VDF AI Academy is the free learning centre for building with VDF AI. Hands-on paths take you from your first chat to enterprise agents, private RAG, governed workflows, EU AI Act governance and self-hosting, with every step shown in the product. Instructor-led advanced courses, each with its own certificate, are free for customers and partners, on application.
Each path is a short course of lessons that build on each other. Every lesson is a complete build with the exact settings and a screenshot of each step, so you can follow along in your own workspace.
Start here: the platform, chat and answers you can check. Everyone new to VDF AI, from business users to the people who will later build agents and workflows.
Build, test and govern enterprise AI agents. Solution builders, business technologists and developers who are new to VDF AI.
Build and test RAG on your own infrastructure. Data engineers, knowledge managers and AI engineers responsible for enterprise search and assistants.
Design agentic workflows and orchestrate agents. Automation engineers, process owners and AI engineers building multi-step AI processes.
Plan and run self-hosted VDF AI, from portal to runbook. Platform, infrastructure and SRE engineers planning a first self-hosted deployment, and the compliance and security leads who review it.
Register, classify and document AI for the EU AI Act. Compliance, risk and legal teams, data protection officers and the owners of AI systems.
Agent building, retrieval, production systems, the API, administration and self-hosting, taught live in 4 half-day sessions, remote or on-site, with a lab after every module and a certificate on passing the capstone. Free for VDF AI customers and partners. Other teams receive a quote after the application is reviewed.
Build agents with Skills, narrow tools and tests.
Engineer governed RAG over documents and databases.
Take multi-agent systems and RAG to production.
Instructor-led training on the VDF AI APIs.
Administer and govern VDF AI across teams.
Deploy and operate VDF AI on your own infrastructure.
| Free learning paths | Instructor-led training | |
|---|---|---|
| Level | Introductory | Advanced, by role |
| Format | Self-paced lessons, tutorials and videos | Four live half-day sessions (3.5 hours each), remote or on-site |
| Access | Open to everyone, no sign-up | On application; we reply within 2 business days |
| Cost | Free | Free for customers and partners; quoted for other teams |
| Certificate | No | Yes, on passing the capstone |
| Best for | Getting a first agent, index or workflow working | Teams taking VDF AI into production |
Yes. Every learning path, lesson and video is free to read and watch, with no sign-up. The instructor-led courses are free for VDF AI customers and partners; other teams receive a quote after their application is reviewed.
You can read every lesson without one. To follow along you need a VDF AI workspace, either in VDF AI Cloud, where the Free plan needs no credit card, or in a deployment your organisation runs.
The docs describe every setting and the API reference every endpoint. Academy lessons teach a task end to end: each one builds something real in VDF AI, shows the result we measured and links to the docs page for every setting it uses.
Any team using or evaluating VDF AI can apply with a short form. We reply within 2 business days, and each course runs as 4 live half-day sessions of 3.5 hours, remote or on-site.
Yes. Each instructor-led course ends with a capstone reviewed by a VDF AI engineer, and passing it earns that course’s certificate. The free learning paths do not award certificates.
