Frequently Asked Questions

It's how we run every session: roughly 20% instruction, 20% live demonstration, and 60% you building in real time with your own project. Most training stops at the explanation — ours is built around you doing the work while your instructor guides you, which is why every learner leaves with a finished result.

Always live — there's no content library and no pre-recorded video. You work directly with a real instructor for the whole session. No experience is required: there's no jargon and no code, and your instructor walks you through every tool from the very beginning. If you can send an email and browse the internet, you're ready.

A 3-hour session, live on Zoom or in person, where you learn four of today's most practical AI tools — Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Lovable — and build and publish a real website from scratch by the end.

• Hour 1 — Prompts & Research: prompt basics and AI-powered research with Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini.
• Hour 2 — Validate & Organise: use Claude to validate your research and organise it into a document you understand and can defend.
• Hour 3 — Build & Publish: publish a working website with Lovable using your research as the brief. No code required.

A 2-hour introduction to entrepreneurship for anyone curious about starting something. No AI prerequisites, no jargon, and no code — just a clear, practical walkthrough of what it takes to turn an idea into a real venture, with your instructor beside you the whole time.

A 6-hour intensive delivered over two days (or a single weekend). You'll take your own idea from concept to investor-ready foundation — and leave with a published, live website.

• Day 1 — Research & model: market research with citations, your product definition, your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP), your financial model, and the start of your company thesis.
• Day 2 — Brand & launch: finish your company thesis, build your brand kit and style guide, design your market test, and build and publish your live website.

You'll walk away with seven real deliverables, all built from your own idea: market research with citations, a product description, your ICP, a financial model, a company thesis, a brand kit & style guide, and a live website with a real URL.

Yes. The Advanced Entrepreneurship Workshop is a university-level Certificate in Entrepreneurship, delivered in partnership with (Partner name and program), combining its eight-course program with our AI-education method. A prerequisite applies and pricing is set with the university partner — contact us for a location near you.

Sometimes you just need an expert in your corner. Book a private one-on-one hour and bring us your problem — a tool, a workflow, a prompt, or something you built in a workshop. When you book, you'll briefly describe your challenge so we can confirm it's something we can help with before you pay. No automated responses, no runaround, no upsell.

We're a non-profit, so every workshop is offered at tiers built around one rule: cost is never the reason someone is left out.

• Community — the accessible rate for individuals, as a small-group cohort (up to 10), priced per seat.
• Private — one-on-one with an instructor, live on Zoom.
• Corporate & Team — private cohorts for employers and organizations, priced at full market. These engagements fund our mission.
• Supported — free or sliding-scale seats for learners facing financial or employment barriers.

For the AI Basics and Entrepreneurship Basics workshops, no — all AI tools used are free. For the 48 Hour Startup Challenge, you'll need two paid AI subscriptions during the workshop: Claude (about $29/month) and Perplexity (about $20/month), roughly $49 total. Gemini and Lovable are free. These prices are set by the AI providers and may change. For Supported seats, any required subscriptions are covered by sponsorship.

Yes. Every workshop can run live on Zoom or in person. For teams and organizations we deliver private cohorts of up to 10 — either a standard workshop or a fully custom session built around your goals — and for institutional partners we deliver at the institution's location. We start with a free discovery call and put together a proposal that fits; travel costs are quoted separately.

A computer with a stable internet connection and the ability to join a Zoom call — everything we build runs in the browser. There's no pre-work or reading. You never code: every website is built with plain language using Lovable. For the 48 Hour Startup Challenge, bring your startup idea and an active Claude and Perplexity subscription plus a free Google account (for Gemini); we send sign-up links in your welcome email.

Yes — your session recording is available for 30 days so you can revisit any part of it. After the 48 Hour Startup Challenge you keep everything you built, and your Claude project stays active so you can keep iterating. We'll point you to next steps, like sharing your website with people who match your ICP for feedback, and you can always book a 1-Hour Private Instruction session if you get stuck.

We're always expanding our catalogue, and members help shape what we build next. Topics on our roadmap include AI Ethics, AI for Content Creation & Marketing, AI Automation for Beginners, and AI for Job Hunting.

For Community and Private one-on-one sessions, book online and start on your schedule. For Corporate, institutional, custom, or partner workshops, book a free discovery call and we'll design the right experience. To request a Supported seat, apply through our contact page.

We're a Saskatchewan-based non-profit on a mission to make practical, hands-on AI education accessible to everyone — especially low-income learners, newcomers, Indigenous communities, and people facing barriers to work. Knowing how to use today's AI tools is fast becoming as fundamental as digital literacy itself, and we exist to make sure that skill is shared, not gated.

Our co-founder Fred completed fourteen online AI courses, earned every certificate — and still couldn't use the tools. So he and his son stopped studying and started building. That afternoon became everything we do: less lecturing, more building, with an instructor right beside every learner.

Supported seats are free or deeply discounted places reserved for learners who face financial or employment barriers. Eligible participants include:

• Individuals experiencing low income or financial hardship
• People who are unemployed, underemployed, or facing barriers to employment
• Recent immigrants and newcomers
• Indigenous learners, including Métis and First Nations
• Youth and others facing systemic barriers to economic participation

They're funded by grants and by the pay-it-forward sponsorships built into our Community and Corporate pricing. For Supported seats, any required AI subscriptions are covered by sponsorship.

Apply through our contact page and we'll confirm your eligibility and placement. There's no cost to apply, and the process is straightforward.

Through grants, donations, and reinvested earned revenue. Paid Community, Corporate, and partner workshops generate the earned revenue that — together with grants and memberships — opens supported seats. In short: every paid seat helps open a supported one.

We work alongside mission-aligned organizations across Saskatchewan, including the Gabriel Dumont Institute, Saskatchewan Polytechnic, the University of Saskatchewan's SIGMA entrepreneurship program and Edwards School of Business, and the Saskatchewan Startup Institute — reaching the learners who need us most.

Yes. We maintain an online resource library — a prompt library, guides, and templates — with full access included for members. Visit our Memberships page to explore what's available.

When you become a member, you help put real, hands-on AI skills within reach of the people most often left behind by them. Every membership directly funds supported seats — free and subsidized workshop places for learners who couldn't otherwise attend — and makes you part of a community building a more inclusive future. You also get member benefits that help you grow alongside the learners you support.

Three tiers, each funding a different level of access for learners:

• Member — $50/year. Funds 1 supported seat.
• Champion — $150/year. Funds 3 supported seats. Adds supporters-page recognition and a guest pass.
• Patron — $500/year. Funds a full cohort of 10. Adds named recognition, a cohort impact update, and an invitation to the patrons & founders gathering.

• Member rates on Community workshops
• Full access to the online resource library — prompt library, guides, and templates
• Early invitations to events, webinars, and new workshop launches
• Quarterly member updates and a say in the workshops we build next

For businesses, schools, community groups, and non-profits that want to champion the mission together:

• Supporter — $300/year. Funds 6 supported seats. Everything in Individual membership for the team, website recognition, and priority scheduling.
• Cohort Sponsor — $600/year. Funds a full cohort of 10+. Adds named recognition and a personal impact report.

Funding a series or a named program? We build a custom partnership — the natural gateway to becoming a Founding Partner.

Membership fees go directly toward supported seats. Community workshops run as cohorts of up to ten learners, so your support maps to a clear unit of impact — roughly one seat per $50. Every paid seat helps open a free one: the pay-it-forward principle at the heart of how we keep AI education accessible.

Anyone who joins at any individual tier on or before December 31, 2026 becomes a permanent Founding Member. It's a recognition of the people who backed the mission from the beginning — and the status stays with you for as long as you remain a member.

Join online on our Memberships page. Choose Individual or Organization, pick your tier, and you'll have access to member benefits right away. For custom organization partnerships, email hello@launchpadinstitute.org and we'll build the right arrangement together.

It's how mission-aligned institutions bring our hands-on AI-literacy and entrepreneurship workshops to their learners. You choose between two licensing structures depending on whether you'd like us to deliver the workshops for you, or to certify your own staff to deliver them in-house. In both models you market the workshops, enroll participants, and collect tuition; our fees scale fairly with the value the partnership creates — and fund our free and subsidized programs.

"We teach, you host." We provide a certified instructor to deliver your chosen workshop live — on Zoom or in person. You promote, enroll, and keep tuition, and pay a licensing fee that scales with enrollment: the greater of the per-learner fee or the per-delivery minimum.

You also receive the full curriculum and learner materials, use of Launch Pad logos, co-branded poster and trifold templates, and access to our free resources. Best for partners running lower or variable volumes, or who don't yet have in-house instructors and want to start immediately.

"Your trainer, our program." Your staff complete our Train-the-Trainer program to become Launch Pad Certified Trainers, then deliver the workshops in-house as often as you like and keep tuition in full. Instead of a per-workshop fee, you hold an annual license that keeps your curriculum current and your trainers certified.

• Train-the-Trainer Level 1 — $999/trainer: Entrepreneurship Basics, AI Basics, and the 48 Hour Startup Challenge.
• Train-the-Trainer Level 2 — $1,299/trainer: adds the Advanced Entrepreneurship Program (active university or business instructors).

Prerequisite: outside certification in Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Lovable from any online course (for example, Coursiv). Best for partners with ongoing or high volume and in-house instructors.

The annual license is keyed to how many trainers you've certified, so it stays predictable regardless of how many cohorts you run.

Worked examples: 5 trainers = $3,350/yr; 10 trainers = $5,100/yr; 30+ trainers cap at $12,000/yr. Separately, trainer recertification is $50 per certified trainer per year, completed onscreen in about two hours on each trainer's certification anniversary.

Because Option 1 rises with each learner while Option 2 is a fixed annual cost, lower-volume partners pay less under Option 1 and high-volume partners pay less under Option 2 — so the two options complement rather than compete. (Our 1-Hour Private Instruction is offered directly to clients on our website and isn't part of the channel partner program.)

Partners who join on or before December 31, 2026 become Founding Partners. They lock today's rates against future increases, have their first year's annual license waived, receive free trainer recertification for as long as they remain a licensed provider, and help shape the workshop catalogue. It's the most cost-effective time to bring Launch Pad to your learners.

Book a free discovery call through our contact page or email hello@launchpadinstitute.org. We'll recommend the right structure for your volume and team, and walk you through the agreement.