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Set up AI to work for you. A 2-week live course.
A small live cohort for experienced people 50+. Set up your own AI system and make your decades of experience the edge — built during the sessions, no coding anywhere.
Taught by Brett Bouchard · 20+ years in tech · 9 years a Director at Google
Level 1
Set Up AI to Work for You
Most AI advice tells you what AI is. This course sets yours up. Over four working sessions you build a foundation your AI actually uses — so it stops giving generic answers and starts working like it knows you.
- A context foundation. Your background, work, and goals in a form any AI can use — the difference between generic and genuinely useful.
- Reusable Skills. Repeatable recipes — with built-in quality checks — for the work you do every week, so good results aren't a lucky prompt. Plus a ready-made Skills library, including the AI Skeptic.
- Your own assistant. Set up in ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — whichever you prefer, on the free tier.
- The skeptic's habit. How to trust what AI gets right and catch what it gets wrong. Non-negotiable, and nobody teaches it.
First win in Session 1: you'll set something up that you use the same day.
The four sessions
- Set up your foundation
- Get better answers, and make your AI push back
- Turn your work into reusable Skills
- Put it to work and run it as a system
+ Bonus session: tune your system after a week of real use
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In their own words
Feedback from participants in the free live lessons that preview this course.
“Great practical advice for people trying to catch up on their AI skills.”
Tom, consumer insights consultant“After the last session, I reorganized those categories. Now I have my two charity chats, my one social media chat. It's now organized, and it's feeding off of all the previous information. I put it into practice.”
Suzy, Fractional COO“It was really helpful. Clearly presented practical tips that can be used straight away.”
Live lesson participant“What a great tool this is… it had already answered my question. What a great job you've done here.”
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Before you decide
Do I need a technical background?
No. If you can write an email and open a website, you can do everything in this course. No coding, no setup headaches, no jargon.
Which AI tool do I need? Does it cost extra?
Just a free account on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — your choice. Everything you build works on the free tiers.
What if I miss a live session?
Every session is recorded, and the recordings are yours to keep — plus there's a bonus fifth session a week later, where you tune your system after some real use and fix anything that isn't working.
I already use AI regularly — is this for me?
Yes. The course takes you past one-off chatbot questions to a system: a context foundation, reusable Skills, and an assistant that gets better the more you use it.
How much time does it take?
About four hours a week for two weeks: two 90-minute live sessions plus an hour or so of light practice. You build during the sessions — this isn't homework-heavy theory.
What do I keep when it's over?
Your own personalized AI system: your context foundation, your assistant, the 2–3 custom Skills you built, and a ready-made Skills library — including the AI Skeptic.
What about privacy and safety?
Covered directly in the course: what's safe to share with an AI, what you should never type into one, and how to stay in control of your information.
Will this be outdated in six months?
No. You build a portable foundation on fundamentals that don't change with every new model release — that's the point of the course.
What does it cost?
$950 for the full two-week cohort, including the bonus fifth session, lifetime access to the recordings, and the peer community. The founding-cohort discount was Cohort 1 only and has closed.
What's the refund policy?
Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee — a full refund is available through the midpoint of the course. If it isn't working for you, you're not stuck.
Ready to set up AI that actually knows you?
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