AI Foundations (New & Improved)

Master the essential skills for working effectively with AI tools like ChatGPT through practical, hands-on techniques that go beyond basic prompting.

Chapters
22
Duration
2h 52m
Difficulty
Beginner
Updated
Apr 2026

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

About Nate Grahek

SaaS founder and Fractional CMO

Nate 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.

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