Thursday, October 1, 2026

What Happens After the Free Course

 


What Happens After the Free Course

Every free course has a second page. You know the one. You finish the last lesson, feel briefly accomplished, and then a banner slides in with a countdown timer and a price that was not mentioned anywhere on the way in.

I have been on the receiving end of that page more times than I can count, and I have never once felt good about it. So this post is the second page, written before you start, with the prices in it.

The free one

Our AI Skills Black Belt is free. Not free for 14 days, not free with a card on file. Free for life, through my link, and nothing renews or expires.

It is nine belts on using AI for the work you already do: solving problems, learning faster, thinking through a decision, and creating the first draft of almost anything. It is self-paced, so you can do a belt on a Tuesday night and the next one three weeks later, and nobody sends you a sad email about it.

You keep it whatever you decide about anything else in this post.

https://humansplusagents.ai/legacy-sbc

The two after it

There are two more courses. They are where most people who finish the first one end up asking to go next, because the first one teaches you to use AI and these two teach you to make it do a job.

AI Agent Black Belt (Builder). You build one agent around one real job in your work, with quality checks built in, so you can trust what it hands you. For an accountant that might be the document chase, the month-end close checklist, or the bank reconciliation you have done forty times and could do in your sleep. That is exactly why it is the right one to hand off first.

AI Role OS Black Belt (Operating Systems). This is where the pieces become a week. You connect your priorities, your people and your agents into a daily rhythm, so the agent you built actually runs on Monday instead of living in a folder you mean to get to.

Both are self-paced, the same as the free one. Certificates are earned through work you actually do and that gets assessed, not handed out for watching videos.

And all three courses keep up. As the technology changes and the agents improve, the courses are updated, so what you learn this month is not out of date by spring. With AI, that is not a small thing. Half of what people learned about it last year now has an asterisk.

The prices, all of them

Here is the whole thing, in one place:

  • AI Skills Black Belt: free, for life, and updated as the technology changes.
  • AI Agent Black Belt (Builder): $1,000.
  • AI Role OS Black Belt (Operating Systems): $1,000.

And the one offer, with its one condition:

  • In your first week after you sign up for the free course, you can get both of the next two courses for $1,000 together. That is half price.
  • After that first week, they go back to $1,000 each.

That is the entire offer. No countdown timer that resets when you refresh the page. No "only three seats left." The week starts when you sign up, not when I send an email, so it is your week, not mine.

https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/KZ8E57JCPNC3U

Why the first week

A fair question is why there is a deadline at all, if I am being so virtuous about fine print.

The honest answer is that the first week is when it works. People who move from the free course into building an agent while the first course is still fresh tend to finish. People who mean to come back to it later mostly do not, and I would rather give the discount to the version of you that is going to finish.

It is not a trick to rush you. If the first week passes and you decide you want the next two courses in March, they are $1,000 each in March, and they will still be worth it. You just will not get them for half.

What you do not have to decide today

You do not have to decide anything about the paid courses to start the free one. Start it, do a belt or two, and see whether it changes how your week goes. If it does, the next step is sitting right there with a price on it. If it does not, you have a free course and I have one more person who knows how to use AI properly, which is the point of all this anyway.

To be clear about where I stand: the free course on its own is a perfectly good place to start. But my recommendation is all three. The first one educates you. The second one improves one real part of your work. The third one is what makes it stick, by putting it into your job or your business every week. Learning AI without implementing it is a bit like buying the gym membership for the parking.

The best thing anyone has said to me about these courses came from a student who went through them:

"I was afraid of it, then I didn't understand it, and now I can do it all myself with real vision and understanding."

Afraid, then confused, then capable. That is the whole path, and it is the reason I recommend all three instead of stopping at the first.

AI does the typing. You make the judgment calls. That applies to this decision too.

Where to start

There is no upsell hiding in here. The upsell is right here, in the open, with a price on it.

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