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Planning an AI project

Decide where AI genuinely helps, whether to build or buy, how to measure success, and what could go wrong — before anyone writes code.

Free on glitchdata beginner 4 lessons 54 min

What you'll learn

  • Spot problems that suit AI and ones that don't
  • Choose between an off-the-shelf tool, an API and a custom model
  • Define success measures before building
  • Run a pilot and plan for risk and ongoing costs

About this course

For managers, product owners and anyone asked "can we use AI for this?". Most AI projects that fail do so for reasons that were visible at the start: the wrong problem, no data, no way to tell whether it works. This course gives you a short, repeatable way to plan one properly.

No technical background is needed.

Course content

4 lessons · 54 min

  1. 1
    Is this a problem for AI?

    A quick test for whether AI is the right tool.

    Free preview 12 min
  2. 2
    Build, buy or call an API

    The three ways to get an AI capability, and how to choose.

    14 min
  3. 3
    Defining success before you build

    Baselines, metrics and the test set you will judge by.

    14 min
  4. 4
    Pilots, risks and running costs

    Run a safe pilot and plan for what happens after launch.

    14 min

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