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A hands-on course for people who use AI at work, not people who build it. Each day drops you into a realistic situation with a work pack to use: a messy inbox, a meeting transcript, a long document, a spreadsheet you inherited, an angry client. You run it through your own AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot, free versions are fine), then check your result against the traps hidden in the pack, because AI fails at work in predictable ways and catching it is the real skill. You finish with a personal playbook of templates and an honest measure of the time you save. No coding, no hype. New to AI chat tools? Our AI Assistants course covers the basics.

  • 12 days
  • ~25 min / day
  • Beginner
  • Free, no sign-up
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The big picture

Everything you'll cover, and how it fits together.

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Day by day

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  1. 1
    Day 1Up next 25 min

    Monday, 9:04am: The Inbox

    Back from three days off: sort 12 emails, find what's urgent, and catch what the AI misses.

    TriageDeadlinesThe AI drafts, you decide
  2. 2
    Day 2Coming soon 25 min

    Teach It Who You Are

    Build a reusable context card and get drafts that sound like you, not a chatbot.

    Context cardYour voiceAI-sounding phrases
  3. 3
    Day 3Coming soon 25 min

    The Meeting

    Prepare an agenda, then turn a messy transcript into decisions, owners and dates.

    AgendasAction itemsFollow-ups
  4. 4
    Day 4Coming soon 25 min

    40 Pages, Due by Lunch

    Read long documents by asking questions, and make the AI prove its answers with quotes.

    Question-led readingQuotesAppendices
  5. 5
    Day 5Coming soon 25 min

    The Spreadsheet You Inherited

    Understand formulas, clean data and get numbers you can trust.

    FormulasCleaning dataChecking totals
  6. 6
    Day 6Coming soon 25 min

    The Angry Client

    Calm a tense email, say no, give feedback, and rehearse hard conversations.

    ToneSaying noRole-play
  7. 7
    Day 7Coming soon 25 min

    A Decision With No Clear Answer

    Make the AI push back on you, and stop it agreeing with whatever you say.

    Pre-mortemThe other sideDecision memo
  8. 8
    Day 8Coming soon 25 min

    From Blank Page to Proposal

    Outline, evidence, draft, then critique it as the reader. Then the slides.

    OutlinesEvidenceSlides
  9. 9
    Day 9Coming soon 25 min

    Learn Something New by Friday

    A 30-minute method for getting up to speed on a work topic, and checking the sources.

    Crash courseQuiz yourselfSources
  10. 10
    Day 10Coming soon 25 min

    When AI Is Wrong, and When Not to Use It

    A trust ladder for tasks, error-spotting practice, confidential data and disclosure.

    Trust ladderSpotting errorsDisclosure
  11. 11
    Day 11Coming soon 25 min

    Make It a Habit

    Turn your most common tasks into templates, routines and simple automations.

    TemplatesWeekly routineAutomation
  12. 12
    Day 12Coming soon 25 min

    Final Project: Your Own Week

    Use your playbook on your real work, measure the time saved, and plan the next 30 days.

    Your tasksTime savedNext 30 days