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AI for managers: emails, reports and plans you can stand behind

Short lessons, with assignments built on your own emails and reports. Three AI reviewers show you what to fix before anyone else reads it.

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  • A useful answer the first timeYou brief AI so well you don’t end up rewriting what it wrote
  • Mistakes caught before you hit sendYou spot made-up numbers and chat leftovers while the text is still yours
  • Writing from your actual jobThe emails and reports you write in assignments go straight into your work
Sent
ToTeam, 12 people
SubjectWeekly meeting moved

Hi all,

The **weekly meeting** is moving to Thursday — at 10:00.asterisks and a dash left over from the chat

It’s not just a reschedule, it’s a chance to come better prepared.stock phrase “not just…, it’s…”

Same agenda, we start at 11:00 sharp.the times don’t match: it said 10:00 above

Would you like me to make this sound friendlier?the AI asking you

OlgaAigerimMartaAnna, 09:42Did you see there’s a question from GigaChatChatGPTChatGPTChatGPT at the end of your email?
A one-minute check

AI wrote this email. It has five mistakes – find them before it reaches the customer

Click any sentence that can’t go out as it is.

reply_to_customer.docxwritten by AI · 12 seconds

Reply to a customer about a late order

Dear [Customer Name], Your order #1842 is running two days late because of a problem at the courier company. Honestly, this isn’t just a delay – it’s an opportunity for us to do better. We’ll deliver it on Wednesday, 4 November.We’ll deliver it on Wednesday, 16 December.We’ll deliver it on Friday, 25 December.We’ll deliver it on Monday, 14 November. As an apology, here’s 10% off your next order: 2 000 ₽ instead of 2 500 ₽.As an apology, here’s 10% off your next order: 8 000 ₸ instead of 10 000 ₸.As an apology, here’s 10% off your next order: €20 instead of €25.As an apology, here’s 10% off your next order: $20 instead of $25. If you’d rather have a refund, we can send it within three working days. Would you like me to make this letter more formal?

The email was just an example. The same approach works for any task at work

Brief the AI, give it the data, check what comes back, fix it. That is how the course teaches you to work with AI – in emails, in numbers and in plans.

Emails and reports

Brief the AI so the answer is useful, then shape the text into something you’re happy to put your name to.

Open module and Foundation

Numbers and conclusions

Check whether the AI’s conclusions match the data, and never pass on anything you can’t explain.

Foundation

Data and security

Know what you can and can’t give an AI, and agree on the rules with your team.

Foundation

Plans, risks and routine

Find the weak spots in a plan before kick-off and hand routine work to an agent – then check what it did.

Project Management

Sound familiar?

You asked AI for an email and got “honestly”, “it’s important to note” and “it’s not just…, it’s…”. You rewrote it yourself.

You sent a report and only then noticed the last line: “Would you like a softer version?”

A colleague read your text and asked, “Did a chatbot write this?” Nobody had reread it before it went out – and it showed.A colleague read your text and asked, “Did ChatGPT write this?” Nobody had reread it before it went out – and it showed.You pasted a spreadsheet of customer data into ChatGPT – and only afterwards remembered GDPR.A colleague read your text and asked, “Did ChatGPT write this?” Nobody had reread it before it went out – and it showed.

That is what the course is about: briefing AI so the answer is actually useful, and getting it to a text you’re happy to sign.

What the course teaches

Spotting these mistakes is half the job. The course teaches you to get a draft ready to send

In the assignments you write your own emails and reports with AI, and three reviewers mark what to fix. Think it through yourself first, then compare with the hint.

Yellow marks what the reviewers noticed. Click a highlighted fragment to open the note.

Project status, week 14

Certainly! Here’s a short status report for your manager:1

**Project “New customer portal”** —Project “New customer portal”:1 12 of 15 tasks closed, so we’re right on track. Three are still open and launch is 4 weeks away: we make it if testing starts by 15 November2.

Risks: the contractor moved the payments API by a week, not critical yet. It’s important to note that this isn’t just a delay – it’s an opportunity to revisit our priorities.1 Please approve additional budgetapprove 120 000 ₽650 000 ₸€1 300$1 500 by 10 November3 for testing.

Would you like a softer version?1

1 · Nobody reread it Practitioner

The first and last lines are the AI talking to you. “It’s important to note” and “not just…, it’s…” are its favourite phrases, and the asterisks and the dash came over from the chat.

How would you fix it? Think first, then open the hint.

How to fix it: Remove the AI’s lines, its stock phrases and the chat leftovers.

2 · The conclusion doesn’t match the numbers Analyst

“On track”, yet 3 tasks are open and launch is 4 weeks away. What is the confidence based on?

How would you fix it? Think first, then open the hint.

How to fix it: Say what is left and on what condition you make it.

3 · Unclear what to approve Methodologist

How much, and by when is a decision needed? The manager won’t know what exactly they are approving.

How would you fix it? Think first, then open the hint.

How to fix it: Name the amount and the deadline.

Needs work Reviewed 0 of 3

You see the review criteria before you start writing

The numbers match the data

If the text says “on track”, the reviewer counts what is done and how much time is left.

The reader knows what you need

They see at first glance what you expect from them, what it costs and by when.

The text has been reread

No AI asides, no asterisks, no stock phrases – it sounds like you.

Reviews

What graduates say

What stayed with me most was the practical assignment with the analytical memo. I failed it the first time because I built the prompt wrong. After going through the mistakes I tried again – and it worked.

Milan Alkeshev, Product Manager, SKO Hub powered by Astana Hub

I expected the course to sell me on AI in every shape and form. In reality, half of it is about the mistakes AI makes – and the mistakes people make reading its results.

Mikhail Seleznev, Project Manager, PMP, Bereke Bank

Handing work in doesn’t earn a pass. About one submission in three comes back with notes, and most of those pass later – usually on the second or third try. Based on students’ work in the Russian-language course, March to October 2026.

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Programme and prices

Three modules. Take any one on its own

Start with the free one. If it works for you, take Foundation. The specialisation is for people who run projects, and Foundation comes with it.

Open module

9 lessons to see how the course works, on your own tasks

Free
A status report in 5 minutesYour first result with AI
You catch AI’s hidden mistakes“Does it work… or not?”
Which AI for which taskChoosing a tool
A map of your gaps and where to startSelf-assessment

Assignments with feedback. Sign up with your email, no card needed.

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Foundation: working with AI

For any role. Useful in ChatGPT, GigaChat, AliceChatGPT, Gemini, GigaChatClaude, ChatGPT, GeminiClaude, ChatGPT, Gemini and in agents – AI that carries out tasks on its own

6 000 ₽35 000 ₸€65$75Price at launch
A useful answer the first timeHow to brief AI
Critical thinking: check AI’s answer fastWhere AI goes wrong
AI rules for your teamSecurity and data
AI built into your working dayFrom tool to system

Assignments built on your emails, reports and replies to clients. Reviewed work, a numbered certificate, lifetime access to the materials.

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Project Management

For project and delivery managers. Foundation is included in the price

17 000 ₽110 000 ₸€200$220Price at launch
A project plan that shows its weak spots earlyPlanning and stress-testing a plan
A weekly report without losing your Friday eveningWeekly reporting
An agent that prepares your morning briefingAn agent for a manager’s routine

Everything in Foundation, plus the specialisation. Reviewed work, a numbered certificate, lifetime access to the materials.

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In the works: People Management, Education, Technical Depth, Final Project, Hot Topics.

Refunds for a paid module: until you start the paid lessons, we refund the full amount; after that, in proportion to what you haven’t studied yet. Refund terms

Stanislav Belyaev
Course author

Stanislav Belyaev

Leads engineering teams at Microsoft and works with AI himself every day. Before that he taught managers at Yandex Practicum and Stratoplan – more than 700 graduates in all.

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Frequently asked questions

When does the English course open?

We are translating and reviewing the lessons and the assignment checks now. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you the day it opens – one email, no newsletter unless you ask for it.

Do I need a technical background?

No. The course is for managers and specialists without one. Everything is worked through on real tasks: a report, an email, a plan.

I only have the free ChatGPT or AliceChatGPT or GeminiChatGPT or GeminiChatGPT or Gemini. Is that enough?

Yes. You can do the assignments in the free versions of ChatGPT, Alice, GigaChat, DeepSeekChatGPT, Gemini, GigaChat, DeepSeekClaude, ChatGPT, Gemini, MistralChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek. The course shows you how to get the most out of them.

How much time will it take?

A lesson takes 12–18 minutes. The 9 free lessons take 3–4 hours. The full course is designed for about 8 weeks at 3–5 hours a week, but you set the pace, and you keep access to the materials for good.

Who reviews the assignments?

Three AI reviewers, each looking from a different angle. You see the criteria before you start. If your work comes back, you fix it and send it again.

Is there a certificate?

Yes, once you finish all the lessons and your assignments are accepted. Each certificate has a number that can be verified on our site and added to LinkedIn.

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