Self-paced course · 35 lessons · Lifetime access
Use AI the way business owners actually do.
A self-paced course for operators, investors, and agency owners. No code. No theory. The real workflows I use every day in my own businesses.
The problem
You already tried ChatGPT. It fizzled.
You already tried ChatGPT. Maybe Claude too. You had a couple of good moments, then it fizzled. It gave you generic answers. It forgot what you told it. It didn't do the thing you actually needed done, so you closed the tab and went back to doing the work yourself.
That's not an AI problem. That's a teaching problem. Nobody has shown you AI in the shape of your actual work. They show you neat tricks and viral tweets. Meanwhile your inbox has 400 unread, your calendar ate your afternoon, and the follow-up you meant to do on Tuesday is still sitting there on Friday.
I built this course for the operator who's drowning in the same pile I was drowning in two years ago. It's the shortest path I know from "AI is confusing" to "AI is quietly running my morning."
What you get
Six things, all included.
- 35 short lessons, most under 5 minutes (about 2¼ hours in all), on demand
- One-page checklists at the end of Acts 1 to 4. Screenshot them and go
- A working AI setup on your own laptop by the end of the first week
- Three parallel tracks so you go deep on your world: small-business operator, real estate investor, or agency owner
- A first working agent that you built yourself by lesson 31
- Lifetime access. One payment. Every future update included
Curriculum
Five acts. 35 lessons. Skim the whole thing in 30 seconds.
AI, actually
The foundation. Which tools matter, how to talk to them, and a working setup on your laptop.
- 01Welcome and what you'll actually walk away with
- 02The three AIs you need to know: ChatGPT, Claude, Grok
- 03The four prompt rules that fix 90% of bad AI output
- 04Custom GPTs and Claude Projects: turning chat into a tool
- 05My email triage assistant that saves me 45 minutes every morning
- 06The three mistakes that make people give up on AI
- 07What "context" actually means, and why AI keeps forgetting you
- 08Week-1 setup checklist
AI at your desk
The daily desk-work stack. Email, meetings, docs, research, images.
- 09Meeting notes, transcripts, and summaries
- 10Inbox triage that actually works
- 11Documents that write themselves
- 12Research on autopilot
- 13Images: generate, edit, stop paying for stock photos
- 14The "second brain": giving AI your business context
- 15Desk-work stack checklist
Pick your track
Three vertical tracks. Pick one, or watch all three.
Operator (16–19)
Customer replies, weekly reports, the auto morning brief, operator's stack checklist.
Real Estate (20–23)
Deal analysis, comps and market research, investor updates, RE stack checklist.
Agency & Solo (24–27)
Client work at 3x speed, content pipeline, smart proposals, agency stack checklist.
Your first agent
Past chatbots. Actually building something that goes off and does work.
- 28What "agent" really means
- 29Build your first agent in 20 minutes
- 30What breaks and how to fix it
- 31Agent-builder stack checklist
Buy vs. build
The honest conversation about doing it yourself vs. hiring it out.
- 32The real cost of AI at your business
- 33Privacy: what leaves your walls and what stays
- 34Behind the curtain: my actual private AI agent, live on my phone
- 35Your next 30 days: the DIY roadmap, or the done-for-you path
Who teaches this
Chad Choquette. Operator, not course guy.
I'm Chad Choquette. I run a real estate investment company, a capital raise business, and Stratus Labs, where we install private AI agents inside other people's small businesses. I'm the principal of Go Vertical Development. I work out of a home office in South Carolina. I do not have a big team. I have AI, and that is how I got most of my day back.
I'm an operator, not a course guy. Every workflow in this course is one I actually run, in a real business, with real money on the line. If it didn't work I wouldn't teach it. I'd be too busy losing money.
Who this is for
The short list, and the honest not-for-you list.
Made for you if you're a:
- Small-business operator drowning in email, follow-up, and admin
- Real estate investor or operator running deals out of your own head
- Agency owner, consultant, or solo professional billing $150 to $500 an hour who wants those hours back
- Founder or principal who already tried ChatGPT once and bounced off
Not for you if you're a:
- Developer looking for LangGraph internals or model architecture
- Hobbyist who wants to argue about which model is "smartest"
- "AI curious" viewer who wants theory instead of workflows
If you're in the first list, this is the shortest path I know. If you're in the second list, the course will bore you. There are better resources for what you want.
Pricing
Plain and one-time. No subscription. No trial trick.
AI for Everyone
All 35 lessons. Every checklist. Lifetime access. Every future course update included.
14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.
The Working Kit
25 fill-in files and the 28 prompts that read them, in one PDF. The voice and style guide, people file, active list, quarterly priorities, buy box, proposal skeleton and the rest that the lessons tell you to write, built out as starting documents. Then every prompt the course teaches, written out to copy and paste. Each entry names the lesson it comes from.
Next course
Course 2: Your Business, Automated.
The sequel picks up exactly where lesson 35 ends and builds the automations for real: a morning brief that builds itself, an inbox agent with memory, follow-ups that never drop, one operating database every agent reads and writes, a run log and a kill switch, and your own AI employee.
A daily digest tells you what ran and what is waiting for you, and nothing goes out to a customer, a client, or a bank without your sign-off. No code until the optional private-model lesson at the end.
Every build lesson ships with the finished n8n workflow you can import. The starter kit is included, not an add-on.
Available now. Same price as this course, and $49 off for AI for Everyone students. See Your Business, Automated →
FAQ
Fair questions before you spend $197.
Do I need to know how to code?
How much time will this take?
How is this different from free YouTube tutorials?
What if I don't have a business yet?
Do you offer refunds?
What tools do I need to buy?
Will this be outdated in 6 months?
What if I want the AI system built for me instead of building it myself?
The graduation offer
Finish the course. Get your first month of Stratus free.
If you finish the course and decide you'd rather have the system built for you than build it yourself, your first month of Stratus is on me. Basic is $50 a month and Pro is $150 a month, month to month, with no setup fee.
Stratus installs a private AI agent inside your business. It learns your playbook, remembers your contacts and documents, and works inside the tools you already use. It's the same thing I run in my own businesses. Not a generic chatbot.
The promo code auto-emails to you the day you complete lesson 35, and it's valid for 14 days from that email. No hard sell. If DIY is the right call for you, the course already handed you the roadmap in lesson 35.
Spend a weekend. Get your mornings back.
You can keep white-knuckling your inbox, or you can spend a weekend learning to use the tools that are already sitting on your laptop. About two hours of video. One payment. Lifetime access.
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