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Intro to AI Automation

Learn AI automation from zero: three everyday AI jobs (pick your assistant, sum up a meeting, answer a tricky email), then a Custom GPT, an AI agent and a web form that answers leads.

8 modules · about 80 minutes of practice · no sign-up

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Stepthrough is a free site of hands-on AI courses for office work, made by Robert Breen for small-business owners, office staff and teams. You learn ChatGPT, n8n, Claude, Lovable, Higgsfield and Runable by doing every step yourself in a safe practice copy that checks your work. There are 93 free courses and 347 free lessons today, no coding needed, and no sign-up to start.

Top free courses: Intro to AI Automation, n8n for Beginners: Your First Automations, AI Automation with n8n: From First Workflow to AI Agents, AI Automation with Make, Excel and Word for the Web Jump Start, ChatGPT for Everyday Work.

  • 347free lessons
  • 93free courses
  • 9,136guided steps

Learn by topic

Pick a topic to see its free courses in order, each with a one-page cheat sheet.

  • A small-business owner at a bright corner desk, sticking a row of colored paper cards connected by drawn arrows onto a corkboard, a closed notebook and coffee nearby.

    AI

    ChatGPT, Claude, prompts, n8n automations and AI agents, beginner first.

    9 courses · 72 modules
  • A small-business owner at a home office desk with a paper invoice book, a stack of receipts, a calculator and a coffee, sunny window.

    Accounting (Wave)

    Wave accounting on real screens: transactions, invoices, bills and reports.

    2 courses · 23 modules
  • Printed charts with simple bars, lines and a pie shape spread on an oak desk with colored pencils, a ruler and coffee.

    BI

    From a spreadsheet export to a Tableau chart and a dashboard people filter themselves.

    2 courses · 9 modules
  • A small marketing team studio, a marketer arranging printed photos and color swatches on a mood board wall, a camera on the table, plants and natural light.

    Digital Marketing

    Social scheduling, short video, AI search visibility and campaign automations.

    3 courses · 38 modules
  • A small team at a wall kanban board of colored sticky notes arranged in columns, an oak table with laptops facing away.

    Project Management

    Jira sprints and Kanban on real screens, and meetings that turn into action items.

    3 courses · 21 modules
  • An oak desk with a printed budget grid of cells highlighted in soft green and terracotta, a calculator, a pen and coffee.

    Microsoft 365

    Excel and Word for the web on real screens: budgets, PivotTables and client updates.

    1 course · 3 modules
  • A small team workspace, two colleagues reviewing a printed spreadsheet-style grid of cells on a table, colored pens, coffee.

    Google Workspace

    A Google Sheets tracker on real screens, Gmail filters and Gemini answers from your docs.

    1 course · 9 modules
  • Three stacks of printed spreadsheet grids with cells being merged into one neat stack, a paper clip, a pen and coffee on an oak desk.

    Python

    Total, combine and clean exports with pandas, typed and run in the free Google Colab.

    1 course · 3 modules
  • Neat stacks of index cards sorted into small groups with colored clips on an oak desk, a notebook and coffee, suggesting sorting records.

    SQL

    Monthly revenue, top customers and quiet accounts, typed and run in the free DB Fiddle.

    1 course · 3 modules
  • A small-business owner at a desk with, a printed price list grid of cells and a calculator, a shop interior softly blurred behind.

    JavaScript

    A quote calculator, invoice reminders and live API data, typed and run in the free JSFiddle.

    1 course · 3 modules

Popular free courses

Short courses that take you from your first prompt to agents and automations, in order. Each module is a hands-on lesson.

  • AI at Work: Start Here

    Use AI on real office work this week, without leaking client data.

    14 modules

  • Better Prompts

    Turn vague AI answers into work you can send, with prompt habits that work in…

    8 modules

  • ChatGPT for Everyday Work

    Answer emails, recap meetings, read spreadsheets and write SOPs in a fraction…

    13 modules

  • Master ChatGPT for Work

    Go from safe first chats to ChatGPT that knows your job, reads your files and…

    15 modules

  • Claude Jump Start

    Get Claude to remember your business, research with sources, check contracts…

    11 modules

  • n8n Jump Start

    Hand the repeat jobs to n8n: reports, routing, status emails and AI steps that…

    22 modules

  • AI Agents 101

    Know when an agent beats a chatbot, then build agents that onboard clients…

    11 modules

  • Make & Zapier Jump Start

    Connect your apps with no code in Zapier and Make: a first zap, a first…

    8 modules

  • Lovable Jump Start

    Build real web pages with Lovable by describing them: a landing page, a…

    7 modules

  • AI for Marketing Teams

    On-brand content in less time, then automations that turn posts and comments…

    32 modules

  • AI for Sales Teams

    Same-day follow-ups after every call, held prices and agents that answer new…

    21 modules

  • AI Governance for Small Business

    Put simple AI rules in place for a 5 to 50 person office: what data never goes…

    12 modules

All 93 free courses

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How it works: watch, your turn, done

Every lesson is a real project, one step at a time. The left side shows the step with a cursor pointing at exactly where to click; the right side is yours.

  1. Stepthrough lesson in Watch mode: a cursor clicks the Today’s Jobs tab in a practice copy of n8n and Google Sheets

    1Watch

    Each step plays on the left: a cursor shows exactly where to click, with a voice-over that says what you are doing and why.

  2. Your turn pane in a Stepthrough lesson: the learner pastes a prompt into a practice copy of ChatGPT and gets a Nice! check

    2Your turn

    Do the same thing on the right, in a practice copy of the real tool. Get it right and you see “Nice!” and move on.

  3. The Do it for me button in a Stepthrough lesson, after it completed the step in a practice Google Sheet of today’s jobs

    3“Do it for me”

    Stuck on a step? One button does it for you, so you never get lost, then you carry on from there.

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Robert Breen, who makes Stepthrough

Stepthrough (learn.ynteractive.com) has free, hands-on AI courses for office work, made by Robert Breen, who is building it to be the largest free AI training in the world. It has 347 interactive lessons with 9,136 guided steps, organized as 93 free courses, 56 learning paths, 21 role guides and 14 industry and team tracks, plus 352 blog posts, an AI glossary of 733 terms, 349 prompt templates and 203 videos. In every lesson you watch a step, do it yourself in a practice copy of the real tool (ChatGPT, n8n, Claude, Lovable, Higgsfield and Runable) that checks your work, and can press “Do it for me” when you get stuck. Nothing touches your real accounts, no coding is needed, and you can start without signing up. Last updated Nov 9, 2026.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Stepthrough really free?

Yes. All 347 lessons, the blog, the AI glossary, the prompt library and the videos are free, with no credit card and no trial. If it helps you, there is an optional way to chip in after a lesson, but nothing is locked behind it.

Do I need an account to start?

No. Press Start Learning Free, pick a lesson and go. A few steps into a lesson you can save your progress with just your email, so you can pick up where you left off on another device. That is the only sign-up there is, and it is optional.

What tools will I learn?

Lessons are live today for ChatGPT, n8n, Claude, Lovable, Stepthrough, Higgsfield, Runable, ElevenLabs Agents, Foxit, Gemini, Make, Airia, OLVA, DB Fiddle, Google Colab, JSFiddle, Pin, Wave, Automation basics, Capsule CRM, Clueso, Excel, Frase, Gemini Notebook, Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Sheets, Jira, Jotform, KDAN, Kosuke, Lindy, Looker Studio, Manychat, Presentations.AI, Smallpdf, SocialBee, Speak AI, Trello and Zapier, along with the apps they connect to, like Google Sheets and Gmail. See the full course.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. Every lesson is clicks and plain English. You copy a prompt, click a button, fill in a field, and the lesson tells you what each step does and why.

Does it touch my real accounts?

No. You practice in a copy of the real tool that runs inside the lesson and checks each step. When you are ready, you build it again in your own accounts, knowing exactly what to click.

Who makes Stepthrough?

Stepthrough is made by Robert Breen, who writes and checks every lesson against the real tools. He is building the largest free AI training in the world, and you can reach him at rbreen@ynteractive.com.

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