Hands-on walkthroughs

Time to actually do it

Reading about AI is like reading about swimming. The next three screens are exercises you do right here — each one runs live. Budget about ten minutes for all three.

Exercise 1 — the email you've been putting off

Everyone has one: a delay to explain, a price increase, an estimate to decline. That’s your test subject.

What good looks like:a draft you’d send after changing a sentence or two. If it’s generic, your brief was generic — add the missing details and go again.

Exercise 2 — turn what's in your head into an SOP

Every business runs on know-how stuck in one person’s head. Writing it down never happens, because writing documentation is miserable. So don’t write. Talk, and let the AI structure it — ramble how you actually do it, exceptions included. That’s where the real knowledge is.

What good looks like:the AI asks two or three sharp questions. Answer them — that’s a week of “I’ll get to it” done in ten minutes.

Exercise 3 — make sense of some numbers

Grab something real and small: last quarter’s sales by month, hours by job. Copy it straight out of the spreadsheet — messy formatting is fine.