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Meet Aren: Build Your Own Personal AI Assistant

Meet Aren: Build Your Own Personal AI Assistant

You will have a real, working personal AI assistant on your phone by the time you finish this course. Not a demo. Not a template. Yours.

By Tom Basey In AI (Artificial Intelligence) · Entrepreneurship and Business · Vocational & Tech

Last updated Apr 22, 2026
English
General Audiences - suitable for all ages

What you'll learn

Welcome to Meet Aren.

By the end of this course, you will have a personal AI assistant installed on your phone — one that knows your schedule, reads your emails, and keeps an eye on your Salesforce pipeline.

We built this course for small business owners who are doing everything themselves. If that sounds like you, you are in exactly the right place.

Content

Before the course begins, this module gives you a short orientation video that walks you through every module and sets you up for a great weekend. Watch it before jumping in — it will make everything that follows much smoother.

Introduction

2m58s

We open with the big picture. Students need to feel excited and capable before we touch a single line of code. This module is about vision and confidence — not technology.

This is the most technical-feeling module, but we go step by step and celebrate every install. Students who complete Module 2 feel like they have already accomplished something real.

This is the payoff module. Students run Aren for the first time and get a response in Telegram. This moment needs to feel like a triumph.

Now we give Aren its first real superpowers. In this module, we connect Aren to your Google Calendar and Gmail. You will set up a Google Cloud project, create your credentials, run the authentication script, and test Aren with live calendar and email data. After this module, Aren knows your schedule and your inbox.

The second major Google integration. Students extend the credential setup they completed in Module 4, add Drive access, and teach Aren to find, read, and create files inside their chosen folders. Because Drive uses the same OAuth system as Calendar and Gmail, the pattern will feel familiar.

The graduation module. We send students off with the skills to use Aren confidently and the knowledge to fix common problems themselves.

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