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AI 320

Build Your AI Assistant.

Build a working AI assistant around your real job, knowledge, and daily responsibilities.

Course promise

What you will be able to do.

By the end of this course, participants will have built a personalized AI assistant that understands their work, organizes their knowledge, and helps execute their daily responsibilities.

Every participant leaves with an AI assistant that is actively solving problems in their own job. This is a build-first workshop: participants begin with prepared examples, learn how an AI harness works, customize proven project templates, and finish by building a personal assistant called My Assistant.

Help participants build a useful personal AI assistant around their actual work, responsibilities, files, rules, skills, and review practices.

Platforms / technology

  • ChatGPT Work
  • Claude Code
  • Obsidian

Fit

Who this class is for.

Audience

  • Business professionals
  • Analysts
  • Operations leaders
  • Finance and HR teams
  • Marketers
  • Project managers
  • Executives
  • Excel and PowerPoint power users

Not a fit if

  • Participants who only need basic AI awareness.
  • Software developers seeking a developer-specific AI course.

Prerequisites

  • Basic AI fluency.
  • Bring one real, repeatable work problem to use during the capstone.
  • Bring a small set of non-sensitive example files that support that problem, if appropriate.

Common pain point

Business users want AI to help with real work but do not have an organized assistant, knowledge base, or repeatable process.

Outcomes

What you will learn.

Learning outcomes

  • A working ChatGPT Work or Claude Code and Obsidian environment.
  • A practical understanding of AI harnesses, projects, rules, files, memory, skills, models, and integrations.
  • Hands-on experience with a CFO harness and a transportation analytics harness.
  • Understanding the second brain concept.
  • A working My Assistant project.
  • At least one custom skill designed for their own role.
  • A roadmap for expanding their assistant after class.

What teams walk away with

  • Build a working personal AI assistant.
  • Create at least one reusable skill.
  • Organize personal work knowledge.
  • Apply human review and decision logging.
  • Create a 30-day roadmap for continued use.

Agenda

Topics and hands-on work.

Topics

  • Import and explore a prepared AI harness.
  • Understand and customize its rules, files, and skills.
  • Build and apply an assistant to your own work.

Hands-on exercises

  • Hire an AI Employee.
  • Create a first reusable skill.
  • Customize the CFO Harness.
  • Explore the Transportation Analytics Harness.
  • Map second brain knowledge.
  • Build and test My Assistant.

Workshop modules

  1. From Chatting with AI to Building an AI Assistant

    20 min
    • Chat vs project vs assistant vs harness.
    • Core building blocks: projects, memory, files, rules, skills, models, and integrations.
    • Why a harness is more durable than a collection of prompts.

  2. Set Up the Workshop Environment

    20 min
    • Install or verify Codex and Obsidian.
    • Confirm project access and model selection.
    • Preview Markdown, project folders, and graph view.

  3. How an AI Project Is Organized

    20 min
    • Folders, rules, skills, source docs, memory, and decision logs.
    • Human review points in the project structure.

  4. Skills: Turn Good Work into a Repeatable Process

    35 min
    • Skill vs one-time prompt.
    • Inputs, steps, checks, and outputs.
    • Examples across summaries, analysis, proposals, and meeting notes.

  5. CFO Harness Workshop

    45 min
    • Work with financial statements and inventory scenarios.
    • Revise a rule, file, or skill and test the result.

  6. Transportation Analytics Workshop

    45 min
    • Ask business questions of data.
    • Find trends and exceptions; draft an executive summary.

  7. Connect an Assistant to Business Systems

    20 min
    • Integrations and least privilege.
    • When to connect systems vs use manual files.

  8. Design Your Second Brain

    25 min
    • Private notes, tasks, and decisions.
    • Department knowledge, SOPs, and project memory.

  9. Capstone: Build My Assistant

    90 min
    • Define role and scope.
    • Add rules and skills.
    • Test on a real work task.

Use cases

Where this class shows up at work.

  • Meeting preparation.
  • Email drafting.
  • Calendar and follow-up support.
  • Task tracking and daily summaries.
  • Decision logging.
  • Research and executive briefings.
  • Role-specific work across finance, marketing, HR, operations, and more.

Class schedule

Upcoming AI 320 classes

Seats are held for 10 minutes once you start checkout. Availability comes from LOOP — when fewer than five seats remain, we show Few seats instead of an exact count. You can register through the end of the class day (Central Time). Past classes appear on the calendar only (grayed out). Full classes cannot be registered online.

DateClassLocationPriceStatusRegister
September 3, 2026AI 320 - Build Your AI AssistantWECC$1,500Open
October 1, 2026AI 320 - Build Your AI AssistantWECC$1,500Open
February 28, 2027AI 320 - Build Your AI AssistantWECC$1,500Open

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