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AI for Small Business

Marketing, operations, customer service, automation, and decision support.

Owners and operators of small teams who wear every hat.
4 classes 3 labs 8–10 weeks

What you finish with

A prioritized AI opportunity map, two automated workflows, and your first working agent.

The sequence

Take them in this order. Each one assumes what the last one taught.

1
Beginner

02 — Prompting for Real Life

Learn how to communicate effectively with AI — context, roles, examples, refinement, and reusable templates.

4 hours 10 lessons
2
Intermediate

07 — AI for Small Business & Nonprofits

Use AI as a practical operating tool across marketing, communication, proposals, research, SOPs, and operations.

6 hours 13 lessons
3
IntermediateAdvancedHands-on Lab

09 — AI Automation Lab

Move beyond prompting into AI-powered workflows: triggers, actions, connected apps, and human-in-the-loop approval.

8 hours 14 lessons
4
AdvancedHands-on Lab

10 — Build Your First AI Agent

Introduce agentic AI — tools, memory, instructions, data, actions, guardrails, and approvals — and ship a working agent.

10 hours 15 lessons

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Labs in this path

Each lab pairs with a class above and produces something you keep.

Intermediate 2 hours

Create an AI Newsletter Workflow

Build the full pipeline for a recurring newsletter — source gathering, drafting, review, and scheduling — with a human approval step before anything sends.

You leave with
A working newsletter workflow with approval.

ClaudeZapierEmail platform
Intermediate 2 hours

Automate a Repetitive Office Task

Pick one genuinely tedious recurring task, map it, and automate it end to end — including error handling and a notification when something goes wrong.

You leave with
One automation running in production.

Zapier or MakeSheetsChatGPT
Advanced 4 hours

Build Your First AI Agent

Design and ship an agent with real tools, real data, real guardrails, and a human approval checkpoint on anything consequential.

You leave with
A working agent or complete agent blueprint.

Agent platformZapierYour data source

Other paths

AI for Me

Personal productivity, learning, organization, and everyday life.

4 classes 3 labs

AI for Families

Digital literacy and practical AI for households and multiple generations.

4 classes 3 labs

AI for Work

Productivity, communication, research, Microsoft 365, and workplace automation.

4 classes 3 labs

AI for Nonprofits & Communities

AI adoption, communications, fundraising support, program development, and community impact.

4 classes 3 labs

Your Next Level Starts Here.

You don’t need to become an AI expert overnight. You need a starting point, a practical roadmap, and opportunities to put what you learn into action.