AI Agents for Small Business: Automate Sales and Support — PickAClass
4.4 (9) ⏱ 2h 48m 📚 28 lessons

AI Agents for Small Business: Automate Sales and Support

Learn how to design and implement text-based AI assistants to handle customer inquiries, capture leads, and streamline daily business operations.

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About this course

Small business owners often struggle to keep up with incoming customer inquiries, lead generation, and routine support requests. AI agents offer a practical way to manage these text-based tasks around the clock, allowing you to focus on growing your business. This course will guide you through the process of designing AI assistants tailored to your specific business needs. You will start by understanding the fundamental terminology of artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs), and how they can be adapted to handle real-world business scenarios securely and efficiently. What you'll learn: - Understand the foundational concepts of AI agents and large language models. - Apply modern prompt engineering techniques to ensure accurate and professional AI responses. - Design automated text workflows for customer support and lead qualification. - Explore Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) concepts to safely connect AI to your own business data. - Practice writing instructions, guardrails, and logic for automated sales assistants. The course flows from essential definitions and basic concepts to practical, written exercises where you define the rules and knowledge base for your own AI agents. You will read step-by-step explanations and analyze text-based examples to build a solid understanding of modern AI automation. This course is designed entirely for beginners, entrepreneurs, and small business owners with no prior technical or programming experience. Start reading today to transform how your business handles daily customer interactions.

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Practice questions 26 / 28
Assignments submitted 4 (avg 4.5 / 5)
Capstone project Reviewed — 4.6 / 5
Total practice 6.2 hrs
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Time to completion 11 days (median: 22)
Mastery score 91 / 100
Practice-question score 94%
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Reviews (9)

Camille Bernard LU
★ 4 · August 9, 2026

Mon petit commerce gère enfin les questions clients tout seul grâce à l'assistant que j'ai monté, j'aurais juste aimé plus sur la capture de prospects.

Ethan Garcia PH Verified learner
★ 5 · August 7, 2026

Sobrang praktikal ng kursong ito para sa maliit na negosyo gaya ng akin. Natutunan kong gumawa ng AI assistant na sumasagot sa mga tanong ng customer at kumukuha ng leads, kaya mas marami na akong oras sa ibang gawain.

Benjamín Navarro AR
★ 5 · July 31, 2026

Justo lo que necesitaba para automatizar el soporte.

حسن DZ
★ 4 · July 26, 2026

دورة مفيدة جدًا لأصحاب المشاريع الصغيرة الذين يريدون بناء مساعد ذكاء اصطناعي للرد على استفسارات المبيعات والدعم، لكن بعض الخطوات التقنية تحتاج صبرًا أكبر من المبتدئين.

Bruna Vasconcelos BR Verified learner
★ 5 · July 17, 2026

Esse curso me ajudou a entender de verdade como montar um assistente de IA para atender clientes do meu pequeno negócio sem precisar contratar mais gente. A parte de configurar as respostas automáticas para dúvidas frequentes é muito bem explicada, com exemplos que dá pra adaptar na hora. Também gostei da forma como ensinam a separar quem só está perguntando de quem já quer comprar. Depois de aplicar o que aprendi, o tempo que eu gastava respondendo mensagens caiu bastante. Recomendo bastante para quem administra sozinho o atendimento da empresa.

Rahel Adugna ET
★ 4 · July 16, 2026

I run a small shop and always dreaded the back-and-forth of answering the same questions over and over, so this course was exactly what I needed. It walks through designing an assistant that can handle basic sales questions and support tickets, with clear examples for setting up tone and boundaries. The pacing was good for someone without a coding background, and I appreciated the sections on when to hand off to a human. My only complaint is that the section on integrating with existing helpdesk tools felt a bit rushed. Overall it got my assistant running well enough to actually reduce my inbox.

Abigail Garcia PH
★ 4 · July 16, 2026

Bilang may-ari ng maliit na tindahan, lagi akong abala sa pagsagot ng parehong mga tanong araw-araw, kaya ginabayan ako nito kung paano gumawa ng text-based na AI assistant. Maayos ang pagkakaturo kung paano ito magsagot ng inquiries at humuli ng mga interesadong bibili. Gusto ko rin ang bahagi tungkol sa pag-aautomat ng mga pang-araw-araw na gawain sa negosyo. Sana lang mas pinalalim pa nila ang bahagi sa pag-organisa ng mga nakuhang leads. Pero sa kabuuan, malaki ang naitulong nito sa pagpapatakbo ng aking negosyo at irerekomenda ko ito.

신민서 KR Verified learner
★ 4 · June 14, 2026

소상공인용 AI 상담 봇 만들기에 실용적이었어요.

Tiago Martins PT
★ 5 · May 30, 2026

Curso muito prático para quem quer automatizar o atendimento inicial e o suporte da empresa sem perder a qualidade nas respostas.

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