Become a Business AI professional.
Every company wants AI. Few have people who know the business well enough to say where it pays off. The Purpose Club trains you to be that person: walk a business process step by step, say for each step whether AI could be applied or not and why, and put the value in money.
First 50: the first 50 students to sign up get automatic entry and the Club's Business AI tools for 90 days. Top 10: answer three questions on the book, and the ten best get a personal endorsement post from the author on LinkedIn.
A Business AI professional, in three skills
A Business AI professional is not a programmer and not a pure manager. It is someone who understands how the business makes money, knows which steps AI can do better and which still need people, and can show the return before the money is spent. That is the lesson of The Purpose Debt: settle the purpose before the AI bet.
Know the process
Learn how a business process really runs, step by step: who does what, the data each step uses, the industry nuances and the typical problems.
Judge where AI fits
For every step, answer one question: could AI be applied here or not, and why? Where it fits, what it would do and what data it needs. Where it does not, what still needs a person's judgment.
Prove the value
Back it with real company projects that did similar work and what they delivered, in money where reported, with sources. Then turn it into the story you tell in the interview.
Your tools: The Process Explorer walks any business process step by step and says for each step whether AI could be applied and why. Project Match finds three real company projects like yours and walks you through the process and where AI fits. The Similar Projects Finder shows what other students did with a project like yours. Interview Prep Ninja briefs you on the company you are meeting and runs a mock interview.
Everything comes from public, sourced information: you walk in prepared, not with anything confidential. Nothing here promises an interview or a job.
Walk any business process step by step, and judge where AI fits
Pick a process, or describe a business problem. You get the process the way companies map it, from APQC's Process Classification Framework, the standard process map, and the version for your industry: every step in order, what it means, whether AI could be applied to it or not and why, how the process is measured, and real companies that worked on it. Free, no sign-in.
See real company projects like yours
Describe one project or internship you have done. Project Match shows the three closest of about 5,000 real, named company projects, with what each delivered and its source. No sign-in needed. Members also get the process behind it step by step, where AI could and could not be applied, and the interview story to go with it.
The full Project Match, free for a few weeks
No sign-in needed. Tell it about yourself and the role you want. You get the business process step by step, and for each step whether AI could be applied or not and why. You also get the industry nuances, typical challenges and technologies an interviewer expects you to know, three real company projects like yours with what they delivered, and your interview story. Then rehearse it and get feedback.
Project Match
Built on real company cases and the ideas of The Purpose Debt.
Interview Prep Ninja: walk in as if you already work there
Name the company and the role. You get a one-page brief on the company from its own reports and the business press, with every fact sourced: how it makes money, its latest results, its technology and AI programs, the value questions on its leaders' desks, and five smart questions to ask. Then take a mock interview with feedback after every answer, and show them you can talk about AI in terms of their business, not just the technology.
Earn the Purpose Club Value Ninja credential. Score 14 of 20 or more in the mock interview, with at least 3 in every area, and you get a public credential page that recruiters can check, and a button to add it to your LinkedIn profile.
Interview Prep Ninja
Built on public, sourced information and the ideas of The Purpose Debt.
Similar Projects Finder: see what other students did with a project like yours
Learn from students who already did it: how they framed the business problem, which analytics or AI methods they used, and how they measured the value.
Describe your project, or pick one from the library. An AI Ninja searches about 1,000 student projects (MIT theses and capstones in supply chain, logistics and operations, 2005 to 2025), compares the closest ones with yours, and shows you the five most similar. For each one it explains why it is similar, how it differs, and what you can borrow: a method, a way to measure value, or a pitfall to avoid. You also see who did it: the students and their faculty advisors, and the professors who most often supervise projects like yours.
Get endorsed by the author on LinkedIn
Read the ebook of The Purpose Debt (free for students) and answer three short questions, up to 150 words each. Ramesh J. Chougule picks the ten best answers and writes a post for each of them: your picture, a short bio, and his evaluation of your answer, including the perspective you brought and how it will help a future employer.
- Name the purpose, in money. Pick one technology investment you know and say what it should return, how you would measure it, by when, and who is accountable.
- Asset, liability or stranded asset? Classify that investment. What evidence would you look for, and what single number would you ask for?
- Settle the debt before the AI bet. Your new company is about to make a large AI investment. What is the first question you raise, which problem do you price first, and what small prototype proves the value?
Answers close on Sunday 10 January 2027. The ten endorsements run from 25 January to 5 February 2027. You do not need a Club place to take part.
Join the founding cohort
The first 50 students who sign up get automatic entry to the Club and its Business AI tools for 90 days. No application and no wait. After that, new sign-ups join the waitlist for the next cohort.
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