AI Fluency for Small Business – From Awareness to Action By the end of this lesson, students should be able to: From experiment to operation. Experimenting with AI means trying AI on individual tasks, evaluating whether it works, and deciding whether to continue. Operating with AI means AI is integrated into defined, documented business processes with consistent quality standards – and those processes improve over time. The transition requires three things: Documenting an AI workflow. A documented business AI workflow covers: Written in plain language, this fits on one page per workflow. It is a recipe – anyone who needs to run the workflow can follow it without the inventor being present. Establishing the improvement loop. Review each operating AI workflow monthly for the first three months, then quarterly: A twelve-month AI expansion roadmap. Month 1-3: First workflow embedded and operating Month 4-6: Second workflow added (using three-criteria framework again) Month 6-9: First workflow expanded to adjacent tasks; third workflow added Month 9-12: Team AI habits embedded; four to five core workflows documented and operating This pace feels slow in month one. By month twelve, you have a genuine organizational AI capability – multiple documented workflows, a trained team, and an improvement process. This is the compound interest model for AI adoption. Enroll to continue this lesson. The preview above shows the lesson objectives and opening lesson content. Enroll to view the full lesson, complete the practice work, and take the lesson quiz.
Lesson 5: From Experimenting to Operating – Building a Sustainable AI Workflow
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