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MA-SBOC Level 5 — AI Small Business Automation Specialist

Self-paced enrollment in Level 5 of the Master AI Small Business Owner Certification: Build automations that act, safely: agents and orchestration sized for a small business, APIs and service identities, human-in-the-loop approval gates, role-based access, prompt-injection defence, logging and monitoring, incident response, and return on investment you can actually defend.

Modules
5
Estimated time
12 hours
Access
Self-paced

Single-user enrollment

$599.00

One-time purchase
What Level 5 covers Review the complete curriculum The six-level program

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

View all 5 modules
  1. Module 01

    Agents and Orchestration for Small Business

    Strip the marketing from the word agent, choose an orchestration pattern by its blast radius rather than its cleverness, and design a first automation whose worst outcome you can state in one sentence.

  2. Module 02

    APIs, Connections, and Service Identity

    Treat every connection as a designed object: one identity per automation, the narrowest role available, secrets in a manager, rotation on departure, and a plan for the day an interface changes underneath you.

  3. Module 03

    Human-in-the-Loop Approvals

    Design approval gates that a busy person actually operates: what the approver sees, what they must check, how long the queue may get, and why nothing happening is the only safe default.

  4. Module 04

    Security, Logging, and Incident Response

    Defend connected workflows against prompt injection, log enough to reconstruct what an automation did, monitor so failures surface before customers report them, and run an incident where the system has already acted.

  5. Module 05

    Value, Pilots, and Lifecycle

    Build a return-on-investment case that counts build time, review time, licence cost, and failure cost against a measured baseline, run a pilot with a rollback plan, and retire an automation deliberately.

MA-SBOC

Levels in this programme

  1. Level 1 MA-SBOC Level 1: AI Foundations for Small Business Owners
  2. Level 2 MA-SBOC Level 2 — Certified AI Small Business Professional
  3. Level 3 MA-SBOC Level 3 — Advanced AI Business Operations
  4. Level 4 MA-SBOC Level 4 — Master AI Small Business Owner Certification
  5. Level 5 MA-SBOC Level 5 — AI Small Business Automation Specialist You are viewing this level
  6. Level 6 MA-SBOC Level 6 — Certified AI Small Business Instructor

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.