AI for Non-Technical Professionals
Condensed, hands-on roadmap to AI, automation & productivity—no coding required.
AI Foundations & Opportunity Mapping
- Why AI matters across business functions
- Evolution: rule-based → Generative AI
- Narrow, General & Super AI – key differences
- Cross-industry use-cases (finance, retail, HR, marketing, logistics, healthcare)
- AI vs. traditional workflows – efficiency, cost, revenue gains
- "Quick-win" checklist + POC blueprint (scope → metrics → validation)
- Prototyping with low/no-code tools
Prompt Engineering
- Craft high-impact prompts
- Rapid A/B tuning for quality
- Multi-step prompt workflows
- Lab: auto-reports & data cleanup
AI Agents & Automation
- Agent basics: memory, planning, tool-use
- Autonomous flows with Make
- Monitoring & governance
ChatGPT Deep Dive
- Strengths, limits + SORA visual features
- Plays: support, marketing, HR, policy
- Quick fine-tuning to company tone
AI for Data Analysis
- AI plug-ins via APIs & webhooks
- Deploy dashboards, chatbots, decision bots fast
- Conversational data-to-insight pipelines
- Dashboard success stories that moved KPIs
Machine Learning Made Simple
- Regression, classification, clustering in plain English (ChatGPT)
- When to escalate to data scientists
Automation & Integration Essentials
- Orchestrate multi-app workflows (email → CRM → Slack) without code.
- Trigger AI actions from spreadsheets, forms, or webhooks.
- Best practices for security, versioning, and scaling automations.
15-Tool Productivity Power-Pack
ChatGPT
Natural-language Swiss-army knife
Napkin AI
Quick idea-to-prototype canvas
Perplexity
AI-powered research & synthesis
SORA
Vision-enabled content & data extraction
Make
Visual workflow automation across 1,000+ apps
Google AI Studio
Rapid AI app deployment on Google Cloud
SciSpace
AI research assistant for technical papers
Elicit
Evidence-based literature querying
Runway ML
Generative media & video editing
ElevenLabs
High-fidelity text-to-speech
Gamma
AI-generated slide decks
Notebook LM
Conversational analysis of docs & data
Claude
Enterprise-grade long-context assistant
Copy.ai
Marketing copy & campaign ideation
Leonardo
Image generation & design assets
