Get started with Buddy in under five minutes, work through the free Buddy course, and earn an operator certification. All free, all open-source, all MIT licensed.
Buddy is the open-source AI agent that operates Google Ads accounts. We made it free because the people who learn to operate AI agents will out-perform the people who don't, and we'd rather have a thousand operators using Buddy than a hundred clients paying us to operate it for them.
Pick the path that matches your starting point. Or do all three in order — that's the recommended track.
The honest answer: paid courses about AI tools age out in 90 days. We update Buddy weekly. By the time a paid course covered the current version, half of it would be wrong. Free + open-source + version-controlled is the only sustainable way to teach an AI agent.
The strategic answer: operators who learn Buddy do one of two things — they run their own paid media better (good for the ecosystem), or they hire us to run it for them (good for our business). Either outcome works.
The practical path: start with setup, work through the course, take the certification exam. Then come back and read the blog for the latest patterns and case studies.