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AI for business leaders

Decide where AI is worth using in your organisation, who owns the risk, and how you will know it worked.

Start with what generative AI can do for a business, then how organisations adopt it, then security and rollout questions leaders have to answer.

beginner11 stepsabout 13 h 39 min of listed material

Foundations

What you need to know before you build.

  1. Infrato courseAI for Everyone25 min

    What AI is and is not, in plain language.

  2. Google · Course
    Google AI Essentials
    Price not listed

    Google’s beginner course on using AI at work.

  3. Infrato courseUse AI Safely at Work: Privacy and Data55 min

    What your team shares every time it pastes into an AI tool, and the one-page card that sets the rule.

  4. Microsoft · Course
    Explore the business value of generative AI solutions
    beginnerFree62 min

    The business value of generative AI.

Build

Make the thing.

  1. Infrato courseAI Decisions for Business Leaders57 min

    Choose a task, name the owner, run a pilot, and write your one-page adoption plan.

  2. Infrato courseDelegate to AI Agents Without Losing Control55 min

    Decide what an agent may do, who approves, and how its actions are recorded, before it acts for your team.

  3. Microsoft · Course
    Drive business value with AI solutions
    beginnerFree68 min

    Turning generative AI into business value.

  4. Microsoft Azure · Course
    AI Center of Excellence
    beginnerFree94 min

    Setting up an AI centre of excellence in an organisation.

  5. Microsoft · Course
    Optimize business processes with Microsoft Copilot
    beginnerFree193 min

    Improving business processes with an assistant.

Extend

Check it, harden it, go further.

  1. Microsoft Azure · Course
    AI security fundamentals
    beginnerFree130 min

    The security questions leaders have to be able to answer.

  2. Microsoft · Course
    Prepare your organization for Microsoft 365 Copilot
    intermediateFree80 min

    Preparing an organisation for an assistant rollout.

Tools to try

Products from each vendor’s own site, listed by name and link only. We have not tested them, they are not endorsements, and we are not affiliated with the vendors. Prices and features change, so check the vendor’s page.

There are more by what you use them for: AI tools worth learning.

Agents and MCP servers for this role

An MCP server runs code with your accounts and can act in them. Read what each one can reach, and which credentials it asks for, before you connect it. These are picked from our directories by hand, not ranked, and are not endorsements.

MCP servers

  • xero-mcp-server

    Xero accounting data from an assistant.

    Reaches: xero. Asks for: XERO_CLIENT_BEARER_TOKEN, XERO_CLIENT_SECRET.

  • google_workspace_mcp

    Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets and more from one server.

    Reaches: gmail, google, googlecalendar. Asks for: GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET.

  • google-calendar-mcp

    Manage Google Calendar events from an assistant.

    Reaches: google, googlecalendar. Asks for: GOOGLE_OAUTH_CREDENTIALS, GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY.

Agent skills

  • doc-coauthoring

    A structured workflow for co-writing documents.

  • research

    Investigates a question using high-trust primary sources.

Your project

Write a one-page AI adoption plan

Pick one process in your team. State the task, what happens if the AI is wrong, who checks the output, and one measure you will look at after four weeks to decide whether it helped.

The order and the notes are Infrato's own picks. The resources are made by their providers, open at their own sites, and can change; prices, levels and durations are the provider's. Infrato is not affiliated with the providers listed.