ReCo · SCHOOL OF WORK

ReCo · Content &
AI Innovation Consultancy

30-Day AI Internship-Learning Accelerator

Fast-track your future. In 30 days.

ReCo School of Work students and team members participating in a work-learning initiative program

In 30 Days, You'll Move from Student to AI-Ready Professional

Work on real AI marketing projects for real clients. Build a portfolio that proves you can build. Leave with a certificate, a reference and the confidence to take on the world.

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UNSW WIL Partner

UNSW WIL Partner

Partnership with UNSW Art & Design Work Integrated Learning (WIL).

UPenn, Cornell, Duke, Berkeley

UPenn, Cornell, Duke, Berkeley

Through University of Sydney Study Abroad.

12+ Projects Delivered

12+ Projects Delivered

By 30+ students in 3 years, including ReCo’s flagship event, ReCo LIVE.

What You'll Learn in 30 Days

Created for Design, Marketing and AI Students & Graduates

1

Strategy & Creative Thinking

Learn how to solve real business problems with human skills and AI. Brand psychology, audience insight, campaign strategy. The decision-making process that juniors will never be able to touch.

You’ll use AI to research, design, and produce faster — but you’ll stay in control. Judgment stays human. Creativity stays yours. AI amplifies what you do — it doesn’t replace you.

2

Hands-On Campaign Execution

Roll out real campaigns. Create content. Test in market. Iterate based on feedback. You'll learn by doing, making mistakes and accumulating experience.

You’ll work on a real business brief, not a simulation. You’ll build a brand from scratch — strategy, positioning, visual identity, and market testing. Every decision is grounded in real audience insight, not guesswork.

3

AI-Powered Workflow

Learn how to use AI to scale your work. You'll work inside our own AI stack and proprietary content system, solving problems faster and smarter.

You’ll test your work in the real market. You’ll see how audiences respond, gather feedback, and iterate based on evidence. You’ll learn what works — and why.

4

Cross-Cultural Collaboration

Work alongside students from UNSW, UPenn, Cornell, Duke, Berkeley and other global institutions, and local Australian students. Build a network that spans the world.

Words from Alumni
UNSW & USyd WIL Program

“ReCo is doing genuinely interesting work at the intersection of AI and marketing. What stood out to me was how much trust Danling puts in us, giving us real projects that shape a business. It’s exciting to learn how AI is being woven into everything from content creation to client outreach.”

Nia Jikia

Cornell University (USA)

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Information Science

"ReCo is an amazing place to learn and grow because of the range of projects you work on in such a small amount of time. Learning strategy, marketing and client communication all in one was an amazing experience. I would consider Danling a mentor to me who has been critical in guiding my later career too. I am immensely grateful for the opportunities I had at ReCo and look back on my time so fondly."

Noah Kirby

University of York (UK)

BSc Economics with year abroad (Hons)

"Being part of ReCo LIVE 2025 was a real highlight. It was fast-paced, creative and exciting, bringing together emerging technology and AI with thoughtful conversations about the future of the industry. I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to work alongside Danling Xiao. I came away from ReCo with new skills and perspectives, but most of all with a renewed sense of what’s possible when technology, creativity and human thinking come together."

Mary Walker

DH Heidenheim (Germany)

Bachelor of Business Administration

"ReCo gave me the opportunity to work on real-world projects and see how AI can be used across technology, business, design, and marketing. It also helped me understand how businesses can adapt as AI changes the way people search and work."

Eishi Sano

Monash University

Master of Information Technology

“ReCo to me isn't just a small creative design studio, it's an open space for marketing, design, and IT engineers to work together, share ideas, and mix different strategies to make things work and grow the business. I've picked up so many new AI tools. AI is only going to keep growing, so learning how to actually use it well in real work projects has been such a valuable experience for me.”

Blair Chheang

La Trobe University

Bachelor of Business

"My internship at ReCo was a valuable opportunity to apply my design skills in a real professional environment while exploring the possibilities of AI-assisted workflows, digital content and social media strategy. The team gave me the trust and flexibility to experiment with new ideas, and their guidance helped me become more confident, adaptable and thoughtful in the way I approach design and technology."

Holiday Wang

UNSW

Master of Design

"If you're considering an internship in design, ReCo is genuinely one of the most supportive places to grow. The team culture is warm and collaborative, mentorship is hands-on and generous with time, and you'll come away with real skills and a lot of confidence in your own design thinking. I couldn't have asked for a better place to start."

Tsai-Hsuan Wu (Ashley)

UNSW

Bachelor in Industrial Design

"Danling has been an incredibly supportive mentor from the very beginning, always encouraging everyone to get involved in new initiatives and bring their ideas to the table. ReCo’s interactive and well-organised work culture made it easy to collaborate, experiment, and think creatively. I truly enjoyed being part of such an inspiring team."

Akshata Iyer

UNSW

Master of Design

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Learn Directly from
ReCo Founder, Danling Xiao

Born in China, Danling Xiao moved to Australia to study at 17. She's learnt the hard way what it's like to start from scratch, to adapt and to build a career in a foreign country.

Born in China, Danling Xiao moved to Australia to study at 17. She’s learnt the hard way what it’s like to start from scratch, to adapt and to build a career in a foreign country.

Danling is passionate about creating opportunities for the next generation, especially overseas students in Australia. She believes everyone deserves the same opportunity to learn, build and dream. And the best way to learn is by doing, alongside someone who's done it.

Danling is passionate about creating opportunities for the next generation, especially overseas students in Australia. She believes everyone deserves the same opportunity to learn, build and dream. And the best way to learn is by doing, alongside someone who’s done it.

Next Accelerator Intake:
November 2026, 10 Positions Only

Contact us to schedule a personalised consultation.

Next Accelerator Intake:
November 2026, 10 Positions Only

Contact us to schedule a personalised consultation.

Next Accelerator Intake:
November 2026, 10 Positions Only

Contact us to schedule a personalised consultation.

Projects Co-Created by
Past Students

Building Custom AI to Solve the Food Waste Problem for Radish Events

Radish Events

Resilient Sydney: Rebranding a Global Initiative with 33 Sydney Local Councils

Resilient Sydney

Candice Mattiske, Content Creative Group Lead, Canva, at ReCo LIVE 2025.

Using AI to Build a Thought Leadership Event in 7 weeks: ReCo LIVE 2025

ReCo Project

Viral Content Creation: Turning Everyday Objects Into Viral Instagram Content for Mundane Matters

ReCo Project

Wasteland Art Installation: Turning Marine Debris Into a Sustainability Story | ReCo

City of Sydney (Art & About) · Wasteland

Luxury Travel Marketing: Digital Audit & Ongoing Advisory for Basalt Orange

Basalt

Crafted Liberation by RK Collective: Digital storytelling through website and social media

RK Collective

ReCo team standing in front of the Circular Sydney T-shirt exhibition window, with sustainably made T-shirts on display

Building an AI-Assisted Thought Leadership Library for Circular Sydney

ReCo Projects supported by City of Sydney

A mum with a baby receiving a container from a delivery person

How Reco Refill Used Social Signalling to Drive Adoption of Sustainable Living

ReCo Project

A diagram on blurry background showcases ReCo's agentic AI content system

Building an Agentic AI Content System to Streamline Research-Led Content Production

ReCo Project

Cultural Branding: Transforming Flyover from a Cult Chai Bar to an Indian Cuisine Icon

Flyover

Leila Jeffreys website homepage showing a carousel of bird photography

Bridging Art and the Digital Space: Website Strategy & Design for Leila Jeffreys

Leila Jeffreys

City of Sydney: Brand Systems, Campaign Roll-Out & Community Engagement

City of Sydney

Redesigning a Clinic's Website and Content System: 12x ROI in 3 months

Sun Health Clinic

Image showing user journey mapping and personas

From Research to Launch: Designing a Corporate Catering Innovation Pilot

Confidential

Bayer Australia: Millions of Live Streams on Cross-Border Event Activation

Bayer Australia (via Sussex Australasia)

Shipping an AI-Ready Website in 3 weeks Using Claude & Framer

ReCo Project

Projects Co-Created by
Past Students

Building Custom AI to Solve the Food Waste Problem for Radish Events

Radish Events

Resilient Sydney: Rebranding a Global Initiative with 33 Sydney Local Councils

Resilient Sydney

Candice Mattiske, Content Creative Group Lead, Canva, at ReCo LIVE 2025.

Using AI to Build a Thought Leadership Event in 7 weeks: ReCo LIVE 2025

ReCo Project

Viral Content Creation: Turning Everyday Objects Into Viral Instagram Content for Mundane Matters

ReCo Project

Wasteland Art Installation: Turning Marine Debris Into a Sustainability Story | ReCo

City of Sydney (Art & About) · Wasteland

Luxury Travel Marketing: Digital Audit & Ongoing Advisory for Basalt Orange

Basalt

Crafted Liberation by RK Collective: Digital storytelling through website and social media

RK Collective

ReCo team standing in front of the Circular Sydney T-shirt exhibition window, with sustainably made T-shirts on display

Building an AI-Assisted Thought Leadership Library for Circular Sydney

ReCo Projects supported by City of Sydney

A mum with a baby receiving a container from a delivery person

How Reco Refill Used Social Signalling to Drive Adoption of Sustainable Living

ReCo Project

A diagram on blurry background showcases ReCo's agentic AI content system

Building an Agentic AI Content System to Streamline Research-Led Content Production

ReCo Project

Cultural Branding: Transforming Flyover from a Cult Chai Bar to an Indian Cuisine Icon

Flyover

Leila Jeffreys website homepage showing a carousel of bird photography

Bridging Art and the Digital Space: Website Strategy & Design for Leila Jeffreys

Leila Jeffreys

City of Sydney: Brand Systems, Campaign Roll-Out & Community Engagement

City of Sydney

Redesigning a Clinic's Website and Content System: 12x ROI in 3 months

Sun Health Clinic

Image showing user journey mapping and personas

From Research to Launch: Designing a Corporate Catering Innovation Pilot

Confidential

Bayer Australia: Millions of Live Streams on Cross-Border Event Activation

Bayer Australia (via Sussex Australasia)

Shipping an AI-Ready Website in 3 weeks Using Claude & Framer

ReCo Project

Projects Co-Created by
Past Students

Building Custom AI to Solve the Food Waste Problem for Radish Events

Radish Events

Resilient Sydney: Rebranding a Global Initiative with 33 Sydney Local Councils

Resilient Sydney

Candice Mattiske, Content Creative Group Lead, Canva, at ReCo LIVE 2025.

Using AI to Build a Thought Leadership Event in 7 weeks: ReCo LIVE 2025

ReCo Project

Viral Content Creation: Turning Everyday Objects Into Viral Instagram Content for Mundane Matters

ReCo Project

Wasteland Art Installation: Turning Marine Debris Into a Sustainability Story | ReCo

City of Sydney (Art & About) · Wasteland

Luxury Travel Marketing: Digital Audit & Ongoing Advisory for Basalt Orange

Basalt

Crafted Liberation by RK Collective: Digital storytelling through website and social media

RK Collective

ReCo team standing in front of the Circular Sydney T-shirt exhibition window, with sustainably made T-shirts on display

Building an AI-Assisted Thought Leadership Library for Circular Sydney

ReCo Projects supported by City of Sydney

A mum with a baby receiving a container from a delivery person

How Reco Refill Used Social Signalling to Drive Adoption of Sustainable Living

ReCo Project

A diagram on blurry background showcases ReCo's agentic AI content system

Building an Agentic AI Content System to Streamline Research-Led Content Production

ReCo Project

Cultural Branding: Transforming Flyover from a Cult Chai Bar to an Indian Cuisine Icon

Flyover

Leila Jeffreys website homepage showing a carousel of bird photography

Bridging Art and the Digital Space: Website Strategy & Design for Leila Jeffreys

Leila Jeffreys

City of Sydney: Brand Systems, Campaign Roll-Out & Community Engagement

City of Sydney

Redesigning a Clinic's Website and Content System: 12x ROI in 3 months

Sun Health Clinic

Image showing user journey mapping and personas

From Research to Launch: Designing a Corporate Catering Innovation Pilot

Confidential

Bayer Australia: Millions of Live Streams on Cross-Border Event Activation

Bayer Australia (via Sussex Australasia)

Shipping an AI-Ready Website in 3 weeks Using Claude & Framer

ReCo Project

CASE STUDY

Learn How Our Past Alumni Built A Website in 3 Weeks with Framer & Claude

We rebuilt our site with Framer and Claude in 3 weeks. Not a linear approach, but as 5 concurrent workstreams. Here’s how we worked, what broke and why you still need expertise with AI.

ReCo's AI-ready website built in Framer, showing the homepage layout and navigation.

Life at ReCo

Cohorts, studio days and the occasional cake. Moments from our work-learning program in Sydney.

Cohorts, studio days and the occasional cake. Moments from our work-learning program in Sydney.

Three people in the ReCo Rosebery studio lounge, one kneeling on the grey rug and one seated in a black armchair, with a cat nearby and framed artwork on the wall.
Students gathered around a long wooden table sharing takeaway food boxes in a UNSW Art & Design studio with a blue timber ceiling and stained-glass window.
Group selfie of about nine smiling ReCo students and staff crowded together indoors, several making peace signs, on the final day of Term 2.
Design mentor Robyn standing and talking with the ReCo team, who are seated around a table with open laptops in the studio.
Three people smiling around a wooden table at an outdoor cafe, with paper cups and a number 20 table marker, at Holiday's farewell lunch.
ReCo team members seated around a low table with laptops and plates of lamington cake in a sunlit studio room.
Four people posing together on a balcony with autumn trees behind them, one making a peace sign, celebrating Holiday's last day.
Group photo of the ReCo interns gathered around a table with a laptop, smiling towards the camera in the studio.
Six people seated around a long wooden table in a brick-walled restaurant at night, smiling at the camera.
A large group seated around a white boardroom table with laptops, notebooks and sticky notes, in a room lined with display cabinets and framed pictures.
Several people leaning over a studio bench to photograph pastries in an open box with their phones, beside a tall arched window.
Six people gathered around a long pale table in a cafe hung with dried flowers, one waving at the camera.
A group in conversation along a long pink table under pink neon lights, in a restaurant with concrete columns and breeze-block walls.
A grey-and-cream cat standing on a laptop sleeve on a wooden table, with someone smiling behind and sunlight coming through tall windows.
Three people talking in a sunlit living room, seated on a leather sofa and an armchair beside floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking trees.
Two people working at a table with laptops and water bottles, one making a peace sign, with a cat on a side table and a park view through the window.
Three people working on laptops in outdoor chairs on a sunny balcony, beside a whiteboard, with trees and a park behind.
Four people around a long wooden table with laptops and pastries in a studio, two waving at the camera, a clothing rack behind them.
Four people smiling around a table of shared noodle and rice bowls, beneath a vintage Fanta sign.
A laptop screen showing a four-person video call, with a webcam clipped to the top of the screen.
Someone working at a laptop across a long white desk under a warm orange wall, with cables, a hard drive and sticky notes in the foreground.
Group selfie of six people smiling in the office, in front of a white brick wall.
Four people around a low table with a chalkboard sign reading "you can just Do Things", a plant and a bowl of fruit and snacks.
A person standing on a white cyclorama in a photography studio beside a softbox light, a stool and a small table.
Two people making peace signs in a metal-clad lift, carrying bags.
Two people setting up a DSLR on a tripod over a white-clothed table with glassware, in a bright living room.
Four people washing up and clearing dishes in a home kitchen, one making a peace sign, one smiling close to the camera.
Two people at a table with laptops and a large hand-drawn storyboard, a cat standing on the table beside them.
Someone smiling at a cafe table with a raspberry-topped pavlova on a plate in front of them.

Program Structure: The 30-Day Sprint

4 stages. Exponential growth.

1

Foundations

Onboarding, brief lands, teams self-organise. Design sprint, a rough but testable version 1. Builds teamwork, role-splitting and early concept.

2

Launch & Learn

First results in; second test round begins. Keep designing while the market responds. Refine direction by group consensus. Builds time management, data sense and critical thinking.

3

Iterate & Prove

Design nears completion; final round of testing goes live. Fine-tune details and gather final signal. Prepares you for presentation, reflection and portfolio craft.

4

Showcase & Graduate

Present your work to clients, partners and peers. Receive your certificate and reference letter. Graduate with a portfolio that proves you can build.

Application Criteria

Our programs are built for ambitious students and recent graduates ready to do real work.

Our programs are built for ambitious students and recent graduates ready to do real work.

Areas of Study

Areas of Study

University student or graduate within 5 years in:


  • Art & design

  • Business & marketing

  • AI engineering & data science

Location & Language

Location & Language

  • Sydney-based (on-site) or remote (online).

  • Open to Australian and international students.

  • English proficiency at a conversational level.

Commitment

Commitment

Full-time availability for the 30-day program.

Accelerator Program Options

In-Person

Duration

30 days

Location

Sydney

What’s included

AI tool full access

Direct learning from mentors

Events & industrial partner visit

ReCo training & internship certificate

Tuition

$5,000 AUD

Remote

Duration

30 days

Location

Online

What’s included

AI tool full access

Virtual collaboration

ReCo training & internship certificate

Tuition

$3,000 AUD

Information for
International Applicants

Contact us to schedule a personalised consultation

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Plan Your Stay in Sydney

We've partnered with trusted providers to make your stay easier.

Accommodation: Partnership with secure, convenient student housing.

Visa: Dedicated visa agent in China to support your application.

Safety: Essential tips and emergency contacts provided.

Living costs: Budget $2,500–$3,000 AUD for 30 days.

Insurance: Travel/health insurance strongly recommended.

Next Accelerator Intake:
November 2026, 10 Positions Only

Contact us to schedule a personalised consultation.

Next Accelerator Intake:
November 2026, 10 Positions Only

Contact us to schedule a personalised consultation.

Next Accelerator Intake:
November 2026, 10 Positions Only

Contact us to schedule a personalised consultation.

Accelerator Program FAQs

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