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This guide offers a sneak peek into the fine-tuning process, one of the many essential skills you'll master in the Orcawise LLM Bootcamp Pro. Additionally, we outline the key prerequisites you should meet before enrolling. In the full bootcamp, you’ll go beyond fine-tuning to explore the customization, optimization, and deployment of LLMs across sectors like healthcare, finance, and technology. While this guide focuses on fine-tuning, the bootcamp delivers an end-to-end learning experience—from data preparation to model deployment.

Orcawise Fine-Tuning Guide

AI Prompt Engineering: Critical thinking, Systems thinking & Responsible AI 

6 Modules: 24 On-demand Videos, 3 Live Sessions, Materials 

Kevin J. Neary, CEO, Orcawise AI Solutions

AI Literacy Keynote Speaker & Top Maven Instructor

Think Critically, Prompt Effectively

Unemployed/Student

Student

This course empowers students to move beyond simple prompting tricks and develop the critical thinking, systems awareness, and AI responsibility needed to thrive in today’s evolving work environments. Course Level: Intermediate - Advanced (Professional) Think Critically, Prompt Effectively A course for professionals who need to master real-world prompting — not just tricks, but structure, logic, and governance. This course teaches you how to write effective prompts that work in the real world — across legal, HR, healthcare, finance and enterprise systems. You’ll learn to: - Spot bias and reduce risk in AI outputs- Build reusable prompt templates with context, logic, and format control- Align your prompts with policy, metadata, and regulatory guardrails- Use prompt chaining, feedback loops, and version tracking for performance Apply RAIMS™ governance principles to ensure prompts are safe, auditable, and scalable 📦 6 Modules — 24 lessons 📌 Includes templates, case studies, quizzes, and enterprise-ready examples 🎓 Capstone Project: Showcase your applied prompting skills with a real-world submission and earn your RAIMS-aligned Completion Badge Whether you're in legal, tech, compliance, education, or consulting — this course gives you a critical edge in how to think, design, and scale with prompts that work. This transformation is anchored in the Orcawise RAIMS (Responsible AI Management System) framework, giving students not just skills, but also the professional responsibility mindset required to thrive in AI-powered workplaces.

Transforming students for tomorrows workforce

Course syllabus

You want to move beyond the prompting basics. You’re ready to deepen your thinking & design prompts with clarity, purpose and intent.

You're AI Literate and explored AI tools like ChatGP

You enjoy solving problems, spotting gaps, and improving ideas with logic and clarity.

You think critically and love solving problems

You want to implement a prompting system that's grounded in AI Governance.

A Drive to Use AI Responsibly

6-modules. You will access one module each Tuesday and Thursday for three weeks. Thats two modules per week over three weeks.

On-demand videos and materials

This weekly live session covers Q&amp;A discussion, use cases and feedback the video and materials consumed that week.

Live cohort sessions

Project materials enable you apply learnings. Optionally you can submit your projects each week for feedback. You will also take away a Capstone project at the end and optionally you can submit the capstone for feedback.

Weekly projects

Course schedule

Final-year Business or IT Students, preparing for hybrid human-AI roles and seeking practical skills beyond theory

Business / IT Professionals, or Managers that want to implement enterprise level prompting systems and workflows

Consultants and L&amp;D Trainers designing AI up-skilling programs and looking to teach prompt engineering on a Responsible AI foundation

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

You’ll learn how to map out complex workflows, consider stakeholder impact, and design prompts that align with real-world business and social systems.

Think Like a Systems-Aware AI Practitioner

Go beyond generic tricks - you’ll master techniques like zero-shot, chain-of-thought, and multi-step prompting while applying clarity, logic, and ethical reflection.

Craft Effective Prompts with Purpose

You’ll build skills in bias detection, inclusive prompt design, and AI governance - learning to document, test, and revise prompts with traceability in mind.

Apply Responsible AI Principles in Real Scenarios

By the end of the course, you’ll complete a practical project: a prompt-driven solution for a real-world case (business, legal, education, etc.) - ready to add to your portfolio.

Build a Real-World Capstone to Showcase Your Skills

Accenture

JP Morgan Asset Management

Novartis

What is AI Literacy AI Literacy is the ability to understand, evaluate, and effectively use AI tools—knowing their strengths, limitations, and ethical implications—so you can make informed decisions, guide responsible adoption, and drive real value from AI in your organization. Why We Need AI LiteracyAI Literacy isn’t just a skill, it’s a strategic necessity. In Europe, it’s becoming a legal requirement under the EU AI Act. Beyond Europe an AI Literacy strategy not only helps ensure AI compliance, but enables cultural change, innovation and competitive advantage. ✅ 2 Weeks | 4 Live Sessions | Optional 1:1 Follow-Up This course for business leaders provides a structured roadmap to assess AI literacy gaps, develop governance frameworks, and create an AI communications plan for transparency and compliance. What You’ll Learn﻿🔹 AI Literacy &amp; Compliance: Understand the legal requirements of the EU AI Act (Article 4) and assess literacy gaps in your organization. 🔹 Governance &amp; Risk Management: Build an AI governance framework to align with compliance and ethical AI adoption. 🔹 AI Communications Plan: Develop a strategy for transparency, stakeholder engagement, and responsible AI leadership. 🔹 AI Culture &amp; Critical Thinking: Foster an AI-ready workforce with oversight, ethics, and strategic implementation. ✅ Why Learn from Kevin &amp; his team? Kevin Neary is a Responsible AI innovator with almost two decades of experience in AI development, governance, and compliance. Currently, as the creator of the OrcaLaw, an LLM Chatbot, he leads a team of 70+ data scientists/lawyers. He is a part-time board advisor, university guest speaker, and a certified business &amp; executive coach. Kevin's training programs has helped over 1,000 professionals transition to a career in AI - most graduates continue to take up roles in the worlds top organizations. In this course, Kevin is joined by guest speakers including a top AI Law Consultant and an AI for Business Consultant, ensuring a well-rounded approach to AI literacy, compliance, and strategic leadership. 📅 Live Lessons (2 lessons per week for 2 weeks) + Optional 1:1 in Week 3.💡 100% Online | Interactive &amp; Actionable | EU AI Act-Aligned﻿🔗 Enroll now and give your organization the AI Literacy edge—meet regulations, move faster, and lead with confidence.

Today's businesses need AI-literate leaders to drive and deliver Responsible AI

Each 1-hour session combines expert-led instruction, engaging presentations, and practical knowledge-sharing with highly interactive components, including real-world case discussions, group exercises, and live feedback.

Tuesdays & Thursdays

4 live interactive sessions over 2-weeks

2-weeks 

Blend of instruction and interactive components

Sessions

Guidance from an expert team on how to apply learnings in your company or for your personal projects

1:1 Consultation

During the course, participants can access office hours with Kevin

Office Hours

Business leaders who want to gain AI Literacy and implement strategic frameworks to ensure compliance - HR, Finance, Marketing, IT, Product.

Transformation Leaders driving digital transformations and want strategies and tools to ensure Responsible AI.

Compliance Managers responsible for rolling out AI initiatives and want to align EU AI Act and US Legal Frameworks.

Assess gaps and create a structured roadmap for compliance.

AI Literacy Audit

Align leadership, ethics, and oversight with regulations.

AI Governance Framework

Ensure transparency and stakeholder engagement.

AI Communications Plan 

Our speakers include AI Legal Consultants and AI Business Consultants.

Guest Speakers

Access an expert team to help clarify learning or customize implementation.

1:1 Consultation (optional)

#1 course dedicated to "AI Literacy". Four live lessons over 2-weeks providing strategies and tools to implement AI Literacy. 

Kevin Neary, Responsible AI Leader, Advisor & Instructor

Kevin Neary, CEO, Orcawise: Pioneering Responsible AI for Business Leaders

🚨 World-Class AI Training in a Live Production Environment 🚨Master Large Language Models (LLMs) with Orcawise LLM Bootcamp Pro, a 100 days on-the-job program designed for data scientists, AI engineers, developers, product managers, and legal &amp; compliance professionals looking to gain hands-on expertise. This course is run is a real-life production environment, delivered in a flexible way ensuring that even busy professionals can participate effectively. While the course is running live, you also have the option to engage at your own pace with: ✅ On-demand recordings for all sessions✅ Comprehensive course materials accessible anytime✅ 1:1 office hours with instructors for personalized support✅ Custom cohort options for large teams with special requirements like: local time zones, skill levels, specialized industry applications, etc.✅ Custom capstone projects so you can work on our in-house applications or build your own custom LLM at your own pace under the guidance of top instructors. Join this interactive AI bootcamp and work on a real-world, production-level LLM, actively contributing to the: 1. Development of the Orcawise Custom LLM for legal and compliance. OR 2. Build your own custom application for your company, your start-up or your personal project. 🚀 Secure your spot today! 🚨Why Choose This Bootcamp? Real-World Project Experience:- Be Part of Live LLM Development or Build Your Own AI Solution: Work alongside the Orcawise AI team to refine an LLM tailored to the EU AI Act, US AI Guidelines, and global regulatory frameworks—or take the expertise gained and develop your own industry-specific AI application in legal, compliance, finance, healthcare, or beyond. Production-Ready Skills: Master tools like LangChain, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), PEFT-LoRA, Hugging Face, and PyTorch. Capstone Project-Centered Learning Tailored Capstone Projects: Starting from Week 4, build a project aligned with your industry’s specific legal and compliance challenges, using real-world data. Demo Day: Showcase your fully functional LLM solution to peers and industry professionals. Expert-Led Interactive Sessions Live Workshops &amp; Q&amp;A: Learn from AI and legal tech experts, gaining industry insights to enhance your project. Collaborative Environment: Join a community of professionals for networking and collaborative problem-solving. 🚨What You’ll Achieve Master LLM Customization &amp; Deployment: Fine-tune pre-trained models for specific legal and compliance tasks.Deploy models using platforms like AWS and Hugging Face. Develop Industry-Specific AI Solutions:Create models for regulatory compliance, automating legal document reviews, and supporting adherence to the EU AI Act. Affordable &amp; Tiered Learning: Don't worry about tools costs. We'll start with free foundational models (T5, Bard) from Hugging Face before, optionally, progressing to ChatGPT, Mistral 7B, and Claude, towards the end of the course. So there are no upfront costs while gradually building skills. Enhance Your Professional Portfolio: Showcase your Capstone Project, highlighting your expertise in AI within the legal and compliance sectors.

LLM Bootcamp Pro: Customize & Deploy Large Language Models 

Three 1-hour live interactive lessons per week on zoom. Recordings and materials are posted after each session. Lessons delivered by instructors on zoom, with team discussions, contributions and feedback. 1:1 Office Hours to accommodate busy professionals.

Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
 06.00 PST/9.00 EST/14.00 GMT 

Optional Capstone. We encourage our students to build your own custom application based on your learnings and our guidance. Each week your instructors will provide project guidance to the whole cohort and your individual contribution will fall due within 1-week, for feedback.

Projects projects

The course is delivered form a live development and production environment so participants can acquire real-life work experience of Custom LLM's, RAG Operations and AI Agents.

Live Production Environment

Data Scientists and Engineers: Looking to advance your skills in fine-tuning and deploying LLMs.

AI Product Managers and Entrepreneurs: Building AI-driven products and seeking a deep understanding of LLMs.

Company Teams: Teams aiming to apply AI technologies to solve business challenges, with an option to opt-out of career transition support.

Key outcomes from Orcawise LLM Bootcamp Pro:

Hands-on Experience: Collaborate on a live LLM development project for legal and compliance applications.

Expert Guidance: Learn from top AI and legal tech experts through live workshops and Q&A sessions.

Capstone Project: Create and deploy a custom LLM solution tailored to real-world legal and compliance challenges.

Industry Recognition: Showcase your work during Demo Day to peers and industry professionals.

Data Curation Tools, Gradio, AWS, NGINX, Gunicorn, Systemctl, Systemd, PyTorch or TensorFlow, DVC (Data Version Control), Weights &amp; Biases, Docker, Kubernetes, FastAPI, PEFT-LoRA, vLLM.

Career-Boosting Skills: Hugging Face, T5, Bard, Claude, Mistral, ChatGPT, RAG Systems, RAFT Systems, LangChain...

1-hour interactive learning three times per week in a live production environment. (Flexible engagement options for busy professionals) 

Sanpreet Singh "LLM Fine-Tuning Expert & Bootcamp Trainer"

Head of AI & Full-Stack LLM Architect at Orcawise

Kevin Neary "LLM Product Innovator & Bootcamp Leader"

Top AI Voice | AI Product Innovator | Keynote Speaker | Board Advisor | CEO

Kevin J. Neary - CEO Orcawise

Top AI Instructor providing Responsible AI Credentials and Systems

Understand why isolated prompting doesn’t scale and how teams can build shared libraries, guardrails, and workflows.

What enterprise-ready prompting looks like

Learn how governance (RAIMS) supports agile teams with risk-aware prompts and reusable templates.

How to embed oversight without slowing down output

From HR to legal to product to finance — see how prompts become strategic assets, not risks.

How managers can future-proof AI in their workflows

10 Tips for AI Literacy Success in 2025

Kevin Neary

CEO at Orcawise | Responsible AI Leader | Speaker | Instructor

Bridge the gap between theory and tools using real tasks, prompts, and everyday data workflows.

Master the Foundations of AI in Practice

Make bias, fairness, and accountability core to how teams learn, test, and trust AI outputs.

Embed Ethics and Oversight from Day One

Drive adoption by linking AI learning to business impact, collaboration, and cultural transformation

Align AI Literacy With Strategic Leadership Goals

Why AI Literacy is Mandatory

Responsible AI Leader | Entrepreneur | Maven Instructor | Board Advisor

AI literacy isn’t just for engineers—leaders, teams, and decision-makers must understand how AI works.

Step 1: AI Literacy Training – Build a Strong Foundation

AI doesn’t operate in a vacuum—it impacts fairness, transparency, and compliance. Explore bias, and governance.

Step 2: Ethics – Understanding Risks & Responsibilities

AI literacy must be more than just theory—it needs to be actionable. Learn how to integrate AI into business strategy.

Step 3: Leadership – Embed AI Literacy into Decision Making

Prompt Engineering: How to Craft Better Instructions for LLM

Sanpreet Singh

LLM Product Innovator and Founder/CEO Orcawise Responsible AI

Structure clear, effective prompts using zero-, one-, and few-shot methods.

Master the fundamentals of prompt engineering

Learn how to identify and fix prompt issues that lead to irrelevant, biased, or low-quality AI responses.

Avoid common mistakes in LLM prompt design

CoTools is a blueprint for building real-world assistants that are smarter, more adaptable, and more compliant with fast

The future of agentic AI is prompt-driven, modular, scalable

Agentic AI – Building Smarter AI Systems

Head of AI at Orcawise, Lead Instructor OIP Program & Maven LLM Bootcamp Pro:

The shift from static AI models to dynamic, self-directed AI agents.

Why AI Agents Are the Next Frontier

The Model, The Tools,
The Orchestration Layer,
Memory & Context

The Core Components of AI Agents

Define the goal,
Choose the model, Equip the agent with tools, 
Implement the reasoning framework Deploy & Monitor.

Building an AI Agent: A Simple Walkthrough

The risk of AI hallucinations & errors, Ethical considerations,
Scaling Agentic AI.

Challenges & Considerations

AI Literacy for Leaders

Responsible AI Leader & Advocate Pioneering Responsible AI for Business Leaders

Myth vs. Reality: AI doesn’t replace decision-making; it requires informed leadership.

Why AI Literacy is a Leadership Imperative

AI’s blind spots: Why ethics, compliance, and human oversight are non-negotiable.

What Every Leader Must Know

Identify AI touchpoints, 
Build awareness, 
Establish governance, 
Create a culture of AI literacy,
Align regulations.

Learn directly from Orcawise

Orcawise

Courses

Think Critically, Prompt Effectively

AI Literacy for Leaders

LLM Bootcamp Pro

Lightning Lessons

Think Critically, Prompt Effectively

10 Tips for AI Literacy Success in 2025

Why AI Literacy is Mandatory

Prompt Engineering: How to Craft Better Instructions for LLM

Agentic AI – Building Smarter AI Systems

AI Literacy for Leaders

Resources

Orcawise Fine-Tuning Guide