Data Science & Analytics

AI Automation

Automate repetitive work and business processes with generative AI, workflow platforms, APIs, agents, and responsible human oversight.

16 weeks DurationBeginner-friendly Learning supportHybrid / Online Format

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Tuition₦430,000VAT-inclusive where applicable. Instalment plans are available.

What you will learn

Graduate with skills you can demonstrate.

Design reliable AI-assisted business workflows

Connect approved applications through APIs and automation platforms

Evaluate, monitor, and govern production automations

Deliver a documented end-to-end automation capstone

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Curriculum

Your course curriculum.

12 modules / 16 weeks

01Module 1: AI and Automation Foundations

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, and automation

Identify repetitive, rules-based, and judgement-based work

Map an existing process and define measurable automation goals

02Module 2: Prompt and Context Engineering

Write reliable instructions, examples, constraints, and output schemas

Manage context, reusable prompt templates, and evaluation criteria

Reduce hallucinations with verification and human review

03Module 3: Workflow Design

Triggers, actions, conditions, loops, branching, and error paths

Design idempotent workflows and avoid duplicate processing

Document a workflow with inputs, outputs, owners, and controls

04Module 4: No-Code Automation Platforms

Build workflows with n8n, Make, or Zapier

Connect forms, email, spreadsheets, calendars, CRM, and messaging tools

Test, monitor, version, and troubleshoot an automation

05Module 5: APIs, Webhooks, and Data

HTTP methods, authentication, JSON, pagination, and rate limits

Receive and validate webhooks safely

Transform, filter, and route structured business data

06Module 6: AI-Powered Documents and Communication

Extract, classify, summarize, and generate business documents

Automate email drafting, routing, follow-up, and approval

Protect personal and confidential information

07Module 7: Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Embeddings, vector search, chunking, and source grounding

Build a knowledge assistant over approved documents

Evaluate citations, relevance, freshness, and access control

08Module 8: AI Agents and Tool Use

Agent planning, tools, memory, limits, and guardrails

Choose deterministic workflows versus agentic execution

Build a supervised agent for a bounded business task

09Module 9: Business Process Automation

Customer support, lead operations, finance, HR, and reporting use cases

Add approvals, escalation, audit trails, and exception handling

Calculate time saved, cost, quality, and operational risk

10Module 10: Reliability and Observability

Retries, timeouts, queues, fallbacks, alerts, and dead-letter handling

Log decisions and trace data across connected systems

Build a test suite with representative and adversarial cases

11Module 11: Responsible AI and Governance

Bias, privacy, security, copyright, transparency, and acceptable use

Define data retention, access, human accountability, and incident response

Conduct a lightweight automation risk assessment

12Module 12: Capstone Automation

Select and scope a real Loctech-style business process

Build an end-to-end production-ready automated workflow

Demonstrate controls, monitoring, documentation, and business impact

Before the first class

Know what you need and where the course can take you.

Prerequisites

No prior experience required for beginner tracks

A laptop and reliable internet for online classes

Tools you will practise with

ChatGPT or equivalent approved AI tools

n8n, Make, or Zapier

REST APIs and webhooks

Spreadsheets and business applications

Project experience

Build work worth showing.

Completion credential

Earn a verifiable Loctech certificate.

Verifiable Loctech certificate of completion with an industry-aligned curriculum.

Questions answered

Before you apply.

Do I need prior experience?

Beginner tracks assume no prior experience.

Can I learn online?

Yes — most programs run hybrid and online with live instructor-led classes.

Do I get a certificate?

Yes — a verifiable Loctech certificate on completion.

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