AI Foundations
5 weeks / 20 sessions / 37.5 h / prereq: None
You leave with: A model comparison report
A free program in how AI actually works. For everyone, not just engineers.
You are not talking to a model. You are talking to a product. Learn to tell which part of it answered you.
Free for the first 1,000 students.
Cohort 1 starts Monday 7 September 2026.
612 seats left
One email. No card. Nothing to install.
- 10courses
- 148sessions
- 278hours
- 0paid tools
- 1phone is enough
What makes this different
A prompt you have not measured is a guess.
Most AI courses hand you a list of magic phrases. Most of those phrases do not survive testing. This program teaches you to check them yourself, on a spreadsheet, with a free account.
What a session is
90 minutes. Five parts. Every single day.
No mystery about what you are signing up for. Here is the exact shape of every one of the 148 sessions.
01Warm-up10 min
You do something in the first sixty seconds, before anyone explains anything.
02Learn25 min
One idea. A worked example. A diagram. One thing to watch.
03Do40 min
You write down what you predict, then run it, then see if you were right.
04Capture5 min
Two lines into your AI journal. It runs the whole program.
05Quiz10 min
Ten questions. Answers with reasons. You mark it yourself.
Total 90 min
The ten courses
Ten courses.
148 sessions / 278 hours / 37 weeks
01 02 Asking Well
4 weeks / 16 sessions / 30 h / prereq: Course 1
You leave with: A prompt notebook with before and after proof
03 Media and Documents
3 weeks / 12 sessions / 22.5 h / prereq: Course 1
You leave with: Work combining text, image and a source document
04 Techniques That Hold Up
3 weeks / 12 sessions / 22.5 h / prereq: Course 1
You leave with: A technique bake-off on supplied material
05 Judging AI: Your First Eval
Flagship4 weeks / 16 sessions / 30 h / prereq: Course 1
You leave with: A working evaluation spreadsheet
06 Measurement You Can Trust
Flagship3 weeks / 12 sessions / 22.5 h / prereq: Course 5
You leave with: An upgraded eval with spread and a judge
07 Truth, Sources and Snake Oil
4 weeks / 16 sessions / 30 h / prereq: Course 1
You leave with: A lab report refuting or confirming a viral claim
08 Making It Yours
4 weeks / 16 sessions / 30 h / prereq: Course 1
You leave with: A custom assistant with the eval that proves it
09 Safe and Responsible
4 weeks / 16 sessions / 30 h / prereq: Course 1
You leave with: A personal AI policy and a red-team log
10 Capstone
3 weeks / 12 sessions / 22.5 h / prereq: Courses 1 and 5
You leave with: A shipped project and a live defense
Only Course 1 is required. Everything else is a recommendation, so you can start where you need to.
What you walk away with
A certificate that says what you actually did.
Ten course certificates, four path certificates, one program certificate. Each one names the hours, the sessions, and what was assessed.
This assessment was not supervised.
That sentence is printed on every course certificate. Most online AI certificates do not tell you how they were assessed. We do. The one credential backed by a live, supervised defense says so too.
What it costs you
A phone and a free account. That is the whole toolchain.
- Free accounts on the chat apps you already have. No API keys, no installs, no card.
- Every session is completable on a phone, deliverable included. Not a reduced version. The same work.
- Every prompt is a tap to copy. Nobody retypes a paragraph on a phone.
- A phone-only learner earns exactly the same certificate.
Who it is for
This is for you if
- You use AI most days and are not sure when to trust it.
- You have to explain or govern this for other people.
- Your work is words, pictures, documents or decisions.
- You have never written a line of code and do not intend to.
This is not for you if
- You want a list of prompts to paste.
- You want to build models or write code.
- You want a certificate without doing the work.
Cohort 1 starts Monday 7 September 2026.
Free for the first 1,000 students. 612 seats left.
Four 90-minute sessions a week, plus a fifth day for the weekly quiz and a live Q&A. Free tools only. The certificate needs the quizzes passed, the project submitted, and two peer reviews given.