Office and corporate jobs

Business analyst

Changing

From a vague request, AI quickly drafts requirements, a process map and a list of questions. The analyst decides what to ask and is responsible for making sure the team builds the right thing.

  • 6 lessons
  • 5 tools
  • 4 resources
  • Checked: October 2026

Where this job sits on the map

In the same group: 78 of 100 professions.

What changes

  1. Draft requirements and user stories get written in minutes

  2. You can ask questions of spreadsheets and data exports in plain language

  3. The key skill becomes asking a precise question and checking the answer

AI drafts, the person decides

How the work splits here: AI prepares a draft, the person checks it and makes the call.

AI makes the draft

What AI does

  • Turns notes from a client meeting into structured requirements
  • Writes user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Sketches an as-is and a to-be process map from a text description
  • Analyzes a spreadsheet: runs the numbers, spots outliers and suggests hypotheses
  • Lists the questions nobody has asked the client yet
You check itRead it, check the facts, fix it. Without this check the draft goes nowhere.
You decide and stay responsible

What stays with the person

  • Conversations with clients and users to find the real need behind the request
  • Reconciling requirements between departments that want different things
  • Checking the AI's numbers and conclusions before anyone makes a decision on them
  • Responsibility for the team building what the business actually needs

What to learn first

6 lessons from the course, in order. Start with the first one.

  1. Your first 30 minutes with AI: where to startStarting from zeroYour first 30 minutes with AI: sign up, ask three questions, try seven everyday tasks, learn what never to share and which plan to pick.Start here
  2. How to write a good promptUserHow to give AI a task: the five parts of a good prompt, Plan Mode, and how to refine an answer instead of starting over.
  3. AI ethics and safety: hallucinations, attacks, biasUserHallucinations, prompt injection, bias, privacy and copyright: how not to trust AI blindly.
  4. AI meeting notes with Otter.ai and FirefliesConfident userMeetings with AI: recording and transcription, notes and tasks through Fireflies, Claude and a webhook.
  5. AI presentations with Gamma, Beautiful.ai and ClaudeUserPresentations with AI: Gamma, Beautiful.ai, python-pptx and how to structure a pitch deck in Claude.
  6. Making money with AI: 5 client cases, by the numbersConfident userFive project breakdowns with payback math, and a universal ROI formula for client conversations.

Which tools to use

  • An AI assistant for long documents, analysis and code, with Claude Code and Cowork on paid plans.

    Freemium
  • Upload a spreadsheet or connect a database, ask in plain words, and get analysis and charts.

    Freemium
  • AI in Excel: build formulas, pivot tables and charts by asking in plain words.

    Paid
  • Turns text into diagrams, charts and infographics; exports to PNG, PDF, PPT and SVG.

    Freemium
  • AI note taker for meetings that lets you chat with your transcripts and supports 60+ languages.

    Freemium

Ready-to-use materials

  • Questions about the customer's past experience, not your idea. Based on the book "The Mom Test."

    Free
  • What each column means, where the data has errors, the main points in 5 bullets and questions for the author of the table.

    Free
  • Assess the risk, spot the signs of a made-up answer and run a 5-minute check before you act on what AI says.

    Free

How to earn with AI

We don't promise income: results depend on your niche, your market and your work.

  • Job

    Do more analysis in the same time and bring tested hypotheses to the meeting.

  • Service

    Mapping a small business's processes and finding the steps that can be automated.

  • Product

    Requirements and user-story templates with prompts for your own industry.

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Checked: October 2026