Four exercises that build a small, bounded automation, put a human approval in front of anything irreversible, and schedule it to run on weekdays without you.
Collect the requests, sort them, summarise them, send the digest. It is not hard. It is just there, every week, taking the same fifteen minutes.
The reason people hesitate to automate it is fear of what happens when it goes wrong unattended — and that fear is correct, which is why an approval step exists.
This track builds the automation and the safeguard together, so handing it over is not a leap of faith.
Zapier
Design a structured AI step, preview it with fictional sample data, and require approval before a selected tool runs. Two exercises: design a structured supply-request step, then preview the step and protect an external action.
Make
Define a narrow digest task for an AI agent and configure a weekday schedule for the scenario. Two exercises: define a bounded facilities digest, then schedule the weekday digest and set a usage boundary.
The approval step comes first
One entire exercise is about stopping the workflow before it changes anything external. Building that habit into your first automation is much easier than retrofitting it into your fifth.
Bring your own work
Every exercise supplies a fictional, privacy-safe scenario so you can start immediately — but the workflow is the point, and it transfers to the real thing on your desk the same afternoon.
Grounded in the tool's own docs
Each lesson ends with the vendor's own documentation pages that the exercise relies on. Nothing here is invented, and when a tool changes you can see exactly what to re-check.
Yes, completely. Create an account, start the track and work through it. There is no card, no trial and no upsell at the end.
You need an account with each of the two tools. Every exercise is written against the tool's own published documentation, and each lesson links the exact pages it relies on — check there for what your plan includes, since the vendors change their tiers regularly.
No. Both tools are visual, and this track is the non-technical variant — every exercise is written for someone building their first automation.
About 60 minutes across four exercises — roughly 15 minutes each.
Yes. Complete all four exercises and your certificate of completion is issued automatically, with your name and the track title, and appears under My certificates on your account. It is also emailed to you.