ACADEMY · INTERMEDIATE

AI Fluency for SMBs

Four live sessions to move from casual to professional use of AI in your business: what to delegate, how to ask, how to protect data and how to automate a first workflow.

  • 4 sessions of 2 h
  • Live, hands-on with Claude
  • No technical background

who it is for

Who it is for and what you will be able to do

Who it is for

  • SMB owners without a technical team.
  • Independent professionals.
  • Middle managers and team leads.
  • Anyone who wants to move from casual to professional use of AI.

By the end you will be able to

  • Identify which business tasks to delegate to AI and which not.
  • Build prompts that deliver useful, repeatable results.
  • Evaluate AI output, spot errors and fix them.
  • Protect customer and employee data.
  • Design a concrete automated workflow.
  • Define your own AI usage policy.

program

Four sessions, six modules

Every lesson includes live execution in Claude, with short assignments between sessions.

  1. Session 1

    The 4D Framework and Claude inside out

    What AI fluency is, its four competencies and how they combine. You build your business context sheet and tour Claude: chat, projects, connectors and approval levels.

  2. Session 2

    How AI works and how to ask

    The model’s strengths and limits, a hallucination provoked on purpose, and the PROCESO framework in three steps: from a vague request to a full prompt and iteration with a success criterion.

  3. Session 3

    Risk and control

    A lab with anonymization, a data traffic light, ambiguous cases to discuss and a three-level autonomy map to decide how much to delegate.

  4. Session 4

    Bringing it together

    You design an automated workflow with Claude, test it with verification and finish with your AI usage policy and a 30-day plan.

what you take away

Six ready-to-use work assets

Business context sheet

The base document that improves any interaction with AI.

Task analysis

Which parts of each task to delegate and which to keep human.

Data protocol

A data traffic light and a simple anonymization rule for the whole team.

Your first automated workflow design

With its autonomy level and a sampling-based control plan.

AI usage policy

What is used, what stays in human hands and how accountability is kept.

A configured Claude assistant

With context, knowledge base and connectors, plus a 30-day action plan.

requirements

What you need

The 4D AI Fluency Framework is the work of Rick Dakan (Ringling College of Art and Design) and Joseph Feller (University College Cork), licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

To take part

  • A Claude account and a device in every session.
  • No technical knowledge required.
  • A real case from your business to work on.

Includes

  • 4 live sessions of 2 hours.
  • Participant manual and asset templates.
  • LAB9 Academy certificate of completion after passing the final quiz.

who teaches it

Led by

Alejandro Jatib

AI Director · LAB9 founder

Engineer, MBA in innovation and more than 20 years in digital transformation and team training. Creator of the PROCESO framework.

next cohort

Join the waitlist

We open cohorts as soon as there are enough people. Leave your details and we will let you know the dates, or contact you to organize an edition for your team.

Signing up does not commit you to anything. We use your details only to tell you about this program.

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions

About format, requirements and the in-company option.

It is not required. If you have never used AI, the Introduction gives you the basics in two hours; if you already use it, you can start here.

You need a Claude account in every session. When you sign up we will tell you which plan suits your case.

Yes. We deliver it as a closed cohort, with cases and examples from your industry.

We open cohorts once the minimum number of participants is reached. Join the waitlist and we will let you know the dates.

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