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AI MBA · A free skill from Michael Houck

Send your AI back to school.

Give it a subject. It studies the best practitioners' own work, saves what it learns as a skill, and tests it on real work.

I'll email you the download too. No account or payment needed.

A preview of the AI MBA quick-start guide. The steps and prompt are blurred until you download it.

Inside the download

Everything you need to start.

The research-to-skill process behind my product-thinking experiment, packaged for your next subject.

  • PDF

    A one-page quick start

    Three steps and an assignment you can paste into your AI.

  • SKILL

    The AI MBA skill

    A research workflow that turns sources into useful rules and tests.

  • TOOLS

    Templates and examples

    Source notes, a topic-skill outline and a guide to checking the result.

Example assignment

Teach yourself product sense so you can help decide what to build.

Choose a specific job you want done better. Product decisions, sales or writing are all places to start.

  1. 01

    Study the source material

    Find leading practitioners and read their actual work.

  2. 02

    Build a working skill

    Save decision rules, examples and the mistakes to avoid.

  3. 03

    Put it to the test

    Compare its work on a real task. Keep the gaps visible.