Automate Basics

AIW-200 · Certification

AI at Work

Put it into the job you actually have

Your inbox, your meetings, your documents, your spreadsheets. The unglamorous eighty percent of a working week, rebuilt so it holds up when someone else depends on it.

The certificate attests that you can rebuild a recurring workflow other people depend on, and answer for what it produces. Colleagues act on work you assisted, often without seeing how it was made.

Rahul Arora

Founder, Automate Basics

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Level
IntermediateBuilds on an earlier course
Lessons
15Plus 3 live applications
Content
4h 35mRead at your own pace
Certificate
$99 onceLessons and exam are free

What you’ll be working on

  • Email
  • Meetings
  • Documents
  • Spreadsheets
  • Research
  • Team standards

Freeto read, all of it

The lessons, the live applications and the assessment cost nothing. Only the certificate is paid — $99 once, and only once you have passed.

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What this course includes

  • 15 lessons · 4h 35m
  • 3 live applications on your own work
  • The assessment, free to take and to retake
  • A verifiable certificate when you pass
  • No subscription — this site does not have one

Evidence you finish with

  • A five-prompt role library tested and refined on real weekly work
  • One recurring workflow timed before and after, with checking time included
  • A one-page team standard for data, review, disclosure and ownership

Every certificate carries an ID anyone can check without an account. How verification works

Who this is for

  • You can hold a decent conversation with ChatGPT or Claude but still do your actual job the old way
  • You lose an hour a day to email, notes and status updates
  • You want the specific moves for your tools, not another explanation of what a prompt is
  • Someone else already relies on something you produce, and you would like it to be defensible

Recommended after AIE-100 AI Essentials. Nothing is locked, so if you already have the skills, start here.

One free short course leads here. If you have finished it, you have met some of this already, and the rest builds on it rather than starting over.

What you'll be able to do

These are the competencies the assessment tests. Nothing else is claimed.

  • Cut a working inbox down with triage prompts that keep the urgency and name who is waiting
  • Turn any meeting into decisions, owners and dates without taking notes during it
  • Get from blank page to a structured first draft of a document or deck in one pass
  • Use AI safely on spreadsheets by moving the arithmetic to formulas and keeping judgement with you
  • Produce research and a defensible recommendation without a single fabricated source
  • Set up a reusable prompt library, Project or Skill so you stop re-explaining your context
  • Review someone else's assisted work for the failures that fluent writing hides
  • Measure honestly whether a rebuilt workflow saved time, and write it down so a colleague can run it
  • Write the standard your team holds: what may go in, what gets checked, who is accountable
  • Handle the day an assisted document reaches a client with a wrong number in it

What you receive

Pass the assessment and the certificate is yours for $99, once. It carries your name, the competencies above, and an ID anyone can check.

  • Verifiable by anyone, with no account and no login
  • A permanent public page for the credential ID
  • Yours as a PDF, to attach or to print
  • No renewal, no expiry, no annual fee
How verification works

Automate Basics

Certificate of Competency

AIW-200

This certifies that

Your name

has passed the final assessment of the AI at Work certification.

The holder declares the course’s lessons and live applications complete; the assessment result above is machine-marked by the issuer.

Assessed competencies are published with this credential at automatebasics.com/verify

Credential ID

AIW-200-2026-·······

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The curriculum

Every module, every lesson and every duration, before you decide. The lessons, the live applications and the assessment are all free. Only the certificate is paid, and only once you have passed.

Modules
5
Lessons
15
Live applications
3
Total time
about 4h 35m
  1. 1

    Email, calendar, meetings

    The three things that eat a week. All three are text problems, which is exactly what these tools are good at.

    3 lessons · 25 min

    1. 1.1Triage without losing the threadYou can turn a morning's inbox into an ordered list of what to open first, with the person waiting on each one named9 min
    2. 1.2Replies that sound like youYou can get drafts in your own voice by pasting writing samples instead of describing a tone, and strip the tells that mark a reply as machine-written11 min
    3. 1.3Meetings: before, during, afterYou can turn a meeting into the record people act on: decisions, owners, dates, and the actions nobody claimed5 min
  2. 2

    Documents, decks and spreadsheets

    Blank pages, long documents you cannot skip, and the numbers work where these tools quietly go wrong.

    3 lessons · 13 min

    1. 2.1Blank page to first draftYou can get from nothing to a structured first draft where every figure you did not supply shows as a visible gap, not an invented number4 min
    2. 2.2Summarising what you cannot skipYou can get a checkable answer from a long document by naming your decision and demanding exact quotes with clause numbers5 min
    3. 2.3Spreadsheets and numbersYou can split a spreadsheet task so the tool writes the formula and the sheet does the arithmetic, and name the spreadsheet jobs that are genuinely safe4 min
  3. 3

    Research and recommendations

    Getting to a defensible answer with real sources, and turning findings into something a decision-maker can act on.

    3 lessons · 18 min

    1. 3.1Research that does not invent sourcesYou can run a research task that returns traceable claims, and catch the misquoted-source error that survives a citation check10 min
    2. 3.2From findings to a recommendationYou can turn findings into a recommendation with a stated reversal condition, after hearing the strongest case against it4 min
    3. 3.3Making the case to your managerYou can propose a bounded, measured pilot to your employer in one screen, with the data question answered before it is asked4 min
  4. 4

    Working with other people

    Stop re-explaining your context, review AI-assisted work properly, and make the team better rather than just yourself.

    3 lessons · 19 min

    1. 4.1Stop re-explaining yourself: Projects, Skills and instructionsYou can set your context up once in custom instructions, a Project or a Skill, and pick the right one of the three for a job12 min
    2. 4.2Reviewing AI-assisted work from othersYou can review an assisted draft with a fixed four-check pass, and raise what you find as questions about the work4 min
    3. 4.3The work that is leftYou can split your own role into what got cheaper and what did not, and decide in advance what the reclaimed hours are for3 min
  5. 5

    Making it hold

    Habit 4 at role scale: proving the change was real, writing the standard your team can hold, and the hour after a wrong number reaches a client.

    3 lessons · 29 min

    1. 5.1Measuring what actually changedYou can produce a time saving you can defend: same task twice, checking counted inside the new figure, setup stated separately, and one line on what did not improve11 min
    2. 5.2The standard your team can holdYou can write the one page that settles what may go in, what gets checked, who is accountable and what gets disclosed, in lines nobody has to interpret13 min
    3. 5.3The day it goes out wrongYou can run the first hour after an assisted error reaches a client: establish what changed, correct it plainly, and turn the missed check into a named step5 min

Practical evidence pack

Briefs you complete against your own real work, each with a published rubric. The work stays yours; the course gives it a clear quality bar.

  1. Build your role's prompt library

    45 min

    Five tested prompts with a note on what you changed after running each, plus a screenshot or description of where you stored them.

  2. Rebuild your recurring report

    40 min

    The written process, the prompt, the before-and-after timings, and a note on which parts you deliberately kept manual.

  3. Write the standard, then test it on someone

    55 min

    The one-page standard, your colleague's answers to the three cases, the revised page, and the before-and-after timings with the check time shown separately.

The evidence you keep

  • A five-prompt role library tested and refined on real weekly work
  • One recurring workflow timed before and after, with checking time included
  • A one-page team standard for data, review, disclosure and ownership

Free assessment, paid certificate

$99 once

15 questions on the competencies above, free to sit. You need 12 to pass, every answer is explained whether you get it right or wrong, and retakes are unlimited. Once you have passed, the certificate — in your name, with a credential ID anyone can verify — is the part that costs, and the price above is the whole of it.

What is free and what is paid

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First lesson is 9 minutes and needs no account.

  • Your place is kept — pick up on your phone where you left off on your laptop
  • Lessons you have finished stay finished, even if you clear your browser
  • Assessment results are recorded against you, permanently

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