AI basicsCourse
AI fundamentals for business
Find where AI actually gives your business hours back, before you buy another tool.
Pricing and dates announced soon
Overview
What you'll learn
You learn what today's AI tools can and cannot do, then find the few places in your own business where they save real hours. You finish with a scored list of opportunities and a measured 90-day plan.
- An ops map of a typical busy week, with time sinks and handoffs marked
- Problem statements and an opportunity scorecard
- A shortlist of AI patterns matched to real jobs
- Three small, reversible demos
- A 90-day roadmap with an hours-saved measure
- A simple monthly scorecard you will actually keep
Audience
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Small business owners and operators
- People who bought AI tools and saw nothing change
- Teams who want hours back this quarter
- Anyone allergic to jargon and keynote fantasy
Not the right fit for
- People looking for a data science career path
- Anyone hunting for a best-chatbot list
- Anyone who wants to skip the work map for a shiny demo
Outline
Course outline
7 modules. Each one ends with a short exercise you complete on your own work.
- Module 01
What AI can and cannot do
A plain-language tour of today's tools, where they help and where they fail, and the design thinking lens: design the work, then pick the tool.
- Module 02
Map your week
Map attract, convert, deliver, collect and support. Mark the owner, hours per week, handoffs and pain. Star the busywork and protect the work that needs you.
- Module 03
Problem statements that don't lie
Who struggles with what, in which situation, and what it costs in time, money or risk. No product names allowed.
- Module 04
Score the opportunities
Rate each problem for impact, ease, data and risk, then sort with an impact and ease matrix to find what to do now.
- Module 05
Five AI patterns
Drafting, summarizing, routing, lookup and classifying. Match patterns to jobs, not brands to fear of missing out.
- Module 06
Three reversible demos
An email assistant with a voice card and a human send, a follow-up reminder with a kill switch and an FAQ assistant that cites your own document.
- Module 07
90 days, measured
Lock the top two problems, set a baseline, run a 15-minute weekly scorecard, then harden, kill or expand. Plus the no-hype principles: human review, no invented facts, protected data.
Format
How it works
- How it runs
- Self-paced. Short video lessons you can take in any order that suits your week.
- Where
- Online, on any device.
- Materials
- Kickoff worksheet, ops map, problem statement cards, opportunity scorecard and matrix, email voice card and a 90-day plan template.
- Pricing and dates
- Announced soon. Join the waitlist and we will email you first.
FAQ
Questions
When does it start, and what does it cost?
Pricing and dates will be announced soon. Join the waitlist and we will email you first.
Do I need a technical background?
No. The course is written for owners and operators, in plain language, with examples from everyday small business work.
Will you tell me which tools to buy?
We show examples, but the point is matching AI patterns to your real jobs first. The course even suggests a pause on new tool purchases while you measure.
How is this different from Working with AI tools?
This course decides where AI should help in your business. Working with AI tools is the hands-on how-to for using assistants well once you know.
AI fundamentals for business
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