The Exact 30-Day Roadmap

Four weeks. Real tools. Zero fluff.

Skim it here, or scroll down and have our free AI Learning Guide teach it to you step by step, tailored to your questions.

WEEK 1

Understand AI and touch it with your own hands

✳ Claude — claude.ai

Best for reasoning, writing, research, and reading long documents. Free plan includes file creation, connectors to Notion and Canva, longer conversations.

Free training: Anthropic Academy — anthropic.skilljar.com

Notion AI — notion.so

Takes notes, summarizes long text, organizes your thoughts automatically.

Free training: Notion Academy — academy.notion.com

Canva — canva.com

Turns text into designs, presentations, and social posts. Try Magic Studio.

Free training: Canva Design School — canva.com/design-school

⚡ Quick Start (5 minutes today)

Open Claude and make a free account
Ask it to help write something real, like an email you actually need to send
Read the output and edit it in your own words
Take that text into Canva and turn it into a social post

WEEK 2

Pick ONE lane and go deep

Want to write content?

Practice blogs, captions, and scripts with Claude. Also the best tool for summarizing long articles or research.

Free training: Anthropic Academy's Claude 101 & AI Fluency

Want to design graphics?

Leonardo AI (leonardo.ai) turns text into images. Free tier is enough to practice.

Want to make video content? (This changed the most in 2026 — 3 options)

Google Flow (labs.google/flow) — Runs on Veo 3.1. Plain-language prompts handle camera movement, lighting, native audio. Free credits to start. Use Nano Banana Pro inside Flow for high-detail images.

Seedance 2.0 (via Hedra or Runway) — Text, image, audio, and video refs together for multi-shot videos. Keeps characters/products consistent. Strongest for product or brand content.

Runway (runwayml.com) — Professional editing suite. Best for character consistency and full scene control.

Free training: Google Skills' AI Boost Bites (skills.google) · Runway Academy (academy.runwayml.com)

Want to build presentations?

Gamma (gamma.app) builds a full deck from a few lines of prompt.

Free training: Gamma 101 & Selling with Gamma — lab.gamma.app

Want to automate marketing?

Copy.ai writes marketing copy & product descriptions. AdCreative.ai builds ad creatives and copy together.

WEEK 3

Build real projects with your hands

Learned Writing

Use Claude to write 3 full blog posts

Learned Video

Use Google Flow or Seedance to make 3 short videos

Learned Design

Use Canva and Leonardo (or Nano Banana Pro in Flow) to make 3 Instagram posts

🎯 Remember the goal: it's not about knowing the tool — it's about solving ONE real problem with it.

WEEK 4

Turn learning into confidence

Share your 3 projects on Facebook or LinkedIn. Write:

✅ What tool you used
✅ How you used it
✅ What you learned

🏆 Bonus: If you finished any official course above, add that certificate to your post too!

💡 Pro Tips

Don't try to learn 5 tools at once — go deep on one first
One hour a day is enough — don't rush to finish in one day
Start on the free tier, spend money later only if you need to
For video: speed → Google Flow, character consistency → Seedance 2.0 or Runway
Official academies are free and give real certificates
Never trust AI output blindly — always check it yourself
Join a community instead of learning alone — you get unstuck faster

🎯 The Truth

Learning AI doesn't mean becoming an expert overnight, and it doesn't mean sitting through 10-hour courses.

Thirty minutes of daily hands-on practice beats 10 hours of passive watching.

The people who "get good fast" just show up daily, actually build something, and use free official courses instead of random videos. This is a habit, not magic.

Learn AI from zero. For free. In just 30 days.