AI Foundations (New & Improved)
Nate Grahek AI Educator @ The Rundown University
22 chapters · 2h 52m · Beginner
About this course
Master the essential skills for working effectively with AI tools like ChatGPT through practical, hands-on techniques that go beyond basic prompting.
What you'll learn
- Choose the Right AI Approach Separate chat, automation, projects, research, and custom tools so each AI use case gets the right level of planning and effort.
- Engineer Better Context Provide roles, goals, constraints, examples, and business context that help AI produce specific, useful work instead of generic output.
- Guide AI Conversations Use interview-style prompting, fresh starts, and handoff summaries to guide AI through complex work without losing quality.
- Build Reusable AI Projects Create reusable projects with instructions, knowledge files, templates, and examples for repeated business tasks you can confidently evaluate.
- Run Practical AI Research Scope deep research tasks, synthesize findings, and turn useful insights into decision-ready reports or project knowledge files.
- Create AI-Powered Artifacts Design lightweight dashboards, calculators, and interactive artifacts that reveal patterns, test scenarios, and support better decisions.
Course curriculum
3 parts · 22 chapters
Your instructor
Nate Grahek AI Educator @ The Rundown UniversityNate is a SaaS founder and Fractional CMO who helps product-driven businesses build marketing systems that actually work — without the fluff. He's spent years helping founders and operators cut through marketing complexity and put the right things on autopilot.
At Rundown University, Nate brings that same hands-on, no-jargon approach to AI education. His workshops and courses focus on practical automation and AI workflows you can deploy the same day — no engineering background required. If you've ever wanted to use AI to get your time back, Nate shows you exactly how.