AI Foundations

What you build: your AI Playbook

Every lesson adds a section. Part 1 starts with My AI Picture, My Standing Context and My Task Map, and builds to your Hallucination Check and My Data Rules.

1. 1

   AI Fundamentals

   Build an accurate picture of what AI assistants are, where they help, where they fail, and how to use them safely at work, and start your AI Playbook.

   10 lessons

2. 2

   How to Talk to LLMs

   Brief an AI the way you'd brief a sharp colleague: context, examples, steps, format and feedback, and build Part 2 of your AI Playbook, a prompt kit you'll actually reuse.

   10 lessons

3. 3

   Prompt Engineering

   Go from prompts that work for you to prompts a team can rely on: system prompts, reasoning models, structured output, chains and agents, prompt injection and simple tests. Part 3 of your AI Playbook is one tested prompt.

   10 lessons

4. 4

   AI Research and Thinking

   Use AI to think better, not to think for you: orient, argue both sides, find gaps, check claims against sources, resist flattery and stress-test decisions. Part 4 of your AI Playbook is a decision brief you can defend.

   10 lessons

5. 5

   AI Productivity

   Use AI on everyday work (inbox, meetings, drafting, learning, batching) without leaking data or losing your own skills. Part 5 of your AI Playbook is a redesigned week.

   10 lessons

6. 6

   AI Foundations Capstone

   Take one real work project from brief to finished deliverable using your whole AI Playbook (research, prompts, checks and safeguards), then write a case study of how you did it.

   6 lessons

A real task from lesson 1

AI Fundamentals · lesson 1

Describe your role in general terms: no names or client details.

My role in one line:

One task where AI could genuinely help me:

One task where a mistake would cost too much to trust it unchecked: , because

How it works

1. 1Read a few short cards.
2. 2Write the task.
3. 3Get feedback from your coach Vo, then save it to your AI Playbook.