OpenAI Academy rolls out three courses on AI skills, workflows, and agents
OpenAI rolled out three Academy courses this week designed to teach practical AI skills, workflow automation, and agent deployment for everyday business tasks.
OpenAI Academy launched three new courses on June 12, 2026, aimed at helping professionals integrate AI into daily work. The courses cover building practical AI skills, creating repeatable workflows, and deploying agents for routine tasks. The curriculum targets workers across industries looking to automate processes and scale productivity with OpenAI's tools.
The Academy courses are part of OpenAI's broader push to train non-technical users on AI application. Each course focuses on real-world scenarios—drafting documents, managing data pipelines, and orchestrating multi-step agent workflows. OpenAI has not disclosed pricing or enrollment caps, but the courses are available through the OpenAI Academy portal.
Course structure
The three courses are titled "Building Practical AI Skills," "Creating Repeatable Workflows," and "Applying Agents at Work." The first introduces prompt engineering and API basics. The second walks through automation patterns for common business tasks. The third covers agent orchestration—chaining multiple AI calls to handle complex workflows like customer support triage or report generation.
OpenAI has positioned the Academy as a training layer for its enterprise customers, many of whom have asked for structured onboarding beyond API documentation. The courses include hands-on exercises and example code, though they assume familiarity with OpenAI's existing products like GPT-4 and the Assistants API.
