Master AI Small Business Owner Certification · Digital course
MA-SBOC Level 1: AI Foundations for Small Business Owners
Self-paced enrollment in the 40-module MA-SBOC Level 1 curriculum, covering responsible AI across strategy, marketing, sales, customer service, operations, finance, hiring, training, cybersecurity, automation, and business growth.
- Modules
- 40
- Estimated time
- 40 hours
- Access
- Self-paced
Single-user enrollment
$199.00
Enrollment includes
Practical AI training built for small business owners
Evaluate AI tools for small-business value, affordability, limitations, privacy, security, vendor risk, professional-advice boundaries, and responsible oversight.
Create reliable prompts and verification procedures for planning, research, marketing, sales, service, operations, finance, hiring support, training, and reporting.
Improve customer and business workflows without delegating legal, tax, accounting, financial, employment, healthcare, engineering, safety, licensing, or regulatory decisions to a model.
Automate repetitive work with defined data access, permissions, approvals, exceptions, audit trails, output checks, human escalation, and documented limitations.
Curriculum at a glance
From AI fundamentals to responsible business growth
-
Module 01
Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals
Understand generative and multimodal AI, language and reasoning models, voice, computer vision, agents, automation, hallucinations, privacy, human oversight, and practical small-business limits.
-
Module 02
Small Business Fundamentals
Connect AI use cases to business models, products, services, markets, customers, value propositions, pricing, revenue, costs, channels, service, cash flow, profitability, risk, teams, and owner responsibilities.
-
Module 03
Responsible AI and Business Ethics
Protect customer and employee trust, privacy, intellectual property, confidential information, fairness, transparency, documentation, retention, vendor accountability, acceptable use, governance, and escalation.
-
Module 04
Prompt Engineering for Business Owners
Build reusable, tested prompts with clear roles, context, goals, audiences, examples, constraints, formats, and verification steps for marketing, sales, service, operations, finance, hiring, training, policy, and research.
-
Module 05
AI Strategy for Small Businesses
Assess pain points and workflows, prioritize affordable use cases, select quick wins and low-risk pilots, evaluate vendors, budget responsibly, estimate value, define review controls, and build 90-day and one-year roadmaps.
-
Module 06
Business Planning
Support business plans, executive summaries, mission, vision, market and competitor research, customer personas, offerings, pricing, revenue, expenses, forecasts, operations, growth, risk, funding preparation, and human verification.
Independent professional education
MA-SBOC is an independent professional education program. It is not a business license, professional license, government certification, regulatory approval, or substitute for qualified legal, accounting, tax, financial, healthcare, engineering, safety, cybersecurity, licensing, or regulatory advice. AI-generated outputs require human verification, and business owners remain responsible for decisions made using them. Customer and employee information must be handled under applicable privacy and security requirements; marketing claims must be truthful and supportable; employment decisions require qualified human oversight; and financial and tax outputs require qualified professional review. The program is not endorsed by the U.S. Small Business Administration, Internal Revenue Service, any state business agency, chamber of commerce, professional association, accrediting organization, software vendor, regulator, or government agency. No professional education hours or approvals are claimed, and no revenue, ranking, funding, profitability, productivity, customer-growth, compliance, or return-on-investment result is guaranteed.