Course

Make AI Worth It: Shift From One-Off Prompts to Repeatable AI Systems

Diana Olympia

AI Strategist & Educator

Using AI is easy. Knowing where it belongs is the real skill.

AI tools are getting easier to use. Deciding what’s actually worth using them for is becoming the harder professional skill.

In Make AI Worth It, you’ll bring real problems from your own work and practice how to identify what’s worth solving, choose the right approach, and build the smallest useful solution.

You won’t spend four weeks touring tools or collecting prompts. You’ll use a repeatable decision framework, real AI and automation tools, and hands-on builds to create 1–2 working solutions you can actually use, while learning when a simpler process, another tool, or no AI at all is the better choice.

What you’ll learn

Make better AI decisions at work—and build useful solutions without wasting time on tools or complexity.

  • Audit recurring friction in your work and rank opportunities by frequency, value, feasibility, and risk.

  • Map the workflow and decide what data, access, and human judgment the solution actually needs.

  • Leave with a prioritized Personal AI Opportunity Map and one problem to solve during the course.

  • Compare manual processes, prompts, projects, skills, automations, agents, and lightweight custom tools

  • Use a Decision Framework to match the problem to the simplest approach that can solve it well

  • Define the context, human role, and smallest useful version before you start building

  • Build your Worth-It Brief one decision at a time as you move from problem → approach → tool → evaluation

  • Choose a tool based on fit, integrations, cost, learning curve, and maintenance -- not novelty

  • Build and troubleshoot 1–2 working solutions using tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Zapier, or your existing stack

  • Test whether your build reduces friction without creating more work, risk, or maintenance

  • Diagnose failures across inputs, context, instructions, tools, integrations, and workflow design

  • Use Marry / Modify / Multiply / Kill to decide what to keep, improve, expand, or stop

  • Reuse the Worth-It Brief, Opportunity Map, and Decision Framework on new work problems as tools change

  • Know when to build it yourself, use a simpler process, or intelligently direct someone else

  • Leave with a repeatable system for deciding what deserves your time, data, money, and attention

Learn directly from Diana

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17 years in tech + media, now teaching people how to make better AI decisions.

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Who this course is for

  • Professionals Already Using AI

    Move beyond one-off prompts and learn what’s worth solving, building, automating, or leaving alone.

  • Consultants, Freelancers & Business Owners

    Use AI to save time and expand capacity without adding more tools, cost, or complexity.

  • Operators & Team Leads

    Choose the right AI approach, build practical solutions, and direct others with confidence.

What's included

Diana Olympia

Live sessions

Learn directly from Diana Olympia in a real-time, interactive format.

Session recordings

Rewatch each session and revisit the material while you apply it to your own work.

Weekly office hours

Bring questions, troubleshoot what you’re building, and get extra support between live sessions.

Private 1:1 advisory session

Get individual help to unblock a build, pressure-test an idea, or apply the course to your specific work. *Founding Cohort exclusive

Practical decision frameworks

Use the Opportunity Map, Worth-It Brief, and Decision Framework to decide what to solve, how to approach it, and what to use

Real tools + live demos

See prompts, reusable instructions, automations, agents, and other approaches applied to real work using tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Zapier.

1–2 working builds

Build and test practical solutions based on problems from your own work—not canned classroom exercises.

Reusable worksheets + templates

Leave with tools you can reuse on the next problem instead of starting from scratch every time.

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

8 live sessions • 9 lessons • 4 projects

Week 1

Oct 1—Oct 4

    Diagnose a Problem Worth Solving

    • Oct

      1

      Diagnose Workshop: What’s Actually Worth Solving?

      Thu 10/15:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    • Oct

      2

      Office Hours

      Fri 10/25:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
      Optional
    3 more items

Week 2

Oct 5—Oct 11

    Design the Right Approach

    • Oct

      8

      Design Workshop: What Does This Problem Actually Need?

      Thu 10/85:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    • Oct

      9

      Optional: Office Hours

      Fri 10/95:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
      Optional
    3 more items

Schedule

Live sessions

1-2 hrs / week

Four 60-minute live sessions combining practical teaching, real examples, demos, and hands-on work using your own professional challenges.

    • Thu, Oct 1

      5:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    • Fri, Oct 2

      5:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    • Thu, Oct 8

      5:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Independent work

1-2 hrs / week

Apply the frameworks to your own work, complete the weekly exercises, and make progress on your 1–2 working builds between sessions.

Office hours (optional)

1 hr / week

Optional weekly drop-in time to ask questions, troubleshoot a build, or get feedback on how you’re applying the course.

Frequently asked questions

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Reimbursement

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Save 20%+ when 2 or more teammates enroll in the same cohort.

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Private cohort

Run a cohort for your org

A dedicated cohort with a custom schedule and curriculum, tailored to your team.

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$695

USD

Oct 1—Oct 23
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