Understand how AI automation works before you commit to a tool. Learn triggers, actions, and workflows, add AI models like ChatGPT and Claude to your automations, compare Zapier, Make, and n8n, and design your first reliable automation without writing code.
This free AI automation course teaches you the concepts every tool tutorial skips. Instead of starting with one platform, you learn the machine underneath all of them: triggers that start a workflow, actions that do the work, the data that flows between steps, and the AI step that gives your automation judgment. Once you can read that skeleton, Zapier, Make, and n8n stop being three different things to learn and become three places to apply one skill.
The course is built for beginners with no coding background: students, freelancers, founders, and professionals who feel their week disappearing into repetitive tasks. You learn how to choose what to automate with three simple tests, how to write prompts that behave reliably when nobody is watching, and how to compare the major no-code platforms honestly, including what each one really costs at volume. A full worked example, an inbox lead responder, shows the design method end to end, and a dedicated lesson explains the real difference between automations and AI agents so you know which one your task actually needs.
By the end you will have designed your own first automation and have a thirty day plan to build, pilot, and run it safely, with logging, error alerts, and cost controls in place. Finishing the lessons and passing the final exam earns you a free certificate of completion you can add to LinkedIn or a resume.
3 modules • 9 lessons
Finish every lesson and pass the final exam to earn this free, shareable certificate.
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Michail Ouroumis
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It covers the fundamentals that apply in every automation tool: triggers, actions, and workflows, adding AI steps with models like ChatGPT and Claude, choosing between Zapier, Make, and n8n, designing your first automation, the difference between automations and AI agents, and running everything reliably and safely. It is conceptual and tool-agnostic, with a full worked example.
Yes, the course is completely free and needs no account to start. Completing the lessons and passing the final exam earns you a certificate of completion at no cost.
No. Everything in the course is no-code. You build automations by connecting visual blocks and writing plain-language instructions for AI steps. The skill you learn is workflow design, not programming.
None exclusively, and that is deliberate. The course teaches the concepts shared by Zapier, Make, n8n, and every similar platform, then gives you an honest comparison and a decision rule for picking one. Whatever tool you choose, everything here applies to it.
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