Self-Paced Course
AI Foundations for Professionals
You've used AI and gotten useful things out of it, but there's more here most people never get shown. AI Foundations closes that gap, at your own pace, using your own work, with no tech background needed.
What you'll learn
AI Foundations is built on one idea: used with intent, these tools help you do more thorough work and reach ideas you'd have missed, in less time than the work used to take. You'll learn a way of working that holds up across whatever platform you choose, ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, and you'll practice it on your own tasks as you go, so what you build is useful from day one. The course runs in three parts.
Understand the tools and pick one
It helps to know what you're working with before you rely on it. You'll see how these models work, where they're headed, and what that means for how you use them day to day. From there, you'll get a feel for how the major platforms differ and choose the one that suits how you think. This part is AI Literacy 101 and Picking a Platform.
Get consistent, useful results
Most of the distance between a vague answer and a sharp one comes down to how you set up the work. You'll learn to communicate with AI clearly, give it the context it needs, and treat it as a thought partner instead of a search box. Then you'll build reusable assistants and procedures so you stop starting over every time you open a chat. This part is Prompting and Effective AI Collaboration, and Procedures and AI Helper Personas.
Research and go further
AI changes what research can look like. You'll learn to use it as a research partner, work through questions in depth, and turn a stack of sources into something clear you can act on. Because the tools keep moving, the course also includes a module on the newer capabilities worth knowing, with more added over time. This part is Researching with AI, and Advanced Features and Emerging Trends, which is included and arriving in the coming weeks.
How the course works
The recorded lessons come to about two and a half hours in total, and they're the smaller part of the experience. Around each one, plan on roughly 45 to 90 minutes per module putting the ideas to work on your own tasks, with short written guides and a few hand-picked readings alongside the videos. You'll begin with a quick snapshot of where you are with AI today, something worth looking back on later, and the reflections you write through the course live in a workbook that's yours to keep.
Your enrollment also includes access to the participant community and a certificate when you finish.
Where this comes from
AI Foundations grew out of a year and a half of training sessions, workshops, keynotes, and consulting for educational institutions, businesses, startup founders, and not-for-profit organizations. It was built to close the same gaps in understanding and practical use I've watched capable people run into firsthand, over and over. The material was refined across five live cohorts before it became the self-paced course it is now.
Start when you're ready
AI Foundations is $399 CAD, a one-time payment with lifetime access and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Enroll whenever it suits you and start the same day.
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Want to go deeper? AI Mastery is a 6-week live program, two hours a week with Jonathon, that picks up where Foundations leaves off. It's small-group and hands-on, and it's opening later in 2026. Join the waitlist →
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