Syllabus
Eight units, one job each
Each unit covers one job a co-founder team used to share, and ends with something you keep: a map, a specification, a checklist, a plan.
Lesson 1. Can one person run this companyFree
- Learning goals
- List the jobs a founding team used to split; decide for each whether you do it, an agent does it, you buy it in, or it waits.
- Expected outcomes
- A completed Job Map and a first view of which gaps the later units must close.
Unit 2. Delegating to agentsEnrolled
- Learning goals
- Explain what an agent is, how it uses tools and plans; name the tasks agents handle well and where they fail.
- Expected outcomes
- A ranked list of tasks to delegate now, later or never, with a reason for each.
Unit 3. Specifying the workEnrolled
- Learning goals
- Write a task an agent can carry out: goal, inputs, limits, permissions, what done looks like.
- Expected outcomes
- One tested task specification and a revised version after the trial run.
Unit 4. Checking the outputEnrolled
- Learning goals
- Set up the checks a co-founder would have made: source verification, a second reviewer (human or separate agent), logs.
- Expected outcomes
- A working checklist with a named reviewer for each recurring output.
Unit 5. Customers and sellingEnrolled
- Learning goals
- Run customer-discovery interviews, fill a business model canvas and a lean canvas, set a first price, pitch in two minutes.
- Expected outcomes
- Both canvases with assumptions marked confirmed or not, a first price and a two-minute pitch.
Unit 6. MoneyEnrolled
- Learning goals
- Estimate start-up costs, choose cash or accrual records, keep receipts and books, register for tax, pay yourself.
- Expected outcomes
- A twelve-month money sheet, a record-keeping routine and the tax registrations your business needs.
Unit 7. Setting up the companyEnrolled
- Learning goals
- Compare sole trader, partnership, limited company and corporation on liability and paperwork; know when investors need an entity.
- Expected outcomes
- A chosen structure with the reasons, the filings it brings, and the questions to take to a lawyer or accountant.
Unit 8. Data protection and AI rulesEnrolled
- Learning goals
- Apply GDPR basics as a small firm; meet the EU AI Act literacy duty for yourself and anyone acting for you; recognise the main security risks of LLM apps.
- Expected outcomes
- A completed compliance checklist, a record of your own AI literacy training, and the security risks that apply to your tools.
Coverage. Units 6 to 8 draw on UK, EU and US sources. More countries will follow in later editions.
Next edition. A unit on accountability and judgment, covering what never to delegate and who answers when an agent acts in your name, is in preparation.