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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 a four-part way to ask AI for what you want, fix answers that miss, and leave with three tested prompt templates for your own weekly tasks.

2 hours Live, up to 10 people
2
Intermediate

07 — AI for Small Business & Nonprofits

Score where AI pays off in your organization, draft an update with zero invented numbers, and leave with a one-page AI policy your team can live with.

2 hours Live, up to 10 people
3
IntermediateAdvanced

09 — AI Automation Lab

Map one tedious task, then build one small working automation with an AI step in the middle and your approval before anything reaches a person.

2 hours Live, up to 10 people
4
Advanced

10 — Build Your First AI Agent

Design one small AI agent with written limits, run it, try to trick it, and leave with a tested spec and a run where it stopped and asked you.

2 hours Live, up to 10 people

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Labs in this path

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

Intermediate Follow-on lab · 2 hours · $99

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 Follow-on lab · 2 hours · $99

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 Follow-on lab · 2 hours · $99

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.

5 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.

5 classes 3 labs

AI for Nonprofits & Communities

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

4 classes 3 labs

Find Your AI Learning Group.

Bring one task you want to make easier. We organize a class when 10 people with similar work needs are interested. See the class details before you decide to enroll.