Inside CampusAI’s mission to shut the AI coaching hole for on a regular basis staff — test it out at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

As corporations push to extend effectivity and keep aggressive, they’re encouraging, or in some instances outright requiring, staff to know how you can use AI instruments. Nevertheless, the push for AI use has uncovered a coaching hole. 

“There are few options out there in the marketplace which are devoted to non-technical folks,” Aureliusz Gorski, founder and CEO of Warsaw-based CampusAI, informed TechCrunch. 

CampusAI’s answer? An academic platform targeted on making studying accessible to on a regular basis individuals who wish to convey AI into their on a regular basis workflows — whether or not that’s to assist enhance gross sales, HR, authorized, or simply give your private branding a lift with AI. The platform goals to assist folks perceive and work with AI, fairly than be intimidated by it. 

The Polish startup spoke to TechCrunch forward of the TechCrunch Disrupt convention, the place it’s a Startup Battlefield Prime 20 finalist. CampusAI’s essential product is a complete on-line studying ecosystem with two key elements: programs that includes an avatar-based studying mannequin and a digital campus within the metaverse the place customers can be taught extra expertise, join with others, take part in neighborhood initiatives, and extra. Consider it like Roblox for adults.

CampusAI affords its studying platform on to shoppers or to companies that wish to create AI upskilling paths for workers. The startup says it gives entry to dozens of AI fashions — from ChatGPT and Gemini to Midjourney and Flux — so customers can experiment and be taught in a single place while not having to join separate accounts and subscriptions. The group additionally updates programs every single day to maintain up with the quick tempo of technological change. 

CampusAI’s flagship course for shoppers is known as Me+AI, priced at $250 per yr, and it permits college students to personalize their studying expertise. The B2B product, referred to as Staff+AI, is priced at $25,000 per yr.  

“We’re serving to with the implementation of the human plus AI readiness tradition [within companies], serving to corporations go easily with this transition,” Gorski stated. 

The primary three weeks of Staff+AI embody an AI readiness take a look at for the group, a workshop for managers, and a webinar for your entire group. The final 4 weeks function customized improvement paths for workers which were tailored to satisfy  firm targets.  

“You’ll be able to are available as an expert of a discipline, say, an HR professional, or somebody who works in finance, and then you definately’ll discover a batch of programs for your self,” Aleksandra Przegalińska, an AI researcher and scientific adviser to CampusAI, informed TechCrunch. “CampusAI is able to getting ready particular pathways for particular organizations to allow them to do a tailored method.” 

CampusAI’s studying methodology relies off Przegalińska and Jemielniak’s analysis on human-AI collaboration for improved enterprise outcomes and complicated problem-solving. The method facilities on utilizing prompting methods to develop AI consultants that assist people in enhancing their capabilities.

As such, CampusAI college students have entry to the corporate’s immediate e-book, which not solely affords a repository of prompts, but in addition coaches college students to learn to construct higher prompts. Throughout the digital campus atmosphere, college students also can go to the “AI Health club” — a platform the place college students deal with focused workout routines and challenges created by an AI agent that gives ongoing evaluation. 

“We wish to construct an atmosphere the place you don’t delegate duties to AI, however fairly, you’re employed with it in a number of completely different modalities,” Przegalińska stated. “You’ll be able to work in parallel with it, it might probably develop into your teammate, your sparring accomplice, your critic, or your coach. We consider this know-how as one thing that’s enhancing your work, not one thing that’s taking on your work.” 

CampusAI claims its programs produce a measurable ROI, with staff changing into 40% extra environment friendly and 60% extra glad with their jobs. And the two-year-old firm seems to have had some critical traction.

“It was large success in Poland within the first two weeks,” Gorski stated, noting the corporate launched in 2023. “We received over 600 purchasers who determined to purchase our lifetime membership, and from that second, we grew to 35,000 customers.” 

CampusAI additionally boasts 60 enterprise clients, together with ING, T-Cell, Lenovo, and Ikea, and is on monitor for greater than $2 million in ARR in 2025. The corporate is at present elevating a $20 million Collection A to assist it increase to 40 markets by 2030. CampusAI, which affords its program in the present day in Polish, English, and Spanish, has lately expanded into the U.Ok. and the U.S., with a give attention to constructing B2B gross sales earlier than branching into D2C.  

Customers who full the programs and wish to uncover extra could be invited to affix Neighborhood+AI, a digital hub for members to attach, share information, and collaborate on initiatives — like hAI Journal, a web based journal the place customers can share sector-specific insights.  

Past its studying atmosphere, Gorski stated CampusAI’s digital twin know-how has develop into a significant worth proposition. As a substitute of simply working its personal digital campus, CampusAI desires to construct and license digital twins of real-life college campuses, company showrooms, authorities establishments, or firm headquarters for organizations’ unique use. The digital twins product begins at $100,000 per yr.  

CampusAI lately secured €18 million from the European Fee to collaborate with 11 universities throughout 10 nations — together with Greece, Spain, the U.Ok., France, Luxembourg, and Germany — to create digital twins and customised studying environments for college students.  

Gorski views these college partnerships as launchpads for native innovation hubs — an method knowledgeable by his seven years at Cambridge Innovation Heart, the place he created over 10 applications to develop Warsaw’s startup neighborhood. These digital environments are designed as catalysts for constructing native communities and digital districts, finally making a social platform tailor-made for entrepreneurs. 

He emphasised that fostering sturdy native ecosystems is crucial to counter huge tech dominance. 

“We imagine folks ought to give attention to constructing sturdy native ecosystems, as a result of if not, the subsequent 5 years will most likely have much less and fewer startups, particularly after what we noticed lately with OpenAI offering extra options inside one ecosystem,” he stated. 

If you wish to be taught extra about CampusAI from the corporate itself — whereas additionally trying out dozens of others, listening to their pitches, and listening to visitor audio system on 4 completely different phases — be a part of us at Disrupt, October 27 to 29 in San Francisco. Be taught extra right here.