This certificate program teaches business professionals to build the software their work actually needs, starting from no coding experience. It opens with AI-assisted development and web application fundamentals, so you ship a live application early rather than after months of theory. A dedicated architecture course then covers what sits underneath: how business data and databases are modeled, how applications integrate email, calendars, analytics, CRM, and accounting systems, and how retrieval-augmented generation, agents, and guardrails work in practice.
The remainder of the program is applied build work across five portfolio labs spanning personal productivity, knowledge-base chatbots, marketing and sales, finance and compliance, and operations and client management. Each lab produces deployed, documented applications rather than exercises, with security, privacy, and access control treated as requirements throughout. Graduates leave able to scope a business problem, build and ship a solution, and demonstrate it to non-technical stakeholders.
What You Will Learn
- Build and deploy AI-powered business applications from plain-language requirements
- Model business data and integrate email, calendars, analytics, CRM, and accounting systems
- Implement retrieval-augmented generation, multi-step agents, and output guardrails
- Apply authentication, secrets management, PII protection, and access control
- Deploy a document summarization and action-item productivity application
- Deploy a knowledge-base chatbot grounded in your own content
- Deploy marketing, sales, and CRM applications with outreach automation
- Deploy financial dashboards and AI-assisted compliance and agreement tools
- Deploy agentic operations automation, scheduling, billing, and client portals
This program is available for 210 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 210 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
