Elvante trains your team to design and build practical automations around your actual workflows, guided one-to-one by two specialist tutors. You don't just learn AI — you leave with working systems your business owns and keeps.
A short welcome introducing the programme and what's unique about how we deliver it — practical, one-to-one, and built around your business. A written summary appears beneath the video.
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Delivered individually and remotely, not through generic group classes.
Projects connect to the employee's real role, responsibilities and workflows.
A Business Tutor connects learning to commercial outcomes; a Technical Tutor helps design, build and test solutions.
Normally designed to be completed over approximately 12 months.
Four hours of one-to-one sessions each month — two hours with each tutor.
Every skill is applied to genuine automations your business needs — learning by building.
A quick, honest check. It's initial guidance — the final details are always confirmed with you at consultation.
Guidance rate: apprentice minimum wage £8.00/hr (first-year). The correct rate depends on age and stage and is confirmed before enrolment.
Being the only person in the company today doesn't rule you out. Apprenticeship funding is based on genuine employment and real workplace support — so a few things need to be true first.
You recruit or employ another person who completes the programme, while you (the owner or director) act as their workplace mentor.
The company needs another suitable person who can genuinely fulfil the employer-support and mentor role. Adding a name to paperwork isn't enough — they must really support and review the employee.
General guidance only — Elvante is a training provider, not an accountant or tax adviser. Please confirm the details with your accountant or the official GOV.UK pages before acting.
A quick clarification first: as a sole trader you can register as an employer and run PAYE for someone you hire — so if you want to enrol an employee, you may not need a company at all. You only need to incorporate if you want to be the paid employee, because you can't be an employee of your own sole-trader business.
The usual route to set up a limited company:
Bear in mind the ongoing admin — annual accounts and a confirmation statement — so it's worth a short chat with an accountant on whether incorporating is right for you. Official guidance: gov.uk/limited-company-formation.
Owner/director, an existing employee, or a new recruit?
Set up PAYE where required and prepare an appropriate employment contract.
Ensure at least the required weekly hours and payment at the applicable minimum wage.
Someone who understands the role, can support development, attend reviews and give employer feedback.
Once these are in place — or there's a realistic plan — book a one-to-one consultation.
General guidance only — Elvante is a training provider, not an accountant or tax adviser. Please confirm the details with your accountant or the official GOV.UK pages before acting.
You register with HMRC to open a PAYE scheme. In outline:
Timing matters: register before your first payday, you can't register more than two months ahead, and HMRC won't backdate it. Registration is required once anyone is paid at or above the secondary threshold (around £96/week for 2026/27) — an apprentice on £8.00/hr for 16 hours is above this, so it will apply. Official page: gov.uk/register-employer.
HMRC's Basic PAYE Tools is free software aimed at businesses with fewer than 10 employees — well suited to a single apprentice or director. It works out tax and National Insurance and files the RTI submissions HMRC requires.
Two things to know: it's a desktop app with no payslips and, importantly, no pension auto-enrolment — which becomes a legal duty once you employ staff. If you'd rather have payslips and auto-enrolment handled, low-cost commercial payroll software (several have free tiers for small employers) covers this, or a small payroll bureau can run it for you. Download and guidance: gov.uk/basic-paye-tools.
This isn't a few online AI lessons. By the end, your team has delivered working automations — and earned a nationally recognised Level 4 qualification.
Illustrative examples — replace with your own case studies.
A short showcase reel of automations built by real learners on the programme.
Many small employers pay nothing. For SMEs taking on an employee under 22, the government funds 100% of the training — up to the £18,000 funding band.
In plain terms
Under-22 employee → £0 to you.
Other employees → government funds 95%, you contribute roughly £900 (5% of an £18k band).
Levy-paying employers → funded from your levy balance.
Employee under 22 at a smaller business — 100% government-funded training, nothing to pay.
Government funds 95%; you contribute around 5% (approx £900 on an £18k band), plus the £2,000 incentive where eligible.
Training funded directly from your apprenticeship levy balance.
You meet the core requirements and want to move forward.
Book a one-to-one consultationA shorter call to sanity-check your plan before you commit.
Request a 15-minute prep callKeep the checklist and come back when arrangements are realistic.
Email me the eligibility checklist