number of participants, one or two trainers will be on hand to assist you: this ensures no one gets left behind, and we can answer questions on the spot or provide hands-on help with the equipment.
  • After the training: We’re happy to remain available as your point of contact even after the training is over.
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What sets our trainings apart

Learning in a trustworthy atmosphere

In our trainings, it's just you and us, with no one else present. This allows us to fully address your challenges.

Continuing education in a small group

Our trainings are designed for groups of 4-8 participants. If your group size varies, feel free to contact us.

Training duration tailored to you

We will establish the framework together: two, three, or four days? Consecutively or with breaks for practice? We will adapt to your needs and help you find the best schedule.

Training at our location in Augsburg

Where and when: We warmly invite you to join us. If you prefer, we can come to you and conduct the training in-house. We will work together to find the best timing and arrange the training days.

Flexible training content

We will determine the content together: where are your strengths in Kubernetes, where are the gaps, and what do you need? Not sure? No problem, we will figure it out with you.

Training materials and certificate

We ensure that you have everything you need during the training. At the end, your team members will receive a certificate of participation.

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Our trainer

Michael Leimstädtner | Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Michael Leimstädtner has been working as a Ruby on Rails developer at makandra since 2017 and currently serves as a Forward-Deployed Engineer in the AI division. He works directly with clients to help them implement their own AI solutions, drawing on his experience from numerous AI projects. He also mentors our trainees through the challenging training program. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, biking, and meeting new people.

Additional trainings from the makandra Academy

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