The beginner AI course where you don't just learn — you do the work. Use AI on real business documents to build charts, reconcile payments, catch errors buried in a 1,000-row ledger, and draft the documents your business runs on.
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Inside an exercise: raw spreadsheet data in, a chart and a real recommendation out. (Illustration)
Learn it — or get left behind
Most people are still guessing with AI. The ones who learn to put it to real work are pulling ahead — getting noticed, getting promoted, and winning the business. This course makes you one of them.
Level up your skill set
Add the most in-demand skill of the decade to your toolkit — learned by doing, not by watching.
Set yourself above the rest
While others are still asking AI basic questions, you’re reconciling ledgers and drafting proposals in minutes.
Impress the boss
Walk into Monday’s meeting with the chart, the analysis and the recommendation already done.
Get ahead of your rivals
Business owners: finish in an afternoon what takes your competitors days — and spend the savings on growth.
Self-paced · Real business files · Certificate on completion
Why this course is different
Smart, capable people type a question into AI, get a mediocre answer, and decide it's overhyped — never realizing the problem was how they asked. Then the courses meant to help fire vocabulary at them. They leave knowing the terms and still can't use any of it.
The work you'll actually do
Every exercise drops you into a situation a real business faces, hands you the actual documents, and asks you to solve it with AI. No toy examples.
Two tabs — invoices sent, payments received. Have AI reconcile them, then verify every flag yourself. Learn to catch AI when it’s wrong, too.
A full year of a bakery’s real transactions. The books don’t add up. Use AI to triage the data and pinpoint what’s off.
Books say $76,266.33. The owner thinks something's off. You and AI find out what.
Turn a frustrated customer email into a calm, accountable reply — in the right tone, in seconds.
“This is the third time I've had to reach out…”
Pull decisions, action items and owners out of a long all-hands transcript — and learn why “just summarize it” misses things.
Key decisions · action items · owners
See how AI agents (MCP) plug into tools like Gmail to triage and draft for you — using a simulated inbox.
Turn workbooks into charts
Chart a year of revenue by channel and get a recommendation.
Pull numbers out of prose
Extract every cost buried in a renovation memo into a clean table.
Draft real business documents
SOPs, policies and proposals — starting from a real refund process.
The actual files you'll work with
The curriculum
You start with the fundamentals of asking well and finish running a full business analysis. Every exercise unlocks only after you've genuinely completed the one before it — so the skills stack.
Phase 1
Learn to talk to AI so it actually helps.
Stretch Your AI Muscles
Probe what AI knows about your industry — and where it falls short.
Draft the Perfect Email in Seconds
Answer a frustrated customer with a calm, accountable reply.
Your Second Brain
Use AI as a thought partner to plan a price increase for a cleaning company.
Iterate for Better Results
Turn a vague first answer into a sharp one through follow-ups.
One Step at a Time
Price 500 units with fees and margin using chain-of-thought reasoning.
Break It Down
Chain prompts to turn messy meeting notes into a clean task list.
Phase 2
Write and digest the documents a business runs on.
Drafting Business Documents
Build a professional SOP from a real customer refund process.
Spark Notes, Please
Summarize a long all-hands transcript into decisions and owners.
Phase 3
Where AI starts saving hours, not minutes.
Charting New Territory
Turn a revenue-by-channel workbook into charts and a recommendation.
Compare and Contrast
Reconcile invoices against payments and catch the real discrepancies.
Pull Out the Good Stuff
Extract every cost buried in a renovation memo into a clean table.
Found It!
Audit a bakery’s 1,000+ row ledger to find why the books don’t add up.
Phase 4
See where AI is heading next.
Well Connected
Learn how AI connects to tools like email (MCP) using a simulated inbox.
Phase 5
Put everything together on one real business.
Bringing It All Together
Rescue Marlowe’s business using eight real operating files.
The capstone
Marlowe's is in trouble — an overflowing inbox, a packed calendar, unhappy customers, a vendor contract nobody read, and a spreadsheet full of operating data. You get everything the owner has and use AI to figure out what's wrong and what to do about it.
Capstone Student Instructions
Your brief
Marlowes_Operations_Data.xlsx
Operations data
Inbox Export
Unanswered email
Calendar Export
Overbooked week
Customer Feedback
Reviews & complaints
Emergency Meeting Notes
What went wrong
Vendor Contract — Ridgeline
Terms to check
Schedule Notes
Staffing gaps
How it works
Step 1
Short slide lessons explain the why — then send you straight into practice.
Step 2
Open the real files right in the browser and work the problem with a built-in AI coach. Your conversation is saved.
Step 3
Message a real instructor anytime — text or screenshots — when you want a human.
Step 4
Finish all 14 exercises, collect your Skill Wall badges, and receive a certificate from your instructor.
Who it's for
Wearing every hat? Get hours back on email, documents, bookkeeping checks and planning.
Become the person on your team who knows how to make AI do the tedious work — accurately.
Summarize, analyze and decide faster — and know enough to lead your team’s adoption.
Add a practical, in-demand skill with a certificate to show for it.
CI Industries is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business in Sarasota, Florida. We train the way we were trained: clear mission, real conditions, repetition until it's second nature. This course is how we teach businesses to use AI — now open to everyone.
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
This certifies that
Your Name Here
has completed the CI Industries Beginner AI Course
Proof you can do it
You can't click through this course. Every exercise requires real work with the AI coach before it counts as complete — so when your instructor issues your certificate, it reflects skills you've actually used.
Pricing
No subscription. No upsells. If it saves you a single afternoon, it's paid for itself.
CI Industries Beginner AI Course
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Questions
No. The course starts from zero and assumes no coding or technical experience. If you can write an email and open a spreadsheet, you’re ready.
Every exercise has a built-in AI coach right in the course, so you don’t need to buy anything else. The skills transfer directly to tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot.
It’s self-paced. Work through an exercise on your lunch break or binge it over a weekend — your progress and AI conversations are saved.
No. Every exercise hands you a real business file — spreadsheets, ledgers, memos, inboxes — and you solve a real problem with AI. Short slide lessons explain the concepts; the exercises are where you learn.
Your AI coach helps inside every exercise, and you can message a real instructor anytime with text or screenshots.
Yes. After you complete all 14 exercises, your instructor issues a certificate of completion you can download as a PDF.
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Fourteen real exercises. A capstone you'll be proud of. One price — $99.99.