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Plain-English AI for beginners, proof-first toolkits for developers. Go from "this stuff is intimidating" to confident everyday user — screenshot by screenshot, with no jargon and no fake benchmarks.

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AI Basics classes — pick your assistant

Six modules and a 7-day workbook, $9 each. You don't have to use ChatGPT: start with whichever one you already have.

basics/chatgpt — level 1

Class 1: ChatGPT, start to useful

Make a free account, learn the screen, have your first real conversation, and master ten genuinely useful everyday tasks — safely, at your own pace.

  • Plain English — every step shown as a screenshot
  • Written for beginners and retirees, not developers
  • Instant PDF · lifetime access · free updates
$9 · one-time
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basics/online — lesson 01
Preview of Online Lesson 1 — ChatGPT: Your First Win

Online Lesson 1 — ChatGPT: Your First Win

A browser-based version of the first lesson with its own printable study guide — for people who'd rather click than read a PDF.

Online lesson (HTML) + PDF study guide. Not on sale here yet — subscribe and we'll say when it opens.

basics/claude — level 1 · $9

Class 1: Claude

The same patient beginner course for Claude, built around handing it a long document — a lease, a policy, a contract — and getting plain English back.

$9

PDF class (6 modules + 7-day workbook). For beginners who deal with a lot of paperwork. Not yet on the store — subscribe for the release.

basics/gemini — level 1 · $9

Class 1: Gemini

For anyone who already has a Gmail address: sign in with the account you already own and learn ten everyday uses, including reading your own inbox.

$9

PDF class (6 modules + 7-day workbook). For beginners who already use Gmail. Not yet on the store — subscribe for the release.

basics/copilot — level 1 · $9

Class 1: Microsoft Copilot

Copilot may already be on your computer — this class finds it in Windows, Edge or the phone app and explains honestly what is free and what needs Microsoft 365.

$9

PDF class (6 modules + 7-day workbook). For beginners who already use Windows, Edge or Outlook. Not yet on the store — subscribe for the release.

basics/perplexity — level 1 · $9

Class 1: Perplexity

The AI that cites its sources: learn to search, click through to the real source, and check what an AI tells you before you believe it.

$9

PDF class (6 modules + 7-day workbook). For beginners burned by a confident wrong answer. Not yet on the store — subscribe for the release.

basics/grok — level 1 · $9

Class 1: Grok

The assistant that checks the live web and X in real time — sign in, ask what is happening right now, talk out loud, and make a picture with Grok Imagine.

$9

PDF class (6 modules + 7-day workbook). For beginners curious about real-time AI and X users. Not yet on the store — subscribe for the release.

basics/deepseek — level 1 · $9

Class 1: DeepSeek

Start chatting with no account at all, use the free DeepThink reasoning mode on a real decision, and get an honest, sourced explanation of where your data goes.

$9

PDF class (6 modules + 7-day workbook). For beginners curious about the free AI everyone is talking about. Not yet on the store — subscribe for the release.

basics/kimi — level 1 · $9

Class 1: Kimi

No account needed to start: chat with Kimi, hand it a 200-page document and get a plain-English summary, with an honest note on who runs the service.

$9

PDF class (6 modules + 7-day workbook). For beginners who need long documents summarised for free. Not yet on the store — subscribe for the release.

basics/meta-ai — level 1 · $9

Class 1: Meta AI

It is already inside WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook — find it, use it in a family group chat, and set your public profile up wisely from day one.

$9

PDF class (6 modules + 7-day workbook). For beginners who use WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook daily. Not yet on the store — subscribe for the release.

basics/chatgpt — level 2 · $14

Class 2: ChatGPT, Beyond Basics

For people already comfortable chatting: Custom Instructions, Projects, building your own GPT, image and voice, and connecting Google Drive and Slack.

$14

PDF class (5 deep modules + 7-day power-user workbook). For Class 1 graduates and daily ChatGPT users. Not yet on the store — subscribe for the release.

Not sure which to pick? Meet the Five AI Assistants is our free plain-English overview of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok — the no-cost place to start before choosing a class.

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Printable guides

print/decision-map · $9

Which AI Should I Use? — The One-Page Decision Map

Answer one question — what are you trying to do? — and follow the arrow to a sensible pick, with a personality card and first prompt for each of five tools.

$9

Printable one-pager (HTML → print-to-PDF). For beginners paralysed by choice.

print/fact-check · $9

Spot the AI Mistake — A Beginner's Fact-Check Field Guide

Six red flags that an answer may be invented, a four-step verify-it flow, and prompts that make AI show its sources — the 60-second habit.

$9

Printable field guide (HTML → print-to-PDF). For people worried AI makes things up.

print/recipe-cards · $12

AI Prompt Recipe Cards

24 fill-in-the-blank prompts for real life — decode a bill, write the awkward email, understand a letter from the doctor — that work with any assistant.

$12

Printable card deck (HTML → print-to-PDF, 24 cards). For people who freeze at the empty chat box.

print/fix-it-manual · $9
Preview of The Bad-Answer Fix-It Manual

The Bad-Answer Fix-It Manual

Fourteen ways chatbots go wrong and the exact sentence to type next, plus the five-part request skeleton that prevents most of them.

$9

Printable PDF manual. For anyone who tried AI, was unimpressed, and gave up.

print/setup-pack · $9

The 5,000-Character Setup Pack

Ten complete copy-paste ChatGPT custom-instruction profiles plus a fill-in-the-blank master template, for the settings box most people leave empty.

$9

PDF pack (10 profiles + template). For everyday ChatGPT users and small-business owners.

print/screenshot-solver · $7

The Screenshot Solver

Take a screenshot and ask: four worked examples for error messages, settings, form fields and unlabelled buttons, plus what never to screenshot.

$7

14-page visual PDF guide. For anyone who freezes at a confusing screen.

print/ai-organized · $9

Your AI, Organized

Set up ChatGPT Projects, Claude Projects and Gemini Gems once across five life drawers so you stop re-explaining yourself in every new chat.

$9

18-page visual PDF guide. For users comfortable chatting but not using folders or memory.

For families

family/scam-proofing · $19

The AI Scam-Proofing Kit for Families

A printable four-piece kit — safe-word card, fridge checklist, deepfake red flags, social-media lockdown — that scam-proofs a family in one ten-minute call.

$19

Printable PDF pack (4 pieces). For adult children buying protection for retired parents.

family/back-to-school · $12
The Green Light / Red Light homework chart from the Back-to-School AI Family Playbook

The Back-to-School AI Family Playbook

A Green Light / Red Light chart, study prompts that make AI teach instead of do, and a signable Family AI Agreement for homework season.

$12

Printable 4-page pack + print-ready hero PNG. For parents of K-12 students and the students themselves.

family/tool-map · $19
The AI Tool Map 2026 — nine everyday and coding jobs with one honest AI pick each

The AI Tool Map 2026

Nine everyday and coding jobs with one honest AI pick and a runner-up for each, on a single print-ready page.

$19

High-res PNG (3200×4120) + SVG master. For anyone who freezes at which app to open.

Dev toolkits

dev/agent-memory · $15
Preview of The Agent Memory Kit

The Agent Memory Kit

Five filled-in templates — CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, session handoff notes, five prompts and a task-packet spec — so a coding agent stops starting from zero.

$15

PDF with copy-paste markdown templates. For developers using Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot or Windsurf.

dev/guardrails · $15
Preview of The AI Code Guardrails Kit

The AI Code Guardrails Kit

Nine runnable checks and a pre-commit hook aimed at the six ways AI-written code actually breaks, including proving a generated test suite can fail.

$15

PDF reference card + pre-commit hook script. For working developers shipping AI-assisted code.

The three Claude Code packs you can buy today are listed below.

Free reading

basics/meet-the-five

Meet the Five AI Assistants

The free plain-English overview of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok — the no-cost place to start before picking a class.

free

Free written overview. Not published as a web page yet.

read/chatgpt-five-tricks

Five ChatGPT tricks beginners miss

A free note covering five things new ChatGPT users usually never find.

free
Read it
read/check-an-ai-answer

How to check an AI answer

A free walkthrough of verifying something an assistant told you before you act on it.

free
Read it

For builders

Dev toolkits that pay for themselves

The files a working practitioner drops straight into a repo. Every one battle-tested before it's sold.

CLAUDE.md — optimizer

The CLAUDE.md Optimizer Pack

Fix the file Claude Code actually reads: trim the bloat, keep the rules that stick, stop repeating yourself to your agent.

$2.99
Get the pack
claude-code — power user

The Claude Code Power-User Pack

The workflows, guardrails, and config that turn Claude Code from a toy into a teammate.

$17
Get the pack
agents — tool calling

The Tool-Calling Reliability Pack

Schemas, retries, and checks that stop your agent picking the wrong tool — the failure mode behind most "it just broke" bugs.

$2.99
Get the pack

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