Open Academy
Free courses curated for operators who run lending desks, grant programmes, and broken systems. Site-specific tracks are ranked first; university open courseware follows.
AI in Business Development
XYZ42AI Open Academy · AI in Business Development
Where AI actually earns revenue in a services business: lead qualification, intake triage, proposal drafting, and the guardrails that stop it hallucinating in front of a client.
Grant Writing Fundamentals
XYZ42AI Open Academy · Grant Writing
Anatomy of a fundable proposal: problem statement, method, use of funds, measurable outcomes, and the mistakes that get applications declined.
Lending & Capital Markets
XYZ42AI Open Academy · Lending & Capital Markets
Rate, term, LTV and collateral mechanics explained from the lender's side of the table, including how digital-asset collateral is underwritten.
Systems Rescue: Diagnosing a Broken CRM
XYZ42AI Open Academy · Systems Rescue
A repeatable diagnostic: map the pipeline, find the dead stages, isolate the manual step, and prove which fix actually moves revenue.
AI Agent Tuning & Guardrails
XYZ42AI Open Academy · AI in Business Development
Prompt, tool, memory and routing audits that stop looping agents and cut token spend without losing answer quality.
Grant Compliance & Reporting Basics
XYZ42AI Open Academy · Grant Writing
What happens after you win: reporting cadence, allowable costs, documentation trails, and how to keep a funder relationship intact.
Domain-Backed Credit & Collateral
XYZ42AI Open Academy · Lending & Capital Markets
How web3 domains are appraised, escrowed and used as collateral, plus the risks a lender should price before signing a term sheet.
Workflow Autopsy: Make, Zapier & n8n
XYZ42AI Open Academy · Systems Rescue
Read a failing automation stack end to end, find the silent failure, and rebuild it with retries, idempotency and cost controls.
Outbound Agent Operations
XYZ42AI Open Academy · AI in Business Development
Scout, score and draft outbound without burning your domain: targeting logic, personalization at depth, and human approval gates.
Grant Budgets & Use-of-Funds Narratives
XYZ42AI Open Academy · Grant Writing
Turn a scope of work into a defensible budget: line items, matching funds, indirect costs, and the narrative that ties them together.
Finance Theory I (15.401)
MIT OpenCourseWare · Lending & Capital Markets
MIT's foundational course on present value, risk and return, and capital budgeting — the theory behind every term sheet.
