You’ve used AI and gotten useful results. You may suspect it can do more than you currently use it for. AI Foundations teaches you what these tools can do and how to use them effectively, at your own pace, using your own work, with no tech background needed.
At a glance
One-time payment · 30-day guarantee
AI Foundations is built on one idea: used with intent, these tools help you do more thorough work and identify possibilities you might otherwise overlook, in less time than the work used to take.
You’ll learn a way of working that holds up across whatever platform you choose, ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, and you’ll practice it on your own tasks as you go, so what you build is useful from day one. The course runs in three parts.
AI Literacy 101 · Picking a Platform
It helps to know what you’re working with before you rely on it. You’ll see how these models work, where they’re headed, and what that means for how you use them day to day. From there, you’ll get a feel for how the major platforms differ and choose the platform that best suits your tasks and preferences.
Prompting & Effective AI Collaboration · Procedures & AI Personas
The difference between a vague answer and a specific, useful one comes down to how you set up the work. You’ll learn to communicate with AI clearly, give it the context it needs, and use it to develop and critique ideas, not just answer questions. Then you’ll build reusable assistants and procedures so you stop starting over every time you open a chat.
Researching with AI · Advanced Features & Emerging Trends
AI changes what research can look like. You’ll learn to use AI to investigate questions, compare sources, and summarize findings to inform decisions. Because AI tools continue to change, the course also includes a module on the newer capabilities worth knowing, with more added over time.
The recorded lessons are the smaller part of the experience. Around each one, you put the ideas to work on your own tasks, with short written guides and a few hand-picked readings alongside the videos. You’ll begin with a brief assessment of your current AI skills, and you’ll record your reflections in a workbook you can keep.
AI Foundations grew out of a year and a half of training sessions, workshops, keynotes, and consulting for educational institutions, businesses, startup founders, and not-for-profit organizations. It was built to address the recurring difficulties I’ve seen professionals have when learning about and using AI.
$299 USD · one-time payment
Lifetime access and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Enroll whenever it suits you and start the same day.
Subject: Professional development request: Upskailed AI Foundations ($299 USD)
Hi [your manager’s name],
I’d like to use part of my professional development budget on a course called AI Foundations for Professionals from Upskailed.
It’s a self-paced course built for non-technical professionals. It covers practical skills for working with AI: clear prompting, building custom AI assistants, research workflows, and fitting these tools into day-to-day work. The approach works across platforms, so the skills carry over no matter which AI tools we use now or adopt later.
The course was built by Jonathon Bloomfield, who has spent the past year and a half running training, workshops, keynotes, and consulting on practical AI for schools, businesses, startup founders, and nonprofits, and refined the material across five live cohorts.
For $299 USD, a one-time cost with lifetime access, I’d get:
It’s self-paced, so it won’t conflict with my workload, and the focus is on making my existing work more thorough and less time-consuming. I’d be applying what I learn directly to my current work from the first module.
I’d like to go ahead with this. Let me know if that works.
Thanks, [your name]
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