• Use AI confidently to speed up your daily work and improve accuracy.
• Write effective prompts that give you clear, reliable answers for any business task.
• Build a practical AI toolset that saves time across writing, planning, analysis, and communication.
• Automate routine tasks, reporting, approvals, and follow-ups using simple no-code workflows.
• Turn long documents into-ready content—summaries, briefs, and full presentations—using AI tools.
• Create automated dashboards and generate weekly insights that support fast, confident decision-making.
• Build intelligent assistants, market trackers, multi-source search tools, multi-agent systems—and ensure they are safe, compliant, and responsibly governed.
Online
4 Months
IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation
Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) of IIT Madras
and
Emeritus
Rs. 1,10,000 + GST
Minimum Graduate (10+2+3); Diploma Holders with min. 5 years of work experience
Prof. Laxminarayan G (Guest Faculty, IITM Pravartak)
Laxminarayanan G. is a Strategic AI and Generative AI leader with over two decades of experience driving large-scale digital transformation and
automation-led value across the BFSI, CPG, and Technology sectors. A recognised TEDx speaker and trusted advisor to institutions such as ISRO and the IIMs, he has played a key role in influencing CXO-level AI strategy and enterprise adoption globally.
He has built and scaled world-class AI and GenAI practices, delivering over $20M in business impact. His expertise spans GPT-4, Azure OpenAI, RAG systems, and enterprise AI platforms. A distinguished mentor to ISRO, Intel OneAPI Innovator, and visiting faculty at IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode, and IIM Indore, he actively teaches and mentors in AI, analytics, digital transformation, and strategic growth.
Understand AI–ML–DL and how GenAI differs AI-driven productivity and ROI High-impact business use cases What AI can vs cannot do, and how to evaluate accuracy, reliability, and responsible AI basics
Learn how LLMs generate responses
Understand high-level architecture
Compare models using business criteria,
Match LLM strengths to real use cases, and improve output quality by fixing causes of incomplete or incorrect responses
Design clear prompts using zero-shot, few-shot, and role-based methods
Improve reliability with anchors and iterative refinement
Generate structured outputs, and fine-tune style and depth using generation controls
Categories of AI tools for business, selecting tools by value–simplicity–cost–safety,
Understanding simple integrations
Mapping tools to daily workflows, and staying updated on emerging tools and trends
Identify parts of a workflow to automate
Break them into clear steps
Build multi-step no-code automations with alerts and approvals, and apply them across HR, Ops, Sales, Product, Finance, and Marketing
Turn one long document into multiple usable assets
Create cross-functional communication outputs
Build automated presentations, and generate auto-updating decks with new data and insights
Structure and prepare data for dashboards
Connect multiple data sources
Build automated dashboards with KPI views
Connect dashboards to AI for insights
Identify patterns–trends–anomalies
Auto-generate weekly leadership summaries
Turn data into decisions and clear next steps
Pull and summarise market signals, auto-compare competitors and track weekly changes, turn multi-source data into trends–opportunities–risk alerts, and generate decision-ready summaries, scorecards, and opportunity maps
Create assistants that understand your role
Inject context using documents (PRDs, policies, SOPs, reports)
Set tone–style–memory for consistent responses
Explore how assistants support HR, Sales, Ops, and Customer Success
Turn policies, reports, and SOPs into a searchable knowledge base
Make AI give answers backed by documents
Organise documents for fast and accurate retrieval
Explore RAG use cases across HR, Ops, Sales, and Support
Connect AI to multiple sources (PDFs, Sheets, websites, dashboards)
Make AI read from all locations and produce one combined answer
Improve accuracy when information is split across multiple sources
Create multiple agents that work together on end-to-end workflows
Use MCP for safe file access and data fetching
Define clear agent roles
Set consistent tone and memory
Add guardrails for accuracy and permissions
Enable smooth handoffs between agents
Responsible AI principles & ethical risk identification
Bias–fairness–privacy safeguards
Data protection in practical AI usage
Output verification with human-in-the-loop controls
Building trustworthy and compliant AI workflows
Combine your AI assistant, knowledge base, and automations into one workflow
Solve a complete real-world business problem end-to-end
Create clear handover guides and SOPs
Present a final demo with a simple impact report