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.
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What we offer
AI Training with makandra
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

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.
What sets our trainings apart
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.
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