By Mohamed Bah · Kolonell, a digital agency in Dakar
One complete business process automated end to end, plus a portfolio of 8 automations
100,000 FCFA · 152 €
Programme
and 3 more modules
Wave / Orange Money payment, access within 24 business hours
For your own business: 4 to 10 hours saved per week on repetitive tasks, depending on their volume. As a service: a simple automation for an SME typically bills at 150,000 to 400,000 FCFA (about $250 to $670), a complete documented process at 400,000 to 1,000,000 FCFA (about $670 to $1,670), and maintenance at 25,000 to 75,000 FCFA (about $40 to $125) per month (rates seen in Dakar in 2026, excluding tool subscriptions, with no guarantee of volume).
Indicative estimate, depending on your market, pace and work. No income is guaranteed.
Your instructor
Founder of Kolonell, a digital agency in Dakar. He designs and maintains automations and AI assistants for SMEs in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Dubai: handling inbound requests, lead follow-up, client reports and content publishing.
See Kolonell’s work →No. Everything is built by drag and drop in Make and Zapier, using forms, spreadsheets and document templates. When a need genuinely calls for development, the course tells you so and gives you the questions to ask a developer.
All the exercises work on the free plans. For real-world use, budget 5,200 FCFA a month for Make (Core plan, $9) or 11,500 FCFA for Zapier (Professional plan, $19.99 billed annually), plus 11,500 FCFA a month for an AI subscription such as ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro ($20), at September 2026 prices with $1 at 576 FCFA. Module 8 teaches you to calculate the exact monthly cost of a process.
Yes, if you already write structured prompts and have a prompt library. Otherwise, level 3 is recommended: it lays the foundations this level assumes you already have.
Partly. Module 6 shows what WhatsApp Business allows (Catalog, Quick replies, automated messages, Labels) and how to prepare replies with AI. It also explains what you should never automate and why unofficial tools put your number at risk of being banned.
Every module applies the same rule: minimum data, anonymization whenever possible, and human approval before anything sensitive is sent. In module 8 you write the compliance sheet for your process under Senegal's Law 2008-12 on personal data.
3 hours a week for 7 weeks, projects included. Scenarios are best built in uninterrupted 45-minute sessions.
Via Wave or Orange Money. After enrolling you receive a pro forma invoice by email with the number to pay. Send the proof on WhatsApp: your access is activated within 24 business hours.
For life, updates included. Learn at your own pace and revisit lessons as often as you need.
Complete the lessons, pass each module quiz with at least 70% and submit your final project: an instructor reviews and approves it (feedback within 5 working days). The certificate is then generated, with a unique number and a public verification page.
You know how to get good results from AI. Yet every quote, invoice and follow-up still goes through your hands: copy, paste, rephrase, send. You have become the manual link between your tools. This course is for managers, assistants, admin leads and freelancers who want to automate without becoming developers. If you can fill in a Google Form and build a spreadsheet, you are ready.
You start by mapping your tasks and picking the ones that pay off. Then you build custom assistants, process hundreds of rows in Google Sheets and set up multi-step Make and Zapier scenarios. Next come automatic quotes and meeting summaries, customer intake on WhatsApp Business and AI agents with guardrails. You finish by making it all reliable, documented and priced.
8 modules, 20 hours, 99 corrected exercises and 8 projects to submit, one per module. A human keeps the steps that matter: approval before sending, sensitive conversations, compliance with Law 2008-12. You will need a computer. A Kolonell certificate, verifiable online, caps the course.
You end up with a portfolio of 8 documented automations, including an assistant tested on 10 cases, a sheet of more than 200 rows processed by AI, three running scenarios (one with human approval), a WhatsApp intake flow and the complete file for one process with its monthly cost. For your own business: 4 to 10 hours saved a week. As a service, at Dakar rates in 2026: 150,000 to 400,000 FCFA for a simple automation, 400,000 to 1,000,000 FCFA for a complete documented process, 25,000 to 75,000 FCFA a month for maintenance, excluding subscriptions, with no guarantee of volume.
Level 4 of 5. It follows level 3, "Generative AI for professionals", where you built a first simple scenario, and leads to level 5, "AI Consultant: selling, scoping and delivering engagements", where you do the same work for clients.
Who it is for: SME managers, executive assistants, administrative and sales managers, freelancers and community managers in Dakar, Abidjan, Bamako, Cotonou or the diaspora who already use AI methodically and want repetitive tasks to run on their own, for themselves or for clients.
A module-by-module path: lessons, exercises, quizzes and projects to submit.
Module 1· 12 exercises
List your repetitive tasks, score them on time saved, risk and cost, and choose the first three to automate.
Module 2· 12 exercises
Build a reusable assistant with its instructions, knowledge base and test set, then share it with a team.
Module 3· 12 exercises
Classify, extract, summarize or translate hundreds of rows in Google Sheets with AI, and check the quality of the output.
Module 4· 15 exercises
Build reliable multi-step scenarios with filters, routers, an AI step, human approval and error handling.
Module 5· 12 exercises
Generate quotes, meeting summaries and letters from templates and forms, and sort or prepare your emails automatically.
Module 6· 12 exercises
Organize customer intake, qualification and follow-up on WhatsApp Business with AI, without losing the human touch.
Module 7· 12 exercises
Understand what the AI agents of 2026 can do on their own, test them on a real task and set the guardrails that prevent damage.
Module 8· 12 exercises
Make an automation last: written procedure, execution log, monthly cost, data compliance and handover.
Certificate included
A numbered certificate with your validated skills, a public page and a verification QR code. Add it to LinkedIn in one click.
Certificate of skills
Your name
has completed and validated the course
Automate your work with AI, without writing code
Skills developed
Number KOL-CERT-2026-XXXXX
Mohamed Bah
Founder, Kolonell Academy
After the course
Each certificate has a number anyone can verify online, and you can add it to your LinkedIn profile in one click.
Upload your CV from your profile: our team reviews it and helps you make it clearer and more convincing.
Learners who complete the course can join the Kolonell talent pool. Entry is earned: course completed, exercises submitted. Kolonell also draws on it for its own hiring.
Optional services, free for learners. This is not a promise of employment.
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