Nextelligence

The Ultimate Website Upgrade: Build Your Own AI Chatbots

Caltech

Kettering College

McKinsey & Company

Accenture

Dr. Uohna June Thiessen

Director of AI @ Nextelligence, formerly Meta, Caltech | Scientist, statistician, educator | Generative AI, consumer marketing, consultant.

I show you how to build a fully functional AI chatbot using a **no-code** platform, customized with your data and goals.

Build Your Own AI chatbot using a no-code

Understand the essential elements of a successfully choosing between the many AI-chatbot building platform.

Learn to choose the right no-code AI chatbot platform

Discover how your chatbot can help you generate leads and personalize response to inquiries for better user experience.

Discover how your website chatbot can expand your business

Over 6 weeks, I will teach the essentials of AI through practical examples, from simple report automation to fine-tuning LLMs for unique use cases. Each weekly session will consist of hands-on examples (with code) that you can adapt to your projects and use cases. 📖 Course Overview: Acquiring a practical understanding of AI through building projects, lectures will center around specific use cases that students can leverage in developing their projects. Students learn the basics of AI, data engineering, machine learning, generative AI, prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, and AI project management. 🎯 Learning Objectives1. Define key terms and concepts associated with AI2. Eﬀectively use AI tools to accelerate existing workflows3. Transform project ideas into valuable prototypes and MVPs with Python4. Develop custom AI systems using OpenAI and Hugging Face APIs5. Identify which AI techniques are best suited to a particular problem ✅ Who should take this course?This course is designed for people at the start of their AI engineering journey. While this can include many backgrounds, basic coding skills (&gt;1 year, preferably Python) are highly recommended. • IT Professionals seeking hands-on experience with AI• Researchers looking to use AI more effectively• Software Engineers building with AI systems• Business Leaders and Product Managers leading AI initiatives and teams• Entrepreneurs building AI-native products and services• Data scientists and ML Engineers new to LLM development and GenAI** **Sessions 1 and 2 will serve as a review for those with a solid grasp of ML and data science concepts. ❌ Who should NOT take this course?• People seeking mathematical and algorithmic details behind AI development.• People who want to learn LLMOps 🧑‍💻 10 example projects we will build in this course... • Automated analytics report emailer• Gmail ETL data pipeline• Machine learning email classifier• Research paper summarizer• LLM-based text classifier• (Local) Document QA Chatbot• Structuring unstructured survey data• Semantic search over Blog Posts• RAG Chatbot with LLM Blog series• Fine-tuning LLM response style

Learn AI by Building It

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Course syllabus

Weekly live lectures with instructor and fellow cohort members.

Fridays

(Optional) reading and video content to prepare for the upcoming session.

Session Pre-work

(Optional) weekly homework to put your learnings into practice.

Weekly projects

Course schedule

Technical professionals—Get hands-on experience with AI and build the practical skills you need to advance your career in tech.

Business leaders and product managers—Gain the technical foundation needed to&nbsp;effectively lead AI initiatives&nbsp;and teams.

Entrepreneurs—Learn essential AI and ML engineering skills for developing AI-native products and services.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Create AI systems using machine learning, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and beyond. Build functional prototypes that demonstrate your AI solutions as POCs.

Build custom projects from start to finish.

Build a solid foundation in Python for AI. Learn to automate tasks, create scripts, and understand key Python concepts that power AI solutions, setting the stage for more advanced AI techniques.

Develop essential Python skills.

Explore the evolution of AI, from Software 1.0 to Software 3.0, and learn how modern AI technologies like LLMs, GenAI, and prompt engineering are transforming industries and shaping the future of intelligent systems.

Understand the AI landscape.

Master a 5-step AI project management framework to guide you from problem formulation to deployment. Learn to structure AI projects efficiently, ensuring successful implementation and measurable results.

Manage AI projects effectively.

This is not about theories and abstract ideas. Rather, the guiding learning principle is to learn by building.

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In Build a Business with AI in 10 Days™, you'll gain practical AI skills to drive business growth and achieve long-term success. By the end of this course, you'll be able to: -Generate and validate business ideas using AI. -Develop a business plan tailored to your goals. -Create a strong personal brand that aligns with your business vision. -Implement effective AI-driven marketing strategies to attract and retain customers. -Optimize your business operations with AI for maximum efficiency. This course guides you through hands-on exercises, expert insights, and real-world examples, ensuring you're ready to apply AI to your business immediately.

Accelerate Your Business Growth with AI in 10 Days for Lasting Success

Aspiring entrepreneurs looking to start their own business and leverage AI for a competitive edge

Side hustlers needing help to form their business idea, create a plan, and perform market research

Previous or current business owners wanting to improve their business with AI and achieve greater success

Learn how AI tools can make your business smarter and more efficient.

Understanding AI for Business

Discover how to make a strong business plan using AI tools. We'll guide you through each step, making it simple and practical.

Creating a Business Plan

Find out how AI can improve your marketing efforts and help you reach more customers. Learn about AI tools that make marketing easier and more effective.

Marketing with AI

Learn how AI can help you manage your finances and avoid cash flow problems. We'll show you tools that make budgeting and forecasting simple.

Managing Money with AI

Use AI to hire and manage a great team for your business. We'll cover how AI can help you find the right people and keep your team working well together.

Building a Team

Explore strategies to grow and sustain your AI-driven business. Learn how to use AI to scale your operations smoothly and efficiently.

Scaling Your Business

Break free from the 9-5 grind and take your business to the next level in just 10 days with AI! 

Build a Business with AI in 10 Days 

Ashley Gross

Build a Business with AI in 10 Days™

Build A Business Using AI 

** Designed as a follow on for graduates of our 'How to Scale A Business With AI Workflows - Foundations' cohort or by application only. AI Build Lab transforms hands-on AI creators into market-ready builders, equipping you with the expertise to craft and deploy high-impact agents and workflows that truly scale businesses.Graduate with a fully developed AI agent or workflow—either a real client project or a top-voted community solution—ready to deploy and designed to meet genuine market needs. You'll be equipped with every resource, template, and asset you need to adapt and launch this project into your business or vertical. Imagine stepping into AI Build Lab with hands-on AI experience under your belt, eager to take your skills to the next level. In just a few weeks, you’ll progress from capable creator to skilled builder, mastering what it takes to deploy impactful AI agents and workflows for real business growth. No more abstract exercises—AI Build Lab is all about building high-value projects, created for real clients and designed to address real business challenges. The Journey: •	From Experimenter to Expert: You’re already familiar with the basics of AI, and in AI Build Lab, you’ll refine those skills to confidently design, deploy, and scale agents and workflows that deliver tangible results.•	From Builder to Market-Ready Innovator: This is hands-on, no-code AI building, where every project equips you with advanced, practical skills to launch solutions that make a genuine impact.•	From Idea to Market-Demanded Product: Every project you work on is grounded in real-world demand. Whether it’s a client project or a community-upvoted solution, you’ll build with a clear market need and business value. The Result: •	Portfolio-Ready and Market-Tested: You’ll leave AI Build Lab with more than skills—you’ll have a portfolio of fully developed, marketable AI agents or workflows ready to make an impact.•	Strategic, AI-Ready Mindset: With insights that go beyond technical building, you’ll learn to think like an AI leader, bringing market-driven, scalable solutions into any business.•	Empowered for Real-World Success: With hands-on experience, you’ll be equipped to tackle client needs and market challenges, showcasing AI projects that address real business demands. In short, AI Build Lab will transform you into a market-ready AI builder, ready to tackle high-impact, real-world challenges with no-code AI solutions that scale. You’ll not only know what it takes to build AI that’s deployable and marketable but feel empowered to do it, project after project. ** Recommend starting with our 'How to Scale A Business With AI Workflows - Foundations' 4 week cohort first *** OR, enrolling in our AI Build Lab Accelerator which combines the 4 week Foundations course + 4 week AI Build Lab Launch Studio for an 8 week immersive hands on experience

AI Build Lab Approach: Design + Build + Deploy & Join The 1% of AI Practitioners

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Non-tech professionals looking to become the 1% AI Leaders &amp; Operators in their organizations

Consultants &amp; agencies looking to provide AI consultancy &amp; implementation services

Business leaders &amp; owners looking to build scalable growth machines with AI.

Level up your AI skills to build and deploy AI agents &amp; agentic workflows designed to solve real business challenges. You’ll gain the confidence to tackle client needs with AI solutions that are market-tested and demand-driven.

Hands-On Expertise in Building Market-Ready AI

Each project you work on is a real client need or a community-upvoted solution, ensuring your efforts are focused on market-relevant, high-impact outcomes. By the end of the course, you’ll have a fully deployable AI project to showcase.

Real-World, Client-Centric Projects

This course is 100% no-code, making it accessible to non-tech professionals who want to build AI solutions without the steep learning curve of coding. Every session is hands-on, turning complex AI workflows into achievable, high-value results.

Advanced No-Code Skills for Business Impact

Graduate with a project of AI agents or agentic workflows that are ready to deploy in the business world. These aren’t hypothetical projects—they’re actionable, market-ready solutions that reflect genuine demand and can drive business scale.

Build a Portfolio of Marketable AI Solutions

Beyond technical skills, you’ll learn to think strategically about implementing AI in business. With guidance on designing scalable, impactful solutions, you’ll leave prepared to integrate AI effectively and drive growth wherever you go.

Develop A Strategic, AI-Ready Mindset

Join a cohort of ambitious professionals also looking to scale their AI capabilities. Gain insights from peers, share ideas, and collaborate on projects that mirror the challenges and demands of today’s business landscape. The magic happens in the LIVE classes!

Community & Collaboration

From design to deployment: Build market-ready AI agents & agentic workflows w real, marketable client & upvoted projects ready to implement

Sara Davison

Founder & Chief AI Growth Architect at Maivenly

Tyler Fisk

Founder & Chief Nerd at Galactic Ranch

People who can code get farther in life by solving problems with software. It is even more rare and impactful if your role is not as a developer but you can also code, for example a product manager who can code, a marketer who can code, or a sales person who can code, etc. The ability to code is a super power. These developer combos don't need to go talk to another developer in order to get something done, they can just make the thing themselves. Benefits for people who code: 1) Save time and money by building tools that automate tasks for themselves or others.2) Get promotions at work for technical contributions OR grow a business as an entrepreneur. So, why aren't you building your own software? Because learning to code is hard, and even if you know how to code, coding takes a long time. But, what if you didn't have to be the one to actually write the code? What if you could tell someone else what code to write and they did whatever you said (really fast) and never slept? This is exactly what AI can do. AI is now so good that it not only can help you code, it can even code for you. It's like having your own engineer who will build anything you want, at any hour of the day, and they just cost $20/month. What would you build if you knew how to do this? Knowing how to tell an AI to build software is the most high value skill you can learn today. Most people don't know how to do it, simply by learning a little bit you will already be one of the most skilled in the world. This course will teach you everything you need to know in order to build anything simply by telling the AI what to code. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: - All of the tips and strategies- How to overcome issues and roadblocks- How to setup your developer environment- What AI to work with- How to build user sign in, save and pull data from a database, and integrate with services like OpenAI and Stripe- How to deploy your app for others to use WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO BUILD: - Internal tools- An entire social network- AI apps- iPhone apps- Literally anything, no matter how complex or ambitious YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE IF: - You are excited to be able to build things- You are ok with getting frustrated WHY LEARN FROM ME: I have been building software since 2007 when I moved to Silicon Valley at age 19. I learned product management from Josh Elman, one of the most successful product managers in tech (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Robinhood, Apple). I've been working with AI specifically since 2016 as CEO of Octane AI, an AI company where we power AI for millions of people. I was one of the first people to get access to OpenAI's technology, years before ChatGPT was released. And more specifically... Over the past 90 days I have used AI to build at least one new app a day. I do speedruns where I see how much of an app I can build in 30 min, 60 min, etc. Just like going to the gym, but for coding with AI. I’ve also watched hours and hours of videos of developers screen sharing themselves building with AI, I’ve watched interviews with the founders of these AI tools where they give insights into their own tips and tricks, I’ve looked through forums, and chatted directly with anyone and everyone who is building this skill. Over the past three months I have gone&nbsp;very&nbsp;deep on learning everything there is to know about coding with AI. And I want as many people in the world to be able to do this too. Creating is just so fun and rewarding, my brain craves to create and coding with AI is one of the most amazing creative experiences. I’m here to deliver one very clear message to you:&nbsp;You can now build anything you ever wanted simply by telling an AI to build it for you. Social networks, cooking apps, iPhone apps, games, anything. ANYTHING. How does coding with AI work? What have people used AI to build? How exactly can you use AI to code an app? How can you copy my strategy for learning to code with AI? What does the future of coding with AI look like? I’m going to answer all of these questions for you in this course. I’m going to show you how to build an entire app. Yes you. Let’s do this.

Learn to Solve Problems With Your Own Software

Learn step by step how to start a new project, how to tell the AI what to code, and all the tips and strategies you need to build anything.

5+ Hours of Coding Lessons

Two one hour sessions a week for 3 weeks dedicated to Q&amp;A + Hands on trainings where we will code with AI together and get updates from all students on how their apps are progressing.

2x Weekly Live Coding + Q&A

You will work on your app outside of class as you learn to code with AI.

Weekly exercises and projects

Non-technical founders &amp; entrepreneurs&nbsp;who want to build their own MVPs quickly without depending on developers. Perfect for those with idea

Product Managers, Designers, Marketers, &amp; Business folks&nbsp;who want to increase their technical capabilities and build their own tools and pro

Engineers &amp; technical professionals&nbsp;looking to 10x their productivity by mastering AI-powered development workflows and tools.

It might sound intimidating, but you will learn to do this in your sleep.

How to setup your AI development environment, even if you've never coded before

This is an emerging skill and you will know all of the most current tips and strategies.

Real world tips and strategies for getting AI to code exactly what you want

You will make an actual app with NextJS, Tailwind, Supabase, and OpenAI. It will have signup/login, a database, and even AI.

You will successfully code an app, and you will be surprised at how fast you will be able to do it

You will be so good at coding with AI that you will be able to create apps and tools for work and personal use, and it will be just as easy as writing an email.

You will be able to solve problems with software

Hands on class where you will build any app you want, simply by telling AI what to do. No coding experience needed.

Lightning Lessons

The Ultimate Website Upgrade: Build Your Own AI Chatbots