The Pleasant Oak AI Course for Small Business

We kept getting the same question from owners: "Everyone says I should be using AI. Nobody tells me what to actually do on Monday morning."

So we built the course we wished existed — five modules, twenty short lessons, and a prompt library written for a shop with 1 to 50 people. No theory, no hype, no six-hour lectures. Every lesson ends with something you can paste into a chat window and use before lunch.

Who this is for

• Owners and operators of local service businesses, trades, clinics, studios, restaurants, and professional practices
• Office managers who already run the schedule, the inbox, and the invoices
• Anyone who has tried an AI tool once, gotten a mediocre answer, and quietly stopped

You do not need a technical background. You need one hour a week for five weeks.

The five modules

Module 1 — AI Foundations for Owners. The only mental model you need, the five jobs AI genuinely does well in a small business, and the three places it quietly costs you money. Plus a plain-English data rule you can hand to staff.

Module 2 — The Claude Course. Long documents and careful thinking: contract triage, policy reviews, and turning what you already do into written SOPs your next hire can follow.

Module 3 — AI for Operations & Money. Quotes in four minutes, a polite collections ladder that actually gets paid, a 25-minute Monday numbers review, and messages that cut no-shows.

Module 4 — The Copilot Course. AI inside the tools you already pay for — inbox triage, meetings that produce an action list instead of minutes, and turning your shared drive into an answer machine so staff stop asking you.

Module 5 — AI in Spreadsheets. Cleaning messy exports, formulas explained back to you in English, the three charts that matter, and a ranked customer list that tells you where to raise prices.

What comes with it

• The prompt library — every prompt from the course plus 18 more by industry, written to be pasted and edited
• The 30-day rollout plan — week by week, one task at a time, with a kill rule so you stop paying for tools nobody uses
• The one-page AI policy — what's allowed, what never gets pasted into a chat window, and who reviews AI-drafted work

What it costs

$10, once. Not a subscription. Lifetime access, including updates as the tools change — and they will.

How to enroll

1. Join The Almanac newsletter
2. Register your Pleasant Oak account
3. Pay the one-time $10

Then the full curriculum unlocks right here on this page, in your account, whenever you come back to it.