Full lesson-by-lesson breakdown
Every lesson inside the certification, listed in order across three parts — Think, Work, and Automate. Built to be applied to real work the next day. No code, no jargon.
← Back to certificationPart 1: Foundation — Think With AI
Understand what AI is, how it thinks, where it fails, and how to direct it. Build the mental model everything else stands on.
Introduction to AI
- 1What Is AI?
- 2How AI Adapts to You
The Evolution and Future of AI
- 1Where AI Came From and Where It's Going
- 2When Knowledge Stopped Being Power
- 3Adapt and Thrive as the World Changes
The Oh Wow Showcase
- 1AI Writing
- 2AI Research
- 3AI Image Creation
- 4AI Video Creation
- 5AI Audio Creation
- 6AI Avatar Creation
- 7AI Agents & Automation
- 8AI App Building
- 9AI on the Body
How to Think With AI
- 1Understanding Hallucinations
- 2How to Fact-Check AI
- 3How AI Thinks — and Why That Matters
How to Work With AI
- 1What is a Prompt — and How to Direct Intelligence (CRISP)
- 2Google vs. AI: Retrieval vs. Interaction
- 3The AI Reliability Loop — D.R.I.V.E.
Real-Life AI
- 1AI at Work: Communication
- 2AI at Work: Documents & Presentations
- 3AI at Work: Analysis & Insight
- 4AI at Home
- 5AI for Personal Growth
Getting on Top of Your Future
- 1Your AI Advantage
- 2Your Human Advantage
Part 2: Practice — Work With AI
Apply AI to the actual work you do — writing, analysis, research, communication, decisions. Build the workflows that give you back hours.
Advanced Prompting Craft
- 1Improve Prompt Results by Teaching AI Who You Are
- 2Prompt AI to Make it Think Out Loud
- 3Iterate Results, Don't Restart Prompts
- 4The Reverse Prompt
- 5Building Your Personal Prompt Library
Your AI Setup
- 15 Essential AI Platforms
- 2Multi-Platform Workflows
- 3AI Personalization
- 4Build Your First Assistant
- 5Teach AI Your Brand
- 6Picking the Right Model: A Thought Process for Cost, Capability, and Fit
Putting AI to Work
- 1Working with Long Documents: Beyond Summarization
- 2Turning Policies Into Checklists
- 3Using AI Safely
- 4Working with Data: Analysis, Charts, and Insights
- 5Mastering Research and Synthesis
AI in Everyday Life
- 1Judging AI Output Quality
- 2Turning Messy Notes into Quality Output
- 3AI that Works While You Sleep
- 4Turn AI into Your Ultimate Tutor
Part 3: Systems — Automate With AI
Stop doing the same tasks by hand. Chain tools together, automate the busywork, and put your best work on repeat.
The Automation Landscape
- 1From Tools to Systems: Why You Stop Doing Tasks and Start Building Pipelines
- 2Traditional Automation: Make, Zapier, n8n
- 3Automation Build: Your Daily Briefing
- 4Conversational Automation: Building Workflows by Talking
- 5Doing It Inside Claude (Cowork)
- 6What It Costs and What It's Worth
Autonomous Agents
- 1MCPs: The Universal Connector That Changes Everything
- 2The AI Agent Ladder & Landscape
- 3The AI Agent Autonomous Frontier
- 4How to Build an Agent: The Anatomy and Your First Build
- 5Inside An Office: A Team of Agents Running a Real Operation
Final Assessment & Project
- 1Final Assessment
- 2Final Project
By the end, you'll be able to:
- Direct AI to produce work you'd put your name on — and catch it when it's wrong
- Run your writing, research, and analysis through workflows that cut hours off your week
- Build automations and agents that handle the repeat work without you
- Ship a finished project and hold a certification that proves it