Learn the basics before hiring
Work through the nine-module introductory course to understand what an AI employee can do and how to delegate to one, before you commit to hiring your first one.
Academy Courses
Sistava Academy is a set of free, self-paced courses that teach you how to get real work out of an AI employee. Each course is a short series of written lessons you read in the browser, no video required, followed by a quiz. Pass the quiz and you get a certificate of completion with your name on it, ready to download as a PDF.
Sistava Academy is a library of free courses on hiring, configuring, and working with AI employees. Each course is broken into modules: short, written lessons you move through at your own pace, with a syllabus on the side so you can jump to any lesson directly.
The flagship course, Working With AI Employees, has nine modules covering everything from what an AI employee actually is to delegation, prompting, memory, tools, customization, and staying in control, about 60 minutes of reading in total. It assumes no coding or technical background and explains every official term the first time it appears, so a founder with no AI experience and a technical operator can both start on module one.
Every course ends with a 10-question quiz. Score 7 or more to pass, and you can retake it as many times as you need, there is no limit and no penalty for a low score. Passing unlocks a certificate of completion with your name, the course title, and the date, which you can download as a PDF straight from the browser's print dialog.
Courses that are not open yet show a waitlist form instead of a locked page, so you can ask to be notified the moment they launch rather than hitting a dead end. A second, more technical course, on prompting and context engineering, tools and MCP, memory and retrieval, multi-agent orchestration, and evaluations, is listed as coming soon for anyone who wants to go past the basics.
What a course looks like
A course page opens with a cover image, level tag, a short description, and who is teaching it. Below that is the full syllabus laid out as a learning path: every module numbered in order, with its title, a one-line summary, and how many minutes it takes to read.
Inside a module, the sidebar keeps the full syllabus visible so you can skip ahead or go back without returning to the course page. The lesson itself is broken into named sections, each one calling out any technical terms it introduces, and ends with a short takeaways box before the next/previous navigation at the bottom.
Nothing in a course requires an account or a paid plan. Reading the lessons, taking the quiz, and downloading the certificate all work anonymously in the browser; the only thing ever asked of you is the name to print on the certificate, and an email is optional.
The quiz and certificate
The final quiz is 10 multiple-choice questions, one or two drawn from each of the nine modules. You need 7 correct to pass; if you fall short, you get your score and a retake button, no cooldown, no cap on attempts. The whole quiz runs in the browser, nothing is graded on a server and no progress is saved between visits, so closing the tab mid-quiz means starting the answers over.
Passing takes you to a one-field form: the name that goes on the certificate. Email is optional and, if given, is only used to send a copy of the certificate and to let you know when new courses open, the same way any other lead capture on the site works. Once submitted, the certificate renders with your name, the course title, the date, and a signature line for the founder, and downloads as a single A4 page through the browser's own print-to-PDF, no separate export service involved.
The name on the certificate is whatever you type, it is not checked against an account or an email, so it works for someone learning on behalf of a client or a teammate. What it deliberately does not do is store a permanent, individually verifiable record: the certificate links to the Academy's own page rather than a per-certificate lookup, so it is proof of completion you hold and share, not an entry in a public registry.
How It Works
Read, take the quiz, get certified
Open a course from the Academy catalog and you land on a cover page: what it covers, how many modules, how long it takes, and who wrote it. From there you start Module 01 and move through each lesson in order, or jump straight to any module from the sidebar syllabus.
Each lesson names the technical terms it introduces and closes with a short list of key takeaways, so you can skim back over a module before the final quiz without rereading the whole thing.
After the last module you take a 10-question quiz. Passing takes you to a short form asking for the name to print on your certificate, plus an optional email if you want a copy. Submit it and your certificate renders on screen with a Download PDF button that uses the browser's own print-to-PDF, so it comes out as one clean page.
Use Cases
Get your team up to speed
Point new team members at a course so they learn the platform's concepts and terminology on their own time instead of a live walkthrough, no seat or account needed to start reading.
Prove you know the platform
Pass the 10-question quiz and download a certificate of completion you can keep or share as proof you understand how to work with AI employees.
FAQ
Is Sistava Academy free?
Yes. Every course, the quiz, and the certificate are free, no account or paid plan required.
How long does a course take?
It depends on the course. Each module lists its own reading time, and the course cover page adds those up into a rough total; the flagship nine-module course runs about 60 minutes end to end.
Can I retake the quiz if I fail?
Yes, as many times as you like. There is no waiting period between attempts, and nothing is saved between visits, so a retake starts with a blank set of answers.
What does the certificate look like?
It shows your name, the course title, the date you earned it, and a link back to the Academy, styled as a printable document signed by the founder. You download it as a PDF directly from your browser's print dialog, one clean page, no separate file to wait for.
What if a course I want isn't available yet?
Courses that are still in progress, like the deep-tech follow-up course, show a waitlist form on their cover page instead of a locked page, so you can leave your email and get notified when the course opens.
Do I need an account to take a course or get a certificate?
No. Courses, the quiz, and the certificate all work without signing in or hiring an employee; the only thing asked is the name to print on the certificate.
Where Academy Courses fits
Academy Courses is part of Things that make them smart.
Upload documents, connect Notion or Google Docs, and choose the source content that becomes shared company knowledge. A 6-layer memory system ensures they never forget a conversation, a decision, or a preference. When one employee learns something new, the whole team benefits through shared knowledge.
- Things that make them smart: Learns everything. Forgets nothing.
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More in Knowledge
- Remember Every Conversation: Your AI employees remember what happened in past conversations, across your whole workspace, not just the one they are in right now. Preferences, decisions, and facts shared in chat get carried forward automatically, so you never have to repeat yourself to the same employee, or explain the backstory to a different one. It works out of the box, with nothing to set up or turn on.
- Keep Notes Between Tasks: Every employee keeps a personal notebook of what it has learned about you: your preferences, corrections, contacts, and how you like work done. That notebook loads automatically at the start of every conversation, so you never have to repeat yourself. Update a preference once and it sticks for good, across every future task and every channel.
- Custom Knowledge Training: Feed your company's existing knowledge into your AI employees so they answer questions and make decisions using your real data, not generic guesses. Train from a connected app (Notion, Slack, HubSpot, and 65+ more), a website crawl, an uploaded file, or pasted text. Training is company-wide: every employee shares the same knowledge base and searches it automatically on every conversation.
- Train from File Uploads: Upload a PDF, Word doc, Excel sheet, PowerPoint deck, plain text, Markdown, CSV, JSON, or XML file straight into Training, and every employee on your team can search it within minutes. Up to 20 files per run, each up to 72 MB, feed the same shared knowledge base your employees check on every message. No connected app and no crawlable URL required.
- Shared Team Knowledge: What one AI employee learns in conversation, every employee in your workspace can draw on, automatically. Tell your sales lead about a new pricing rule and your support employee already has it the next time a customer asks, with no retraining and no copy-pasting the same context into each employee. Train an employee on a set of documents (a policy, a playbook, a product spec) and that knowledge is searched before every response across the workspace, so new hires start from what the team already knows instead of a blank slate.
- Train From Any Source: Train your AI employees on the documents and tools your company already uses: upload files, point at any URL, or connect an app like Notion, Google Drive, Slack, or Zendesk. Training happens in place, with no exporting and re-uploading, and it teaches the whole workspace at once, not just one employee.