AI Proficiency: From Occasional User to Power User

What's inside

1. Level 1: Why Some People Get More from AIFree
   Learn the three habits that separate strong AI users from casual ones (giving context, iterating, and applying judgement), and how to tell dated, sourced evidence apart from hype and from fear.
2. Level 2: Giving Rich Context and ExamplesFree
   Learn to tell the assistant who the audience is, why the task exists, what background matters and what good output looks like, and to include examples it can follow.
3. Level 3: Roles, Constraints and Output Formats
   Learn to set a role, state constraints (length, tone, scope, what to leave out) and ask for a specific format so the output can be used without rework.
4. Level 4: Breaking Big Tasks into Steps
   Learn to split a large, complex task into a sequence of smaller prompts, checking each result before you move to the next step.
5. Level 5: Projects, Custom Instructions and Memory
   Learn how projects or workspaces, custom instructions and memory features keep context between conversations, and how to check what each tool stores using its current help pages.
6. Level 6: Working with Documents, Spreadsheets and PDFs
   Learn to upload files and ask for summaries, extractions, comparisons and rewrites, and to check results against the original, especially where formatting, tables or scans may be misread.
7. Level 7: Data Analysis in Plain Words
   Learn to ask questions about a spreadsheet in everyday language, get calculations and charts, and confirm the method and the figures before you rely on them.
8. Level 8: Deep Research Modes and Checking Sources
   Learn when to use web search and deep research modes, how to write a strong research brief, and how to confirm that each cited source exists and actually supports the claim.
9. Level 9: Writing Well with AI and Keeping Your Voice
   Learn to use AI for drafting, editing and restructuring while keeping your own voice, ideas and judgement in the final text.
10. Level 10: Brainstorming and Critique: Make the AI Argue Back
    Learn to use AI to generate a wide range of options and to challenge your own thinking through counter-arguments, pre-mortems and devil's-advocate reviews.
11. Level 11: Reusable Prompt Templates and a Prompt Library
    Learn to turn prompts that worked into templates with clear placeholders and store them in an organised, versioned prompt library.
12. Level 12: Choosing Tools and Models (and When to Pay More)
    Learn to compare assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot, and their model tiers, on your own tasks, and to decide when a more capable or more expensive model is worth it.
13. Level 13: Connecting Apps and Files: An Outline
    Get an overview of how assistants connect to email, calendars, cloud drives and other apps through connectors and integrations, and what permissions and risks each connection brings.
14. Level 14: Reviewing Output and Catching Subtle Errors
    Learn a fast, repeatable review routine for spotting subtle errors in AI output: wrong numbers, invented facts, missing caveats, logic gaps and changed meaning.
15. Level 15: Time Saved vs Quality, Measured Honestly
    Learn to measure whether AI actually saves time on your tasks by including review and rework time and quality, and to compare your results with dated, sourced research findings.
16. Level 16: Using AI Ethically at Work
    Learn to follow workplace AI policy, protect confidential and personal data, and decide when and how to disclose that you used AI.
17. Level 17: Your Personal AI Toolkit and Weekly Practice
    Learn to put your tools, custom instructions, prompt library, review checklist and policies into one personal toolkit, and set up a weekly routine to keep improving it.
18. Level 18: Final Challenge: A Complete Power-User Workflow Exam
    Plan and complete a real multi-step work task from start to finish, using the skills from the whole course in one documented workflow.

Access

The first 2 levels are free with a free account. Every level, the podcast edition and the AI tutor come with All Access at £4.99/month or any Creator plan — see pricing.

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