AI Prompt Engineering & Productivity

Week 1 — Understanding AI Tools

• What large language models are and how they answer
• ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot compared
• Free and paid plans, limits and privacy
• Common mistakes and AI hallucinations
• Account setup and first prompts

Week 2 — Prompt Engineering Techniques

• Structure of a good prompt: role, task, context, format
• Zero-shot, few-shot and step-by-step prompts
• Giving examples and constraints
• Improving answers with follow-up prompts
• Building your personal prompt library

Week 3 — AI for Writing and Research

• Emails, reports and proposals with AI
• Summarising long documents and PDFs
• Research with sources and fact-checking
• Translation and Urdu/English content
• Practical: research report with AI

Week 4 — AI for Images, Video and Design

• Image prompts: subject, style, light, composition
• Image tools: Gemini, Firefly, Canva AI
• AI voice-over and short videos
• Editing and improving AI images
• Practical: social media pack made with AI

Week 5 — AI for Office Work and Automation

• AI in Excel, Word and Google Sheets
• Data cleaning and formulas with AI
• Presentations with AI
• No-code automation basics (Zapier, Make, n8n)
• Practical: automate one repeating task

Week 6 — Projects and Earning with AI

• Custom GPTs and Gems for repeat tasks
• Responsible use: copyright, privacy and honesty
• Freelance services you can offer with AI
• Final project: AI workflow for a real job
• Review and certificate