AI Operations & Productivity · Automate with AI
AI Strategy for Small Business Operations
Build an AI implementation strategy for your operations - identifying the highest-value automation and AI opportunities in your business.
11 lessons · 312 minutes
Start courseWhat you walk away with
- Audit your operations and rank AI opportunities by impact and effort
- Document your core processes with AI so they are repeatable and delegable
- Assemble a written operations AI playbook for your business
- Track the operations metrics that matter on a set review cadence
- Run tighter meetings and manage vendors and contractors with AI support
- An automation map for one repeated handoff, with exceptions, an owner, and a review step. Every artifact saves to your workspace, so you keep it after the course ends.
- A knowledge-check quiz and a visual walkthrough inside every one of the 11 lessons, about 5 hours of guided work.
- Most lessons close with a checklist, template, or do-it-this-week task, so progress shows up in your work, not just in the app.
Auditing Your Operations for AI Opportunities
Learn how to map your recurring business processes and identify which ones are the best candidates for AI assistance.
The AI Operations Framework
The three-layer framework that tells you exactly which tasks to automate, which to augment with AI, and which to protect from AI entirely.
Using AI to Document Your Processes
How to capture your SOPs using AI-assisted process interviews, and build a process library that makes your business trainable and scalable.
AI Tools for Small Business Operations
The practical operations tool stack - what each tool does, what it costs, and how to choose the right combination for your business size.
AI-Powered Time Management
How to use AI for priority filtering, scheduling optimization, and meeting preparation - including the 2-hour deep work block that changes how your days feel.
More Productive Meetings with AI
Use AI to prepare sharper agendas, capture notes automatically, and turn every meeting into a clear list of next actions.
AI-Assisted Project Management
Use AI to break projects into workable tasks, track progress without overhead, and surface blockers before they become delays.
Managing Vendors and Contractors with AI
Use AI to research vendors, compare proposals objectively, and quickly understand what you're signing before you commit.
The Operations Metrics That Matter
The six core metrics every SMB should track to know whether their operations are healthy, improving, or quietly falling apart.
Building Your Operations AI Playbook
How to create a documented, consistent system for your AI-enhanced operations that your team can follow and you can continuously improve.
Using AI for Continuous Improvement
The retrospective framework, how to identify process bottlenecks with AI, and the quarterly operations review that keeps your business improving.