The AI Comfort Starter Kit

Lessons

1. Lesson 1 · 9 min

   What AI is (and isn't)

   Try it: Ask an AI tool to explain your job to a 10-year-old. Notice what it gets right, what is generic, and what is wrong. That gap is where your expertise lives.

2. Lesson 2 · 9 min

   Your first 15 minutes: setting up safely

   Try it: Find your company’s AI policy (or ask your manager) and write down the one tool you are allowed to use for work, plus one thing you must never paste into it. Then open its settings and find where memory and connected apps are listed.

3. Lesson 3 · 11 min

   The CRAFT prompt: ask for what you actually want

   Try it: Take a real task from today and write it as a CRAFT prompt. Then ask for one revision.

4. Lesson 4 · 11 min

   Safe by default: what never goes in

   Try it: Rewrite one real request with the sensitive details replaced by placeholders, and compare the result. Then check what your tool has stored in memory.

5. Lesson 5 · 10 min

   Checking the answer

   Try it: Ask a factual question in your field, then ask “What might be wrong here?” and check one claim yourself against a real source.

6. Lesson 6 · 10 min

   Give it the right context: projects, memory and connected files

   Try it: Create one project (or the closest equivalent in your tool) for a task you repeat every week. Add instructions and one example, run a real task and note what improved.

7. Lesson 7 · 10 min

   Workflow 1: Email and everyday writing

   Try it: Before sending your next non-trivial email, paste your draft and ask for a clearer version under 120 words. Keep what you like, and send your own final version.

8. Lesson 8 · 11 min

   Workflow 2: Meetings, documents and planning

   Try it: Use AI to turn your notes from your last meeting into a follow-up with action items and owners. If your meeting tool produced a summary, compare the two and note what it got wrong.

9. Lesson 9 · 10 min

   Workflow 3: Research and learning fast

   Try it: Pick a topic you need to understand for work this week and ask for a 5-concept orientation, then ask it to quiz you on it. If you have a research mode, run one question and verify the three claims it should check first.

10. Lesson 10 · 10 min

    Workflow 4: Spreadsheets and data help

    Try it: Think of one spreadsheet task you keep putting off. Describe it to the AI in plain English and ask for a formula with a step-by-step explanation and five test rows.

11. Lesson 11 · 12 min

    Agents: when AI does the task, not just the writing

    Try it: Give an agent or research mode one read-only task using the five-line brief. Compare its plan with what you expected, then open two of the sources it lists.

12. Lesson 12 · 10 min

    Level up: iterate, give examples, chain steps

    Try it: Take your best prompt from this week, add one example and one constraint, and compare the results.

13. Lesson 13 · 9 min

    Sharing AI-assisted work people can trust

    Try it: Take something you made with AI recently and highlight each sentence that could appear in any company’s document. Replace each one with a specific detail only you know.

14. Lesson 14 · 9 min

    When not to use AI (and how to talk about it)

    Try it: Write down three tasks you will never use AI for, and three you will always double-check. Share your list with a colleague.

15. Lesson 15 · 8 min

    Build your 15-minute AI habit

    Try it: Write down your one workflow for the next two weeks and put a 15-minute daily reminder in your calendar.

16. Lesson 16 · 8 min

    Bonus: Your 30-day AI comfort plan

    Try it: Copy the plan into your calendar and schedule Day 1 for tomorrow.

17. Lesson 17 · 9 min

    Bonus: A simple AI-at-work policy you can adapt

    Try it: Copy this into a document, fill in the brackets, and send it to your manager or IT lead to start the conversation.

Prompt library

95+ prompts across 12 categories, each with fill-in-the-blank brackets.