Free mini-course · 8 modules

Practical AI, one module at a time.

No sign-up, no drip-feed emails. Work through it at your own pace and tick modules off as you go. Each one ends with something you can use in your business the same day.

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  1. 01

    What AI can and cannot do for a small business

    A plain-English look at what these tools are genuinely good at, where they get things wrong, and how to check their work before it reaches a customer.

    OutcomeYou can tell the difference between a task worth handing to AI and one that is not.

  2. 02

    ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini — what to use when

    The practical differences between the main tools, what the free versions cover, and a simple rule for picking one instead of trialling all three forever.

    OutcomeYou have chosen one main tool and know why you chose it.

  3. 03

    Write better customer emails, SMS and follow-ups

    How to give the tool enough context to write in your voice, and how to build a small set of reusable replies for the messages you send every week.

    OutcomeThree saved replies you can reuse for common customer situations.

  4. 04

    Quotes, reports, PDFs and documents

    Working with documents: summarising, extracting details, drafting a quote structure, and checking figures yourself before anything goes out.

    OutcomeA repeatable way to get from a long document to a short list of actions.

  5. 05

    Marketing without sounding like AI

    Why generic AI copy reads badly, and how to feed in real details — your jobs, your suburb, your customers — so the writing sounds like you.

    OutcomeA short content approach you would be happy to put your name to.

  6. 06

    Build SOPs and a simple business knowledge base

    Turn what is in your head into written procedures, then keep them somewhere the whole team (and your AI tool) can actually use.

    OutcomeOne documented procedure for a job you currently explain out loud.

  7. 07

    Find repetitive work worth automating

    A short audit method: track where your week goes, score tasks by frequency and annoyance, and pick the one with the best payoff.

    OutcomeA shortlist of three tasks ranked by time saved versus effort to set up.

  8. 08

    Build your first practical AI workflow

    Put it together: an intake step, a decision step, a drafting step and a human check. Small, boring and reliable beats clever and fragile.

    OutcomeOne working workflow running in your business, with a human review step.

Before you start

One rule about your data.

Do not paste customer personal details, health information, identity documents, payroll or financial records into public AI tools. Once it is in, you cannot take it back, and you may have obligations under the Australian Privacy Principles.

Practise with de-identified versions — swap real names and addresses for placeholders. Everything in this course works just as well that way.

Next step

Finished the modules? Come and build the real thing.

The two-hour Hobart workshop is where you set this up on your own laptop, with your own task, and walk out with it working.