Course Description

Category: AI in a Pinch™ Series

Tag/label: Starter Course

Level: Beginner

Duration: 60–90 minutes

Module name: Module 1: Business Inputs & Foundation

AI in a Pinch™ — Business Inputs & Foundation is the starter course in the AI in a Pinch™ series.

This course helps business owners, founders, consultants, service providers, and business leaders understand why better AI results start with better business information.

Instead of using random prompts or generic examples, you will work with your own business information throughout the course. You will define what your business does, who you serve, what makes your business different, what problem your business solves, and who your ideal customer is.

The goal is to help you stop asking AI to guess and start giving it clearer business direction.

By the end of this course, you will have a simple business foundation you can use before creating stronger prompts, business content, customer replies, emails, offers, or workflow support materials.

What You Will Learn

In this course, you will learn how to:

1. Understand why better AI results start with better business information.
2. Identify the business details AI needs before creating useful outputs.
3. Use the AI in a Pinch™ Business Input Workbook™ as a practical business thinking tool.
4. Understand the four-step prompt process: complete the assessment, build your prompt, score the prompt, test and improve.
5. Define your business context so AI understands what your business does.
6. Explain what makes your business different.
7. Identify the problem your business solves.
8. Define who your business is speaking to.
9. Begin building a reusable business input foundation for future AI prompts.

What You’ll Leave With

By the end of this course, you will complete:

1. Your first AI task to improve
2. Your business context statement
3. Your business difference statement
4. The problem your business solves
5. Your ideal customer description

Target Audience

This course is designed for:

1. Business owners who want better AI results but do not know where to start.
2. Founders and entrepreneurs who want to use AI with clearer business direction.
3. Consultants, coaches, creatives, and service providers who want AI outputs to relate to their actual business.
4. Business leaders who want a simple foundation before using AI for content, emails, customer replies, offers, or workflows.
5. Anyone who has tried AI and received generic, unclear, or off-brand responses.

This course is not designed for advanced AI developers, coders, or technical automation specialists.

Requirements & Instructions

1. No AI experience is required.
2. No coding or technical background is required.
3. Learners should have a business, business idea, service, product, or offer they want to work with.
4. Learners should complete the workbook activities using their own business information.
5. Learners should answer honestly and avoid vague responses.
6. Learners should complete each lesson activity before moving to the next lesson.
7. Access to an AI tool is helpful, but not required for this first course.

Materials Included

1. AI in a Pinch™ Business Input Workbook™
2. Business foundation worksheet
3. Business context activity
4. Business difference activity
5. Ideal customer activity
6. Module 1 completion checklist