Building AI Solutions for Government: Technical Foundations (Intermediate) (Self-Paced)
IDTECH9130SP

Module 1: From using AI to building with it

• How AI applications actually work Models, APIs, and tokens
• The government build context
• Setting up your environment

Module 2: Your first API calls

• Calling a model programmatically
• Prompts as code
• Handling responses
• Basic error handling

Module 3: Chaining steps into a workflow

• Breaking a task into steps
• Passing data between steps
• Adding logic and checks
• A simple end-to-end flow

Module 4: Data, authorization, and safety in a government build

• Authorized models and environments
• Handling sensitive data
• Keeping a human in the loop
• What not to automate

Module 5: Prototype something real (capstone)

• Scoping a small, useful prototype
• Building it step by step
• Testing and iterating
• Where to go next