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AI Like a Pro — The Practical AI Mastery Course
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AI Like a Pro — The Practical AI Mastery Course

Stop using AI like a search box. Learn the prompting, workflows, and systems that turn AI into staff — no coding needed.
Created byChris Hanna
Last updated 10/2026
English
English

What you'll learn

  • Write prompts that produce usable work on the first try, using the five-part pro prompt anatomy: Role, Context, Task, Constraints, Format.
  • Apply six power frameworks: R.C.T.C.F., Show Don't Tell, the Interview, Chain of Steps, the Critic Pass, and Options First.
  • Fix the seven ways AI outputs go wrong instead of starting over from scratch.
  • Choose AI tools by category, build a complete working toolkit for $0, and evaluate any new tool in 10 minutes.
  • Run repeatable workflows for email, long documents, verifiable research, spreadsheets in plain English, customer replies, and meeting notes.
  • Turn one idea into ten posts with the repurposing engine, and run content on a batching and scheduling system.
  • Identify AI-powered services clients already pay for and price them in packages, never by the hour.
  • Build proof before pitching, and find first clients ethically — no hype, no invented results.
  • Climb the automation ladder safely and keep a human in the loop.
  • Protect yourself: what never to paste into an AI, AI-era scams, disclosure and AI-label rules, and copyright basics.
  • Convert the whole course into a running system with the 14-Day Action Plan.

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 41m total length
  • The Pro Mindset — AI Is Staff, Not a Search Box (Introduction)4:20
  • Prompting Like a Pro5:14
  • Your AI Toolkit4:33
  • AI for Work and Business5:42
  • AI for Content and Social5:51
  • AI for Money-Making Skills4:56
  • Automation and Agents4:48
  • Stay Safe and Legal + Your 14-Day Action Plan6:05

Requirements

  • No coding experience needed.
  • No paid tools needed — the course builds your stack on free tiers first.
  • Access to any major AI chat assistant (free tier is fine).
  • About 30 minutes a day for the exercises and the 14-Day Action Plan.

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.


This course was created with AI assistance, including AI-generated narration, under the direction of the instructor.


Stop using AI like a search box.


Most people type vague questions into a chatbot, get vague answers back, and conclude AI is overrated. Meanwhile a smaller group is quietly running their email, content, research, and client work through AI systems that save them hours every week.


The difference is not talent, and it is not expensive tools. It is method. AI Like a Pro teaches the method — in plain language, with worked examples, copy-paste templates, and exercises you do as you go.


This is a working course, not a watching course. Each lecture teaches a system and names the artifact you should have when it ends: a prompt library, a $0 toolkit, an inbox system, a content engine, a priced service offer, a safe automation, a safety checklist. The course closes with a 14-Day Action Plan that converts everything into a running routine, 30 minutes a day.


Module 1 — Prompting Like a Pro. The five-part anatomy of a prompt that works, six power frameworks including the Interview and the Critic Pass, the iteration loop, and a repair kit for bad outputs — plus the 10 core templates.


Module 2 — Your AI Toolkit. The six tool categories and what each is actually for, the honest free-vs-paid math, a complete $0 starting stack, and a 10-minute filter for evaluating any new tool.


Module 3 — AI for Work & Business. Repeatable workflows for email, long documents, research you can trust, spreadsheets and data in plain English, human-sounding customer replies, and meeting notes that turn into action items the same day.


Module 4 — AI for Content & Social. Hook generation in batches of twenty, scripts in beats, draft, punch-up, thumbnail systems, the repurposing engine that turns one idea into ten posts, and a complete 7-day content sprint.


Module 5 — AI for Money-Making Skills. The services clients already pay for, how to package them in three tiers, price them sanely, build proof before you pitch, and find your first clients ethically. Skills and systems, honestly presented — this course makes no income promises, and neither should you.


Module 6 — Automation & Agents. The four-level automation ladder, how to build workflows that do not quietly fail, and the human-in-the-loop rule.


Module 7 — Staying Safe & Legal. What never to paste into an AI, AI-era scams and how to spot them, disclosure and AI-label rules, and copyright basics every AI user needs.


Capstone — The 14-Day Action Plan. Day-by-day actions that convert the whole course into a running system in two weeks.


The companion course book (downloadable resource) includes a five-question quiz at the end of every module, a 25-question Final Exam across all seven modules with a full answer key, the 50-Prompt Power Library, and a printable Certificate of Completion — pass the exam at 80% or higher, fill in your name, date, and score, and put it where you work.


Who this course is for: Small business owners who know AI matters but use it like a toy. Side hustlers and freelancers who want AI speed without AI slop. Creators who need a content system instead of a daily scramble. Anyone who has said "AI gave me a useless answer" — and suspects the problem might be the prompt.


The honest part: This course teaches skills and workflows. It does not promise income, clients, or results — anyone who guarantees those is selling a story. What it does guarantee is reps: do the exercises and you will operate AI at a level most people around you simply do not.

Who this course is for:

  • Small business owners who know AI matters but use it like a toy.
  • Side hustlers and freelancers who want AI speed without AI slop.
  • Creators who need a content system instead of a daily scramble.
  • Anyone who has said "AI gave me a useless answer" — and suspects the problem might be the prompt.