GONDAL AI ACADEMY / FREE AI COURSES
Free AI courses for beginners, in plain words
Welcome to the Gondal AI Academy — where most of what we teach is free, deliberately. Start with the AI Foundations course: fifteen short lessons that take you from “what is AI?” to making your first AI image and video. No signup, no coding, no jargon. When you are ready to go deeper, the paths below show you exactly where the paid tools fit — and what they honestly add. Not sure where AI fits your life at all? Browse AI Use — real examples by category — then come back and learn the ones that matter to you.
Path 1 · Beginner — the AI Foundations course (free)
Fifteen lessons, in order, each with worked examples and something small to try. Read them straight through in a weekend, or dip into the one that matches your life today. Every lesson ends by pointing at the next — and the chat on this page (bottom corner) is your always-patient practice partner, free for a few messages a day.
- AI in Plain Words — What AI actually is, what it is good at, and where to keep your guard up — in everyday words. (8 min)
- How to Choose an AI Assistant — Pick the right assistant for your life, your privacy comfort, and your budget. (10 min)
- AI Assistants Compared — ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini side by side — honest differences, no hype. (10 min)
- Prompts That Actually Work — Ten simple patterns that turn vague AI answers into useful ones. (12 min)
- Personal AI Assistant Use Cases — The everyday jobs an assistant genuinely helps with, tried and sorted. (9 min)
- AI Privacy Basics — What assistants collect, what to keep out of chats, and the settings worth changing. (9 min)
- Spotting AI Scams & Staying Safe — Voice clones, perfect fake messages, and the family code word that beats them. (10 min)
- AI for Job Seekers — Tailored resumes, human cover letters, and interview practice — honestly done. (14 min)
- AI for Students & Parents — A patient tutor instead of an answer machine: homework help without cheating. (11 min)
- AI for Seniors — Plain words, big practical wins: letters, forms explained, and staying safe. (10 min)
- AI Tools for a Small Shop — The five jobs AI genuinely helps a small business with — and where it can bite. (11 min)
- AI for Small Business Owners — The owner's playbook: get found, answer faster, quote cleanly, keep customers. (12 min)
- AI for Creators: Getting Started — Ideas, hooks, and scripts with AI — without losing the voice people follow. (11 min)
- Your First AI Video — One small idea to a posted video: script, voice, captions, post. (12 min)
- Make Your First AI Image & Video — Hands-on: write an image prompt, direct the fixes, add motion, post it. (13 min)
Prefer browsing? The same fifteen lessons live on the guides page, and our free prompt library collects the copy-paste prompts from across the course in one place.
Path 2 · Creator — post consistently, sound like yourself
The free creator lessons
Start with AI for Creators, Prompts That Actually Work, Your First AI Video, and Make Your First AI Image & Video. That is the whole method, free.
Start the creator lessons →30-Day Content Creator Program
$29 USD
The 30-Day Content System as a day-by-day program: daily prompts, a clear calendar, and a weekly rhythm you can repeat month after month. The skill you build: never facing a blank “what do I post?” again.
Get it on Gumroad ↗1,000 Viral Hooks
$17 USD
A bank of 1,000 ready-to-use opening lines for videos and posts, sorted by style. The skill you build: first lines that earn the next ten seconds.
Get it on Gumroad ↗Path 3 · Business — AI that earns its keep at work
The free business lessons
AI Tools for a Small Shop, the Owner's Playbook, Privacy Basics, and Scam Safety — plus the tools directory for picking software without overspending.
Start the business lessons →Workshops & team training
Live AI training for your staff, built around your real work — in Saskatoon & area in person, or over Zoom anywhere. Enquiry-based, scoped honestly, no promised miracles.
See workshops →Studio services
Rather have it built? Done-for-you short-form video, website AI chat setup, and content systems from the same studio that runs its own channels daily.
See services →When you're ready to go deeper
Everything above the free line will take you a long way. The shelf below exists for one reason: some people would rather start from a finished system than assemble their own. That is all these are — practical tools we built for ourselves. What you get out of them depends on the work you put in, and we will never tell you otherwise.
Prompting Foundations — AI Prompt Pack
$15 USD
Ready-to-use prompts for content, business, and everyday tasks — the worked-example companion to the free prompts lesson. Copy one, paste it, adjust a word or two.
Get it on Gumroad ↗30-Day Content Creator Program
$29 USD
Thirty days of posting, planned: daily prompts, a calendar, and a repeatable weekly rhythm for creators and small businesses.
Get it on Gumroad ↗1,000 Viral Hooks
$17 USD
The hardest part of any post is the first line. A sorted bank of 1,000 of them, for business, money, faith, food, and everyday life.
Get it on Gumroad ↗Practical step-by-step courses — learn by doing (free)
Short on theory, long on doing. Each course below is one real task, broken into numbered steps with the exact prompt to paste at every step, checkpoints so you know you are on track, and the common mistakes already marked. Read them right here on the site — free, no signup, nothing to download. Pick the task your life needs this week.
Write a Professional Email in 10 Minutes
The exact prompts and 10-minute workflow for an email that sounds like a professional wrote it — because one did: you, with a system.
About 15 minutes · Easy
Start the course →Build a Resume That Passes the ATS
Turn your real experience into a clean, keyword-true resume and cover letter that both the screening software and a human can read.
About 45 minutes · Easy
Start the course →Job Interview Practice with AI
A mock interview with an honest score after every answer — practise the hard questions at home, before they count.
About 30 minutes · Easy
Start the course →A Week of Social Media Posts in One Sitting
Seven posts for your small business — ideas, words, picture plan, and scheduling — finished in one focused sitting.
About 40 minutes · Medium
Start the course →Plan a Week of Family Meals + Grocery List
Seven dinners your family will actually eat, one grocery list sorted by aisle, and almost nothing wasted.
About 25 minutes · Easy
Start the course →Turn Voice Notes into a Finished Blog Post
Talk for five minutes, finish with a post that still sounds like you — because every single word started as yours.
About 35 minutes · Medium
Start the course →Organize Your Bills & Monthly Budget
A bill calendar, the subscription leaks found, and a simple budget that fits on one page. Organisation help — not financial advice.
About 30 minutes · Easy
Start the course →Understand Any Document in Plain Words
Contracts, letters, and forms translated into plain words — what it wants from you, what actually matters, and what to ask before you sign.
About 20 minutes · Easy
Start the course →Make a Family Birthday Video
Photos, a heartfelt script, a voiceover, and captions — a one-minute keepsake made with free tools, start to finish.
About 60 minutes · Medium
Start the course →Start a Small Side Project: Name, Logo & First Posts
From ‘I'm good at…’ to a named project with a simple logo, first posts, and a realistic one-week starter plan.
About 45 minutes · Medium
Start the course →Course questions
Is the AI Foundations course really free?
Yes — all fifteen lessons, in full, no signup and no paywall partway through. Free is the point: it is how this studio earns its readers. Paid products and workshops exist for people who want a finished system or live help, and they are always labelled clearly.
Do I need to read the lessons in order?
The order helps if you are starting from zero — each lesson assumes the ones before it. But every lesson also stands alone, so if you arrived for the job-seekers or scam-safety lesson, start there without guilt.
Do I get a certificate?
No — and we would rather say so plainly. These lessons build real, usable skills, but they are not an accredited program and we will not pretend otherwise. Your proof is the work you can do afterwards: the letter written, the video posted, the scam spotted.
Which AI tool do I need for the lessons?
Any major AI chat's free tier is enough. Lessons name the type of tool, not a brand you must buy — and the tools directory explains the honest differences between the big ones.
Can my team or community group learn together?
Yes — that is what the workshops are for: a live session built around your group's real tasks, using these same lessons as the backbone.
Start lesson 1 now. AI in Plain Words takes about eight minutes — and the chat on this page can answer your questions as you go. Ask it anything; practising on it is literally Lesson 1's homework.