AI for Business: A Free Practical Course for Canadian Small-Business Owners
Welcome to AI for Business, seven short lessons that each end with something built or decided for your own business. Start with Lesson 1 and work through in order, because each lesson adds one page to the AI playbook that the next one uses.
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15 min
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15 min
3
15 min
4
15 min
5
14 min
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14 min
7
15 min
Find the Hours: Which Tasks Are Worth Handing to AI
Rank your business's repeated tasks by hours and dollars, choose the three that are safest and most worthwhile to hand to AI first, and record the baseline numbers you will measure against in Lesson 7.Set the Ground Rules: Staff AI Policy, Privacy and Approved Tools
Write a one-page staff AI policy with a named privacy contact, a never-enter list and a short table of approved tools, each checked against eight privacy and cost questions.Answer Customers Faster: Replies, Reviews and FAQs
Build a one-page business facts sheet and use it to produce saved replies, a review response and an FAQ that are accurate enough to send after a quick check.Marketing Content and Ads That Stay Within the Rules
Turn one real job or product into a week of posts, an email and ad variations, check every claim against your facts, and make sure your email and text marketing meets Canada's anti-spam law.Paperwork: Quotes, Invoices, Books and Staff Documents
Produce a clear quote from rough job notes with every figure re-checked, set up polite payment reminders, and turn one task you do from memory into a written procedure someone else can follow.AI Receptionists and Chat Agents: Decide, Brief, Compare
Decide with your own call and cost numbers whether an AI phone or chat agent is worth a trial, write the one-page brief it must follow, and compare providers on cost, control and privacy.Did It Pay Off? The Scorecard and Your Next 90 Days
Compare your results with your Lesson 1 baseline, work out what each AI use saved or cost, and decide what to keep, fix or drop over the next 90 days.Your progress is saved in this browser only. Questions? Email novatoronto.ca@gmail.com or call 365-355-3133.