The masterclass

Beyond intermediate. Where prompting becomes craft.

A two-day masterclass plus six hours of asynchronous learning for AI practitioners who have outgrown the basics. Seven advanced techniques. Multimodal workflows. The strategic discipline behind AI work that actually performs.

22h
16h classroom + 6h async
7 techniques
Advanced, model-agnostic
Multimodal
Text, visuals, video, audio, slides
Why now

Foundational AI courses got everyone to the same place. The gap that matters now is everything beyond.

Two years ago, the question was whether your team could use AI. Today, almost everyone can. The competitive question has moved on. It is now about how well, how deliberately, and how strategically — across which media, with what awareness of bias, ethics and brand alignment.

This is the course for practitioners who have crossed the basic competency line and are looking up at the next one. Designed for educators, communicators, marketers and content professionals with prior AI exposure, it teaches the seven techniques and the cross-modal discipline that separate competent AI users from genuinely advanced ones.

Everyone can prompt. Few can prompt deliberately. Fewer still can prompt across modalities and maintain coherence. That gap is where careers are made now.

The differentiator

The Seven Techniques. Model-agnostic. Career-durable.

The named, structured prompting moves that practitioners use deliberately. The vocabulary that turns prompting from improvisation into craft.

01 · Zero & Few-shot

The decision to give examples or not

Knowing when to give the AI worked examples and when to ask cold. The single decision that changes output quality more than any other prompt move.

Use when: the output format matters, or the task has a non-obvious house style.
02 · Role-based

Cast the right kind of expert

From "write me copy" to "you are a copy chief who has reviewed twenty similar campaigns." The framing that sets the AI's standards before it starts.

Use when: domain expertise is required or the default voice is too generic.
03 · Chain-of-thought

Force the AI to show its work

"Think step by step." The technique that turns black-box answers into traceable, debuggable reasoning — and dramatically improves accuracy on complex tasks.

Use when: the answer involves multi-step logic, calculation, or judgement.
04 · Constraint-driven

Set the rules of the output, not just the topic

Format, length, tone, exclusions, must-include elements. The discipline that turns "write something about X" into output you can actually publish.

Use when: output specifications matter — wordcount, structure, brand-safe language.
05 · Iterative refinement

The follow-up loop

The technique most users skip — and the reason most users complain AI gives generic output. Structured refinement turns 60% drafts into 90% finals.

Use when: always. The first response is rarely the final one for professional work.
06 · Multimodal

Prompts that cross media

Text-to-image. Text-to-video. Text-to-audio. The next ten years of AI work runs through cross-modal prompting — and the techniques have their own grammar.

Use when: the output needs to be visual, audio, or video — not just text.
The seventh technique, woven through all six. The ethical prompting framework — identifying bias, knowing when to disclose AI involvement, and maintaining the human-in-the-loop discipline. Not a separate technique but the layer that makes all the others responsible.
What you came here with

The frustration of having hit your ceiling.

You're past the basics. You can feel there's another level. The course is the path to it.

If you're an experienced practitioner

Educators, communicators, marketers, content professionals, knowledge workers

You've done the foundational courses. You use AI daily.You've also hit a ceiling. Output quality has plateaued and the gap to "great" feels structural, not effort-based.
You read about chain-of-thought, multimodal, role-based.You're not sure how to actually use them in your daily work. You want the discipline behind the buzzwords.
Your output is good. Other practitioners' is great.The gap is technique, not effort or talent.
You want a framework, not more prompt examples.Lists of "100 best prompts" don't help anymore. You need the underlying method.

If you lead a team or programme

L&D heads, learning designers, faculty leads, marketing leaders

Our team has done the basics. We need them at expert level.The cost of mediocre AI output is rising. Competent isn't a differentiator any more — advanced is.
We need practitioners who can handle multimodal projects.Not just text. Cross-modal work is where most of the new opportunity lives.
We want a course that takes a team from competent to genuinely advanced.Not another beginner refresher. A real step up.
For our educators specifically, this is teaching practice.The techniques they learn here become how they teach AI to their own students.
How we walk you through it

Three acts. In this order, every time.

Content, Objective, Pricing. The rhythm The Enablers use in every conversation.

01
Act one

Content

The what — 16 hours classroom plus 6 hours asynchronous

Twenty-two hours total. Sixteen hours classroom over two days, plus six hours of asynchronous foundation reinforcement. Day cohorts for working professionals and educators.

  • Day one — classroom. Designs.ai ecosystem tour. Core prompting techniques deep dive — zero-shot, few-shot, constraint-driven. Useful keywords and the prompt formula. Emotionally resonant and contextually relevant prompts. Multimodal prompting and chain-of-thought refinement loop.
  • Day two — classroom. Ethical prompting framework — bias, disclosure, human-in-the-loop. Prompt Portfolio project — building a mini-project using real scenarios across multiple modalities, with peer review.
  • Six hours asynchronous. AI history and "what is AI" foundational modules. Knowledge reinforcement modules. Self-paced, fully digital.

Primary platform: Designs.ai (multimodal — text, image, video, audio, slides).

Open with the masterclass framing. This is the only course in the catalogue that explicitly assumes prior AI exposure. The buyer is buying expertise, not introduction.

02
Act two

Objective

The why — what learners actually leave with

Every learner finishes with three things:

  • A Prompt Portfolio. The course's signature project — a multimodal collection of prompts and outputs you've built, refined and applied to real-world scenarios. Career evidence you can show.
  • Mastery of seven techniques. Named, deliberate prompting moves you can use in conversation as well as in practice. The vocabulary of advanced AI work.
  • An ethical framework. The discipline to spot bias, decide when to disclose, and maintain human oversight — non-negotiable for educators, communicators and anyone publishing AI-assisted work.

The phrase to use. "A prompt portfolio you can show." For educators, that's a teaching artefact. For professionals, that's career evidence. Pause and let it land.

03
Act three

Pricing

The how — tailored, the most advanced course in the catalogue

Course fees are tailored per cohort. Individual practitioners, institution cohorts (polytechnics, universities, schools), and corporate teams each have their own arrangement.

SkillsFuture Credit applies for most Singaporeans aged 25 and above. Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy applies for Singaporeans aged 40 and above. Educator cohorts may qualify for additional institutional funding routes.

This is the most advanced course in the Pixlr Academy catalogue. The investment reflects the depth.

Position against the cost of staying competent. "As AI work normalises, the gap between competent and advanced is what determines who gets the work." Then take the breakdown to The Enablers.

Straight talk

Who this is for, and who it is not for.

Prior AI exposure is the only real prerequisite, but it matters.

This is for you if

You've used AI daily for at least six months, or completed a foundational course (WSQ AI-Driven Content, Write Effective AI Prompts, or equivalent).
You want frameworks and techniques, not more prompt examples.
You work in education, communications, content, or knowledge work — somewhere AI is producing for an audience.
You want to add multimodal capability — visual, video, audio — not just text.
You want a portfolio you can show afterwards.

This is not for you if

You're new to AI. Start with the WSQ or Write Effective AI Prompts course first; come back for this when you've used AI for a while.
You want a 4-hour overview. This is 22 hours including async — deliberately deep.
You expect AI engineering or fine-tuning. This is advanced prompting and applied workflow, not LLM development.
You don't produce content regularly. The techniques need use to embed, and the prompt portfolio needs material.
A learner in her own words

"I'd been using AI for over a year before the masterclass. My work was good but it had plateaued. After the course I rebuilt three of my modules around multimodal prompting workflows. I run chain-of-thought interactions with my students as a teaching method now. The vocabulary became the spine of my new practice — and I presented the approach at a national learning conference six weeks later."

— Vivian, Learning Designer, polytechnic Composite, illustrative — to be replaced with named case study post-launch

Designed for AI practitioners Multimodal across five content types Ethical prompting framework included 6-hour asynchronous component SkillsFuture Credit applicable Pixlr & Designs.ai — Inmagine Group
If they push back

The six things they're about to say — and the answers.

These come up in every conversation. Have them rehearsed.

They say"I'm not sure I'm advanced enough."
You sayIf you can describe one or two prompts you've refined more than once, you're ready. The course assumes daily AI use and one foundational course or equivalent. We bring everyone up to par in the first hour, and the techniques are calibrated for practitioners not specialists.
They say"Won't this be outdated when GPT-5 comes out?"
You sayThe seven techniques covered are model-agnostic. Zero-shot, role-based, chain-of-thought, multimodal — these are how AI works as a category, not how one model works. They've survived multiple model generations and they'll survive the next.
They say"I can find prompt techniques on YouTube for free."
You sayYou can. The course teaches how to combine techniques into workflows for your real work, build a prompt portfolio that proves your level, and apply the moves across modalities. YouTube teaches concepts. The course installs practice.
They say"Six hours of asynchronous sounds like homework."
You sayIt's foundational reinforcement that frees the classroom days for advanced work. Self-paced, fully digital, and most learners welcome it once they see how much it raises the floor before day one.
They say"Will this matter for non-marketing roles?"
You sayExplicitly yes. The audience includes educators, product communicators, learning designers and storytellers. Cases are drawn from across knowledge work. The techniques transfer wherever AI is used to produce content with judgement.
They say"How is this different from the other prompting courses?"
You sayWrite Effective AI Prompts is the foundational one-day course for marketers. This is the multimodal, technique-led masterclass for practitioners across roles. Many learners take Write Effective first, then return for this one when they're producing daily and want to go deeper.
The questions nobody asks until they ask

What buyers are really thinking, answered.

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Is there a prerequisite course?+
Not formally, but equivalent exposure is expected. Most learners arrive having completed WSQ AI-Driven Content, Write Effective AI Prompts, or having used AI daily for six months or more. If you're unsure, talk to The Enablers — they'll calibrate honestly.
What's actually different from the foundational AI prompting course?+
The foundational course teaches structured prompting for marketing content. This course teaches seven named advanced techniques (chain-of-thought, multimodal, constraint-driven, etc.) applied across text, visuals, video, audio and slides. It's a different kind of depth, for a more experienced learner.
Will the asynchronous portion suit my schedule?+
Yes. The six hours of async are self-paced, fully digital and built to be completed in the two weeks around the classroom days. Most learners do them in two to three sittings between work commitments.
Can educators use this for their teaching practice?+
Yes — explicitly. Educators are a core audience. The techniques become the way you teach AI to your students, and the prompt portfolio doubles as teaching material. We can run dedicated educator cohorts for polytechnics, universities and schools.
What does the prompt portfolio look like?+
A curated collection of advanced prompts you've built across multiple modalities (text, image, video, audio), with the outputs they produced and the refinement decisions you made. It's structured around real-world scenarios — education, marketing, product communication, storytelling — chosen by you for relevance to your work.
What tools do we use?+
Designs.ai is the primary platform — the most genuinely multimodal AI tool in our stack (text, image, video, audio, slides under one ecosystem). The techniques transfer to other LLMs and tools, but Designs.ai lets us teach all five modalities under one workflow.
The operational questions

Everything an organiser asks before confirming.

The detail that turns interest into a confirmed cohort.

Duration
22 hours total — 16 hours classroom over 2 days, plus 6 hours asynchronous.
Format
Classroom days in-person preferred. Async modules fully digital and self-paced.
Cohort size
10 to 14 learners. Smaller than the foundational courses for advanced material density.
Materials
Designs.ai access, prompt libraries, async modules and portfolio templates all provided.
Case material
Your real work. Private institutional cohorts use your context — curriculum, campaigns, communications.
Institution cohorts
Polytechnics, universities, schools and corporate teams. Custom case material loaded pre-cohort.
Subsidy admin
SkillsFuture Credit and SSG eligibility checks handled by The Enablers. Institutional funding routes explored case-by-case.
Next intake
Upcoming intakes — speak to The Enablers
Trainer
Assigned at cohort confirmation — bios provided
Live Intake dates and trainer assignment are pulled from the Pixlr Academy operations base. The Enablers update them centrally; this page reflects the latest.
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