Beginner

Build your first useful AI automation in twenty minutes. A walk-through of Zapier with AI — auto-summarising new emails into Slack — plus four other patterns to copy and the gateway it opens into agent territory.

A practical guide to using AI at work without accidentally exposing customer data, breaching your company's policy, or violating GDPR. The lines, the tools, and the habits to build.

A structured 30-day approach to using AI as a personal tutor and curriculum designer. Four weeks, four phases, with the exact prompts and the habits that make learning stick.

AI is an unusually good sparring partner for decisions — if you stop using it as an answer machine. A workflow for using AI to make better choices, with the prompts that force it to disagree, not agree.

Ten reusable patterns — not one-off prompts, but reusable shapes — that cover the vast majority of practical AI use at work. Memorise these and you have an entire prompt-engineering toolkit.

Anything you do with AI twice or more is a candidate for a Custom GPT or Claude Project. A practical guide to building reusable, file-backed assistants — when to use which, and the patterns that compound.

AI video is real now — useful, fast, and often surprisingly good. A practical guide to the main tools in 2026, what they're each good at, and the four use cases worth your time today.

AI audio in 2026 covers four useful categories — voice cloning, narration, transcription, and translation. A practical tour of the tools that actually work, with concrete use cases per category.

A practical first guide to AI image generation in 2026 — the three main tools, what each is best at, the universal 6-part prompt template, and the line between "good enough for work" and "clearly AI-generated."

Deep Research — the autonomous research feature in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity — produces in fifteen minutes what used to take you a day. A practical guide to using it well.

Google's NotebookLM is the easiest way to chat with your own documents — books, papers, meeting notes, research files. A practical tour of what it does, where it shines, and the four use cases worth setting up this week.

A practical guide to using AI to handle spreadsheets — cleaning messy data, writing formulas, building pivot tables, and turning rows of numbers into clear answers. Works in Excel, Google Sheets, or via ChatGPT directly.

AI writing has a smell. Once you know what it is, you can stop producing it. Six concrete tells, six fixes, and a workflow that uses AI to make your writing better without making it sound like everyone else's.

A practical, repeatable system for triaging, drafting, and chasing email with AI — without needing a developer, an automation builder, or a productivity guru.

A realistic workflow for capturing meetings with AI — which tool to use, what it captures well, what it captures badly, and the prompt that turns a transcript into actual decisions and follow-ups.

Spend ten minutes once and stop re-explaining yourself to ChatGPT every conversation. A practical guide to custom instructions, memory, and projects across the major AI tools.

When you cannot describe what you want, show it. Few-shot prompting — giving the model 2-3 examples of the output style — is the single fastest way to get consistent, on-brand results.

Which model to reach for, by task type. GPT, Claude, Gemini, the reasoning models, and the open-weights options — sorted by what they are actually best at, with simple decision rules.

The single biggest gap between mediocre and good AI output is what happens after the first response. A workflow for turning any first draft into a real one through iteration — not by re-prompting from scratch.

A five-part template that lifts answer quality from "meh" to "useful" on any prompt, in any AI tool. With worked examples, common mistakes, and the order that matters.