AI for Operations
Forecasting, SOPs, procurement and logistics, with AI in the loop.
AI for Operations is a self-paced online course: 6.5 hours of recorded sessions across 4 modules, with 3 graded by Nova, Square 1's AI tutor. The founding price is A$45, down from A$90. Start any time and keep your own pace.
- Module 1AI for the operations week90 min · graded
- Module 2Forecasting and planning90 min · graded
- Module 3Procurement and vendors90 min
- Module 4Project: an operations playbook120 min · graded
- recorded hours
- 6.5
- modules, in order
- 4
- deployed projects
- 2
- graded checkpoints
- 3
Who it is for, and what you receive.
Operations people who want forecasting, SOPs, procurement and logistics with AI in the loop.
You run operations.
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The recorded sessions
Taught by an instructor, taken in order at your own pace, yours for twelve months.
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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.
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The projects
Deployed and graded, each one on your record with its repository.
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Your hiring plan
The same six-part plan the bootcamps use, run with the career agent.
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The record and the certificate
Every grade at square1ai.com/u/{handle}; a credential ID that resolves at square1ai.com/verify.
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Nova as your tutor
Help that is about your actual work, because it has read all of it.
The content plan, module by module.
6.5 recorded hours from an instructor, taken in order at your own pace. Nova grades the work at the end of each module.
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SOPs
Checking
Handovers
The projects.
Each is deployed and graded by Nova against a rubric you can read before you start.
- Project 1
An SOP set
Write the standard operating procedures for a process you run, or for a fictional regional warehouse's goods-in and handover routine. Draft them with AI, then check each step against how the work is actually done and fix what the draft got wrong.
You hand in- Set of SOPs
- Check notes per SOP
- Shift handover template
- Change log from checking
The rubric requiresEach SOP is graded clear and complete, and someone new could follow it without asking.
- Project 2
An operations playbook
Assemble an operations playbook for your own team, or the fictional warehouse. It combines the SOPs, a demand forecast with stated caveats, a planning routine, and a vendor comparison drawn from a short RFP, each drafted with AI and checked.
You hand in- Operations playbook
- Demand forecast with caveats
- RFP and vendor comparison
- Short note on first use
The rubric requiresThe playbook is complete, meets the grading rubric, and has been used for at least one real or set task.
What you can do at the end.
AI in your operations week, with two graded projects on your record.
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Write and check SOPs with AI.
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Forecast and plan.
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Run procurement and vendor work with AI.
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Build an operations playbook.
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.
- ProjectGraded
An SOP set
Each SOP is graded clear and complete, and someone new could follow it without asking.
- ProjectGraded
An operations playbook
The playbook is complete, meets the grading rubric, and has been used for at least one real or set task.
- Every moduleGraded
3 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. Reserving a spot holds the founding price.
Pre-orderHow 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.
The whole plan on a few pages: the parts, the projects, the gates and the price. We email it to you.
Get the booklet- 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.
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A record an employer can run
Your graded projects on /verify. An employer opens it and runs the code.
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The career agent
Paste a real job posting at /career and it maps the role to your graded work and what to do next.
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The roles directory
Every role we prepare people for, what it pays and what it asks, at /roles.
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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.
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- AI in your operations week
- Two graded projects on your record