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Four modules. One final project. You design a mini AI-powered workflow that solves a real business problem using everything you've learned: context building, compound prompts, standalone tools, visualization, and data gathering — combined into a coherent system.
By the end of this module: you've designed and partially built a mini AI-powered system for a real problem in your work — including the workflow description, the full context document, and the core generated tool — and reflected on what you'll take away from the course.
The Business Basics course has given you four skills — built on the four foundations from Discover AI. Not separately — in sequence. Each one builds on the last.
HTML tools that run in a browser, no server, no account, no cost.
Turn numbers into charts as a self-contained HTML file.
HTML forms that collect structured input and export it as a file.
Combine them. Design a system. Build the core. Reflect.
A mini AI-powered system is not a complex technical build — it's a deliberate sequence of AI-assisted steps that solves a real problem. It might be: a context that sets up a weekly reporting workflow, a standalone tool that formats the output, and a form that collects the data to feed back in. Or something entirely different. The system is yours. It just needs to be real, use more than one skill from the course, and solve something you actually care about.
You don't need to build every component — you need to design the system clearly, build the core tool, and write the context that ties it together. The four parts below walk you through it.
The best capstone projects solve a problem the student actually has. Don't design for a hypothetical situation — find the most annoying, repetitive, or poorly-handled process in your actual work and make that the target. You already have all the skills to address it.
What business problem will your system address? What are its components? Which skills from the course does it use, and how do they connect? Write a description of the full system — even the parts you won't build today.
Write the full context document for this system using the
[ROLE],
[CONTEXT],
[INSTRUCTIONS] format.
This is the master context that sets up the AI to work within your system.
Use everything you know about context building from Discover AI Module 3.
Write a prompt to generate the most important HTML tool in your system — the thing that does the most work, or that you'll use most often. This could be a standalone form, a visualization dashboard, a workflow tool, or something that combines multiple functions. Paste the generated code.
Four modules of Business Basics, built on four from Discover AI. What are you taking away? What will you use immediately? What surprised you about what was possible? What would you build next?
Four parts. The workflow design, the context, the core tool, and your reflection. All fields required.
What business problem does your system address? What components does it have? Which course skills does it use and how do they connect? Write enough that someone who hasn't seen your work could understand the system.
Write the complete context for your system using [ROLE], [CONTEXT], and [INSTRUCTIONS] sections. This should be a context you could actually use to set up the AI for this system — not a placeholder or outline.
Paste the full prompt — the instruction you gave the LLM to build your core HTML tool.
Paste the complete HTML code for your core tool.
Four modules of Business Basics. What landed? What will you use starting this week? What surprised you about what was possible with these tools? What would you build or try next?
This completes the Business Basics course and the Apply Certificate. Your work has been saved. Keep this file for offline reference.
You've completed all four modules. Contact your Coach for an endorsement — they'll confirm you're ready and help you get into the certification queue.
Connect with a Coach to get your endorsement — they'll make sure you're ready and help with any questions. Once endorsed, access the Certification Server to join the testing queue. A Certifier will meet you via video to watch you demonstrate what you've built and sign your certificate.
In the meantime — keep building. Everything you made in this course is yours. Use it. Improve it. Show someone what you can do.