Build the skills, for your job and your level.
Everything here is free, with no email gate. Start with your role, or with the skill the free check says to work on first.
Start with your role
See where AI fits in your work, what good looks like at each level, and which courses fit the job.
- Marketing & content
- Software engineering
- Customer support
- Sales
- Operations / PM
- Legal / compliance
- Data / analytics
- Leadership
The six skills
The same six skills matter in every job. The free check and the certification both score them.
Asking well
Turning what you need into instructions a model can act on.
Read the guide →Giving good context
Supplying the information the model cannot know — and nothing it should not.
Read the guide →Checking the work
Verification habits that let you move fast without publishing fiction.
Read the guide →Putting it together
Workflows, decomposition, and choosing the right tool for each step.
Read the guide →Getting real work done
From impressive draft to finished, owned, professional output.
Read the guide →Keeping it safe
Data handling, IP, disclosure, and the failure modes that end careers.
Read the guide →Learn the tools
Short courses by level that name the products and say which to use for what. Products change often; we last checked these in July 2026.
Starting from zero
Your first assistant, your first conversations, and the two limits to learn on day one.
6 lessons →Getting comfortableThe everyday assistant
Writing, research, documents, meetings, and images — the right tool for each, by name.
6 lessons →Daily userThe power user
Model pickers, reasoning modes, data analysis, tools you build by talking, and assistants that act.
6 lessons →AdvancedBuilding and automating
Building with AI by describing what you want, coding agents, APIs, no-code pipelines, and models that run on your own machine.
6 lessons →Every levelChoosing your stack
The ecosystems compared, the subscription math, data controls, and an opinionated shortlist by job.
5 lessons →Hand over one job
Each course takes one task you already do and sets up Claude or ChatGPT to do the first draft, using your own work the whole way through.
Automate the work you dread
Find the recurring work worth handing over, then set up Claude or ChatGPT to draft it for you.
Start the course →Free · 7 lessonsPresentations people care about
Build a deck that makes one clear argument, in your own template, with AI doing the slow parts.
Start the course →Free · 8 lessonsTraining videos with AI
Make a short training video that teaches a real process, using AI for the slow parts and keeping the checks.
Start the course →Get more from the tools
Which model to reach for, how to spend context and tokens, and how to get more from AI than drafts.
Choosing the right model
Matching model capability to the task — and knowing when premium pays.
Read the guide →Working economically
Context budgets, token sense, and getting more from every conversation.
Read the guide →Creative range
Using AI beyond drafting — simulation, stress-testing, and divergent thinking.
Read the guide →Not sure where to start? The free check scores all six skills in about fifteen minutes. Start with your two lowest.