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AI Workflow & Automation Accelerator™ · One day · Live virtual
Redesign a real process, then build the automation that runs it.
Six and a half hours on one recurring process from your own work. You map it, remove what no longer earns its place, then build a working AI-powered automation and test it against twenty real cases. It is running before you leave.
Friday, October 16 · 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM Eastern · $795, or $645 when you book by Friday, September 25
No coding. Built on your own work, with direct support from the instructor throughout.
Who this is for
Two buyers, and the final block of the day splits to serve both. You do not need to see yourself in every line. One is enough.
- You own a process that moves because somebody keeps moving it, and you want it running on its own.
- You lead a team spending its week on work that follows the same steps every time.
- You are a consultant or independent professional who wants automation as a billable capability.
- You run an agency or small business where onboarding, intake, reporting, and follow-up move by hand.
- You handle status collection, reporting assembly, or meeting-to-action work on a rhythm.
- Your organization bought an automation platform and you want to turn the license into something running.
And who it is not for
- You want a plan rather than a build. This day produces a working automation.
- You are new to AI entirely. AI for Everyone Foundations™ is the better starting point and costs less.
- You want to make one person faster at their own desk. That is the Claude or Microsoft Copilot Business Productivity Accelerator™.
- You want agents that choose their own path. That is a separate discipline with its own governance, and a later course.
At a glance
Duration
Six and a half hours
9:00 AM to 4:30 PM Eastern, two breaks and a thirty-minute lunch
Delivery
Live virtual
Direct support from the instructor throughout
What you build
A working automation
Running on your own process, before you leave
Build environment
n8n
Make documented alongside every step. Free accounts are sufficient
What you need
Three recurring processes
Plus twenty real examples of what flows through one of them
Coding
None
n8n is visual. Everything is built by connecting steps
Recording
Yours for ninety days
The full session, watch any part again
Free retake
Within twelve months
One retake of the course, at no charge
The promise
Transform a repetitive process into a streamlined, AI-powered workflow that saves time, reduces manual effort, and improves consistency. By the end of the course, you will have redesigned a real process from your own work, built and tested a working automation, and prepared it for ongoing use by your team or client.
What you will be able to do
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Identify and prioritize business processes for automation based on value, effort, risk, and potential return.
- Map and redesign a process to remove unnecessary steps, reduce delays, and improve efficiency before automation is applied.
- Define a future-state workflow that combines AI actions, human approvals, notifications, and business rules.
- Build an end-to-end automation using triggers, actions, workflow logic, and connected business systems.
- Apply AI within workflows to classify, extract, summarize, and generate structured outputs that support business processes.
- Test and refine automations using real business scenarios, including exception handling, monitoring, and error management.
- Document, deploy, and support automations for ongoing use across a team, department, or client environment.
- Measure automation outcomes and identify the next process to automate using the same repeatable approach.
For consultants and independent professionals: scope, price, deliver, and hand over automation solutions to clients.
What people build in this course
You bring three recurring processes. They usually come from one of these.
Client and customer onboarding
Welcome sequence, document collection, account setup, and internal notification, running from a single trigger.
Reporting
Data collected on a schedule, assembled into a document, and circulated to the people who need it.
Meetings and follow-up
Notes turned into dated actions with owners, and sequences that continue until somebody replies.
Document assembly
Recurring documents produced from a template and current data, in the same shape every time.
Approvals and data movement
Requests routed to the right approver with a reminder path, and information kept consistent between systems.
Six blocks, seventy percent building
Your day
Six and a half hours, nine to four thirty. All times Eastern.
9:00
Choose the Right Process to Automate
Pick the process that will save the most time and deliver the most value when automated. Focus on the work that gives the biggest benefit with the lowest risk.
9:30
Improve the Process Before You Automate It
Understand how the process works today, remove unnecessary steps, and design a better process before automating it. Better processes deliver better automation results.
11:00
Break
Fifteen minutes
11:15
Build Your First Working Automation
Create an automation from start to finish and learn the core building blocks along the way. Hands-on experience building a real automation, not just learning the tool.
12:15
Lunch
Thirty minutes
12:45
Build the Automation for Your Own Process
Build the automation for your redesigned process using your own work, turning your process design into something that saves time and improves results.
2:45
Break
Fifteen minutes
3:00
Test, Improve, and Keep It Running
Make sure your automation works with real examples and continues to work smoothly over time, so it can be trusted in daily work.
3:45
Launch and Scale Your Automation
Document your automation, prepare users, and create a plan for future automation opportunities. The final thirty minutes split, with one track for teams and one for consultants.
Automation you can trust
An automation is only useful once you can rely on it. Block five is spent proving yours works and adding the handling that keeps it running when the week gets busy.
- Testing with twenty real business examples, with every result recorded.
- Checking results for accuracy, completeness, and quality.
- Identifying and handling unusual cases.
- Managing errors and automatic retries.
- Setting up alerts when action is needed.
- Tracking workflow activity and results.
- Safely handling information from external sources.
- Knowing when a workflow should stop and wait for a person to approve.
Every workflow built in this course carries an approval point where a person decides. Nothing reaches a client, a candidate, a regulator, the public, or a financial record without a person saying yes.
What you take with you
Eight things, and three of them are running rather than written.
Your scored shortlist
Three processes ranked on evidence, with the first one built and the next two ready to go.
Current-state and redesigned maps
How the work is performed today, what came out, and the version worth building.
A working starter automation
The one you built to learn the environment, which also happens to be useful.
Your working automation
Your redesigned process, running, with AI steps, branching, and an approval point.
A test record, twenty cases
The evidence that it does what you expect, with every result written down.
Handling and alerting
Retries, alerts, and logging, so it keeps running and tells you when it needs attention.
Documentation, plus a rollout or handover package
What another person needs to run it, and the plan for putting it in front of them.
The Next Automation Worksheet
Your remaining processes ranked, so the second build starts from a decision rather than a blank page.
Plus a certificate of completion, the session recording for ninety days, and one free retake within twelve months.
Reserve your seat
$795
Two sessions this fall, both 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM Eastern
Session 1
Friday, October 16, 2026
Early bird closes Friday, September 25
Session 2
Wednesday, December 2, 2026
Early bird closes Wednesday, November 11
Everything is included. The six and a half hours, the eight things you take with you, the recording for ninety days, the free retake, and the certificate. There are no bonuses to keep track of, because everything is part of the program.
- $645 when you book twenty-one days before your session.
- Two payments of $415 are available.
- A team of three is $1,990.
- Education and nonprofit rate is $595.
Full refund up to seven days before, and inside seven days your place transfers once to a future date. One free retake within twelve months.
Questions
How long is the day?
Six and a half hours, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM Eastern, with two short breaks and a thirty-minute lunch.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. n8n is visual, and everything in the day is built by connecting steps rather than by writing code.
Which tool do you teach?
n8n is the primary build environment, taught in full. Make is documented alongside every step, so the day works if your organization has standardized on it. Power Automate and Copilot Studio are covered as the equivalent path in private Microsoft deliveries.
Do I need to buy anything?
No. A free n8n or Make account is enough for the day, and a free AI tier covers the AI steps.
What do I need before the day?
Three recurring processes from your own work, twenty real examples of what flows through one of them, and an account created. Pre-work takes about twenty-five minutes.
Will I actually build something?
Yes, two things. A starter automation before lunch, and your own redesigned process in the afternoon. Both are running before you leave.
What if my organization restricts connecting systems?
You build with sample data and a neutral connection, and the workflow transfers when access is granted. The pre-work setup check identifies this two weeks ahead.
I am a consultant rather than an employee. Is this for me?
Yes. The final block splits, and the consultant track covers scoping, pricing, handover documentation, and support arrangements.
Does this cover AI agents?
This course builds workflows where AI performs defined steps on a path you design. Agents that choose their own path are a separate discipline with their own governance, and they are a later course.
Is the session recorded?
Yes, and it is yours for ninety days. You may also retake the course free within twelve months.
Does this carry PDUs?
The day provides 6.5 structured learning hours you may self-report to PMI through CCRS. Novativ AI Academy is not a PMI Authorized Training Partner, hours are not automatically reported, and acceptance is at PMI's discretion.
Can you run this privately for our team?
Yes, delivered on your date, built around your own processes, and framed in whichever platform your organization already uses.
Friday, October 16 · 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM Eastern
Come with a process that moves by hand. Leave with it running.
One process, redesigned and automated, tested against twenty real cases, documented, and ready for whoever runs it next. Plus the method to do the same thing again next month.
$795, or $645 by September 25 · 6.5 structured learning hours · No coding