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Course · AI Automation

Zero to Automated.

Build the AI tools you actually need, taught by someone who uses them every day. I automated my email inbox, my YouTube channel, my lead generation, and my scholarship search. Here is exactly how I built every one of them, and how you can build yours.

8
Modules
25
Lessons
5.2 hrs
Video
7
Code templates
5+
In production

The tools you'll learn to build

Email Bot

Reads your inbox, categorizes every message by urgency, and drafts replies using Claude. Process 40+ emails in under 2 minutes instead of spending an hour on manual triage.

Runs daily · Gmail IMAP + Claude API · SQLite

Content Pipeline

Downloads source footage, generates AI commentary, assembles with captions and a thumbnail, and uploads automatically. A fully hands-off production workflow that runs on a schedule.

Runs on schedule · yt-dlp + MoviePy + YouTube API

Listing Monitor

Watches Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, or any job board for postings that match your criteria. Filters noise, deduplicates against what it's already seen, and exports clean leads to a spreadsheet.

Runs on schedule · Selenium + gspread

Opportunity Scorer

Queries any data source for prospects or leads, scores each result against your custom criteria, and outputs a ranked list of who to contact first.

Runs on demand · Places API + scoring algo

Inbox Harvester

Processes hundreds of emails or documents at once, extracting deadlines, prices, contacts, or any structured data, and builds a prioritized list in minutes instead of days.

Batch processing · Gmail OAuth + Claude

Personal AI Assistant

A desktop overlay built around how you work, voice input, voice output, screen vision, persistent memory, and custom slash commands for your most common tasks.

Always on · Electron + Claude API + ElevenLabs

Every other AI course teaches you a platform someone else built. This course teaches you to build tools you will actually run, with code you own, patterns you can extend, and real problems they solve.

Who this is for

Solopreneurs and freelancers

You're spending 5+ hours a week on tasks that follow the same pattern. You know they could be automated, you just don't know where to start.

Students who want to build real things

You're not interested in tutorial hell or classroom exercises. You want to finish a course and have something running on your machine that actually does something.

Business Launch alumni

You've built the business. Now automate it. Module 7-1 of the Business Launch course was specifically designed to point here.

Consulting clients

You saw one of my tools running during a session and thought: I need that. This course is where you learn to build it yourself.

Curriculum

8 modules. 25 lessons. All the code included.

1-1The 'more than once' rule, how I decide what to automate
Camera12 min
1-2The stack audit, mapping your daily repetitive tasks
Camera + Screen13 min
1-3Picking your first build, scope, effort, and impact
Camera10 min
2-1Setting up your environment — Python, APIs, keys, .env files
Screen share13 min
2-2Your first AI call, prompting basics and output handling
Screen share12 min
2-3Building reusable AI functions, don't copy-paste, build a module
Screen share12 min
3-1How I built my email bot, architecture walkthrough
Camera + Screen13 min
3-2Connecting to Gmail — OAuth setup, IMAP, reading emails with Python
Screen share14 min
3-3AI-powered triage, categorize and prioritize with Claude
Screen share12 min
3-4Auto-drafting responses, generating replies you actually send
Camera + Screen11 min
4-1My YouTube pipeline, how it runs without me
Camera + Screen14 min
4-2Downloading, transcribing, and clipping, yt-dlp + Whisper
Screen share13 min
4-3AI commentary and titling, adding your voice at scale
Screen share13 min
4-4Video assembly, thumbnails, and uploading — MoviePy + YouTube API
Screen share13 min
5-1Web scraping fundamentals — Craigslist, Nextdoor, and public data
Screen share13 min
5-2The Places API approach, finding businesses that need help
Screen share13 min
5-3Making scrapers smart — AI filtering and scoring
Camera + Screen12 min
6-1Building a personal AI assistant, memory, voice, and screen vision
Camera + Screen14 min
6-2Persistent memory and context, making your AI remember you
Screen share13 min
6-3Voice input and output — ElevenLabs, Web Speech, and hands-free AI
Screen share11 min
7-1Running on schedule — Task Scheduler, cron, and the Python schedule library
Screen share13 min
7-2Error handling and monitoring, so things don't silently fail
Screen share12 min
7-3Config-driven systems, tools you can reuse and share
Screen share12 min
8-1Your complete AI stack, assembling the pieces
Camera + Screen13 min
8-2Turning tools into products, from personal use to sellable thing
Camera12 min

Resource Pack

7 real tools. Not demos.

Every template is a stripped version of something I actually run. API calls removed, config files pre-structured. You add your keys and you have a working starting point.

Module 1
Automation Audit Worksheet
Scoring framework for ranking tasks by frequency × time cost × annoyance
Module 2
Python Environment Setup Guide
Step-by-step for every OS, with every common error and its fix
Module 3
Email Bot Starter Template
Stripped version of the real email-bot, add your keys and go
Module 4
YouTube Pipeline Starter Template
Stripped pipeline config + entry script with all five steps scaffolded
Module 5
Google Places Lead Gen Script
Scoring + export to Sheets, parameterized by city and business type
Modules 2–7
Reusable AI Wrapper Module
The ai_engine.py pattern, import it into any project you build going forward
Module 7
Project Config Template
YAML config + CLI boilerplate you can fork for any new automation project

Pricing

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FAQ

Common questions.

No, but you need to be willing to learn. Module 2 walks you through setup from scratch. If you can copy code, read error messages, and search for answers, you can build every tool in this course. I won't hold your hand through basic syntax, there are free resources for that, but I'll teach you the patterns that matter.

The mindset modules (1 and 8) are accessible to anyone. The build modules require real effort. If you've never written code before, this is not the right starting point, take a free Python basics course first, then come back. If you've written any code at all and just haven't done automation, you're ready.

No-code tool tutorials teach you to click through a platform someone else built. This course teaches you to build your own tools from scratch, which means you can build things no-code platforms can't do, you own the code forever, and you understand what's actually happening. We do use n8n/Zapier as glue when it makes sense, but they're never the main event.

Yes. The email bot processes my inbox every day. The content pipeline runs on a schedule and generates real AdSense revenue. I built a listing monitor to surface job leads automatically, an inbox harvester to process bulk email in minutes instead of days, and a personal AI that sits on my desktop right now. None of this was built for the course, the course was built around tools that already existed and already worked.

Seven real, stripped versions of the tools I run, not toy demos. API calls removed, config files pre-structured, patterns documented. You plug in your keys and you have a working starting point. The Automation Audit Worksheet, setup guides, and project config template are included too.

If you go through Module 2 and the technical barrier is genuinely beyond what you can bridge, contact me within 7 days of purchase and I'll refund you. I don't offer refunds after you've accessed the full curriculum, this isn't a library.

Yes. All my tools were built on Windows. Every setup walkthrough covers Windows first. You won't need WSL for anything in the course, though I'll show you how to set it up if you want it.

Email me directly at elijah@purcell-ventures.com — I take care of people who've already bought.

Ready to build?

Stop doing it manually. Start building.

The tools in this course will save you hours every week. The patterns you learn will let you build anything else you need.

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