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A free, plain-English course AI & Automation for Business Leaders No jargon, no hype. Five short lessons that take you from what AI actually is to what it can genuinely do in a business: from the quick wins to custom dashboards and integrations no one sells off the shelf. Written for capable people who happen to be new to this. A free, hands-on course ChatGPT & Custom GPTs for Small Business Get real value out of ChatGPT without the hype. Five short lessons on talking to it well, the everyday writing and admin jobs it does best, building a reusable Custom GPT in your own words, and doing it all safely. Plain English, real small-business examples, no code. For builders A free course for builders Codex for Builders Put OpenAI's coding agent to work without the hype. Codex shines when you queue several well-scoped jobs in parallel cloud sandboxes and review the diffs as they land. Five short lessons on what it actually is, how to set it loose safely on a real repo, the jobs it handles well, and how to keep people in the loop. For technical founders and small dev teams who can read a diff. For builders A free course for builders Claude Code for Builders Put Anthropic's coding agent to work without the hype. Claude Code lives in your terminal and works step by step behind a permission dial you control, with plan mode, subagents and MCP connections to your own tools. Five short lessons on what it actually is, how to set it up safely on a real repo, the jobs it handles well, and how to keep people in the loop. For technical founders and small dev teams who can read a diff, from a consultancy that builds with it daily. A free, practical course AI & Automation for Tradies Win back your evenings and stop losing jobs to the phone. Five short lessons for plumbers, electricians, builders and HVAC: quote from photos in minutes, fill your run sheet, catch every missed call, and get paid faster. Plain English, real Aussie tools, no hype. A free, plain-English course AI & automation for allied health & clinics Practical AI for clinics, with privacy front and centre. Five short lessons on where clinic time leaks, AI scribes used safely with consent and clinician review, AI reception and online booking, fewer no-shows, and the governance that keeps patient data protected. Written for physio, chiro, podiatry, psychology and small clinics, and it extends to dental, GP and vet. A free, plain-English course AI policy & safe-use playbook for Australian SMBs Get your team using AI safely without a lawyer or a ban. Five short lessons on the Australian rules in plain English, what's safe to put in, which tools to approve and how to set them up, keeping a human in the loop, and writing a one-page policy people will actually follow. With a Privacy Act change landing in December 2026, now's the time. A free, practical course AI & automation for real estate agents Win back hours and stop letting leads go cold. Five short lessons for residential sales agents, small agencies and property managers: write listings in seconds, answer portal enquiries fast, work your database for listings, take the routine load off your rent roll, and market compliantly. Real AU tools like VaultRE, AgentBox and PropertyMe, honest numbers, and NSW compliance kept front and centre. A free, practical course AI & automation for cafes, restaurants & pubs Get hours back without losing the soul of your venue. Five short lessons for owner-operated cafes, restaurants and pubs: cut no-shows and catch missed calls, keep your socials and reviews ticking over, roster to the Award without the worry, and join your tools up. Real Aussie tools, honest numbers, no hype. A free, practical course AI & automation for online stores Sell more without the busywork. Five short lessons for small Australian retailers on WooCommerce and WordPress: write product copy at scale, recover abandoned carts, run a 24/7 support assistant with a clean human handoff, and sync orders to Xero. Plain English, real tools, no hype, and the headless WordPress and WooCommerce angle that wins the AI-search referral. A free, practical course AI & automation for salons, beauty & barbers Fill your chair and win back your evenings. Five short lessons for owner-operated salons, beauty rooms, spas and barbershops: cut no-shows with reminders and deposits, fill cancellations from a waitlist, catch the after-hours bookings you're missing, win back lapsed clients, and keep your socials ticking over. Real Aussie tools like Fresha, Timely and Square Appointments, honest numbers, no hype. A free, practical course AI & automation for gyms, studios & PTs Keep more members and stop the quiet revenue leaks. Five short lessons for gyms, yoga and pilates studios, boutique fitness and personal trainers: flag at-risk members early, recover failed payments, fill classes and kill no-shows, turn trials into members, and catch the enquiries you're missing. Real tools like Mindbody, Hapana, Glofox and Trainerize, honest numbers, no hype. A free, practical course AI & automation for property managers Win back the hours your rent roll loses to comms. Five short lessons for residential property managers and rent-roll teams: automate the maintenance chain end to end, chase arrears the same way every time, run inspections and lease renewals on autopilot, and handle after-hours tenant enquiries. Real AU tools like PropertyMe and Console Cloud, honest numbers, and tenant privacy kept front and centre. A free, plain-English course Microsoft 365 Copilot at work Turn the Microsoft 365 licence you already pay for into real time back each week. Five short lessons for staff and managers: triage your inbox and draft replies in Outlook, get meeting recaps and action items in Teams, draft and summarise in Word, build a deck in PowerPoint, and get answers out of Excel by just asking. Plain English, no jargon, with a human kept on anything that matters. A free, plain-English course Google Gemini for Workspace at work Get real value out of Google Gemini without the hype. Five short lessons for staff and managers in a Google Workspace shop: draft and summarise in Gmail and Meet, write documents and decks in Docs and Slides, get help in Sheets, and use NotebookLM to brief yourself from your own files. Plain English, real Google tools, no code. The Google-side companion to our Copilot course, so you can pick the stack you already run. A free, hands-on course Build your first automations (no-code) The hands-on sequel to the AI for leaders course: stop reading about automation and ship some. Five short lessons that build real flows in Make or Zapier with an AI step and your everyday apps: lead to CRM, instant enquiry acknowledgements, an AI-sorted inbox. No code, honest about costs, and clear on when to graduate to n8n.
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