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AI, one useful thing at a time
Free lessons for the work already on your desk. Start with Beginner if you're new to these tools, or choose Advanced for repeat jobs and business systems. Lessons are always free to read; any paid tool requirements are shown before you start.
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AI, start to finish
One step at a time, from opening the app to running real work through it. Use whichever AI tool you like — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot. The steps work in all of them.
- Complete your first useful conversation.1.Open your AI tool and say somethingPick a free AI tool, learn what you're looking at, and have your first genuinely useful conversation — in about ten minutes, without paying anyone anything.7 min readAny AI chat tool · Free
- Save your business details and writing preferences.2.Teach it about you once, in settingsSet up standing instructions and memory so your AI tool stops asking who you are every time — where the setting lives in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot, what to put in, and what to leave out.10 min readAny AI chat tool · Free
- Set up a watch and check how it reports back.3.Set an alert and let your AI watch for youPut your AI tool on watch duty — a restock, a hearing, a model update, the next full moon — so it tells you instead of you remembering to check.10 min readAny AI chat tool · Free · auto-alerts may need a paid plan · ✦ Email to open
- Write a clear prompt for a real business task.4.What to type in the boxThe one prompt formula that fixes vague answers — who you are, what you want, what it's for — plus five copy-paste examples from real business life.6 min readAny AI chat tool · Free · ✦ Email to open
- Draft a late-invoice, price-increase, or discount reply.5.Have it write the email you've been putting offThree copy-paste prompts for the money emails everyone avoids — a late invoice, a price increase, and saying no to a discount ask.6 min readAny AI chat tool · Free · ✦ Email to open
- Check a draft's facts and correct an unsupported claim.6.It wrote something wrong — now what?Why your AI tool sometimes states wrong things confidently, how to ask it for sources, what to never paste in, and a two-minute habit that catches the rest.8 min readAny AI chat tool · Free · ✦ Email to open
- Save a useful prompt so you can use it again.7.Reuse your best prompts without retyping themSearching your chat history, editing your last message instead of starting over, and a phone note for the prompts that worked.5 min readAny AI chat tool · Free · ✦ Email to open
- Turn existing writing into captions, emails, and texts.8.Turn one thing you wrote into five things you needPaste something you already wrote and get the email, the caption, and the text-message version out of it — without starting over each time.5 min readAny AI chat tool · Free · ✦ Email to open
- Understand a document and list questions to ask.9.Let it explain the document you've been avoidingPaste a contract clause, a lease paragraph, or an insurance letter and get it explained in plain English, plus what to ask about.5 min readAny AI chat tool · Free · ✦ Email to open
- Try a voice prompt and ask about a photo.10.Your phone is the easy modeTalk to your AI tool out loud while your hands are busy, or snap a photo of a form instead of typing it all out.5 min readAny AI chat tool · Free · ✦ Email to open
- Draft a content calendar or business checklist.11.Make a plan with itBuild a week's content calendar, an event task list, or a client onboarding checklist in one chat — then edit it like a conversation instead of a spreadsheet.6 min readAny AI chat tool · Free · ✦ Email to open
- Build a weekly routine from the skills you've learned.12.Run a real week through itOne Monday-to-Friday routine that strings every lesson in this track together, plus a one-page cheat sheet to keep by your desk.6 min readAny AI chat tool · Free · ✦ Email to open
Everything else
Standalone answers that don't belong to a track yet.
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Build the machine
For when you already use AI daily and want to build the machinery — routines, GitHub, coding assistants, agents, tools wired together. Builder-level topics, plain-English clarity, across ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini.
Field notes
Short, timely takes when a genuinely useful AI tool or feature ships — what it is, whether it matters to a one-person business, and the one thing to do about it.
- Learn how page comments can request an edit from Claude.Comment on the page, and the AI makes the editClaude Code artifacts now take comments — tag @claude on a shared page and the edit just happens. How it works, and which plans it needs.9 min readClaude Code · claude.ai · Free to read · comments need a Claude Team or Enterprise plan · ✦ Email to open
- Organize your Claude instructions into reusable files.The one-character upgrade for your CLAUDE.mdYour AI's briefing file has become a junk drawer. One @ sign turns it into a filing cabinet — same knowledge, suddenly findable.8 min readClaude Code · Free to read · Claude Code itself needs a paid Claude plan · ✦ Email to open