Download the Outline: AI Business Writing Foundations
The full module-by-module curriculum for Tier 1 of our Writing with AI program. This is a practical first step for any professional or team using AI to draft routine business documents.
WHAT'S IN THE OUTLINE
✓All 9 modules with completion times and learning objectives
✓Who it's for, skills gained, and how it compares to Tiers 2 and 3
✓ Format options, pricing, and group workshop details
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A repeatable AI writing process
A six-step workflow you or your team can apply to any routine document immediately.
Built-in guardrails
Avoid AI hallucinations, brand drift, and exposure of confidential data with checkpoints at every step of the process.
Up to 25% less writing time
Stronger first drafts and fewer revision cycles without sacrificing quality.
Course at a glance
A quick look at the essential details of Tier 1: AI Business Writing Foundations
Format
Self-paced online course OR 3-hour virtual instructor-led group workshop
Length
Approximately 4 to 5 hours of self-paced content; 3 hours live for the group workshop
Audience
Individuals and teams using AI to draft, edit, or revise routine business documents
Time to launch
Begin the self-paced course within 24 hours of purchase
Investment
$295 per individual self-paced seat (group volume discounts available) $5,300 per group instructor-led workshop
Outcome
A repeatable process and guardrails for safe, efficient, on-brand AI writing
For team rollouts
Whether you're enrolling a single team or rolling this out across your organization, here's what makes our program easy to launch, manage, and keep consistent over time.
Easy to launch, easy to manage, made to scale
One enrollment link, completion tracking dashboard, and a shared process and guardrails across the team.
Full course curriculum — the complete AI writing workflow
GETTING STARTED
Welcome and Course Orientation
~5 minutes
Get oriented to the course, the support team, and how to get the most out of your time.
What's included
Welcome message
Course description and learning objectives
How to navigate this course
Meet your support team
INTRODUCTION
The 6-Step Optimal Business Writing Process
~15 minutes
The foundation for everything that follows. Why process matters more than ever with AI.
What you'll learn
Why ad-hoc AI prompting produces inconsistent, risky output
How the 6-Step Process keeps the human in control of every document
Where AI accelerates the process and where human judgment remains essential
CRITICAL FOUNDATION
Audience and Purpose Analysis
~30 minutes
The most-skipped step in business writing that determines whether AI helps or wastes time.
What you'll learn
How to identify your real audience (and the audiences behind your audience)
How to set a single, sharp purpose that guides every later AI prompt
How to use AI to both explore and stress-test your audience and purpose assumptions
PLANNING CONTENT
Generate, Categorize, and Sequence Content
~30 minutes
Build the substance and structure of documents before drafting a single sentence.
What you'll learn
Generating complete content (not just an outline) before writing
How to group related ideas into clear, scannable categories
Using headings to make any business document easier to read
How to sequence concepts so readers reach the main point quickly
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Specific adaptable prompts for the content-building phase of the process.
What you'll learn
Prompts that generate genuinely useful content (not generic filler)
How to create prompts that group and label information the way your reader thinks
Prompts that pressure-test your sequencing for executive readers
CONTROLLED DRAFTS
Drafting with AI
~30 minutes
Turn planned content into a strong first draft.
What you'll learn
How to brief and prompt AI so the first draft sounds like you, not like a chatbot
How to keep AI from inventing facts, sources, or data
How to know when a draft is ready to edit
How to integrate Steps Two, Three, and Four information for AI to create a directed draft
REFINE
Editing and Polishing
~30 minutes
Learn how to put AI to work on the bulk of your editing using a set of refinement prompts you can reuse on every document, while staying alert to the syntax-level issues AI consistently misses.
What you'll learn
How to prompt AI to do most of the editing well, the first time
Honing clarity at the sentence and paragraph level
Active vs. passive voice and when passive is sometimes the right call
How to spot and fix jargon and bloat with AI
Where AI's editing falls short, and the syntax checks you should make yourself
EVALUATE
Deconstructions: Evaluating Documents Written with AI
~20 minutes
Up to this point, the course has taught how to construct documents well using AI. This module flips the lens. You'll now learn how to deconstruct and evaluate AI-assisted documents, so you can spot the weaknesses fast and decide what to fix, rewrite, or send.
What you'll learn
How to shift from a writer's mindset to an evaluator's mindset
Deconstructing any business document against the 6-Step Process
How to identify the patterns AI tends to get wrong
Assessing an AI-generated draft against a clear, repeatable standard
How to apply the same diagnostic lens to your own writing before you send it
INTEGRATE
Wrap Up and Ongoing Support
~5 minutes
Provide feedback, and stay connected for ongoing resources.
What you'll learn
What ongoing resources are available to you after the course
Three tiers. One integrated program.
If your team produces high-stakes documents, ask us about Tier 2 and Tier 3, where we add critical thinking, real document feedback, and full curriculum customization.
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Tier 1
AI Business Writing Foundations
Process and guardrails for safe, efficient AI writing.
What I have gained from this course is efficiency, organization, clarity of thought, and a lot less stress. I know how to use AI to present what is significant instead of what is just background.
Project Manager
DuPont
The instructor, Elisabeth, was excellent! She was engaging, made the material interesting, and the provided AI resources will be very helpful. There is so much great info for our team to implement when using AI going forward.
Principal Engineer
Coleman Engineering
The first step toward safe, efficient AI writing.
The full module-by-module curriculum for Tier 1 of our Writing with AI program — a practical first step for any professional or team using AI to draft routine business documents.
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