Role-based learning

AI for founders and small business

Plan, decide, create, and operate with less overhead.

The founders guide sets up four agents from Marketplace templates to carry the research, planning and quotes that sit around the actual work. A research assistant writes a market brief under a rule to cite or flag every figure. A coordinator turns it into a 90-day plan with owners and dates, a proposal agent drafts from your scope notes and rate card, and a Monday market watch checks competitor sites and stays quiet when nothing has changed.

You run the team from one group chat. One message asks everyone for a status line, and any agent's own session opens when a draft needs changing.

If AI is new to you, start with the five-minute quickstart and then the AI for business course, which covers research, planning, connectors and how much review each kind of output needs. Builders and trade businesses have a guide of their own with tender scoring and quotes priced from the rate card.

19 learning resources

AI courses and guides for founders and small businesses

01
Course · Beginner

AI for business: the practical essentials

Use AI to plan, research, communicate, and operate faster - without losing judgment, security, or brand quality.

1 hr 25 min
02
Course · Intermediate

Draft, cite and merge in the Document editor

Draft a document from chat, give it structure, rewrite and translate it, look up and cite sources, run a mail merge, comment on it, export to Word and review a stack of contracts in a grid.

59 min
03
Course · Beginner

Build and present a deck in the Slide editor

Ask for a deck in chat with the slide count you want, add laid-out slides, edit text, charts and the theme, then present with notes and export to PowerPoint.

51 min
04
Course · Beginner

Plan your week in the Calendar

Create, move and filter events, change them from chat, set reminders and repeats, bring in project deadlines and move events in and out as .ics files.

45 min
05
Course · Beginner

Plan a month of social posts in the Content Calendar

Ask for a posting plan in chat, read it by date, change it from chat, make pictures and clips, export it, and reopen or import plans.

35 min
06
Course · Intermediate

Share your work and edit it live together

Share documents, sheets, decks, designs and projects by email, edit them live on a computer or phone, and keep changes from colliding.

46 min
07
Course · Beginner

Read, reply to and send email in the Email editor

Connect a mailbox to the desktop Email editor, then read, reply, file and schedule email from the right account, including emails Oppermind drafts for you.

53 min
08
Guide · Intermediate

Agents for founders and small business

A small team of agents that researches, plans, quotes and watches the market so a founder can run the business, not the admin.

21 min
09
Guide · Intermediate

Agents for construction and trades

Tender alerts, quoting, deadline tracking, invoicing and policy answers as a team of agents for a builder or trade business.

21 min
10
Tutorial · Intermediate

Create your first reusable AI skill

Package a workflow you already know into a reusable Oppermind skill your team can run consistently.

15 min
11
Tutorial · Beginner

Build an AI-ready brand kit

Give Oppermind the voice, visual rules, and examples it needs to create consistently on-brand work.

17 min
12
Guide · Beginner

Connect your business tools safely

Understand connectors, permissions, and scope before bringing live business context into an AI workflow.

12 min
13
Course · Intermediate

Plan and track a project in the Project editor

Build a schedule from chat, link the work, set working days and owners, then save a baseline and track slippage against it.

52 min
14
Course · Beginner

Build and edit spreadsheets in the Sheet editor

Start a sheet from chat or a template, sort and filter it, write formulas, format and chart it, edit it by asking, then export, comment and share it.

56 min
15
Course · Advanced

Analyse and model figures in the Sheet editor: pivots, Solver and what-if

Summarise a practice's jobs with pivots and slicers, chart and guard the data, then model rates and workload with Goal seek, Solver, scenarios and data tables.

53 min
16
Tutorial · Beginner

Create multiple finished files from one prompt

Plan and produce a coordinated document, presentation, spreadsheet, visual, or other deliverables in one Oppermind workspace.

12 min
17
Tutorial · Intermediate

Build your first Oppermind AI worker

Delegate a repeatable workflow to an AI worker with clear inputs, tools, checkpoints, and a useful definition of done.

18 min
18
Course · Intermediate

Run a company of agents

Hire a five-agent team in waves, run it through a group chat, add a routine that keeps working, and get an honest wrap.

40 min
19
Course · Advanced

Agent operations at scale

Run many agents as an always-on operation: routines and listeners, departments in folders, acceptance checks, duplication for new markets, and supervision from the phone.

33 min

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