A lot of courses claim to be for "non-tech people" and then quietly assume you already know what a browser tab is, or what "the cloud" means, or how to take a screenshot. That gap is exactly where a genuinely non-technical learner gets stuck and quietly gives up, usually blaming themselves instead of the course.
A course that actually works for non-tech people starts differently. It assumes nothing about your comfort with screens. It uses real, plain-life examples instead of generic business ones — a family text instead of a "sample email template." It keeps lessons short enough that a bad ten minutes doesn't sink your whole week. And it treats questions and mistakes as completely normal, not as a sign you're behind.
I built my own course by walking a handful of genuinely non-tech people through the early drafts myself, watching for the exact moments an "obvious" assumption quietly lost someone.
If you're evaluating any course claiming to be for non-tech people, ask whether it was actually tested on non-tech people, or just written by someone imagining what that might be like.
On Ramp AI was built and tested the first way. Here's what's inside.