The best way to learn to build a business with AI

So how do you actually learn to build a real business with AI?

I get asked this all the time. And I'm answering it as a guy who built a working, money-making business with AI, in public, while holding down a full-time job in tech. Before tech, I was a school teacher for nine years. So I've seen how people learn from both sides of the desk.

Here's what I know. You don't learn this by watching. You learn it by doing it, on your own stuff, while somebody shows you the way.

Let me break that down.

Watching is not learning

Most people learn AI the way they watch a cooking show. They see somebody make something great, they nod along, they close the tab, and they never cook a thing.

I know, because my YouTube is exactly that. I talk, you watch. It's useful. But when I recorded this in June, I was rebuilding my lessons around one idea I took straight out of the classroom. When students work with the material, they get it. When they just listen, they don't.

I used to be a school teacher back in the day, so I know, man. When you're able to work with it, then you're good.

Hand your AI the playbook

This is the part I want you to steal, even if you never take a class from anybody.

Every lesson I built came with a workbook. Not a PDF to skim. A plain text markdown file. A playbook. At the start of the lesson, you download it, and you give it to Claude, or Codex, or Gemini, whatever you're working in. Then you do the work right there, with the AI, on your own business.

The first lesson in the Claude for business class was simple: get Claude set up and ready. Watch the short video. Download the workbook. Hand it to Claude. Go.

Why does that work? Because now you're not memorizing what I did. You're building your own version while you learn. When you finish, you don't have a page of notes. You have something that works.

And don't sleep on what that does for your career, too. Being able to say "here's how I used AI on a real problem" carries weight, whether you're running a business or looking for your next job.

Don't tie your business to one AI company

Now the second lesson. It matters just as much.

When you learn AI for your business, learn it in a way that doesn't leave you dependent on one company. A few days before I recorded this, Fable got shut off. Just like that. If your whole operation runs on one model from one company, and that company changes the rules, raises the price, or cuts you off, you're stuck. You don't want to go through that.

That's why I didn't teach just one tool. You could work along in Claude, in Codex, in Gemini, or in GLM 5.2, which is way cheaper than Claude. The day before I recorded this, I had GLM 5.2 build a website that came out better than the one Claude made.

Now, I'm not telling you to drop Claude. I teach Claude first for a reason. I'm telling you to understand what you're using well enough that you could switch if you had to. You don't want to get priced out of the cloud.

So when you think about your business, think about how you can avoid being dependent on just one AI company. Okay?

Learn on real work, not toy examples

Toy examples teach you toys. The lessons that stick are the ones where you use AI on a real case, with your own material. Your quotes. Your follow-up emails. Your website.

Here's how I'd start, today, with nothing but a Claude account:

• Pick one real task in your business that eats your time every week.
• Write down what you do, who you serve, and what a good result looks like. That's the start of your playbook.
• Give that file to Claude and work the task with it until it's actually done. Not until it looks done. Done.
• Save what worked back into the file so you can hand it over next time.
• Then do the next task.

That's the whole method. Real work, with a playbook, side by side with the AI.

Why I keep coming back to teaching

My audience told me straight. You liked the tools, but you got past them. You liked consulting, but not everybody can work one on one. It could be money at the time. It could be you just don't need it. What you loved was the education.

So I went all in on the education.

Look, it's in me. Nine years in a classroom. Working in tech now. And look what I'm doing again. I'm teaching. I don't know everything about AI, but I know enough to get where I've gotten. That knowledge was given to me, and I want to spread it around. This AI landscape is wild, and we all need all the help we can get.

What this means for you

If you really want to learn this, stop collecting videos. Open your AI next to your actual business and start working.

That's how the RMDW Platform works today. You take a 10-minute assessment, the lessons get built around your own business starting with Claude, new ones land every month, and once a month you get on a group Q&A with the RMDW team.

Don't just watch. Build.