Role-based learning
AI for founders and small business
Plan, decide, create, and operate with less overhead.
The founders guide sets up four flexible workers from Marketplace worker templates to carry the research, planning and quotes that sit around the actual work. A research assistant writes a market brief under a rule to cite or flag every figure. A coordinator turns it into a 90-day plan with owners and dates, a proposal worker drafts from your scope notes and rate card, and a Monday market watch checks competitor sites and stays quiet when nothing has changed.
You run them together in one team. One message asks everyone for a status line, and any worker's own session opens when a draft needs changing.
If AI is new to you, start with the five-minute quickstart and then the AI for business course, which covers research, planning, connectors and how much review each kind of output needs. Builders and trade businesses have a guide of their own with tender scoring and quotes priced from the rate card.
AI courses and guides for founders and small businesses
AI for business: the practical essentials
Use AI to plan, research, communicate, and operate faster - without losing judgment, security, or brand quality.
Draft, cite and merge in the Document editor
Draft a document from chat, give it structure, rewrite and translate it, look up and cite sources, run a mail merge, comment on it, export to Word and review a stack of contracts in a grid.
Build and present a deck in the Slide editor
Ask for a deck in chat with the slide count you want, add laid-out slides, edit text, charts and the theme, then present with notes and export to PowerPoint.
Plan your week in the Calendar
Create, move and filter events, change them from chat, set reminders and repeats, bring in project deadlines and move events in and out as .ics files.
Plan a month of social posts in the Content Calendar
Ask for a posting plan in chat, read it by date, change it from chat, make pictures and clips, export it, and reopen or import plans.
Share your work and edit it live together
Share documents, sheets, decks, designs and projects by email, edit them live on a computer or phone, and keep changes from colliding.
Read, reply to and send email in the Email editor
Connect a mailbox to the desktop Email editor, then read, reply, file and schedule email from the right account, including emails Oppermind drafts for you.
Agents for founders and small business
A small team of flexible workers that researches, plans, quotes and watches the market so a founder can run the business, not the admin.
Agents for construction and trades
Tender alerts, quoting, deadline tracking, invoicing and policy answers as a team of flexible workers for a builder or trade business.
Create your first reusable AI skill
Package a workflow you already know into a reusable Oppermind skill your team can run consistently.
Build an AI-ready brand kit
Give Oppermind the voice, visual rules, and examples it needs to create consistently on-brand work.
Connect your business tools safely
Understand connectors, permissions, and scope before bringing live business context into an AI workflow.
Plan and track a project in the Project editor
Build a schedule from chat, link the work, set working days and owners, then save a baseline and track slippage against it.
Build and edit spreadsheets in the Sheet editor
Start a sheet from chat or a template, sort and filter it, write formulas, format and chart it, edit it by asking, then export, comment and share it.
Analyse and model figures in the Sheet editor: pivots, Solver and what-if
Summarise a practice's jobs with pivots and slicers, chart and guard the data, then model rates and workload with Goal seek, Solver, scenarios and data tables.
Create multiple finished files from one prompt
Plan and produce a coordinated document, presentation, spreadsheet, visual, or other deliverables in one Oppermind workspace.
Build your first strict worker
Teach a worker the steps for one repeatable job, read the steps it will follow, test with Dry run, approve the steps that ask you first and set when it runs.
Run a company with a team of workers
Set up flexible and strict workers in waves, run them from one team room, address a strict worker to run its steps, bring chats in, set when the team runs, and finish with an honest wrap.
Agent operations at scale
Run many flexible workers as an always-on operation: schedules and listeners, departments in folders, acceptance checks, duplication for new markets, and supervision from the phone.
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