From Business Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence

Week 1

From Dashboards to AI Agents

• Understand why AI agents are displacing traditional BI
• Learn the agent loop: plan, execute, observe, iterate
• Distinguish chatbots, code-execution agents and terminal agents

Exploring Data With AI

• Go from a raw spreadsheet to a written recommendation with charts in minutes
• Ask decision-relevant questions in plain English
• Work across multiple files and file formats

Week 2

AI as Thinking Partner

• Use AI as a sparring partner for decisions
• Challenge assumptions, run pre-mortems, stress-test analysis
• Blend data analysis with structured thinking moves

Connecting Databases

• Connect AI to SQL databases using skills and MCP
• Build a reusable database skill from a schema description
• Build a demo web app for natural-language database queries

Week 3

Reporting Pipelines

• Chain queries, charts, narratives and document assembly into automated pipelines
• Build a reporting app that produces slide decks from a single instruction
• Understand sandboxed execution for production deployment

Reliability and Compliance

• Validate AI outputs with a repeatable verification protocol
• Red-team database skills and RAG systems
• Navigate data sovereignty, cloud inference and audit requirements

Week 4

Beyond BI: Agent Workflows

• Orchestrate agents for personal productivity
• Build document processing and variance analysis workflows
• Apply safety principles to multi-system agents

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

• Give AI knowledge of your company's documents
• Get answers grounded in your policies and contracts — with citations
• Build and test a RAG system for document-based Q&A