# ARFA AI Academy (AI Readiness For All)

> ARFA is the online AI academy of TIBLOGICS, an AI implementation agency. Self-paced AI courses ("tracks") in English and French, from first prompts to advanced AI work, each ending in a verifiable certificate.

Web page: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box · JSON catalog: https://tiblogics.com/api/public/courses · Contact: arfa_edu@tiblogics.com

## How ARFA works

- Self-paced and online. No deadlines. Installs as an app on a phone or computer; lessons can be downloaded for offline study.
- Languages: English and French (every track).
- Assessment: short checks after lessons, a quiz per module (retakes allowed), a timed final exam, and a capstone project scored by a human reviewer against a published rubric.
- Certificates: each track ends in its own certificate. Every certificate has a public verification page (https://tiblogics.com/certificates/<reference>) that anyone, such as an employer, can open. It stays valid whether or not the holder keeps a subscription.

## Pricing

- One track: $297 to $897 one time, depending on the track's level, with lifetime access to that track.
- Every track: $89 a month, cancel anytime.
- Teams: $69 per seat per month from 2 seats, down to $33.97 per seat for larger teams. Every seat opens every track.
- Prices are in US dollars. A sale shown on the website may lower them for a time.

## Tracks open now (11)

### [AI Foundations for Everyone](https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-foundations)

Beginner · about 24.5 hours · 9 modules, 36 lessons · $297 one time · Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certified AI Foundations

Understand what AI actually is, use it well, and know when not to trust it — starting from zero.

Who it is for: Anyone who uses a phone and email but has never seriously used an AI tool. Especially useful if you've been told you 'should be using AI' and don't know where to begin.

You will be able to:
- Explain in plain language what AI is and how it produces answers
- Get genuinely useful results from AI tools instead of vague ones
- Spot a confident wrong answer and check it in under two minutes
- Know what is unsafe to paste into a chatbot, and why
- Recognise AI-generated images, audio and video
- Build a weekly routine that keeps your skills current without drowning in news

Details: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-foundations.md

### [AI Practitioner](https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-practitioner)

Intermediate · about 19.5 hours · 6 modules, 25 lessons · $487 one time · Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certified AI Practitioner

Use AI reliably for real work, not just for the occasional quick answer.

Who it is for: People who already use AI tools for everyday tasks and want to use them reliably in their actual job: analysts, managers, operators, consultants, small business owners.

You will be able to:
- Map a workflow as a system and find where AI genuinely helps
- Write reusable prompts that give consistent, structured results
- Summarise and question your own documents and data without losing accuracy
- Test AI output on a set of cases and decide what needs human review
- Design an automation with an AI step and a human checkpoint
- Handle confidential data, prompt injection and bias responsibly

Details: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-practitioner.md

### [AI Systems Expert](https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-systems-expert)

Advanced · about 21.5 hours · 6 modules, 25 lessons · $677 one time · Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certified AI Systems Expert

Design and lead AI across an organisation, and see the whole system while you do it.

Who it is for: Practitioners who use AI confidently and now lead it: team leads, heads of operations, product and technology leaders, consultants and founders.

You will be able to:
- Model an AI rollout as a system of loops, delays and incentives, and find the leverage point
- Decide between a fixed workflow and an agent, and scope an agent's permissions safely
- Design an evaluation set and monitoring that catch problems before users do
- Defend against prompt injection and plan incident response
- Assess risk, document accountability and run vendor due diligence
- Cost AI honestly, measure value against a baseline, and lead adoption

Details: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-systems-expert.md

### [Vibe Coding Like a Software Engineer](https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/vibe-coding-engineer)

Intermediate · about 24 hours · 7 modules, 29 lessons · $487 one time · Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certified AI-Assisted Software Builder

Build real apps with AI, with the habits that keep them working: specs, small steps, tests, security and shipping.

Who it is for: Founders, analysts, designers, product people and junior developers who build software with AI tools and want to do it like a professional. No prior coding experience needed, but you should be comfortable learning by doing.

You will be able to:
- Map the system around an app before building it: users, data, hosting and who maintains it
- Write a build-ready spec with user stories and acceptance criteria an AI can build from
- Build in small, reviewed steps with version control, and debug with AI methodically
- Test AI-written code with edge cases and automated checks, and review its changes like a senior engineer
- Find and fix the common security mistakes: exposed keys, injection, XSS and made-up packages
- Run a 30-door security audit before launch, from keys and access checks to AI spending caps, prompt injection and tested backups, and fix the gaps with your AI assistant

Details: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/vibe-coding-engineer.md

### [AI for Parents: Raising Confident, Safe Learners](https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-for-parents)

Beginner · about 17 hours · 6 modules, 25 lessons · $297 one time · Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certificate: AI for Parents

Use AI to help your child learn more, not think less, and keep them safe while they do.

Who it is for: Parents, carers and grandparents of children aged roughly 5 to 17, and anyone who supports children's learning at home. No technical background needed.

You will be able to:
- Explain what AI is to your child, in words that fit their age
- Set up AI as a Socratic tutor that helps your child think instead of handing over answers
- Create personalised learning stories with the In-Story approach, and check the facts in them
- Protect your child's privacy and prepare your family for AI scams and deepfakes
- Recognise the risks of AI companions and talk about them calmly
- Agree a family AI plan with your child and work with their school

Details: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-for-parents.md

### [Becoming the AI-Forward Professional in Your Field](https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-forward-professional)

Beginner to Intermediate · about 18.5 hours · 6 modules, 26 lessons · $297 one time · Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certified AI-Forward Professional

From intimidated to the person colleagues ask about AI, without losing what makes you good at your job.

Who it is for: Experienced professionals in any field (healthcare, law, finance, education, social work, government, sales, HR, the trades) who feel intimidated or behind on AI and want to lead with it.

You will be able to:
- Use AI confidently for everyday work: email, meetings, documents and research
- Choose the key AI tools for your role and set them up safely
- Sort your own work into automate, augment and keep human, and measure time saved honestly
- Protect confidential information and stay accountable for AI-assisted work
- Run a small AI pilot and make a case your manager can approve
- Help colleagues adopt AI and build a 90-day plan for your own career

Details: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-forward-professional.md

### [AI for Small Business Owners: Grow Sales and Get Time Back](https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-small-business)

Beginner to Intermediate · about 19 hours · 6 modules, 26 lessons · $497 one time · Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certified: AI for Small Business

Use AI to win and keep customers and cut the admin, safely, in the business you actually run.

Who it is for: Owners and managers of small businesses (1 to 50 people): shops, salons, trades, clinics, agencies, restaurants, consultancies and online stores. No tech team or technical background needed.

You will be able to:
- Map your customer journey as a system and find the bottleneck worth fixing first
- Create marketing in your own voice in about an hour a week, with honest claims
- Answer enquiries, send quotes and handle reviews faster without losing the personal touch
- Build simple automations with a human checkpoint and alerts when they fail
- Read your numbers, check your pricing and model what-if scenarios with AI
- Plan, measure and lead a 90-day AI rollout with your team

Details: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-small-business.md

### [Practical Prompt Engineering: Becoming a Prompt Specialist](https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/practical-prompt-engineering)

Intermediate · about 19.5 hours · 6 modules, 25 lessons · $487 one time · Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certified Prompt Specialist

Think in systems, make AI show you what you cannot see, and test prompts until they can be relied on.

Who it is for: Regular AI users in any role who want consistent, dependable results, want AI to challenge their thinking rather than flatter it, and want to become the person their team trusts with prompts.

You will be able to:
- Explain how models read a prompt and write prompts that close the gaps a model would otherwise fill with the average
- Map a task as a system and design prompt chains and reusable templates around it
- Use critic prompts to make AI uncover assumptions, risks and second-order effects you cannot see
- Build test sets, pass/fail checks and rubrics, compare variants and catch regressions
- Apply specialist techniques: few-shot examples, structured outputs, reasoning and self-review, documents and data
- Run a versioned, documented prompt library, stay current as models change, and prompt ethically

Details: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/practical-prompt-engineering.md

### [AI and Machine Learning Fundamentals](https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-ml-fundamentals)

Intermediate · about 20 hours · 6 modules, 27 lessons · $487 one time · Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certified: AI and Machine Learning Fundamentals

Understand how AI and machine learning really work, well enough to speak credibly with engineers and choose the right solution.

Who it is for: Professionals, analysts, managers and aspiring builders who want a solid technical foundation in how AI and machine learning work: enough to speak credibly with engineers, choose solutions, and prepare for entry-level cloud AI certifications. No coding required.

You will be able to:
- Explain how machines learn, distinguish the main kinds of learning, and frame a business problem as a machine learning task, or recognise when it should not be one
- Assess data for quality and bias, and explain splitting, overfitting and the common model types in plain terms
- Choose and interpret evaluation metrics for classification, regression and generative AI, and tie them to business outcomes
- Explain tokens, transformers, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, hallucination and agents
- Choose a foundation model, decide between prompting, retrieval and fine-tuning, estimate running cost and plan a monitored launch with a human in the loop
- Assess an AI system for fairness, privacy and security risks, and outline proportionate governance using risk tiers and recognised frameworks

Details: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-ml-fundamentals.md

### [Building AI Apps and Agents](https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-apps-agents)

Advanced · about 23 hours · 6 modules, 27 lessons · $897 one time · Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certified AI App and Agent Builder

Build AI features and agents that hold up in production: tools, retrieval, evaluation, security and cost, done properly.

Who it is for: Developers and technical builders who are comfortable with basic JavaScript or Python and want to build reliable AI features and agents: product engineers adding AI to an app, technical founders, data and automation engineers, and solution builders.

You will be able to:
- Call model APIs from server code with correct messages, sensible parameters, retries with backoff and cost tracked from token usage
- Get structured output you can trust, and design tools, agent loops and MCP connections with clear stop conditions and least privilege
- Build retrieval-augmented generation with sound chunking, hybrid search, citations and access control, and evaluate retrieval and generation separately
- Choose between workflows and agents, and add memory, human approval, guardrails and budgets so agents fail safely
- Evaluate AI features with eval sets, calibrated judges and regression tests, and defend them against prompt injection and data leaks
- Run a 30-door pre-launch security audit on an AI app: keys, server-side auth and ownership, webhooks, tool limits, agent configs, spending caps, log redaction and tested restores

Details: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-apps-agents.md

### [AI Governance, Risk and Compliance](https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-governance)

Advanced · about 20 hours · 6 modules, 26 lessons · $677 one time · Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certified: AI Governance, Risk and Compliance

Decide which AI your organisation uses, how, and who answers for it, with controls that people actually follow.

Who it is for: Managers, compliance, risk, legal, HR and IT leads, public sector staff and founders responsible for how AI is used and bought in their organisation.

You will be able to:
- Explain how AI fails in organisations and map governance as a system of owners, incentives and feedback loops
- Describe risk-based AI regulation, data protection duties and the main frameworks and standards in accurate general terms
- Build an AI use-case register, classify risk consistently and write impact assessments including DPIAs
- Design acceptable use policies, human oversight, documentation, monitoring and incident response that work in practice
- Run vendor due diligence, spot weak contract terms and set governance gates for in-house builds
- Set up and run an AI governance programme with clear roles, paired metrics and a realistic 90-day plan

Details: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-governance.md

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