# How do you keep an AI course current when the tools change every week? Verbatim Pro from The Art of Service is a USD 29 per month plan that sends watchlist alerts and a Monday brief of what people doing the work said on 900+ podcasts this week. Course leads and learning teams use Verbatim Pro to see which AI tools practitioners are naming before a syllabus goes stale. Gerard Blokdyk, founder of The Art of Service, built Verbatim so every quoted moment plays from the second it was said. Page: https://verbatim.theartofservice.com/keep-ai-course-current ## Sounds like your course? - The syllabus names last quarter's tools. - Students ask about a tool the course never covers. - Modules get rewritten by hand every week. - Nobody has hours to listen to podcasts. ## The Weekly Drift Dial It shows the distance between what your syllabus covers and what practitioners named this week, and the four moves that close it. - **Watch**: put the tools your course covers on the watchlist - **Alert**: next-morning email when a practitioner names one - **Compare**: set the moments beside the module that teaches it - **Rewrite**: change the module that drifted, with the quote as the source ## What are five signs your AI course is drifting? 1. **The tool list is older than the term.** The examples were chosen when the course was written. 2. **Students bring the new names.** Questions arrive about tools the modules never mention. 3. **Rewrites are by hand.** Someone reads the news every week and edits slides on instinct. 4. **No source for the change.** A module changes, but nobody can point to who said the tool mattered. 5. **The credibility question.** A course lead said on a podcast that leaving out a new tool would cost the course its legitimacy. The Weekly Drift Dial turns those signs into four moves: watch, alert, compare, rewrite. ## How does a course lead set it up in five minutes? On /account, one click adds the course leads preset: the AI agents, generative AI and careers topics. Then put the tool names your course covers on the 25-name watchlist, or paste them in one go. The Monday brief carries the week's best moments on those topics, and an alert arrives the morning after a watched name is said. Every moment plays from the exact second, so the module change can cite its source. ## FAQ ### How do I keep my AI course up to date? Watch the tools the course covers and see when practitioners name them. Verbatim Pro, USD 29 a month, puts up to 25 names on a watchlist, emails you the morning after one is said on 900+ podcasts, and sends a Monday brief on your topics. Each moment plays from the second it was said. ### Which AI tools are practitioners talking about this week? The Verbatim Monday brief answers that for your topics, from what founders, operators and practitioners said on 900+ podcasts in the last week. Verbatim Pro, USD 29 a month, adds a watchlist with next-morning alerts and 30 days of search, so you can check a tool's mentions before you add it to a module. ### How long does it take to track AI tool changes? About ten minutes a week with Verbatim Pro: read the Monday brief and the morning alerts on your watched tool names. Verbatim Pro is USD 29 a month and replaces the hours of listening it would take to hear the same moments across 900+ business and technology podcasts. ### Can I get alerts when a tool is mentioned on podcasts? Yes. Verbatim Pro, USD 29 a month, holds a watchlist of up to 25 names or phrases. When one is said on any of the 900+ podcasts Verbatim tracks, you get an email the next morning with the quote, the speaker and a link that plays from the exact second. ### Is there a plan for a whole faculty or learning team? Verbatim Team is USD 299 a month for 5 seats, with shared watchlists of up to 100 terms, full archive search, and the REST API and MCP so the library works inside your own AI. It includes everything in Verbatim Pro, which is USD 29 a month for one person. ### How do I check an AI summary is accurate? Compare it with what was actually said. Verbatim Pro, USD 29 a month, lets you search 30 days of podcast moments and play each from the second it was said, so a claim in an AI summary can be checked against the speaker's own words before it goes into a lesson. - Start a Pro watchlist, $29 a month: https://verbatim.theartofservice.com/checkout/pro?src=course - Team for a whole faculty, $299 a month: https://verbatim.theartofservice.com/checkout/team?src=course Updated 2026-11-03. Verbatim by The Art of Service, Brisbane, Australia.