Full curriculum
AI for Domain Experts
The complete, level-by-level path: for every topic, the learning objectives, key concepts, the graded assignment, and the project it rolls into.
The shared foundation for every participant: what AI is and is not, the toolset and which tool wins for each job, prompting, setting up your own AI work environment, the deeper capabilities, and safe habits. It ends in your personal AI playbook. No coding, ever.
Learning objectives
- Separate the myths of AI from its realistic promises, and say what AI is and is not.
- Name the spectrum of what AI can do and the right tool for each job.
- Audit your own working day for where AI genuinely helps.
Key focus
- What AI is and is not: myths versus promises
- The spectrum of possibilities, each grounded in a specific tool
- Chat vs assistant vs agent vs workspace
- Free, paid, and team plans, and the confidentiality line
- Tokens and the token economy
You produce
A working-day opportunity list and a personal tool map.
Target win
Identify 5 or more AI-suitable tasks and 3 or more hours a week of addressable grind.
Learning objectives
- Diagnose why a prompt underperforms and fix it.
- Use the role, context, task, constraints, format pattern reliably.
- Steer output, and improve a draft with self-critique.
Key focus
- The five-part prompt pattern
- Steering with examples; controlling tone, length, and format
- Making the AI interview you before it answers
- Reason-then-critique for a stronger draft
You produce
Three rebuilt, reusable prompts for your real tasks.
Target win
First drafts you edit, not rewrite: about half the correction rounds.
Learning objectives
- Turn a recurring task into a reusable, parameterised master prompt.
- Organise prompts so they are one click away.
- Start a shared team prompt library.
Key focus
- What a master prompt is and why it beats one-off asks
- Variables and fill-in-the-blank templates
- The four homes: custom instructions, saved prompts, workspaces, team library
- Naming, versioning, and pruning a library
You produce
A personal prompt library of 3 to 5 master prompts.
Target win
Recurring tasks start from a saved prompt in seconds, not from scratch.
Learning objectives
- Configure an assistant with custom instructions and memory.
- Build a reusable workspace over your own documents.
- Get grounded answers with citations from your own files.
Key focus
- Custom instructions and memory
- Projects and Custom GPTs as reusable mini-assistants
- A knowledge base the assistant always references
- Connectors to email, calendar, and files (awareness)
You produce
A configured assistant and one working workspace over your own files.
Target win
Stop re-uploading and re-explaining: a grounded, cited answer in one step.
Learning objectives
- Explain, as a user, what an agent, a skill, and MCP are.
- Package a repeatable workflow, and set an act-versus-approve rule.
- Describe no-code automation and where it fits, with no programming.
Key focus
- From answering to acting: agents
- Skills: packaging a repeatable workflow
- MCP explained for an AI user (the USB port for AI)
- No-code automation: trigger, AI step, action
- When to let AI act versus approve first
You produce
A packaged skill or automation and a written autonomy rule.
Target win
A multi-step routine runs from one prompt, or on a trigger, instead of by hand.
Learning objectives
- Catch hallucinations and verify output before relying on it.
- Apply clear rules on confidentiality and safe tool choice.
- Assemble a personal AI playbook that ties the week together.
Key focus
- Verification: AI drafts, you are accountable
- Confidentiality and the plan that makes a tool safe
- Data controls, memory, and privacy settings
- Your profession's guardrails, in brief
You produce
Your completed personal AI playbook.
Target win
A Monday-ready system, with safe and verified use as the default.
Choose this track if you are a lawyer, drafter, counsel, or advocate. Every session runs on your own documents and ends by assembling a grounded Legal AI workspace with its own guardrails.
Learning objectives
- Generate a first draft of a document from a brief, grounded in your own templates.
- Steer drafting with a clause library to match house style.
- Iterate to filing quality while keeping control of the substance.
Key focus
- A brief to a grounded first draft
- Grounding in your precedents and clause library
- The drafting master prompt, marking any invented content
- Iterate: self-critique, verify defined terms and any cited authority
You produce
A Legal Drafter workspace and a drafting master prompt.
Target win
A house-style first draft from a brief in under 30 minutes.
Learning objectives
- Run a structured review that surfaces risks and missing protections.
- Compare an incoming draft against your standard position.
- Produce a redline-ready list of changes, each with a reason.
Key focus
- The review master prompt: summary, obligations, risks, missing items
- Deviation analysis against your standard
- From review to a redline-ready list
- Flags are a first pass to verify, not a verdict
You produce
A Contract Reviewer workspace and a review master prompt.
Target win
A structured review plus a redline-ready list in under 30 minutes.
Learning objectives
- Use grounded tools for current, source-cited answers.
- Summarise long judgments and statutes accurately, with pin-cites.
- Verify research and avoid the fabricated-citation trap.
Key focus
- Two jobs, two tools: summarise what you have versus research the law
- Pin-cited summaries of long documents
- Grounded, citation-first research
- The fabricated-citation trap and verification
You produce
A research master prompt and a personal verification checklist.
Target win
A pin-cited summary of a long judgment in minutes, with every authority verified.
Learning objectives
- Query a large document set in natural language, grounded.
- Extract obligations, dates, parties, and red flags across many files.
- Build a repeatable diligence workflow that scales beyond manual review.
Key focus
- Querying a whole corpus with file and page citations
- Extracting a structured findings table
- A repeatable standard question set
- Respecting coverage limits: AI narrows, you review what matters
You produce
A diligence question set and a findings-table format.
Target win
A data room narrowed to the pages that matter, in a fraction of manual time.
Learning objectives
- Turn dense legal material into clear client-facing explanations.
- Draft client updates and advice notes quickly and consistently.
- Adapt tone and complexity to the audience.
Key focus
- The plain-language explanation, accurate and audience-tuned
- Routine correspondence in house voice
- Plain does not mean inaccurate: preserving the material nuance
You produce
A client-explanation master prompt and a client-email template.
Target win
An accurate plain-language explanation or client letter in minutes.
Learning objectives
- Assemble a complete, grounded Legal AI workspace over your own materials.
- Apply privilege, confidentiality, jurisdiction, and the duty to verify.
- Leave with a Monday-ready legal AI setup.
Key focus
- Assembling the workspace from the track's components
- Guardrails: privilege and confidentiality
- Guardrails: jurisdiction and fabricated authority
- A personal ethics-and-verification checklist
You produce
A Legal AI workspace and a personal ethics-and-verification checklist.
Target win
One matter run end to end, and a reusable, Monday-ready legal setup.
Choose this track if you are a chartered accountant, finance officer, controller, or analyst. Every session runs on your own numbers and documents and ends by assembling a grounded Finance AI workspace with its own controls.
Learning objectives
- Summarise long financial documents into decision-ready briefs.
- Extract and sanity-check key figures, trends, and ratios.
- Frame the right questions to ask of a set of accounts.
Key focus
- A long report into a decision brief with page cites
- The financial-summary master prompt
- Extracting a key-figures table
- Every number is verified: AI never certifies a figure
You produce
A financial-summary master prompt and a key-figures extraction format.
Target win
A 100-page report into a decision brief in under 30 minutes.
Learning objectives
- Draft MIS narratives, board notes, and commentary from figures.
- Turn a variance table into a clear, structured explanation.
- Keep recurring reports consistent period to period.
Key focus
- Turning numbers into narrative
- A workspace with your report templates and prior notes
- House-structure commentary and board notes
- Reconcile every cited figure to source
You produce
An MIS and board-note workspace and a commentary master prompt.
Target win
A first-draft management commentary from a variance table in under 30 minutes.
Learning objectives
- Compare datasets and surface mismatches and outliers.
- Get likely causes for anomalies to investigate.
- Understand the limits: AI assists the eye, it does not replace the tie-out.
Key focus
- Comparing two sets into a categorised difference table
- Flagging anomalies and testing the reasons
- AI as anomaly-spotter, not the reconciliation of record
- Verifying every computed number
You produce
A reconciliation and anomaly master prompt and a verification note.
Target win
Anomalies across thousands of rows surfaced in minutes, with each material item verified.
Learning objectives
- Summarise and interpret provisions, circulars, and standards.
- Track and explain what changed in an updated regulation.
- Verify regulatory answers against primary sources.
Key focus
- A circular into a practitioner brief
- Old-versus-new change summaries
- Current-rule research with every source opened
- Judgment and the final position stay yours
You produce
A regulation-summary master prompt and a change-tracking format.
Target win
A practitioner brief plus an old-versus-new change summary in minutes.
Learning objectives
- Draft and structure working-paper documentation faster.
- Build test checklists and document procedures and findings.
- Keep audit documentation consistent and review-ready.
Key focus
- Drafting procedure narratives and findings
- First-cut test checklists from the applicable standard
- Consistency and review-readiness
- Conclusions stay the auditor's; verify against the work performed
You produce
A working-paper drafting workspace and a checklist master prompt.
Target win
Review-ready working-paper narratives in a fraction of the time.
Learning objectives
- Assemble a complete Finance AI workspace over your templates and data.
- Apply figure verification, confidentiality, and control over material information.
- Leave with a Monday-ready finance AI setup.
Key focus
- Assembling the workspace from the track's components
- Guardrail: every figure verified
- Guardrails: price-sensitive data, audit trail, and retention
- A controls-and-verification checklist
You produce
A Finance AI workspace and a personal controls-and-verification checklist.
Target win
A Monday-ready finance setup, with verified figures as the default.
Choose this track if you are an underwriter, claims or actuarial professional, or broker. Every session runs on your own wordings and files and ends by assembling a grounded Insurance AI workspace with fairness built in.
Learning objectives
- Summarise and interpret policy wordings quickly and accurately.
- Compare coverage across policies and against a standard wording.
- Extract exclusions, conditions, and limits into a usable structure.
Key focus
- A structured cover breakdown with clause references
- Coverage questions answered from the wording
- Comparing wordings and deviation from your standard
- The wording, not the AI paraphrase, governs
You produce
A policy-analysis master prompt and a cover-breakdown format.
Target win
A structured cover breakdown of a wording in minutes.
Learning objectives
- Extract and structure the key facts from an underwriting submission.
- Summarise risk and surface gaps and red flags for a referral.
- Speed the read of a submission without ceding the underwriting call.
Key focus
- A submission pile into an underwriting summary
- Key exposures, loss history, and missing information
- Referral flags
- Judgment, pricing, and terms stay the underwriter's
You produce
An underwriting-summary master prompt and a submission-intake format.
Target win
An underwriting summary and missing-information list in under 30 minutes.
Learning objectives
- Summarise a claim file and its correspondence into a clear status.
- Triage and categorise incoming claims for routing.
- Draft claims documentation and updates consistently.
Key focus
- A claim file into a status note
- Triage by type and severity
- Consistent status notes and update letters
- The coverage decision stays the handler's
You produce
A claims-summary and triage master prompt and a status-note format.
Target win
A claim file into a status note, and a batch triaged, in minutes.
Learning objectives
- Surface inconsistencies and possible fraud indicators in a file.
- Produce structured, defensible case notes for investigation.
- Understand the limits: signals to investigate, never a determination.
Key focus
- Reviewing a file for internal inconsistencies
- Structured case notes: observation, source, why it is unusual
- Signal, not finding: a human decides on the evidence
- Fairness and data protection govern
You produce
A case-review master prompt and a case-note format.
Target win
A whole claim file reviewed for inconsistencies in minutes.
Learning objectives
- Draft customer letters, proposals, and renewal communications quickly.
- Explain cover and decisions to customers in plain language.
- Keep customer communication consistent and on-brand.
Key focus
- Renewal letters that explain a premium change
- Plain-language decision explanations
- Proposals from the risk and terms
- Accuracy, required disclosures, and fairness before it goes out
You produce
A customer-correspondence master prompt and letter templates.
Target win
A renewal letter or decision explanation in minutes, checked for fairness.
Learning objectives
- Assemble a complete Insurance AI workspace over your wordings and templates.
- Apply fairness, disclosure, personal-data protection, and the human decision.
- Leave with a Monday-ready insurance AI setup.
Key focus
- Assembling the workspace from the track's components
- Guardrail: fairness, never the sole basis for an adverse decision
- Guardrails: disclosure duties and personal-data protection
- A fairness-and-verification checklist
You produce
An Insurance AI workspace and a personal fairness-and-verification checklist.
Target win
A Monday-ready insurance setup, with fairness and verification as the default.
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