Level 2: Navigator
Based on the Business Track
“Thinking it through.”
Complete each learning module and check it off before moving on to the next. Free forever — no credit card, no trial period, no upgrade wall.
THIS TRACK IS FOR YOU IF...
You’ve got the basics down — accounts set up, a feel for how AI responds, maybe even a real draft or two under your belt. Level 2 is about thinking more deliberately: giving AI a consistent, well-built structure every time, applying constraints on purpose, teaching AI your voice through examples, and building a reusable library of prompts instead of starting from scratch every time.
This is the level where AI stops being a novelty and becomes a discipline — the same skill whether you’re writing for a business, a nonprofit board, a family project, or a letter to a friend.
BY THE END OF LEVEL 2, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
• Turn a vague request into a well-structured prompt with context, instructions, and a format request
• Recognize when an AI response is vague or off-topic — and fix it with a follow-up instead of starting over
• Set up and use a saved custom instruction or “Project” for a task you do often
• Explain in plain language what a prompt is and why structure matters
• Know what a paid AI subscription unlocks and decide if it's worth it for you
Level 2 requires a paid AI subscription (approximately $20/month on Claude or ChatGPT) — the free-tier limits from Level 1 won't be enough for what's ahead. The training itself is still free; the subscription is a cost you pay directly to the AI platform, not to The AI Encore.
WHY THIS LEVEL MATTERS
Human Skill in Focus: Structured Thinking
A great prompt is a great brief. The skill you’re practicing at this level is breaking a request into its parts: who the audience is, what the task is, what context matters, and what the deliverable should look like. Anyone who has ever written clear instructions for someone else — a work assignment, a set of directions, a recipe — already has this skill. You are just applying it to a new medium.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Use a consistent prompt structure: Role + Task + Context + Format.
• Apply constraints — length, tone, audience, reading level — deliberately.
• Use few-shot examples (showing AI 2–3 examples of what you want) to guide its output.
• Build a personal library of reusable prompts.
CURRICULUM TOPICS
• The four parts of a great prompt: role, task, context, format.
• Constraints: length, tone, audience, reading level.
• Few-shot prompting: giving AI examples instead of just instructions.
• Zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought — defined plainly, used purposefully.
• System prompts and personas: telling AI who to be before telling it what to do.
• Building and maintaining a prompt library.
RECOMMENDED TOOLS
• Claude — for serious writing and reasoning tasks.
• ChatGPT — for tone and style variety.
• Microsoft Copilot — for in-context work inside Office documents.
• Perplexity — for prompts that need cited research.
• A simple text file, Word document, or Notion page — to hold your growing prompt library.
HOW TO GET FEEDBACK ON YOUR ASSIGNMENTS
One of the most valuable things you can do throughout this program is ask AI to review your own work. This gives you personalized feedback, reinforces what you learned, and gives you more hands-on practice with AI — all at the same time.
Sample review prompt
“Please review my assignment. Tell me: (1) what I did well, (2) what I could improve, and (3) one suggestion for next time.”
Don’t stop there. Ask follow-up questions. If something from a module didn’t quite click, this is a good time to ask about it. Every conversation you have with AI is practice. Use it.