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Getting Started with AI
A free, 30-minute quickstart for complete beginners — what AI is, how to use it, and the safety habits that matter — with pointers to go deeper.
Prompting Basics: Get Great Results from AI
A free, 30-minute course on getting far better answers from AI — with the simple skills that actually work (and the 'magic prompt' myths that don't).
The Agent Loop: From Prompting to Agentic AI
You know how to write a good prompt. This short, free course adds the next idea: the loop that turns a one-shot answer into an AI that acts, checks its work, and keeps going until the goal is met.
AI Agents, Explained
A free, plain-language intro to the hottest topic in AI — what agents are, what they can and can't do, and how to use them safely.
AI for Your Job Search
A free, practical guide to using AI honestly and effectively for résumés, cover letters, interviews, and LinkedIn — and the ATS myths to ignore.
AI Image & Video Generation
A free intro to creating images and video with AI — the tools, how to prompt them, and the copyright, deepfake, and licensing rules you must know.
Spotting AI: Deepfakes, Misinformation & Verifying What Is Real
AI can now fake a photo, a video, a voice, and an entire news story convincingly enough to fool almost anyone. This short, free course teaches the calm, durable habits that let you check what is real — without needing to be a technical expert.
Using AI Safely and Privately
AI is part of everyday life. This short, free course gives you the calm, practical habits to use any AI tool without giving away your privacy, getting fooled by confident wrong answers, or falling for AI-powered scams — no technical background required.
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AI Fundamentals for Everyone
Understand what AI really is and how to use it well — no technical background needed.
Prompt Engineering Mastery
Get dramatically better results from any AI — the durable techniques plus how to prompt the new reasoning models.
AI for Everyday Life
Use AI assistants well in daily life — writing, planning, and learning — while staying safe from its real pitfalls: confident wrong answers, privacy traps, and AI-powered scams.
AI for Personal Productivity
Get real work done with AI — email, notes, planning, and research — without the hype. Where AI genuinely saves you time, the traps that quietly cost it back, and how to build a system that keeps your judgment in charge.
Master an AI assistant
Mastering ChatGPT
Get the most out of OpenAI's ChatGPT — from your first prompt to Custom GPTs, image generation, Deep Research, voice, memory, and agentic tasks. A complete, practical guide for beginners.
Mastering Claude
Get the most out of Anthropic's Claude — from your first prompt to Artifacts, Projects, document analysis, connectors, and agentic tasks. A complete, practical guide for beginners who want to use Claude well.
Mastering Gemini
Get the most out of Google's Gemini — from your first prompt to its Google Workspace superpower, Gems, Deep Research, image and video generation, and agentic tasks. A complete, practical guide for beginners.
By role
AI for Small Business & Solopreneurs
Use AI across your whole business — marketing, customer service, operations, and finance — without overspending, publishing slop, or putting your customers' data at risk. Practical, honest, and built for a team of one (or a few).
AI for Sales
Sell more with AI — prospecting, outreach, deals, and forecasting — without burning trust or your domain reputation.
AI for Marketing
Use AI across content, search, ads, email, and analytics — with the judgment and guardrails that keep quality and trust intact.
AI for HR & Recruiting
Use AI across hiring and HR — faster sourcing and screening — without the bias, legal, and trust traps that make this the riskiest place to deploy AI.
AI for Operations & Project Management
Run projects and operations with AI — automate the coordination, keep the judgment, and become the orchestrator.
AI for Product Managers
Use AI to do the slow parts of product management faster — research synthesis, PRDs, prototypes, and data — and make sharper decisions about when to build AI into your product. Honest about the limits.
AI for Finance & Accounting
Use AI across finance — analysis, forecasting, close, reporting — while keeping the accuracy, controls, and sign-off finance demands.
AI for Customer Support
Deploy AI in support the right way — resolve more, frustrate no one, and never let a bot invent a policy.
By industry
AI in Healthcare
How AI is really used across clinical and operational healthcare — the genuine wins, the safety and bias traps, and the HIPAA/FDA rules that make responsible deployment non-negotiable.
AI for Legal
Use AI in legal practice competently and ethically — capturing the real efficiency gains while avoiding the fabricated-citation sanctions and confidentiality traps that have caught lawyers at firms of every size.
AI in Financial Services
How AI is governed and deployed inside banks, insurers, and asset managers — model risk, fair lending, and the regulatory landscape that makes disciplined deployment non-negotiable.
AI for Real Estate
Use AI to win back time on listings, marketing, leads, and paperwork — while staying on the right side of fair housing, disclosure, and accuracy. The efficiency, and the compliance, explained for agents.
AI for E-commerce
Scale your store with AI — product content, images, personalization, support, and marketing — while staying on the right side of the law: no invented claims, no misrepresented products, no fake reviews. Practical and honest for online sellers.
AI in Education (for Educators)
Use AI to plan lessons, create materials, give feedback, and cut admin — while protecting student data, upholding integrity, and keeping teaching human. A practical, honest guide for teachers and school staff.
AI for Nonprofits
Help a small team do more with AI — grants, donor communications, marketing, and impact reporting — affordably and ethically. Where AI genuinely adds capacity, and the trust, data, and honesty lines you must never cross.
Build with AI
The Agent Loop: From Prompting to Agentic AI
You know how to write a good prompt. This short, free course adds the next idea: the loop that turns a one-shot answer into an AI that acts, checks its work, and keeps going until the goal is met.
Vibe Coding: Build a Real App with AI
Describe what you want and let AI build it — no coding background needed. Learn the workflow, the tools, and the honest limits so you build real, useful things without getting burned.
AI-Assisted Coding Done Right
Get real leverage from Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code — with the verification discipline that keeps quality and security intact.
Build Your First AI Agent
Go beyond chatbots. Build an AI agent that plans, uses tools, and gets real work done — starting with no-code tools anyone can use, and with the safety and reliability know-how the hype skips.
Context Engineering: Get the Right Information Into Your AI
The skill beyond prompting: deliberately deciding everything the model sees — instructions, examples, retrieved data, tools, and history — in the right amount and order. Why it matters, and how to do it well.
RAG & Grounding: Building AI on Your Own Data
Build AI that answers reliably from your documents — retrieval, reranking, evaluation, and production security.
Building Reliable AI Agents
Design, build, and ship AI agents you can actually trust in production — loops, tools, guardrails, and evaluation.
Building with the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Build, connect, and ship MCP servers — the open standard for giving AI models real tools and data.
Fine-Tuning & Model Customization
When and how to customize LLMs — prompting vs. RAG vs. fine-tuning, and the practical techniques (LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO) — without the classic mistake of using fine-tuning to add facts.
AI Safety & Red-Teaming
Test, harden, and govern LLM systems against misuse and failure — prompt injection, jailbreaks, agentic risks, and the defense-in-depth reality that there is no single fix.
Building Production LLM Applications
Ship real AI products — the stack, evaluation, guardrails, and operations that separate a demo from production.
Voice & Conversational AI
Build voice agents that feel natural — the STT→LLM→TTS pipeline vs. speech-native models, latency and turn-taking, and the cloning-fraud and disclosure law you can't ignore.
Create & automate
Writing Well with AI
Write faster and better with AI — without sounding generic or losing your voice. The 'AI drafts, you rewrite' workflow, how to avoid AI slop, keeping your voice, fact-checking, and the honest ethics of AI writing.
AI for Content Creators
Produce more, faster — without losing your voice. Use AI across the creator workflow (ideation, scripts, editing, repurposing, thumbnails, growth) where it genuinely helps, and keep the taste and authenticity that AI can't fake.
Creating with Generative AI: Images, Video & Audio
Make professional images, video, and audio with AI — the durable skills, the current tools, and the rights you need to know.
AI Video: Create Video with AI
Make real video by describing it — with Veo, Runway, Kling and more. How the tools work and where they fail, prompting for shots and camera moves, the production pipeline, and the copyright, consent, and disclosure rules you can't skip.
AI Search & GEO: Getting Found in the AI Era
Search now answers with AI, not just blue links. Learn how ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity choose what to cite — and how to make your business the answer, honestly and effectively.
Automating Your Work with AI (No-Code)
Build AI-powered workflows and agents that do your repetitive work — no coding required.
AI for Data Analysis
Analyze data faster with AI — get real answers you can trust, not confident guesses.
Your AI Tool Stack: Choosing & Combining AI Tools
Stop collecting AI tools. Build a stack that actually fits your work — and get real value from it.
Lead & govern
AI Strategy for Leaders
Turn AI from expensive experiments into real business value — the honest playbook for executives.
AI Governance for Teams
Adopt AI across your organization safely — policy, approval, oversight, and compliance without killing innovation.
Prompting AI in Regulated & Enterprise Environments
Get reliable, defensible answers from AI when the stakes are compliance, security, and accuracy.
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