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Free AI literacy for schools and libraries.Licensed programs for districts and companies.

Every guide, quiz and learning path on AI Understanding is free for individual teachers and learners, forever. A paid license adds the things an institution needs: cohort dashboards, bulk certificates, teacher guides, sign-in by email domain, and a named support contact.

  • 501(c)(3) public charity · EIN 41-3273048
  • No ads, no student data resale
  • Free 30-day pilots
What costs money and what never will

Free stays free.

We are a nonprofit. The public library is the mission, so it is never paywalled, metered or rate-limited for teachers and learners. The license pays for the administrative layer around it.

Always free

For individual teachers and learners

No account required to read. No credit card. No expiry.

  • Every guide, quiz, glossary entry and news article, for any individual
  • Individual teacher and librarian accounts, with progress tracking
  • Classroom use of the public library, with attribution and no login wall
  • Curriculum outlines, learning objectives and capstone briefs
Licensed

For institutions running a cohort

Everything above, plus the reporting and administration an institution needs.

  • Cohort dashboards with completion, quiz-pass and last-active reporting
  • Bulk certificates for every learner who meets the standard
  • Teacher guides, pacing suggestions and capstone rubrics
  • SSO by email domain, so staff and students join without new passwords
  • Named support contact and onboarding help
Pricing guidance

Starting prices, not fixed prices.

Published so you can budget without a sales call. Final pricing depends on seat count, term length and how much onboarding you want, and we discount for Title I schools, rural libraries and small nonprofits.

Per learner

Starting at$3per learner / year (range $3–$8)

Best for districts, colleges and employers with a known headcount. The rate drops as seat counts rise.

Per institution

Starting at$2,500per year (range $2,500–$15,000)

A flat site license for a single school, library system or company, with unlimited staff accounts.

Pilot

Starting atFree30 days, no card, no obligation

Run a real cohort, dashboards included, before anyone signs a purchase order.

Licenses are invoiced annually by Stripe invoice, check or purchase order. Nothing is charged from this page, and no price is final until you have it in writing.

Curriculum outline

5 courses, 20 modules.

Each course states its audience, objectives, module outcomes and a capstone with required evidence, so it maps cleanly onto an existing scope-and-sequence.

Beginner4 hours4 modules

AI Foundations

Understand what AI is, how systems learn, where they fail, and how to judge claims without hype.

  1. What AI is. Distinguish AI, machine learning, and ordinary software.
  2. How systems learn. Describe the role of examples, objectives, and generalization.
  3. Models and inference. Explain what happens when a trained model produces an output.
  4. Evidence and uncertainty. Check claims, benchmarks, and confident-sounding outputs.

Capstone: AI claim fact check. Choose one public AI claim and produce a one-page evidence review for a nontechnical reader.

Beginner5 hours4 modules

Responsible AI User

Use AI productively while protecting privacy, checking outputs, and preserving human accountability.

  1. Prompting with context. Turn vague requests into testable instructions.
  2. Reviewing outputs. Detect unsupported claims and decide what requires verification.
  3. Privacy and ownership. Choose safe inputs and understand content rights.
  4. A dependable workflow. Combine AI assistance with checkpoints and human ownership.

Capstone: Human-in-the-loop workflow. Design and test an AI-assisted workflow for a real recurring task.

Intermediate6 hours4 modules

AI at Work

Evaluate workplace use cases, run safe pilots, measure value, and communicate changes responsibly.

  1. Use-case selection. Prioritize tasks where AI can create measurable value.
  2. Pilots and experiments. Design a comparison that can reveal whether AI actually helps.
  3. People and jobs. Assess task changes without reducing workers to job titles.
  4. Operational governance. Assign ownership for approvals, monitoring, and incidents.

Capstone: AI pilot proposal. Produce a decision-ready pilot proposal for a real organization.

Intermediate6 hours4 modules

AI Policy & Society

Analyze AI systems through rights, equity, governance, safety, and public-interest outcomes.

  1. Ethics and impact. Distinguish values, harms, tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes.
  2. Privacy, security, and safety. Separate privacy, misuse, accident, and security risks.
  3. Law and governance. Compare regulation, standards, audits, procurement, and internal controls.
  4. Public communication. Explain evidence and uncertainty without hype or false balance.

Capstone: Public-interest AI briefing. Publish a sourced briefing on one current AI policy or social-impact question.

Intermediate8 hours4 modules

Building with AI Systems

Understand language models, retrieval, agents, evaluation, cost, and deployment safeguards through practical system design.

  1. Language-model systems. Reason about tokens, context, generation, and model tradeoffs.
  2. Grounding with retrieval. Know when and how retrieval can improve evidence access.
  3. Agents and tools. Bound multi-step systems with permissions and checkpoints.
  4. Evaluation and operations. Measure system performance before and after deployment.

Capstone: AI system design review. Produce an architecture and evaluation plan for a source-grounded AI application.

The certificate

A certificate that says what the learner actually did.

Learners earn the AI Understanding certificate by passing 50 quizzes at 80% or higher across the curriculum. The certificate is issued as a PDF carrying the learner's name, the issue date and a verification code that anybody can check on our public verification page — so an employer or admissions office can confirm it without contacting us.

Under a license, certificates are issued in bulk from the cohort dashboard rather than one learner at a time, and the roster export records who is issued, who is eligible and who is still working.

  • 50 quiz passes at 80%+
  • PDF with verification code
  • Publicly checkable
  • Bulk issuance for cohorts
How it works

Three steps, no sales runaround.

Step 1

Request a quote or pilot

Send the form below. You get a written quote, our W-9, and our 501(c)(3) determination letter for procurement.

Step 2

We set up your cohort

We create your institution, seat count and admin account, then you invite teachers and learners by email.

Step 3

You watch progress and issue certificates

The cohort dashboard shows completion, quiz passes and certificate status, and exports to CSV for your SIS or LMS.

Start the conversation

Request a quote or a free pilot.

Prefer email? Write to [email protected].

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Request a quote or a free 30-day pilot

Tell us about your institution. We reply with a written quote, a pilot invite, and our W-9 and 501(c)(3) determination letter if procurement needs them.

Requests go to [email protected]. Nothing is charged from this form — pricing is confirmed in writing before any invoice.