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What you get, in seventy seconds.

What you get when you join: the AI Skills Black Belt course and the daily lesson.

Two things, free, the day you sign up.

The AI Skills Black Belt courseNine sessions inside our platform. In each one you build something real for your own job with AI.Normally $1,000 a year. Free when you join.
The daily lessonOne great business book every morning, and how to use its big idea before AI, with AI, and in an AI-Native company.Emailed to you every day.

The course gives you the skills: how to get real work done with AI in the job you have today. The daily lesson gives you the thinking: the world’s best business ideas, and what each one becomes as AI changes how companies work.

Together they help you become the person in your company who knows how to use AI well, and why.

The AI Skills Black Belt: nine sessions, nine things you build for your own job.

  1. PresentationsA deck in your own style
  2. DashboardsYour numbers at a glance
  3. Micro AppsSmall tools you build yourself
  4. Meetings & CommunicationFollow-ups and coaching
  5. ProposalsOffers that win the work
  6. Creative ThinkingMore and better options
  7. Critical ThinkingTest ideas before you act
  8. Project PlansFrom goal to schedule
  9. End-to-End WorkflowsA whole job, start to finish

Each session has three parts. You learn the idea behind the skill, from the best thinkers on the topic. You apply it, with a prompt built around a finished example, to something from your own work. And you prove it, by handing in what you built.

The sessions stand on their own, so you can start with the one your job needs most. They work with Claude, ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot. More than 10,000 leaders have been through our Black Belt programs.

Every morning, one great business book, taken through the three stages of AI.

  1. Stage 1 · Pre-AIBetter LeaderUse the author’s idea well, with the team you have.Every company should do this.
  2. Stage 2 · AI ArbitrageBetter P&LAI does the same work for less, and you keep the difference.Every company will want this.
  3. Stage 3 · AI-NativeMore Valuable CompanyAgents do the work, and customers get far more for their money.Someone in your industry gets here first.

Each lesson is a short animated film in my own voice. It explains the book’s big idea from the beginning, then shows what that idea looks like in a company before AI, in a company using AI to do the same work for less, and in a company that runs AI-Native.

Every stage gets its own payoff. The first makes you a better leader now. The second shows up in your P&L. The third is how you build a more valuable company before someone else in your industry does.

Watch a sample lesson.

A sample daily lesson: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey, in an AI-Native company.

This is the kind of lesson that arrives in your inbox every morning: one great business book, its big idea explained from the beginning, and what that idea becomes at each of the three stages of AI.

A theme for every day of the week.

  1. MondaySalesSPIN Selling
  2. TuesdayMarketingBuilding a StoryBrand
  3. WednesdayProduct and InnovationThe Lean Startup
  4. ThursdayOperations and FinanceThe E-Myth Revisited
  5. FridayLeadershipHigh Output Management
  6. SaturdayStrategyGood Strategy/Bad Strategy
  7. SundayPeople DevelopmentHow to Win Friends and Influence People

These are the books in the first week. Salespeople plan their week on Monday, so the week starts with sales. Strategy and people development fall on the weekend, when leaders step back to think and to work on themselves.

For twenty years, business leaders have trusted me to explain the world’s best business ideas.

10,000+leaders have been through our Black Belt programs
1,000+companies those leaders came from
20 yearsteaching the world’s best business ideas to executives

I ran Readitfor.me, which helped executives learn the biggest ideas in business quickly. Today I run Humans + Agents, an AI-Native company where agents do most of the work and my team spends its time with customers.

I used to spend about seven hours a day doing the work myself. Now I spend about an hour reviewing what my agents produce, and the rest of my day with people. These lessons show you how that works, one book at a time.

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  3. Watch tomorrow’s lessonYour first daily lesson arrives the next morning, and every morning after.
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