The free AI courses teach apprentices to use AI. Alset teaches them to catch it when it is wrong.
On a job site a wrong answer costs money or causes harm. Alset lessons put an AI-written quote, manual answer or fault diagnosis in front of the learner and have them check every line against the real source, on their phone.
Catch the AI out
A real step from a free Alset lesson, no signup. Check each highlighted part of the AI's draft against the source and mark it right or wrong.
Another day, Tom sent a quick prompt without his price list or terms. Here is the quote that came back. Check each highlighted part against his notes and price list.
- Notes: about 3 m of pipe, 4 elbows, 2.5 hours.
- Outside tap kit: $38.00
- 15 mm copper pipe: $6.50 per metre
- Labour: $60.00 per hour. Travel: $15.00
- Guarantee: 12 months on our labour. Parts carry the maker's guarantee.
Outside tap kit: $38.00. Copper pipe: 5 m. Elbows: 4 × $1.20. Labour: 2.5 hours at $55.00 an hour. Travel: $15.00. Total: $230.80. Comes with a 5-year guarantee.
Tap each highlighted part. Mistakes caught: 0 of 4.
Alset and the platforms you are comparing
| What we compared | Alset | Microsoft with NABTU | Google with the Electrical Training Alliance | Interplay Learning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What learners do with AI | Use AI on field work: quotes, reading a manual, finding a fault, messages to customers. | Use Microsoft Copilot for daily logs, RFIs and lesson plans. | Google AI Essentials, a self-paced course on using AI at work, added to the apprentice curriculum. | Practise trade skills in 3D and VR simulations. Its AI mentor helps learners with the trade. |
| Checking the AI's answer | Scored in the lessons. Learners mark each claim in an AI draft right or wrong: the wrong pipe length, the wrong fault code, the guarantee the AI made up. | Not described in the programme announcement. | AI Essentials has a module called Use AI Responsibly. | Teaches the trade itself, not how to use AI. |
| Who it is for | Electricians, plumbers and other trades, apprentices and instructors. | Building-trades union apprentices and instructors. | Electrical apprentices and workers. | Technicians in training. |
| Cost to the learner | Free, always. | Free. | Free through the programme. | Paid, per user. |
Built for trade schools
Real jobs, real numbers
Every practice job has a notes page, a price list and a manual. The AI's mistakes are the ones that happen on site: a guessed pipe length, a rate from somewhere else, a fault code read wrong.
On the phone, in plain words
Short lessons that work on a phone between jobs, written for people who do not sit at a desk. In English and Spanish.
Ready for your instructors
Instructors see who started, who finished and who has gone quiet, and get a teaching guide for each lesson. Courses connect to your learning system through LTI 1.3.
Mapped to your programme
We map each course to your related-instruction hours, so the time counts toward the apprenticeship.
Already using the Microsoft or Google course? Keep it.
Those courses teach the basics of using AI, and they are free. Alset is the step after: the trade-specific practice in checking what the AI says before a customer or an inspector sees it.
of US trades contractors have high trust in their AI tools, and 58% have little or none. Accuracy is the top concern.
Source: ServiceTitan and Thrive Analytics survey of 1,017 contractors, reported by ACHR News, 30-Sep-2026
See it with your own learners in mind
In 20 minutes we show you the lessons, the dashboard and how it connects to the systems you use.
- Microsoft: NABTU and Microsoft expand AI training across the skilled trades, 21-Apr-2026
- Google: AI training for electrical workers
- Google AI Essentials
- Interplay Learning pricing
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