Operations leaders are being asked to implement AI without the budget, headcount, or technical support:

- You're expected to ship results this quarter, not next year.

- You don't have dedicated engineers, and your data-intensive workflows allow for zero margin of error.

- You know automation could solve a lot of problems...if only you knew how to build it yourself.

DIY workflows on no-code and low-code platforms don't do enough for the hassle. YouTube AI influencers are all focused on sales and marketing automation. And "AI for everyone" courses don't show you how to build projects relevant to your actual work.

This 2-week course is for busy Operations leaders who want to learn by doing.

You'll learn to adapt your strong analytical and systems thinking mindset to create useful technology, so that you can immediately solve your own problems and build a technical foundation to future-proof your career.

We'll even teach you how to code, assisted by AI. You'll create real projects that you can use at work, so that you're not limited by your tooling. No prior coding experience needed.

Course structure

In 4 90-minute sessions across 2 weeks, you'll build AI-powered tools, workflow automations, and even autonomous AI agents ("AI coworkers") for your team's data-intensive workflows.

Each session includes real-world case studies that you would encounter in a data-intensive Operations role, hands-on practice / troubleshooting, and peer feedback.

After every session, you'll also get async instructor feedback on your actual business priorities to ensure you're heading in the right direction.

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Session 1: Automate emails & create process maps

1. Build: a working email automation bot in < 15 minutes (use it forever, for free)

2. Learn: how to reframe your real business problems as technical solutions

3. Take away: a prioritized list of your business-specific automation opportunities with measurable ROI

4. Post-session bonus: async instructor review + feedback on your project plan

Session 2: Technical foundations crash course & custom API integrations

1. Build: your own secure working environment for an API integration with version control and testing protocols

2. Learn: API data integration basics and security best practices

3. Take away: technical know-how to create safe, compliant solutions

4. Post-session bonus: async instructor review to ensure you've set up your own project correctly

Session 3: Create a custom workflow automation for your real business goals

1. Build: your first custom workflow automation, addressing one of your team's pain points that you can immediately test in your daily operations

2. Learn: how to create custom-coded automation software without knowing how to code

3. Take away: how to create the perfect tech stack tooling (no-code, low-code, code) for your needs

4. Post-session bonus: async instructor review + feedback on your AI-powered workflow

Session 4: Create your first AI agent

1. Build: an AI agent that can make decisions based on your business rules, process information continuously, and integrate with your existing systems

2. Learn: where to leverage AI agents vs. automated workflows in your work

3. Take away: how to cascade your new skills and processes throughout your team, ensuring sustainable AI enablement

4. Post-session bonus: Async instructor review + feedback on your AI agent

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In addition to Q&A time during each live session, you'll have the opportunity to ask questions during twice-weekly Office Hours (60 minutes each) and asynchronously via the private course community on Maven.

What you'll get

- Proven ways of using AI to supercharge your learning process from 0 to proficiency

- A complete blueprint for identifying, building, and deploying AI solutions across Operations, positioning yourself as the operational innovation leader in your org

- Your own custom software for your specific workflow needs

- A valuable new skillset; job postings are already asking for Operations Leaders who can "identify and implement automation tools to streamline workflows, reduce manual processes, and enhance efficiency"

Course materials

- Live walkthrough tutorials (recorded for future review) -- and written, step-by-step guides

- AI prompt templates that work for common Operations use cases

- Private Maven community for ongoing support

- Lifetime access to course updates

Who this is for

- Operations leaders in high-transaction businesses, where scaling headcount linearly with transactions doesn't make sense

- Team leads managing 5+ employees in data-heavy workflows, where the work is error-prone, yet also has zero room for error

- Operations directors without dedicated engineering support, where you're barely getting by with sophisticated spreadsheet hacking

You'll get the most value if you're:

- Dealing with repetitive manual work that's bogging you and your team down, and ready to solve it

- Excited to do hands-on prototyping work during the course, in the live sessions, or async by following the recordings / written material

- Ready to share your work-in-progress for instructor feedback and iterate quickly

- Already using ChatGPT or Claude

- Willing to invest time upfront to build systems that scale