Learn how AI systems actually get shipped.
A playful, evidence-first tour through two guides: the delivery craft (agents, RAG, evals, tracing) and the strategy layer above it (opportunity, adoption, governance, ROI). Bite-sized. Quizzed. Yours to finish over lunch.
🌱AI Foundations
From ChatGPT user to AI operator — the beginner path.
Welcome — Why This Course Exists
Most people use 5% of what AI can do. This course is about the other 95%.
How AI Actually Works (The 20% You Need)
You don't need a computer science degree. You need just enough to predict when AI will be brilliant and when it will confidently lie to you.
Prompting That Actually Works
Prompting isn't magic words. It's briefing a very capable, very literal new hire.
The 2026 Tool Landscape
Stop asking "which AI is best?" Start asking "which AI is best for this job?"
ChatGPT Beyond the Basics
You already use ChatGPT. This covers the 80% of it you've probably never touched.
Claude Essentials
Claude leans on writing quality, long documents, and honest pushback — and it's the tool this course uses for agents and connections.
In-Depth Research With AI
The difference between asking AI a question and running AI research is the difference between a Google search and hiring an analyst for a day.
Coding Agents for Non-Coders
The biggest secret in AI right now: "coding agents" are really "computer agents." You don't need to code to get enormous value from them.
MCP — Plugging AI Into Your Actual Tools
This is where AI stops being an app you visit and becomes a layer across everything you use.
Everyday AI Workflows — The Recipe Book
Ten complete, copy-paste workflows using what you've learned so far. Steal them, then adapt them.
No-Code Automation — Zapier & Make
Chat assistants respond when you ask. Automations run whether you're there or not.
AI for Marketing — Canva, Meta Ads & Google Ads
The platforms you already use now have serious AI inside them — and your assistant can increasingly operate them for you.
Building Your AI Operating System
Everything so far was components. This module is assembly — plus the 30-day plan to make it real.
Case Studies — Four Complete Worked Examples
Theory becomes skill when you watch it applied end to end.
Capstone — Build and Document Your AI Operating System
This module is not content to consume. It's a project to complete.
Working With Images
Show AI what you mean — and get pictures back.
Voice & Audio
Talk to AI, and make AI listen for you.
Video With AI
Hours of video, minutes of your time.
Spreadsheets & Data Cleanup
Stop fighting formulas. Describe what you want.
Email & Calendar Workflows
The two apps that eat your day, tamed.
Documents & PDFs
Long documents, short attention required.
Learning & Thinking With AI
A patient tutor that never judges, available at 11pm.
Fact-Checking & Spotting Hallucinations
Confidence is not accuracy. Here's the habit that protects you.
Privacy, Safety & Data Hygiene
Use AI confidently because you know where the lines are.
Cost & Plan Literacy
Pay for what compounds. Skip what doesn't.
Mobile & On-the-Go AI
Your most underrated AI device is already in your pocket.
Custom GPTs / Claude Projects (Beginner)
Build your first reusable assistant — no code, one afternoon.
Team & Family Use
AI competence spreads person-to-person. Be the person.
Capstone: Your Personal AI Operating System (One Page)
Everything you've learned, condensed to a single page you'll actually follow.
🛠️AI Delivery Skills & Workflows
How AI systems are actually built and shipped.
The Agentic Build Pattern
An agent is a control loop, not a personality.
RAG — When It's the Right Answer
Retrieval and generation are two systems. Evaluate them separately, or debug them never.
The Eval Workflow
Error analysis → judges → regression in CI. The skill clients cannot get from a demo.
Observability & Tracing
First in your build order, even though it's fourth on the page — error analysis needs traces to read.
Orchestration — n8n at Depth
You're not building workflows. You're building skeletons you clone — the difference between selling hours and selling assets.
Prompt Engineering at Production Quality
Prompts as versioned, schema-validated software, not vibes.
The Debugging Discipline
A five-trace drill: hypothesis first, answer overleaf.
🧭AI Strategy & Implementation
Where AI creates value — and why most initiatives fail.
The Evidence Base — Why Most AI Initiatives Fail
The failure rate is not a technology story. Every major study lands on the same cause: organizations that don't learn.
Competing in the Age of AI
Iansiti & Lakhani's frame, translated to your clients' scale.
Opportunity Selection — Which Workflows, Which Shape
Two axes, one bias to correct, and a shape ladder — replacing 'AI brainstorming' with an actual method.
Build, Buy, or Partner
Why internal builds fail at twice the rate — and when to build anyway.
The Adoption Playbook
OpenAI × Anthropic — the frontier labs' interlocking evidence.
Humans on the Jagged Frontier
The largest field experiment on AI and knowledge work — huge gains, a hidden cliff, and three working styles.
The Operating Model — Making the Organization Learn
Benefits follow organizational learning, not tool deployment.
The Agentic Enterprise
When the tool becomes a coworker — and the organization hasn't redesigned anything.
Governance That Enables Instead of Strangles
NIST AI RMF — four functions you can scale down to a one-page register without losing the logic.
Measuring What AI Is Worth
The ROI question destroys more AI programs than any technical failure.
The Engagement Arc & Opportunity Radar
One page mapping every finding onto your delivery pipeline — plus the templated lead-magnet.
⚡AI Builder
Ship your first real AI workflow — one integration at a time.
Your First Real Automation in n8n/Zapier
Trigger → AI step → action. One flow, end to end, running by tonight.
Connecting Your First API to AI
Read the docs, call one endpoint, use the response. The gateway skill.
RAG for One Document Set
Make AI answer from YOUR documents — one folder, one retriever, no vector-DB theology.
Writing Your First Skill / Project Rulebook
Turn an SOP into a capability the AI executes to your standard.
Prompt Libraries & Versioning
Your prompts are assets. Store, name, and evolve them like one.
Basic Evals for Your Own Workflows
"Seems good" is not a metric. Ten golden examples are.
Simple Guardrails
Decide what your workflow must never do — then enforce it in three layers.
Connecting One MCP Server (Consumer)
Plug your assistant into one real tool, grant the right permissions, ship one real task.
First Agent Loop in a Hosted Tool
Delegate one real task to Claude Code / ChatGPT agents / Cursor — and supervise like a pro.
Structured Output & JSON Mode
When output feeds a machine, shape is everything.
Cost & Latency Awareness
Tokens are the meter. Learn to read it before the bill teaches you.
Debugging AI Workflows
Find the failing step, build the minimum repro, fix the actual problem.
Working With Long Context
A million tokens is a capability, not a strategy.
Voice & Image in Workflows
Whisper-class transcription + vision, wired into pipelines — not just chats.
AI in the Browser
The browser is where work happens. Put an agent inside it.
Coding Agents for Non-Devs, Level 2
Lovable/Cursor + Supabase: from "AI organized my files" to "AI built our tool."
Data Pipelines With AI
CSV in, clean-enriched-loaded out — on a schedule, without you.
Meeting Intelligence Stack
Recorder → transcript → structured notes → CRM update. The pipeline that attends your meetings' paperwork.
Client-Ready Deliverables From AI
The gap between "AI made this" and "a professional shipped this" is a process. Build it.
Personal Metrics & Review Ritual
Measure your own AI ROI before you sell it, scale it, or preach it.
🛰️AI-Native Operator's Field Manual
Advanced tools, workflows, prompts & implementations for AI-native growth operators.
From Chatbots to Operating Systems
The three shifts that turned AI from advisor into operator.
Claude Code as the Agency OS
It's a general agent harness that happens to ship with coding defaults.
Skills: SOPs That Execute Themselves
The most important format of 2026, and the craft of authoring them.
The Skill Ecosystem
The repos worth installing, and hygiene rules for third-party skills.
MCP: The Integration Layer
State of the protocol, and the read-vs-write dividing line.
The Marketing MCP Stack
The seven-server reference architecture per engagement.
Gateways, Sprawl, and the Seven-Server Rule
The gateway pattern that keeps a real stack sane.
Lead Generation & GTM Engineering
Signal-driven plays that turn a stack into pipeline.
The Research System
Deep research, search APIs, and the doctrine that beats stuffing.
The Content Engine
LinkedIn, repurposing, and digital twins that produce voice, not slop.
GEO / AEO: Being the Answer, Not the Result
Optimize for AI citations, not just rankings.
Paid Media Automation: Read, Write, Retract
The three-layer model + the autonomy ladder to sell by rung.
The Automation Layer
n8n, Claude-native, and when to kill middleware.
Reporting & Dashboards
The client-facing surface that ends in an approval button.
Advanced Prompting in 2026
What still moves outcomes when prompting got absorbed into system design.
Context Engineering
The defining skill: what does the agent know at the moment of action.
Evals & Review Loops
The sharpest line between demo-ware and production.
Guardrails, Permissions & Safety Architecture
The moment an agent can spend money, engineering discipline is the product.
Building Products Fast
Lovable + Supabase + Claude API — the validated 2026 micro-product stack.
Mapping Capabilities to Sprint Offers
The sellable catalog: seven sprints + the umbrella retainer.
Demonstrable Proof
What you must be able to show live — the demo bench.
The 90-Day Implementation Roadmap
Days 1–30 Foundation · 31–60 Systems · 61–90 Market.
Pricing, Positioning & the Anti-Commodity Moat
Price against alternative headcount; moat via compounding library.
Master Resource Index
Every repo, directory, doc, and person worth bookmarking.
Badges & streaks
Earn a badge for every meaningful milestone. Come back daily to keep your streak alive.
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