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One course for people meeting AI for the first time. Pick your goal: use AI at work, earn with it, or build your own product with Claude Code. No programming background needed.
The first lesson takes about 30 minutes. Nothing to install: all you need is an email for a free Claude account.
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The course
Pick what you want from AI. Each path is a set of lessons in a fixed order, and you can switch paths at any time.
For anyone trying AI for the first time who wants to use it at work: emails, documents, meetings, presentations, images. You don't need to know how to program.
You give an AI assistant clear tasks, check its answers, know what not to trust it with, and understand which tools are worth paying for.
For freelancers, professionals and small-business owners who want to earn with AI. You don't need to know how to program.
You choose a niche, put together a service, set a price, work out your break-even point, find first clients and write a 90-day plan. We don't promise income: results depend on your niche, your market and your work.
For people who want their own AI product: a bot, a web service or an automation. We start from zero; installation and code come in step by step.
You go through the whole course in order, from your first chat with AI to a product that takes payments and is monitored and protected, and you build five projects from start to finish.
Professions
For each job: what AI already does, what stays with the person, what to learn first, which tools help, and three ways to earn: a job, a service or a product.
Most jobs on the map change rather than disappear.
Health, law and finance: AI helps a licensed professional and does not replace one. Nothing here is personal medical, legal or financial advice.
Reference
The course leads you step by step; the reference shelves help when you need to find something specific.
AI isn't magic. It's a set of tools that is changing the job market.
Questions
Yes, AI Mayak is free: no sign-up, no paid plans, nothing for sale. AI assistants themselves have free and paid plans, and Claude Code comes only with paid Claude plans. Current prices are on the What's current page, which we check every month. There is no official certificate. You can mark lessons as done (the marks stay in your browser only) and print a commemorative diploma from the My progress page; nobody checks or verifies it.
Read more: What's current My progress
Yes. The first lessons run in your browser and the first one takes about 30 minutes; you only need an email for a free Claude account. The Use and Earn paths don't assume any programming skills. Some later lessons show code that you ask Claude to write, and the Build path brings in installation and code step by step.
For most jobs on our map, AI changes the work rather than removing it: of 100 professions, 78 are changing, 14 are new roles and 8 are shrinking. Type your job to see what AI takes over and what stays with you. We don't predict your personal future.
Read more: Professions
Not blindly. AI can state wrong facts with confidence and even invent sources. The course builds one habit: AI drafts, you decide. You learn to ask for sources, open them and catch typical mistakes. In health, law and money, AI supports a licensed professional and does not replace one.
Read more: AI ethics and safety: hallucinations, attacks, bias
Never paste passwords, card numbers, your Social Security number or other people's private documents. Each assistant has a privacy setting that controls whether your chats are used to train its models, and the What's current page shows where to find it. The first lesson includes a short list of what never to share.
Read more: Your first 30 minutes with AI: where to start What's current
Start with the one you already have: all three have a free plan. One lesson compares them task by task. Our examples use Claude because later lessons build on Claude Code, but asking well and checking answers works the same in any chat assistant.
We don't promise income. The Earn path shows the actual work: choosing a niche, putting together a service, setting a price, working out your break-even point and finding first clients. Results depend on your niche, your market and your effort, not on a secret method.
Read more: Earn with AI
No. AI Mayak is an independent project, not affiliated with Anthropic or any other AI company. We teach Claude Code and compare it with other tools openly. Nothing is sold on the site. Catalog entries show the month they were last checked, and prices live on one page that we review every month.
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AI Mayak is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic or any other AI company. Product names belong to their owners.