- Step 1Watch46 min
AI in the Trades: Getting Started
The fundamentals of AI adoption for small service businesses, in one sitting.
Open - Step 2Read14 min
How Trades Companies Are Using AI in 2026
The field report — what real small businesses are doing with AI right now, and what it's returning.
Open - Step 3Read15 min
Learn the 10 words that matter
Skim the glossary — start with LLM, prompt, agent, hallucination, RAG, automation, and token. Vendors will assume you know them.
Open - Step 4Read12 min
The AI Adoption Roadmap
The structured path from 'curious' to 'transformed' — and why most businesses should start smaller than they think.
Open - Step 5Do30 min
Run your first three prompts
Open the Prompt Library, pick any three from your business area, and run them in a free AI chat tool. This is the moment it clicks.
Open - Step 6Do10 min
Take the AI-Q Assessment
Score your business's AI readiness and get your prioritized opportunity list.
Open - Step 7Course4 hrs
Course: AI Power User
When you're ready to go deeper — the structured beginner certification.
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Other learning paths
Automate Your Front Office
Stop missing calls, chasing estimates, and retyping the same answers.
Phones, scheduling, follow-ups, and customer questions are where small businesses bleed the most hours — and where AI pays back fastest. This path takes you from understanding the options to a working plan.
AI Marketing on a Small Budget
Out-market bigger competitors without their ad spend.
AI collapses the cost of good marketing: content, follow-up, reviews, and local SEO. This path shows you businesses that cut paid ads entirely — and the tools and prompts they'd use to do it today.