For the officer who wants to try this
You have used AI and want to build something useful
Start here. One job, written in one sentence, and a clear line about what the companion is never allowed to decide.
Build an AI companion · session 1 of 4
One job, written down, before you build anything
Most companions fail because they were asked to do everything. This session is about choosing one job - and the line the companion never crosses.
Six decisions before building: writing the one job in a sentence, refusing to give it everything, keeping access decisions with people, feeding it information you already hold, checking an answer against a source. The details that never go in.
Corporate pricing on request. Course funding application status: pending.
Session1 of 4 in Build an AI companion
Decisions6, one correct answer each
Marker1 printed point at the guard house
Recordthe five fields, same as every run
The scenario
Deciding what your AI companion is for before you build it
An officer builds an AI companion the way anybody builds one: a free tool, an hour of curiosity. A feeling that the answers look clever. The first week is fun. The trouble arrives later, when the companion is answering with confidence about things it was never told.
The fix is unglamorous. Write down the one job. Give it the information you already hold. Decide the three questions it must always hand back to a person.
Do that and you have a companion you can trust with a task, because you know exactly where it stops.
The six decisions are the ones that actually go wrong on a quiet shift. They are, in the order the run puts them:
- Writing the one job in a single sentence
- Why "use it for everything" fails
- The access decision that never goes to a companion
- The information a companion actually needs
- Checking one answer before you rely on it
- The details that never go into it
What changes, and for whom
Three people, three different changes
For the supervisor
A companion built without rules becomes a problem
This session sets the boundary before the enthusiasm: no decisions about people, no personal details, no site layout. The rest is genuinely useful.
For the agency
Officers will build these whether or not they are taught
Better a short, plain line that teaches the boundary: one job, real information, no personal data. That beats an officer learning it from a mistake.
These are descriptions of the work the training addresses. They are not client results and not a promised saving.
What the officer does, in order
One run, start to record
About ten minutes at the post, on the officer's own phone, with a supervisor on site.
Scan the marker at the desk
One printed marker at the guard house desk. The officer builds on their own phone during quiet time.
Choose the one job
Six decisions that narrow the companion down: what it is for, what it is never for, and what it needs to know.
See where the line is
The overlay shows the three questions a companion must always send back to a person: access, identity and anything confidential.
Write the record
One row, the same five fields as every run in the department.
The trainee list
Every session writes the same record, so four sessions make one page of that officer's training history, and the same five fields are asked of the newest officer and the most senior one - which is the part of it that is fair. The run is written to the agency's list in the five fields the checklist reads.
This page is the session. The run itself is on the player: open it here - the practice run needs no camera. It is session 1 of 4 in Build an AI companion.
A completed session produces one row, in these five fields
This is post training, so there is no assessor to satisfy - but the record matters anyway: it is how an agency shows what its officers were trained on, in what order, and when.
| Field | What it carries |
|---|---|
| Name | As written in the agency's own staff record. Nothing else is stored about the officer. |
| NRIC / FIN | The last four characters only. The full number is never entered and never leaves the phone. |
| Training provider | Whichever name the checklist route puts here: the agency's own name when the agency delivers the training in-house, or the service provider's name when a provider delivers it - in that case the checklist also asks the agency to submit the provider's invoice showing simulation training was used. The field is left blank on purpose: it is typed, not assumed. |
| Course title | States the technology: the training programme or session plus Augmented Reality (AR) Simulation Training. |
| Date of training | The date the run was completed, written from the device at the time of the run. |
The record lives on the officer's own phone until it is exported or printed, so the habit is: run it, then save the list. The house standard is 80 per cent, which is a fair bar for six decisions, and a failed run is a re-run rather than a mark against an officer.
What this package does not claim
The limits, stated on the page rather than found later
Every course here is honest about what it is and what it is not, because a package that oversells itself is the one that lets an agency down in front of an assessor. Read these before you book anything.
- This session does not teach a particular app, account or subscription. It teaches what to build, and what never to build.
- It is not a SACE programme and does not satisfy a licence-renewal requirement.
- It does not authorise a companion to talk to the public, decide access or hold anyone's personal details.
- It is not a substitute for a post order. Anything your agency requires in writing stays in your agency's system.
Questions about this session
Straight answers
Do I need to be technical to build one?
No. You need one sentence describing the job, and information you already hold - post orders, shift pattern, site rules.
Can it get smarter over time?
It can improve if you correct it and keep the rules clear. It does not become an officer, and it does not learn judgement from a video.
What is a good first job?
A small, repeatable one: drafting the shift handover note, or explaining a site rule in plain words. Something you can check in five seconds.
Is this a SACE programme?
No. It is post training, not a SACE licence programme, and it does not satisfy a renewal requirement.
Build an AI companion · session 1 of 4
Run it on your site before your officers do
Fix one marker at the real point, open the session on a phone, and see whether the overlay holds where your officers actually stand. That is a fair test, and it takes three minutes.
Corporate pricing on request. Course funding application status: pending.