AI for Business: use free AI tools to work, learn and sell better
A practical course for business owners, employees and young people starting out. Five modules that teach you to write, read, research, learn, sell, keep records and make decisions with free AI tools, safely and responsibly, with every task done on your own work, business or idea. Taught and marked by qualified teachers. Uses free tools only; no credit card is ever needed.
The tools are free. The know-how is what is missing.
Across Africa, business people say the main barrier to using AI is not interest but expertise: in a 2025 survey of 301 Kenyan business professionals, 49% named lack of expertise as the biggest obstacle, and in Xero’s 2026 South African small-business study 56% wanted help understanding how AI applies to their own operations. Most AI courses assume a laptop, paid tools, a credit card and a corporate office. This one assumes free tools, a tight budget and a real Botswana business.
Each module stands on its own. Together they are the full course.
Start with Module 1 or jump to the one you need. Each module is a full Stadira course: seven illustrated lessons with practice boxes you tap, copy-ready prompts, a quiz with full explanations, and one project marked by your teacher. Pass a module and you receive its module certificate. All five modules are open now, and the Final Assessment brings them together for the full course certificate.
AI Foundations 7 lessons · 12 hours · open now
What AI is and is not, which free tools work best in Botswana, how to ask for exactly what you want, how to check what it gives you before you trust it, and how to stay safe and legal. Ends with your first AI win on your own work, business or idea.
- What AI is, what it isn’t, and Africa’s AI moment
- Your free toolkit: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and Meta AI in WhatsApp
- The Stadira prompt formula: Role, Task, Context, Format, Check
- Talk to it, show it a photo, hand it a document
- Can I trust this? Spotting the guesses
- Safe and legal: the Data Protection Act, scams and deepfakes
- Where the opportunities are: your first AI win
AI for Productivity, Learning & Communication 7 lessons · 12 hours · open now
The everyday work of an office or a business, done in minutes: letters, quotes and CVs; long contracts and tenders read for you; research you can trust; learning any new skill with a tutor in your pocket; minutes from a voice note; professional slides and documents; and WhatsApp and email at scale in English and Setswana.
- Write it better: messages, quotes and CVs in minutes
- Read it for me: long documents, contracts and tenders
- Find out fast: research and fact-finding you can trust
- Learn anything faster: your own tutor in your pocket
- Meetings and reports: from a voice note to the minutes
- Presentations and documents that look professional
- Talk to everyone: WhatsApp and email at scale, English and Setswana
AI for Creativity & Marketing 7 lessons · 12 hours · open now
Ideas, images, designs, video and adverts that sell, made with free AI tools and Canva, plus a personal brand for your job search, and the honesty and copyright rules that keep you out of trouble.
- Ideas and storytelling: find your story and tell it in one breath
- Images with AI: pictures for your business, honestly
- Design that sells: a poster, a price list and a logo on Canva Free
- Video on a phone: 30 seconds that sell, with captions
- Adverts and campaigns: what P50 a day buys on Facebook and Instagram
- Personal brand: your name, your proof and your job-search kit
- Copyright, honesty and culture: make it yours, make it true, make it ours
AI for Data, Decisions & Automation 7 lessons · 12 hours · open now
From the exercise book to a spreadsheet: a cash book, stock and pricing you can trust, questions answered from your own numbers, a one-page dashboard, and simple no-code automations and an FAQ bot that answer while you work.
- From exercise book to spreadsheet: a photo becomes a table
- The AI cash book: money in, money out, every day
- Stock, pricing and margins: know what each item earns you
- Ask your data: questions a spreadsheet can answer in a minute
- A simple dashboard: the week on one screen
- No-code automations: a form, a sheet, a message, no typing
- A no-code helper: your FAQ answered while you sleep
Build with AI: Solutions for Botswana 7 lessons · 12 hours · open now
Find a real problem in your community or workplace, design a solution, build a no-code prototype, test it with five people, check it is responsible, and pitch it. Ends with your capstone solution file and your AI growth plan.
- Think bigger: builders in Botswana and Africa who started with one person’s problem
- Find the problem: five people, one queue
- Design the solution: twenty ideas, one small version, one page
- No-code prototype: build it in one sitting, test it with five people
- The responsible-AI check: six questions before anyone uses it
- Pitch for Demo Day: three minutes, one person, one number
- My AI growth plan: what next, the 30-day challenge, and the solution file
Final Assessment 5 guide lessons · 15 hours · open now
Bring it all together for the full course certificate. Your teacher marks your portfolio (40%), a three-minute Demo Day pitch (30%) and a 60-minute, open-notes final exam (30%) with up to three attempts, the best one counting. Pass mark 60%. Pitch live on Google Meet on the last Saturday of each month, or send a recording. Any part under 60% may be resubmitted once, free, within 14 days.
- Welcome to the Final Assessment: three parts, fifteen hours, one certificate
- Your portfolio: thirty-five pages and a solution file, in order, with the work showing
- Demo Day: three minutes, one person, one number, in front of a panel
- The final exam: twenty questions, thirty marks
- After the course: your certificate, thirty more days, and what you keep
Practical, hands-on, and explained as simply as we can
Learn on the tools you have
Every lesson works on an ordinary smartphone with free AI tools, with step-by-step screens for Android and iPhone. Laptop users get extra steps where a bigger screen helps.
Practice as you read
Each lesson has practice boxes you tap, copy-ready prompts with the real answer and what to check, “Prof. Kitso checks in” questions, key words in English and Setswana, and a notes page you keep.
Your context, not a textbook
Every task is done on your own work, business or idea, so you finish each module with something you can use the next day, and one page of your AI Action Pack that your teacher reads and writes back on.
Responsible from day one
Checking AI output, privacy, consent, bias and Botswana’s Data Protection Act run through every module, not only the last one.
Taught, marked and certified by qualified teachers
A certificate per module
Issued by Stadira Training Institute when you pass the module quiz (60%, unlimited attempts, full explanations) and your project, which is marked by your teacher. Serial-numbered, and anyone can verify it online.
Lesson Notes and Prompt Pack
Each module comes with its illustrated Lesson Notes as a PDF to keep, and a Prompt Pack of every prompt in the module, ready to copy into ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot or Meta AI in WhatsApp.
Tutor support
Your project is marked by your teacher with personal feedback. Tutor support by email and WhatsApp while you study. No time limit on your access.
Three ways to study
Online at your own pace, accessible on all devices; in person in Gaborone; or on-site with your team, on the days that suit your operations.
P499 per module, P799 for the Final Assessment.
Enrol module by module
| Module 1 · AI Foundations | P499 |
| Module 2 · AI for Productivity, Learning & Communication | P499 |
| Module 3 · AI for Creativity & Marketing | P499 |
| Module 4 · AI for Data, Decisions & Automation | P499 |
| Module 5 · Build with AI: Solutions for Botswana | P499 |
| Final Assessment · portfolio, Demo Day and exam | P799 |
| Full course: all five modules and the Final Assessment (P3,294 separately) | P2,999 |
Pay by bank transfer or Orange Money at checkout. Your module opens as soon as your payment is confirmed, usually the same working day.
Enrol in the full course
Tell us on WhatsApp that you want the full course. We enrol you in all five modules and the Final Assessment and send one invoice for P2,999.
Enrol in the full course on WhatsAppNot sure yet? Ask us about the free 60-minute online taster: the three most useful things a Botswana business can do with free AI tools this week, done live with you.
Train your team
Want your staff to use AI well, and safely, before they start using it badly? We run AI for Business for teams online, in Gaborone or on-site, with a tax invoice, attendance records and a certificate for every learner, which is what many employers need when claiming eligible training costs through the HRD Fund levy. Tell us your team size and what they do, and we will come back with a plan and a date.
Get a group quote- Group rates from five learners
- One module or all five
- Online, in Gaborone, or on-site
- Invoice, attendance record and certificates
Before you enrol
Do I need a laptop or paid AI tools?
No. The whole course can be done on a smartphone with the free versions of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and Meta AI in WhatsApp. No credit card is ever needed. If you have a laptop, you can use it, and lessons show extra steps for it.
Do I need to be good with computers?
No. If you can use WhatsApp, you can start with Module 1. Every lesson explains each tap and each new word, and has drawn step-by-step screens for Android and iPhone.
Do I have to take the modules in order?
We suggest starting with Module 1, because the prompt formula and the checking habits it teaches are used in every other module. But each module is a complete course on its own, and you can take Module 2 first if that is what your work needs.
How much time does it take?
Each module is about 12 hours: seven lessons of roughly 90 minutes each, plus your project. Most learners finish a module in two to three weeks studying in the evenings. There is no time limit on access.
Who marks my work?
Your teacher. The quiz shows you full explanations after each attempt so you learn from it; your project is read and marked by your teacher, who writes personal feedback back to you.
What certificate do I get?
A Stadira certificate for each module you pass, serial-numbered and verifiable online. Stadira Training Institute is operated by Jodalin (Pty) Ltd, registered in Botswana.
Are all the modules open?
Yes. Modules 1 to 5 and the Final Assessment are all open now. Take the modules in order, or start with the one your work needs; the Final Assessment comes after Modules 1 to 5.
Can my employer pay?
Yes. We invoice employers and provide attendance records and certificates for every learner. Use the group-quote button above.
Starting or running a business?
Our other flagship course, Small Business Management, is open too: entrepreneurship, customer experience, digital marketing and project management with M&E in three months.