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AI for small businesses and freelancers

Identify valuable use cases, automate office flows, build useful assistants and decide what should stay human.

Beginner to intermediate 20 lessons Free access · open content
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modules
3
lessons
20
status
open
Learning outcome

What you will be able to do

  • Understand the core technical decisions
  • Apply the workflow in guided lessons
  • Evaluate a practical result
Final deliverable

A practical project with explicit verification and next steps.

Before you start

Learners who want to move from concepts to a working, reviewable project.

  • • Basic computer skills
  • • Time to complete the guided exercises
≈ 10 hApplied AI

Updated: July 18, 2026

Roadmap

Syllabus

20 steps

module 01 / Before automating

6 lessons
  1. 1Useful AI Map for a Small Business/ia-pymes/mapa
  2. 2AI literacy for SMEs: inventory and internal policy/ia-pymes/alfabetizacion-ia-articulo-4
  3. 3AI Act transparency: audit chatbots and synthetic content/ia-pymes/transparencia-ai-act-articulo-50
  4. 4Diagnosis and first AI pilot for an SME/ia-pymes/diagnostico-piloto
  5. 5Ollama for an SME: a local, secure, and measurable trial/ia-pymes/ollama-piloto-seguro
  6. 6GDPR basics for using AI without surprises/ia-pymes/rgpd-basico

module 02 / Del piloto al flujo fiable

4 lessons
  1. 7From pilot to reliable flow: schema, sources, abstention and validation/ia-pymes/flujo-fiable
  2. 8Failure testing and metrics before automating/ia-pymes/pruebas-metricas
  3. 9Minimum operations: logs, owner, backups and degraded mode/ia-pymes/operacion-minima
  4. 10Permissions and agents: automate only when the flow is ready/ia-pymes/permisos-agentes

module 03 / Office workflows

10 lessons
  1. 11Emails: Classify and Create Drafts/ia-pymes/emails
  2. 12Invoices: extract data and review/ia-pymes/facturas
  3. 13Invoices, OCR, and Verifactu with Human Review/ia-pymes/facturas-verifactu-ocr
  4. 14Budgets, Excel, and Sheets/ia-pymes/presupuestos-excel
  5. 15Convert a bank statement to CSV without inventing transactions/ia-pymes/convertir-extracto-csv
  6. 16Minimal local RAG with SQLite and Ollama/ia-pymes/rag-local-sqlite-ollama
  7. 17First secure MCP for the office: local and read-only/ia-pymes/mcp-oficina-seguro
  8. 18MCP 2026-07-28: safe migration and read-only server/ia-pymes/mcp-2026-07-28-migracion
  9. 19WhatsApp and Telegram with Human Approval/ia-pymes/whatsapp-atencion
  10. 20AEO for SMEs: appearing in AI answers/ia-pymes/aeo-pymes
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How all courses connect

This is not a checklist. Start with the foundation, choose an outcome, and go deeper only when your project needs more control.

  1. 1Understand
  2. 2Apply or build
  3. 3Operate with confidence
01

Choose an application

Turn the foundation into a visible outcome: a website, a business improvement, media, or an interactive experience.

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Continue into the technical branch when you need to maintain code, data, or infrastructure.

02

Build with code

Prepare your environment, work with coding agents, and run models while keeping control of your projects.

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This branch prepares you to design and operate reliable AI systems.

03

Take systems to production

Combine retrieval, agents, evaluation, security, deployment, and model adaptation when the problem requires it.

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You do not need every course: choose the component your system needs and return as it grows.

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