A beginner-friendly place to start
Explore what AI can do
See ordinary tasks first. Learn what you provide, what AI contributes and what you still need to check.
Six broad capabilities
Start with the kind of help you need.
Every capability now leads to a plain-language guide, practical tasks and related foundations.
Write and communicate
Take facts you already have and shape them into clear writing for one real reader and one real purpose.
- Turn messy meeting notes into a decisions-and-next-steps update
- Tighten an awkward email before you send it
- Summarise a long report for someone who only needs the decision
- Rework the same announcement for your team and for a client
Research and understand
Find, compare and explain information while keeping the sources, the gaps and the uncertainty in plain view.
- Get up to speed on a topic before a meeting
- Compare what three sources actually claim
- Ask questions across a long PDF instead of reading all of it
- Pull together a short briefing with links you can check
Work with files and data
Pull information out of documents, tables and spreadsheets, then work out what is actually going on inside them.
- Make sense of a spreadsheet someone handed you
- Find the recurring themes in a pile of customer feedback
- Compare two contracts for what genuinely differs
- Draft a chart from figures you provide
Create things
Turn a clear brief and your own material into a solid first version of something you can then shape.
- Draft a slide deck from a page of talking points
- Get a report into a workable shape
- Sketch a visual concept to react to
- Stand up a rough prototype to test an idea
Think through decisions
Lay options side by side, surface the hidden assumptions and prepare the questions, without taking the decision off your desk.
- Weigh two suppliers against what matters to you
- Pressure-test a plan you are about to commit to
- Surface the trade-offs nobody has said out loud
- Prepare the questions to ask before you sign
Organise recurring work
Make the work you repeat every week easier to set up, keep together and hand on, with a clear point where a person still checks.
- Prepare the same weekly report from fresh figures
- Triage incoming requests into the right buckets
- Keep all the context for a project in one place
- Build a checklist you can reuse each time