AI Foundations for Small Business
From zero to opportunity spotter.
A practical foundations course for small-business owners, IT partners, IT consultants, and internal AI champions. Learn the tool landscape, prompting, AI opportunity mapping, privacy risks, ROI sizing, discovery conversations, and how to pitch useful AI work to a business owner.
About 360 minutes.
Lessons
- What AI Actually Is (and Isn't) (30 min)
- The AI Tool Landscape (30 min)
- How to Prompt (30 min)
- Beyond Chat: Agents, Automations, and APIs (30 min)
- AI for SMB: Where the Real Value Lives (30 min)
- Industry Playbooks (30 min)
- Data, Privacy, and Risk (The Boring Stuff That Matters) (30 min)
- Build vs. Buy vs. Configure (30 min)
- Sizing the Opportunity (30 min)
- How to Run a Discovery Conversation (30 min)
- Pitching AI to an SMB Owner (30 min)