Production AI Institute · Public record
Foundations · Free · 50 minutes

Learn how AI actually works

Most explanations are either too technical or too vague. This is the version for managers, team leads, and business professionals who need to make real decisions about AI without becoming engineers.

Start module 1 →Read the production standard
Managers & team leads
who oversee AI projects
Business owners
evaluating AI tools
Product managers
scoping AI features
Legal & compliance
reviewing AI risk

Five modules. Fifty minutes.

Each module has an interactive diagram and takes about 10 minutes. Read in order or jump to what's relevant.

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MODULE 01·10 min
What AI Actually Is

How language models work, what they can and can't do, and why 'AI knows things' is the wrong mental model.

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MODULE 02·10 min
What an AI Agent Does

The difference between a chatbot and an agent — and why agents that take actions require different thinking about risk.

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MODULE 03·10 min
How AI Gets Deployed

What separates a demo from a production system, and why most AI failures happen at deployment, not in the model.

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MODULE 04·10 min
What Your Team Needs to Know

The questions to ask before deploying AI, what human oversight actually means, and how to evaluate vendor safety claims.

MODULE 05·10 min
How to Work With AI Effectively

What AI is genuinely good at, where it fails, and how the people actually building with Claude and Cursor work day-to-day.

Continue into production practice

Apply the foundations to a live system

Use the Production Safety Framework to turn the course concepts into practical control questions, or check how an AI tool handles data against the public record.