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Curriculum

Free to everyone. Start with the six chapters for the whole company, then find what fits your role, department and trade.

The institute curriculum

Six chapters, for every role and every company size. Nothing is built until Deploy.

Start with chapter one
  1. 01AI Blueprint
    See where the industry is, then map your company: divisions, departments, people, software and routines.
  2. 02Discovery
    Choose one workflow from your Blueprint and map it step by step.
  3. 03Contain
    One platform for the team, company accounts, and the four pillars of safe AI.
  4. 04Organize
    File structure and naming, a software audit, and what you can set up yourself.
  5. 05Deploy
    Build, test and launch your first AI skill, and name who maintains it.
  6. 06Compound
    Organize, then Deploy, for each next routine, with a handle on spend.

How the chapters fit together

ChapterThe jobWhat you leave with
1. AI BlueprintSee where the industry is, and map the companyYour AI Blueprint, and AI that knows your company.
2. DiscoveryTurn the map into a plan for the first workflowOne workflow mapped step by step, ready to become an AI skill.
3. ContainBring AI under company rules before anything is builtA team account on one platform, and rules for using AI at work.
4. OrganizeGet files and software ready for that workflowA file structure and naming system, and a software audit for your workflow.
5. DeployBuild, test and launch the first AI skillOne AI skill live with your team, and a lead who maintains it.
6. CompoundRepeat it, and run it like a systemA routine of Organize, then Deploy, and a handle on spend.
The 1920s streets

Cars arrived before traffic rules, and the streets jammed. AI in construction is at that point now.

The two framers

One buys a nail gun and builds the same wall faster. The other builds prefabricated walls and changes the work.

Roads never end

Roads are a system, and systems need maintenance. So does your first AI skill, from the day it launches.

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AI Blueprint: map your company before you build anything
Chapter · Institute curriculum
6 lessons
Every role · Start here
Discovery: turn the map into a plan
Chapter · Institute curriculum
5 lessons
Every role · Discovery
Contain: bring AI under company rules
Chapter · Institute curriculum
6 lessons
Every role · Contain
Organize: get your information and software ready
Chapter · Institute curriculum
5 lessons
Every role · Organize
Deploy: put your first AI skill to work
Chapter · Institute curriculum
5 lessons
Every role · Deploy
Compound: grow it, govern it
Chapter · Institute curriculum
4 lessons
Every role · Compound
The AI Blueprint
Tool · Scelta
In AI Blueprint
Every role · AI Blueprint
Workflow mapping worksheet
Worksheet · Institute curriculum
In Discovery
Every role · Discovery
Set up a team account on Claude
Guide · Institute curriculum
In Contain
Every role · Contain
Company AI policy on the four pillars
Policy template · Institute curriculum
In Contain
Every role · Contain
Which platforms connect to AI, and how
List · Institute curriculum
In Organize
Every role · Organize
What contractors hand to AI, by department
Examples · Institute curriculum
In Organize
Every role · Organize
The AI skill builder
Tool · Scelta
In Deploy
Every role · Deploy

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