AI for Business Professionals Certificate Program Online

What you'll learn

• Build and deploy AI-powered business applications from plain-language requirements
• Model business data and integrate email, calendars, analytics, CRM, and accounting systems
• Implement retrieval-augmented generation, multi-step agents, and output guardrails
• Apply authentication, secrets management, PII protection, and access control
• Deploy a document summarization and action-item productivity application
• Deploy a knowledge-base chatbot grounded in your own content
• Deploy marketing, sales, and CRM applications with outreach automation
• Deploy financial dashboards and AI-assisted compliance and agreement tools
• Deploy agentic operations automation, scheduling, billing, and client portals

Course outline

1. 1 AI Coding Tools & App Development Course Online 60 hours

   Learn to build, test, and deploy full-stack web applications with AI coding tools, covering prompting, version control, databases, authentication, security, and hosting.

   • Use AI coding tools confidently for real, multi-step development work
   • Prompt and steer AI with context setting, planning, review, and recovery techniques
   • Work with Git and GitHub for version control, branching, and code review
   • Understand web development fundamentals: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, APIs, front end, and back end
   • Build full-stack applications with databases, authentication, and external APIs
   • Connect external services through MCP integrations and orchestrate sub-agents
   • Debug, test, and secure an application before release
   • Deploy production-ready applications to a live public URL
2. 2 AI Application Architecture & Strategy Course Online 60 hours

   Learn how production AI business applications are actually designed: data modeling, systems integration, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, guardrails, and the security practices business data demands.

   • Model business data and design databases that support real workflows
   • Integrate email, calendars, analytics, CRM, and accounting via APIs, OAuth, webhooks, and MCP
   • Apply advanced prompting techniques for reliable, repeatable results
   • Design retrieval-augmented generation over business documents
   • Build multi-step agents and understand their reliability and cost trade-offs
   • Evaluate AI output and put guardrails around it
   • Apply authentication, secrets management, PII protection, and access control
   • Scope a business problem and communicate the solution to non-technical stakeholders
3. 3 Personal Productivity Portfolio Development Course Online 30 hours

   Design, build, and deploy a working document summarization and action-item dashboard, your first live application in the portfolio.

   • Scope a productivity problem into a buildable application
   • Ingest, store, and organize uploaded documents
   • Use AI to summarize documents and extract key points and action items
   • Structure extracted content so it stays queryable
   • Design a clean, scannable dashboard interface
   • Add authentication and protect stored content
   • Deploy the application to a live public URL
   • Document the build and demonstrate it to a non-technical audience
4. 4 Knowledge-Base Chatbot Portfolio Development Course Online 30 hours

   Build and deploy a retrieval-augmented chatbot that answers from your own documents, manuals, and policies, suitable for customer support or internal knowledge.

   • Design a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline end to end
   • Ingest and chunk documents, manuals, and policies for retrieval
   • Generate, store, and query embeddings
   • Assemble retrieved context into prompts that produce grounded answers
   • Cite sources so answers can be verified
   • Handle unanswerable questions rather than inventing a response
   • Keep a knowledge base current as source documents change
   • Deploy the chatbot for customer-facing or internal use
5. 5 Marketing & Sales Portfolio Development Course Online 60 hours

   Build and deploy revenue-facing applications: analytics-to-insight reporting, AI content generation, a sales CRM, and automated outreach.

   • Scope revenue-facing problems into buildable applications
   • Pull analytics data and turn it into readable business insight
   • Generate on-brand marketing content programmatically
   • Build a CRM with contact management and deal tracking
   • Automate outreach sequences with sensible triggers and limits
   • Connect external services through APIs and MCP integrations
   • Deploy both applications live with authentication and a hosted database
   • Document the architecture and demo the tools to stakeholders
6. 6 Finance & Compliance Portfolio Development Course Online 60 hours

   Build and deploy a financial dashboard with calculations computed in code, plus an AI-assisted document and agreements hub with compliance workflows.

   • Compute income, expenses, revenue growth, and profitability programmatically
   • Visualize financial data through interactive charts and dashboards
   • Understand when to compute in code and when to use AI
   • Draft employment offers, contractor agreements, NDAs, and vendor contracts with AI assistance
   • Track documents through review and approval workflows
   • Apply access control and audit trails to sensitive records
   • Handle personally identifiable and financial data responsibly
   • Deploy both applications live with authentication
7. 7 Operations & Client Management Portfolio Development Course Online 60 hours

   Build and deploy an agentic operations automation hub and a client-facing practice-management system with scheduling, billing, and a client portal.

   • Design multi-step agentic workflows that run on schedules and triggers
   • Decide what an agent handles unattended and when it escalates to a person
   • Automate internal operations tasks to reduce manual effort
   • Build scheduling and calendar integration
   • Handle billing and invoicing workflows
   • Deploy a secure client-facing portal with appropriate permissions
   • Design for graceful failure in systems outside users depend on
   • Present a completed portfolio of deployed business applications