A practical, hands-on curriculum for anyone who wants to understand, use, and build with AI — without writing a single line of code. By Week 6, students have a working AI-powered portfolio, real-world prompting skills, and the ability to deploy AI tools that solve genuine problems for businesses and clients.
Highlights
Students sign up for and explore five major AI platforms, run the same ten prompts across each, document the differences in output quality, tone, and accuracy, and write a one-page "Personal AI Use Map" — a clear plan of which tools they will use for which tasks going forward.
Students build a personal prompt library of 20 high-quality, tested, and documented prompts across five categories — content writing, research, data analysis, professional communication, and creative tasks. Each prompt is annotated with the technique used and the output it reliably produces.
Students select a fictional or real small business and use AI to produce a complete content pack: a brand voice guide, five social media captions, three email templates, a 500-word blog post, and a one-page business summary — all created through structured, documented prompts.
Students produce a complete visual and written brand asset pack for a fictional product or service using only AI tools: a logo concept, three product images, a 60-second voiceover script, an AI-generated presentation deck, and a data summary from a provided dataset.
Students build and deploy a custom AI assistant for a specific business use case — a client onboarding bot, a FAQ assistant, a content brief generator, or a lead qualification tool. The assistant must have a defined persona, a knowledge base, and at least one automated workflow connected to it.
A live, shareable link to the deployed assistant is required to complete this week.
Students compile all five previous projects into a polished, public-facing AI portfolio and build the full package needed to attract paying clients: a portfolio site, a services menu, a client proposal template, and a live freelance profile. They also write one LinkedIn post showcasing an AI use case and submit one real freelance application.
A live portfolio URL is required to complete the course.
| Week | Project | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | AI Tool Audit + Personal Use Map | Comparison Table · Google Doc |
| Week 2 | Personal Prompt Library | 20-Prompt Notion Database |
| Week 3 | AI-Powered Content Pack | Blog · Captions · Emails · Brand Voice |
| Week 4 | AI Brand Asset Pack | Images · Voiceover · Deck · Data Summary |
| Week 5 | Custom AI Assistant | Live Chatbot · Zapier Flow · Loom Demo |
| Week 6 | AI Portfolio + Freelance Launch Package | Live Portfolio · Upwork Profile |
Students finish the course with a live AI portfolio, a clear service offering, and a freelance profile ready to attract paying clients.
Every skill in this course is built with tools that require zero programming knowledge. Students learn to think in systems and prompts — not syntax.
Each week ends with something a client could pay for — a content pack, a brand asset set, a deployed chatbot. Students build confidence by building real things.
From foundational understanding to image generation, voice tools, data analysis, custom GPTs, and automation — students graduate with a wide, practical toolkit rather than depth in one narrow area.
Custom GPTs, AI agents, multimodal workflows, and no-code AI deployment are not optional extras — they are core weeks. This curriculum reflects how AI is actually being used and sold right now.