Learn AI at your own pace

Learn AI at your own pace: five-minute Claude tips with a prompt to copy, short courses with honest time estimates, and the Applied AI Playbook books. Free, plain English, for people who run a small business.

Claude tips and tricks

• Let Claude ask the questions first (3 min): Get a reply or document right the first time
• Give it the job, the reader and the goal (2 min): Turn a vague request into a useful draft
• Paste the real thing, not a description of it (2 min): Reply to a customer, vendor or employee
• Tell it what you don't want (2 min): Stop rewriting the same AI habits out of every draft
• Ask for three versions, then pick (3 min): Find the right tone for a touchy message
• Make Claude check its own work (3 min): Catch made-up facts before anything goes out
• Turn a long email thread into a decision (5 min): Get to the point of a thread that went on for days
• Pull the numbers that matter out of a long PDF (5 min): Read a contract, quote or report in two minutes instead of twenty
• Ask "what am I missing?" before you send (3 min): Spot the problem in a proposal, policy or plan before someone else does
• Have it explain things like you're new (3 min): Understand a term, clause or tech pitch without feeling lost

Courses

• The 60-Minute Chatbot (about 30 min)
• AI Foundations for Small Business (about 360 min)
• The 30-Day AI Champion Bootcamp (about 120 min)
• Copilot & Foundry: The Microsoft AI Stack for Small Business (about 360 min)
• The MCP Practitioner Course (about 1260 min)
• AI in 60 Minutes — Your First Real Workflow (about 60 min)
• Design an AI Workflow That Sticks (about 240 min)
• Build Your First AI Agent (about 480 min)
• Connect Your AI to Your Business Tools (about 165 min)
• Lock the Doors: AI Security Basics for a Small Office (about 135 min)
• Write Your Team's AI Rules in an Afternoon (about 145 min)
• Answer Customers Faster with AI (about 145 min)

Books

• The Applied AI Playbook: The complete 2027 SMB AI operating system.
• The AI-Ready Business: The owner's guide to evaluating, budgeting, and deploying AI.
• The AI Champion's Field Guide: The employee becoming the quiet AI leader.
• The 90-Day AI Sprint: A practical rollout plan from kickoff to measured workflow.
• AI By The Job: Role-by-role AI adoption across every department.
• The AI for Microsoft 365 Playbook: Make what you already pay for pay back.
• The Process Capture Playbook: Map the workflows. Own the agent rollout.
• The MCP Practitioner Playbook: Build, deploy, secure, and sell MCP-based services to SMBs.
• So You Wanna Be a Cowboy: A field guide for SMBs on the AI frontier.