What a half-day AI basics course actually covers

Most people do not need an AI strategy. They need four hours with someone who will sit down, open the tools, and use their real work as the material. That is the whole idea behind AI Basics — a half-day session for $1,000 that takes a business from curious to actually running something.

Who it is for

Owners and operators who have opened ChatGPT a few times and closed it again. Teams of two to ten who suspect they are behind. Individuals who want to be the person on their team who knows how this works. No technical background is assumed and nothing needs to be installed in advance.

What the four hours look like

• —Hour one: the landscape in plain language — what these tools do well, where they fail, and how to tell the difference before it costs you something.
• —Hour two: prompting that holds up. Not tricks. The structure that makes output usable on the first pass instead of the fifth.
• —Hour three: your work. We take two real tasks you repeat every week and rebuild them with AI in the loop.
• —Hour four: the guardrails. What never goes into a prompt, what always gets reviewed by a human, and how to keep quality consistent when someone else runs it.

What you leave with

Two working workflows, a short prompt library written for your business, and a one-page reference your team can follow without you in the room. That is the bar: something in production, not a set of notes.

How it fits with the bigger engagements

AI Basics is the entry point. If the half day makes it obvious there is more to unlock, the AI Readiness Audit maps where AI saves real hours across the whole business, and the six-week AI Fluency Program rebuilds the core workflows with your team. Plenty of businesses stop after the half day, and that is a fine outcome.