Module 6 of 6 · 5 min

Make it stick

Last module: Verify the facts, follow the vendor-email rule, and put your three-rule AI policy on one page.

Courses don't change businesses. Habits do.

You now know what these tools are, how to brief them, where they pay off, and how to stay safe. The last risk is the normal one: this fades by Friday. The fix is to attach AI to work you already do every week.

The two-week experiment

Pick 2–3 recurring tasks from your real week — customer emails, quotes, the weekly report. Write them down.
Use AI on them every single time for two weeks — even when doing it by hand feels faster. The first reps are the slow ones.
Keep rough score. A phone note: task, minutes before, minutes now. Two weeks of that tells you what AI is worth to your business, in numbers.
Keep what wins, drop what doesn’t. Some tasks won’t benefit. That’s a result, not a failure.

Get your certificate — and get your business paid

Pass this module’s knowledge check and you’ve finished the course. The certificate page issues a named certificate for AI Fundamentals for Business — and in South Dakota right now, that certificate is worth real money:

Team takes this coursefree, ~40 min each

Each earns a certificatenamed, printable

State pays your business$1,000/employee · up to $10,000

Category 3 of the state grant: free training in, real money back.

Have each employee finish the course and grab their certificate.
On the grant application, list this course under Category 3 (“Other”: SD AI Training — AI Fundamentals for Business, sdaitraining.com).
Our funding page walks you through the application in about 10 minutes.

When you're ready for more

The grant’s other categories cover the next steps, half-paid by the state:

Not sure where AI fits? Category 1: a consultant-led discovery session. State covers 50%, up to $5,000.
Found workflows that pay off? Category 2: structured training for your team, on your tools and data. State covers 50%, up to $20,000.

EdgeTeam — the South Dakota company behind this course — does both. Either way, the funding application is the same 10-minute guided flow. One quiz to go.