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Learn AI by finishing things

12 projects and 12 challenges, each with a brief, numbered steps and the actual prompts. Every one produces something you keep — a working system prompt, a live site, a cleaned dataset — rather than a feeling that you learned something.

Tracks

Ordered routes through the courses, projects and challenges. Start here if you are not sure what to do first.

AI Foundations

6 steps

The shortest honest path from "I have used ChatGPT a few times" to using AI deliberately. Start here if you have no idea which of the other tracks you want.

For: Complete beginners, or anyone whose AI use is currently guesswork.

AI for Job Hunting

4 steps

Application materials that survive a six-second screen, and interview practice that actually pushes back. Built around honest feedback rather than polish.

For: Students, graduates and career changers applying for roles now.

AI for Developers

4 steps

Using AI on real code without shipping things you do not understand. Every item enforces reading and verifying before accepting.

For: Developers already writing code who want AI to help rather than to guess.

AI for Marketing

4 steps

Content and copy grounded in a real audience rather than generated averages. Research first, generation second, throughout.

For: Marketers, founders and anyone responsible for words that must convert.

ProjectBeginner

Build a Personal Study Assistant

Turn a stack of lecture notes into a study partner that quizzes you, explains what you got wrong, and tracks which topics you keep failing. You will finish with a reusable system prompt you can point at any subject.

60 min5 stepsresearch

ProjectIntermediate

Build a Research Brief Generator

Create a repeatable workflow that turns a vague question into a structured research brief with sources, open questions and a confidence rating. The output is something you can hand to a colleague, not a wall of text.

90 min5 stepsresearch

ProjectBeginner

Ship a Portfolio Site in an Afternoon

Use a template plus AI-written copy to put a real portfolio online. The hard part is not the code, it is writing about your own work without sounding like everyone else, so most of this project is about the words.

120 min6 stepscareer

ProjectBeginner

Run an Honest CV Review

Build a review process that tells you what is weak in your CV instead of politely rewriting it. Includes a screening simulation that shows how it reads in the six seconds it actually gets.

45 min5 stepscareer

ProjectIntermediate

Debug a Real Bug With AI

Practise the debugging loop that works — evidence first, hypothesis second, fix last — on a bug you actually have. The habit this builds is refusing to accept a fix you cannot explain.

75 min5 stepscoding

ProjectIntermediate

Write Landing Page Copy That Says Something

Produce a full landing page — headline, subhead, three benefits, objection handling, call to action — for a real product. The method is research-first: you interview the customer before you write a word.

90 min5 stepsmarketing

ProjectIntermediate

Clean a Messy Dataset With AI

Take a genuinely messy spreadsheet and build a documented cleaning process. The rule throughout: AI proposes the rules, you apply them, and every change is reversible and logged.

90 min5 stepsdata

ProjectBeginner

Turn a Spreadsheet Into a Dashboard

Take data you already have and build a dashboard that answers a specific question. The discipline is deciding the question first, because a dashboard without one is just charts.

60 min5 stepsdata

ProjectBeginner

Build a Meeting Notes System

Turn rambling notes into decisions, owners and deadlines — in a format consistent enough that you can search it six months later. The value is in the structure, not the summary.

45 min5 stepswriting

ProjectBeginner

Set Up a CRM for a Small Business

Build a working customer record system for a real or imagined small business. The exercise is deciding what to track, which is where most CRM projects fail long before any software is involved.

75 min5 stepscareer

ProjectBeginner

Plan a Month of Content Without Burning Out

Build a content calendar grounded in a small set of themes rather than thirty unrelated ideas. Includes the repurposing pass that most people skip and then wonder why the work feels endless.

60 min5 stepsmarketing

ProjectBeginner

Build Your Own Prompt Library

Stop rewriting the same prompt. Build a small, organised, tested personal library — and learn the versioning habit that stops it rotting into a folder of near-duplicates.

45 min5 stepswriting

ChallengeBeginner

The Explanation Ladder Challenge

Get a model to explain one concept at four levels of expertise without dumbing it down into nonsense. Tests whether you can control depth precisely rather than just asking for "simpler".

20 min4 stepswriting

ChallengeIntermediate

The Fabrication Hunt

Deliberately induce a confident, wrong answer, then find the prompt wording that prevents it. The most useful twenty minutes you can spend on calibrating how much to trust a model.

25 min5 stepsresearch

ChallengeBeginner

The Constraint Stack

Add constraints one at a time until output quality collapses, and find where the ceiling actually is. Teaches more about prompt design in twenty minutes than reading about it for a week.

20 min4 stepswriting

ChallengeBeginner

The Same Message, Five Ways

Rewrite one difficult message for five audiences without changing what it says. Tests whether you can control register precisely — the skill behind almost all professional AI writing use.

20 min4 stepswriting

ChallengeIntermediate

Review Code the Model Wrote

Generate code, then review it properly. The habit this builds — never shipping generated code you have not read — is the single highest-value habit in AI-assisted development.

30 min4 stepscoding

ChallengeAdvanced

Refactor Without Breaking It

Improve code structure while proving behaviour is unchanged. Tests the discipline of characterising existing behaviour before changing anything — the part everyone skips.

30 min5 stepscoding

ChallengeBeginner

The Cover Letter That Is Not Generic

Write a cover letter that could only have been written by you, for this job. Tests whether you can force specificity out of a model that defaults hard to platitudes.

25 min4 stepscareer

ChallengeIntermediate

The Hostile Interview

Get a model to interview you properly — following up on weak answers instead of moving politely on. Uncomfortable, and considerably more useful than rehearsing answers you already have.

30 min4 stepscareer

ChallengeIntermediate

Summarise Without Losing the Point

Compress a long document to a tenth of its length while keeping what matters, then verify nothing important was dropped. Tests whether you can direct compression rather than just requesting it.

25 min4 stepsresearch

ChallengeBeginner

The Wrong Chart Challenge

Deliberately visualise the same data four wrong ways to learn why the right one is right. Faster and more memorable than reading chart-selection guidance.

20 min4 stepsdata

ChallengeIntermediate

The Requirements Interrogation

Take a one-line feature request and interrogate it until it is buildable. Practises the questioning that prevents building the wrong thing correctly.

25 min4 stepscareer

ChallengeIntermediate

Two Versions, One Difference

Write two variants of a piece of copy that differ in exactly one respect, so the result would actually tell you something. Harder than it sounds and the reason most informal tests are uninformative.

20 min4 stepsmarketing