Make for beginners
Learn Make from the ground up, then build an AI helper that drafts replies to your enquiries.
For small business owners who have never touched Make and want to stop doing the same admin by hand. You'll learn how Make works, the handful of tools you'll use again and again, and how to connect your apps safely. Then you'll build a working AI enquiry helper from scratch. No coding needed.
- 5 modules
- 19 lessons
- Lifetime access
- Q&A with us
By the end, you’ll be able to…
Not theory. Things you can do on Monday morning, with your own business, using the worksheets from the course.
we’ll hold you to it- Explain what Make is and when it's the right tool for a job
- Find your way round the Make dashboard: scenarios, modules, triggers and actions
- Understand how Make charges in credits, and keep your costs down
- Run, schedule and troubleshoot a scenario using the run history and logs
- Use filters, routers, data stores and webhooks to make your automations do more
- Connect your apps safely, including the fiddlier ones like Gmail
- Build an AI enquiry helper that drafts replies to new enquiries every 15 minutes
What’s inside.
5 modules, 19 lessons. Open any module to see the lessons.
01What Make actually is
What Make does, a tour of the dashboard, and how it charges.
- What Make is (and why you'd use it)video soon
- A tour of the Make dashboardvideo soon
- How Make charges: credits, plans and keeping costs downvideo soon
02How it works
Run your first scenario, see how data moves, and read the logs.
- Running your first scenariovideo soon
- Bundles and mapping: how data moves between modulesvideo soon
- Scheduling, run history and reading the logsvideo soon
03Common tools
The tools you'll use again and again, and what to do when things break.
- Filters and routers: making decisionsvideo soon
- Set variable and text tools: tidying up datavideo soon
- Data stores: Make's built-in memoryvideo soon
- Webhooks: letting other apps kick things offvideo soon
- When things break: basic error handlingvideo soon
04Connecting your apps
Sign-ins, API keys and connecting apps safely, step by step.
- Connections explained: sign-ins, API keys and keeping them safevideo soon
- Connecting an app step by stepvideo soon
05Build it: an AI enquiry helper
Put it all together and build a helper that drafts replies to your enquiries.
- What we're building and whyvideo soon
- Set up two data storesvideo soon
- The scheduled triggervideo soon
- Have AI draft a replyvideo soon
- Save the draft and mark it "drafted"video soon
- Test it, switch it on, keep an eye on itvideo soon
Is it for you?
Honest answer, so you don’t waste your money.
- Yes, if you've never used Make, or opened it once and closed it again
- Yes, if you know which admin jobs you want to automate and need the how
- Yes, if you'd like to finish with something working, not just the theory
- Probably not, if you already build multi-step scenarios in Make with confidence
- Probably not, if you haven't yet worked out which jobs are worth automating (start with Where to start with AI)
Taught by the two of us.
We recorded every lesson ourselves and we answer every question ourselves. No teaching assistants, no chatbot.
Good questions.
?Do I need to know how to code?
No. Make is drag and drop, and everything is explained from scratch as we go, including the bits that sound technical, like webhooks and API keys.
?Will Make cost me anything?
No. You can start on Make's free plan, and everything in the course can be done on it. There's also a lesson on how Make charges in credits, so you know what to expect if you ever outgrow it.
?What will I have built by the end?
An AI enquiry helper. Every 15 minutes it picks up any new enquiries, has AI draft a reply using your business info, saves the draft and marks it ready for you to check.
?Does the AI send replies to my customers?
No. It drafts them and saves them for you. You check each one and send it yourself.