ITSI Academy · 🤖 School of AI · Beginner · 15 minutes a day
The AI Foundation Challenge
Fifteen minutes a day: 28 days from your first prompt to a live project, then a Professional Toolkit week.
About this course
The AI Foundation Challenge is 35 short lessons — about 15 minutes each. The first 28 days take you from your first useful prompt to a live project you have tested with real people; the last seven are a Professional Toolkit that turns it into the skills a workplace asks for.
Every day has the same shape: one idea to learn, one task, and one result you save. Each day's result feeds a later one, so by Day 28 you hold a Prompt Playbook, a one-page marketing plan, a working automation and a launched project — all in one document you keep.
Week 1 — AI Foundation. Week 2 — AI for Business. Week 3 — AI Automation. Week 4 — Build & Launch. Week 5 — Professional Toolkit: the right tool for the task, analysis, workbooks, reports, slides and a pitch deck.
You need only free tools and a phone or a laptop. No coding. The first three days are free to read.
Finish the lessons, then sit a 20-question final assessment — short answers, workflows, logic, AI strategy and choosing the right tool. Pass it and you earn a certificate that shows your grade.
What you'll walk away with
- ✓ A Prompt Playbook of five or more prompts you actually reuse
- ✓ A one-page marketing plan for a real customer
- ✓ One working automation, written down as a runbook
- ✓ A live project, tested with three real people
- ✓ A certificate with your grade when you pass the final assessment
Curriculum — 5 modules · 35 lessons
1. Week 1 · AI Foundation 7 lessons
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📄 Day 1 · Set up your AI toolkit Preview15 min
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📄 Day 2 · Your first real prompt Preview15 min
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🔒 Day 4 · Check what AI tells you15 min
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🔒 Day 5 · Summarise anything in two minutes15 min
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🔒 Day 6 · Turn rough notes into a message15 min
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🔒 Day 7 · Build your Prompt Playbook15 min
2. Week 2 · AI for Business 7 lessons
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🔒 Day 8 · Describe your customer15 min
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🔒 Day 9 · Say what you offer in one sentence15 min
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🔒 Day 10 · Write one post that sells15 min
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🔒 Day 11 · Plan a week of content15 min
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🔒 Day 12 · Answer customers in half the time15 min
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🔒 Day 13 · Read your numbers15 min
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🔒 Day 14 · One-page marketing plan15 min
3. Week 3 · AI Automation 7 lessons
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🔒 Day 15 · Find your repeat task15 min
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🔒 Day 16 · Draw the flow on paper15 min
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🔒 Day 17 · Draft your business assistant15 min
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🔒 Day 18 · Your first automation: form, sheet, alert15 min
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🔒 Day 19 · Add an AI step15 min
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🔒 Day 20 · Count what it saves15 min
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🔒 Day 21 · One automation, written down15 min
4. Week 4 · Build & Launch 7 lessons
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🔒 Day 22 · Pick the project you can finish15 min
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🔒 Day 23 · Write the spec with AI15 min
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🔒 Day 24 · Draft your page15 min
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🔒 Day 25 · Put it online15 min
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🔒 Day 26 · Test with three real people15 min
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🔒 Day 27 · Fix the top three things15 min
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🔒 Day 28 · Launch it15 min
5. Week 5 · Professional Toolkit 7 lessons
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🔒 Day 29 · Choose the right tool for the task15 min
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🔒 Day 30 · Analyse numbers, then check them15 min
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🔒 Day 31 · Build a working workbook15 min
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🔒 Day 32 · Write a one-page report with AI15 min
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🔒 Day 33 · Turn the report into five slides15 min
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🔒 Day 34 · Draft your pitch deck15 min
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🔒 Day 35 · Write your AI rulebook15 min