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AI for Everyone
What AI is, what it can and cannot do, and how to use it well in your own job, with no code.
AI for Everyone is a self-paced online course: 7.5 hours of recorded sessions across 7 modules, with 5 graded by Nova, Square 1's AI tutor. The founding price is A$19, down from A$35. Start any time and keep your own pace.
Price: A$19A$35
Founding price, one payment. Founding students keep their founding price on any second programme.
25 spots open now
0 held · 25 open
Founding intake. Spot holders hear the start date first.
Module by module
Module 1 · 45 min
What AI is, in plain words
Module 2 · 60 min · graded
How a chat model works and why it makes things up
Module 3 · 75 min · graded
Prompting that works
Module 4 · 75 min · graded
AI for your own work
Module 5 · 60 min
Images, voice, documents and agents
Module 6 · 60 min · graded
Privacy, bias, copyright and your employer's rules
Module 7 · 60 min · graded
Project: your AI playbook
- recorded hours
- 7.5
- modules, in order
- 7
- deployed projects
- 2
- graded checkpoints
- 5
Who it is for, and what you receive.
Anyone who wants to understand AI and use it well at work, with no technical background and no code.
Before you start
None. If you can use email, you can take this course.
Skills
- AI literacy
- prompting
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Copilot
- responsible AI
- 1
The recorded sessions
Taught by an instructor, taken in order at your own pace, yours for twelve months.
- 2
Graded work after every module
Exercises and projects marked by Nova against a rubric you can read, with what you did well and what to fix.
- 3
The projects
Deployed and graded, each one on your record with its repository.
- 4
Your hiring plan
The same six-part plan the bootcamps use, run with the career agent.
- 5
The record and the certificate
Every grade at square1ai.com/u/{handle}; a credential ID that resolves at square1ai.com/verify.
- 6
Nova as your tutor
Help that is about your actual work, because it has read all of it.
The content plan, module by module.
7.5 recorded hours from an instructor, taken in order at your own pace. Nova grades the work at the end of each module.
What AI is, in plain words
Module 1 · 45 min
Watch and take notes; nothing to submit in this module.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
AI, machine learning and generative AI
Where you already use it
What changed in the last three years
How a chat model works and why it makes things up
Module 2 · 60 min
Graded at the end: Spot the five errors in an AI answer.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
Predicting the next word
Hallucinations
Checking an answer
Prompting that works
Module 3 · 75 min
Graded at the end: Three prompts improved, with before and after.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
Role, task, context, format
Examples and iteration
Prompts for common jobs
AI for your own work
Module 4 · 75 min
Graded at the end: One weekly task redone with AI, with time saved.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
Email, documents and meetings
Research and summaries
Spreadsheets and data
Images, voice, documents and agents
Module 5 · 60 min
Watch and take notes; nothing to submit in this module.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
Image and voice tools
Working with files
What agents do
Privacy, bias, copyright and your employer's rules
Module 6 · 60 min
Graded at the end: A one-page AI use policy for your team.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
What not to paste
Bias and fairness
Copyright and ownership
Project: your AI playbook
Module 7 · 60 min
Graded at the end: Your personal AI playbook, graded.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
Your tasks
Your prompts
Your rules
The projects.
Each is deployed and graded by Nova against a rubric you can read before you start.
- 1
One weekly task redone with AI
Pick a task you do every week, such as a report, a set of emails or meeting notes. Redo it with an AI assistant, check the output, and measure the time taken before and after.
You hand in
- Before and after samples
- The prompts you used
- Time saved and errors found
The rubric requires
The output is checked and the time saving is measured, not estimated.
- 2
Your personal AI playbook
Write a one-page playbook for your own job: the five tasks you will use AI for, the prompt for each, the checks you run, and what you will never paste into a chat window.
You hand in
- One-page playbook
- Five tested prompts
- Your checking rules
The rubric requires
Every prompt is tested and every task has a check.
What you can do at the end.
A plain understanding of AI and a tested playbook for your own job, with two graded projects on your record.
- 1
Explain what AI and a chat model are in plain words.
- 2
Recognise when an AI answer is wrong and check it.
- 3
Write prompts that get useful results the first time.
- 4
Redo a real weekly task with AI and measure the time saved.
- 5
Use AI within privacy, copyright and your employer's rules.
Roles this prepares you for
- Any role
- Team lead
- Office and operations staff
No placement rate is shown, because there are no graduates to count yet. The roles above are what the projects are built for.
Your record at the end.
Every exercise and project is graded by Nova against a rubric you can read, and every grade is kept on one page an employer can open and run. This is what the programme writes to it.
- Graded, line by line
- Nova reads every submission against the brief and the rubric and returns a score, what you did well and what to fix.
- Module by module
- Each module ends in graded work; the next opens when you are ready, on your own schedule.
- Nova remembers
- Help is about your actual work, because the tutor has every submission and every failed exercise of yours.
- One page an employer can run
- Every grade and project at /verify. An employer opens it and runs the code.
Record, AI for Everyone
Example
- ProjectGraded
One weekly task redone with AI
The output is checked and the time saving is measured, not estimated.
- ProjectGraded
Your personal AI playbook
Every prompt is tested and every task has a check.
- Every moduleGraded
5 graded checkpoints
Each module ends in work Nova grades line by line against a rubric you can read.
- AfterKept
Your hiring plan
Target roles, the gap map, the proof to send, weekly actions and an interview log.
The entries, not the grades: those are yours to earn. The page lives at /verify and an employer needs no account to open it.
4 entries, at your own pace. 25 spots are open.
Reserve my spotHow we help you find a job.
Proof, not a certificate: the projects you deployed are the thing you show, and the tools below are yours to use.
- 1
Your hiring plan
The same six-part plan the bootcamps use: target roles, the gap map, the proof to send, weekly actions, an interview log, the outcome. You run it with the career agent.
- 2
A record an employer can run
Your graded projects on /verify. An employer opens it and runs the code.
- 3
The career agent
Paste a real job posting at /career and it maps the role to your graded work and what to do next.
- 4
The roles directory
Every role we prepare people for, what it pays and what it asks, at /roles.
- 5
A path to the live cohort
If you want the instructor, the gates and the hiring sprint, the bootcamp on the same subject is one waitlist away.
Questions people ask.
About AI for Everyone, answered from the plan on this page.
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How long is AI for Everyone?
7.5 hours of recorded sessions across 7 modules, taken at your own pace. 5 of the modules end in work Nova grades.
Is AI for Everyone live or self-paced?
Self-paced. The sessions are recorded by an instructor who does this work, and Nova, Square 1's AI tutor, grades every checkpoint and project against a rubric you can read.
How much does AI for Everyone cost?
A$19 for the founding intake, paid once; the standard price is A$35. It is the same price in every country. Founding students keep their founding price on any second programme.
Who is AI for Everyone for?
Anyone who wants to understand AI and use it well at work, with no technical background and no code. Before you start: None. If you can use email, you can take this course.
What will I build in AI for Everyone?
2 deployed projects: One weekly task redone with AI and Your personal AI playbook. Each is graded against a published rubric and kept on a record an employer can open at /verify.
What skills does AI for Everyone teach?
AI literacy, prompting, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and responsible AI. It prepares you for roles such as Any role, Team lead and Office and operations staff.
Does AI for Everyone guarantee a job?
No. No placement rate is published because there are no graduates to count yet. What you leave with is graded, deployed work on one record an employer can open and run, and a hiring plan you keep with the career agent.
How do I join AI for Everyone?
Reserve one of the twenty-five founding spots on this page with your email. Spot holders hear the opening date first, and nothing is charged before you confirm. The price on this page is in Australian dollars and is the same in every country.
25 spots. Hold one of them.
25 founding spots. Recorded by an instructor who does this work, graded by Nova. Spot holders hear the opening date first, and nothing is charged before you confirm.
- Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot with judgement
- Spot when AI is wrong and check it
- Two graded projects on your record
About a minute. No account, no card, and nothing is charged until you confirm.