Self-Directed Research

Learning to Work with AI

A structured course for discovering, mapping, and testing AI-augmented workflows — built for teams who make things.

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Foundations

The conceptual groundwork for the curriculum.

Specializations

Applying foundational concepts to specific domains.

The Approach

This is not a course about AI tools. It is a course about your work — and how to see it clearly enough to know where AI belongs and where it does not.

You will map your own processes step by step, identify where time and quality get lost, design experiments to test whether AI can help, and measure the results honestly. The methodology is grounded in peer-reviewed research from Harvard, MIT Sloan, INSEAD, and IDEO — adapted for practitioners who ship real deliverables every week.

The course requires effort. You will not passively read about AI capabilities. You will articulate your workflows, write your own prompts, run your own experiments, evaluate your own outputs, and document your own decisions. That is the only way to build genuine fluency.

The binding constraint on AI adoption is not technical skill, but the ability to see your own work clearly enough to redesign it.