The best free courses on AI for business owners and their teams.

The best free resources

• Small Business B(AI)sics: Free AI Training for Small Business
  Four short lessons: AI basics, prompting, business uses, safety. Certificate included.
  U.S. Chamber of Commerce, with Google support

• AI Fluency for Small Businesses
  How to hand work to AI, check it and stay transparent, with small-business cases.
  Anthropic with PayPal

• AI for Small Business: Identify Opportunities and Explore Tools
  Worksheets to find your time drains and rate AI tools for them.
  Robyn Anderson, SCORE

• AI for Small Businesses (Grow with Google)
  Free "Make AI Work for You" videos by job, plus a Google AI certificate. Google tools only.
  Google · Dec 2026

• AI For Everyone
  The best-known non-technical course on what AI can and can't do for a business.
  Andrew Ng, DeepLearning.AI / Coursera

• Intro to AI [Live Class]
  A plain-language hour on what AI is and how to start, with live Q&A.
  Paul Roetzer, SmarterX · Dec 2026

• Free AI Training Available And Other SMB Technology News This Week
  A roundup of free AI courses, with a warning to check who is teaching.
  Gene Marks, GeneMarks.com · May 2026

• AI for Small Business (ChatGPT 101 and 102)
  Two video lessons on everyday ChatGPT tasks for a small shop. ChatGPT only.
  OpenAI with DoorDash · Nov 2025

• Before You Take the Free AI Course
  Three questions to write down first, so a course leads to real change.
  Chuck Rayman, Decided · May 2026

Curated by effectiveAI. Every link checked November 2026. Know a better free resource? Tell us.