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Guides for working with AI
How to get real work out of Claude, ChatGPT and AI agents: skills and prompts that work, tool comparisons, and how to run a CRM, SEO and dashboards with your AI. New posts every week.
How to Use Claude as a Character to Chat With (A Practical Guide to AI Character Chat)
Claude will hold a character for as long as the sheet holds. How to write one worth talking to, how to stop it breaking voice, the rules we keep (originals only, nothing NSFW), and why a ...
How to Use Claude Skills at Work: A Skill for Every Tool You Already Use
Claude skills are SKILL.md files that make the chat answer about one tool the way someone who uses it daily would. What they are, how they differ from a prompt, how to install them in Cla...
How to Use Claude as a Story Generator (Structure First, Voice Last)
An AI story generator is good at structure and bad at prose. Here is how to use Claude for premises, scenes that dramatise instead of summarise, and a middle that causes itself, while kee...
How to Use Claude as a Photo Editing Coach (What It Can and Cannot See)
Claude is not an AI photo editor: it never touches your raw file. It reads the photo and the panel screenshot you paste in, then gives you a slider-by-slider recipe you apply yourself. He...
How to Use Claude as a Photoshop Tutor (It Teaches, You Click)
Claude cannot touch your PSD, and that is why it makes a usable Photoshop tutor: one task at a time in your own file, the non-destructive order tutorials skip, and a read on the Layers pa...
How to Use Claude as an Excel Tutor (On Your Own Messy Data)
Claude cannot open your workbook, but it can teach against the rows you paste from it. Here is how to run it as an Excel tutor: placement on your real export, error passes that make you f...
How to Use Claude as a JavaScript Tutor (In the Console, Not in a Video)
Claude cannot see your browser, but it can read the code you wrote and find the assumption behind the bug. Here is how to run it as a JavaScript tutor: placement first, console from lesso...
How to Use Claude as a Python Tutor (It Will Not Write Your Code)
Claude makes a good Python tutor and a bad code vending machine. Here is how to set it up so it places you at your real level, teaches one concept at a time, and walks you through a trace...
How to Use Microsoft Copilot: A Beginner's Guide (2026)
A plain-English guide to Microsoft Copilot: what it does in Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams, how to get started, how to prompt it well, and which plan you need.
How to Use Google Gemini: A Beginner's Guide (2026)
A plain-English guide to Google Gemini: how to get started, how to use Gems, Deep Research and Canvas, how to write better prompts, and which plan you actually need.
GPT-6 (Astra): What's New and How to Use It (2026)
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is here. What actually changed - coding, computer use, context - who should switch, and how to get real work out of it, in plain English.
Claude Cheat Sheet 2026: Commands, Skills, Projects, Prompts and Shortcuts on One Page
Free open Claude cheat sheet: app basics, Claude Code commands, skills, 12 prompt patterns, 10 starter prompts, common mistakes, ChatGPT and Gemini equivalents.
Best AI Business Plan Generators in 2026 (Plus the 10-Section Business Plan Template Lenders Expect)
Compare AI business plan generators by type (software, free templates, chatbots, consultants, skills) and use the 10-section business plan template lenders expect.
The Startup Document Pack You Can Build With AI: Business Plan, Pitch Deck, Financial Model, One-Pager and NDA
Business plan, pitch deck, financial model, one-pager and NDA templates with copy-paste AI prompts, common mistakes and the skill that builds each one end to end.
Business Templates You Can Fill With AI: SOP, SWOT, Meeting Agenda, Proposal, Budget and Project Plan (Structures and Prompts)
Six free business template structures (SOP, SWOT, meeting agenda, proposal, budget, project plan) with copy-paste AI prompts that fill them from your facts.