// THE AI FIELD GUIDES
The full collection of free AI field guides, fanned out

Everything AI can do for you — finally in plain English.

Twenty-three free field guides: the exact moves for the tools you pay for, the business you’re building, and the life you’re actually living. No jargon, no fluff, no paywall.

free·plain-English·built by an AI consultancy
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The Tools

The assistants you already pay for — used to maybe a tenth of what they can do. These guides hand you the other ninety percent: the memory, the projects, the agents, and the exact words that pull real work out of Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity.

The Tools — the guides in this collection
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THINK · MAKE · BUILD

Claude, Operated

The full-stack operations manual.

  • A simple chart for picking the right app for each job
  • 30 ready-to-use briefs, from a quick think-through to finished work
  • How to connect Claude to your own tools and teach it your formats
get the Manualfree · 5 chapters
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CHATGPT + CODEX

The OpenAI Stack

Configure once. Delegate daily..

  • 36 ready-to-use prompts, grouped by the job you need done
  • The one-hour setup: memory, your standing instructions, and projects
  • How to let it run errands safely, without watching its every move
get the Power Guidefree · 5 chapters
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MICROSOFT 365 COPILOT

Copilot at Work

The Employee Guide.

  • 45+ copy-paste prompts, sorted by the work you actually do
  • The three best jobs to use each app for
  • Microsoft’s own four-part recipe for prompts that work
get the Guidefree · 5 chapters
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MICROSOFT 365 COPILOT

Copilot at Work

The Leader Guide.

  • 30 manager prompts: briefings, comms, 1:1s, planning, decisions
  • The rollout that makes it stick: habits, rituals, and skeptics
  • Plain answers to what your team will ask about safety
get the Leader Guidefree · 5 chapters
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GEMINI · WORKSPACE · NOTEBOOKLM

The Google AI Stack

Where your work already lives.

  • How the Google tools fit together and pass work between each other
  • The daily plays for Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet
  • NotebookLM in depth: cited answers and podcast summaries of your files
get the Guidefree · 5 chapters
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PERPLEXITY · COMET · DEEP RESEARCH

The Research Desk

A Perplexity field manual.

  • Ways to ask that get real answers, not ten blue links
  • Deep Research briefs that come back as decks, sheets, and dashboards
  • Comet: a browser that reads the page and runs errands for you
get the Field Manualfree · 5 chapters
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Build a Business

Start or grow something of your own, with AI doing the heavy lifting. Prove an idea will sell before you build it, win the clients, raise the money, ship the product, and keep the content coming — lean, fast, and without a big team.

Build a Business — the guides in this collection
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VALIDATE · BRAND · BUILD · OPEN

Starting a Business with AI

Validate, brand, build, open — in weeks, not someday.

  • Two-week tests that prove people will pay — before you build a thing
  • A name, a look, and a website that make you look funded, in a weekend
  • The money-and-legal basics, checklisted: business setup, banking, books
get the Playbookfree · 5 chapters
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FIND · RESEARCH · REACH OUT · CLOSE

Winning Clients with AI

Research deeply, reach out like a human, close like a pro.

  • How to build a short list of the right companies, ranked best-first
  • Ten-minute research that lets you open with a question they remember
  • Messages that read like a person wrote them, not a mail merge
get the Playbookfree · 5 chapters
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STORY · DECK · NUMBERS · ROOM

Raising Money with AI

Materials that hold up, prep that survives the room.

  • The two-page story to write before you touch a single slide
  • Teardown prompts that find your weakest slide before investors do
  • A money model with an assumptions page you can defend out loud
get the Playbookfree · 5 chapters
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FIND · SPEC · BUILD · BETA · LAUNCH

Building a Product with AI

From a real problem to paying users — in ninety days.

  • How to find a problem people really have, before you build a thing
  • The one page that keeps an AI builder from drifting off course
  • A weekly beta loop with real users that tells you the hard truth
get the Playbookfree · 5 chapters
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ONE IDEA IN · TEN PIECES OUT

Building a Content Engine with AI

One idea in, ten pieces out, every week.

  • A voice profile that makes AI write like you — so your posts don't smell like everyone's
  • The one-piece-into-ten pattern that fills your whole week from a single idea
  • Thumbnails, audio, and short clips, all matching one look
get the Playbookfree · 5 chapters
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LOVABLE · BOLT · V0 · REPLIT · CURSOR

Prompt to Product

Ship real software without waiting for permission.

  • How to pick the right tool for your kind of idea
  • A build routine that keeps you from getting stuck
  • Going live for real: logins, a database, and your own web address
get the Builder’s Guidefree · 5 chapters
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STRATEGY · GOVERNANCE · CONSULTANTS · BUILDERS

Enterprise AI Adoption

Bringing AI into your organization — safely, and for real.

  • The readiness audit: data, security, process, people — scored honestly
  • Hiring AI consultants: evaluation, red flags, RFP questions, pricing models
  • Contracting builders: SOWs, IP, acceptance criteria, and the handoff that prevents hostage code
get the Playbookfree · 11 chapters
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In Real Life

AI isn’t just for work. Learn a hard skill in ninety days, plan a trip you’ll actually remember, get through a move or a home purchase with your sanity intact, or pull off a wedding — the playbooks for the big moments.

In Real Life — the guides in this collection
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A 90-DAY LEARNING PLAN

Learning Anything with AI

A 90-day system, not a pile of tutorials.

  • How to set a 90-day goal and build the week-by-week plan in one evening
  • The 25-minute daily lesson: it teaches, you try, it corrects, it remembers
  • Hands-on projects that force the skill in, instead of more reading
get the Playbookfree · 5 chapters
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PLAN · BOOK · TRAVEL · REMEMBER

Planning a Trip with AI

From “somewhere warm?” to the photo album.

  • How to shortlist places with real evidence and the honest case against each
  • The day-planning trick that keeps a holiday from feeling like a forced march
  • Letting AI do the price-watching and comparison, while you make the final click
get the Playbookfree · 5 chapters
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VISION · VENDORS · DESIGN · THE DAY

Planning a Wedding or Big Event with AI

Every detail handled, none of the joy handed off.

  • A budget model that catches the costs nobody warns you about
  • Vendor research and side-by-side comparisons, with the bad reviews surfaced
  • Your invitations, signs, and slideshow — all designed to match
get the Playbookfree · 5 chapters
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DECIDE · FIND · HAUL · LAND

Moving with AI

Decide, find, haul, land — without the chaos.

  • A real cost comparison of two places, down to the monthly difference
  • A watcher that pings you the second a place that fits comes up
  • The whole move as one plan: movers, boxes, and the order to do it in
get the Playbookfree · 5 chapters
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KNOW · RESEARCH · TOUR · OFFER · CLOSE

Buying a House with AI

Your own analyst for the biggest buy of your life.

  • Your true monthly cost, line by line — including the hidden 8% nobody quotes
  • Neighborhood deep-dives with the receipts, not the listing's spin
  • Any 40-page inspection report, turned into a clear repair list
get the Playbookfree · 5 chapters
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Make & Automate

Turn a prompt into something real — an image, a film, a song, a shipped app — and set up work that runs while you sleep on hardware you own. The build-and-automate guides, with the guardrails that keep it from waking you at 3am.

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IMAGE · VIDEO · MUSIC · VOICE

The Creative Studio

A maker’s manual for generative media.

  • The words that describe a shot: subject, style, lens, light, framing
  • Which tool to reach for — images, video, music, and voice
  • A full project, start to finish: brief, stills, motion, music, edit
get the Manualfree · 5 chapters
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THE NO-PANIC FIELD GUIDE

Coding & AI

A plain-English companion to the terms, tools, and ideas.

  • 150+ terms decoded — from REGEX and PR to RAG and MCP
  • Cheat sheets for the terminal, Git, HTTP, regex & prompting
  • The Claude ecosystem: skills, plugins, connectors & use cases
get the Field Guidefree · 6 chapters
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ZAPIER · MAKE · n8n

The Automation Cookbook

Workflows that run while you don’t.

  • The simple five-step shape every automation follows
  • Ten full recipes, from sorting your inbox to the Friday report
  • How to cut your AI bill by sending the easy work to a free model
get the Cookbookfree · 5 chapters
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OLLAMA · OPEN MODELS · PRIVATE FILES

The Local AI Garage

Intelligence that never phones home.

  • The honest case for running it yourself — and where it falls short
  • Which computers can run what, in plain English
  • The model garage: what to run for which job, mid-2026 edition
get the Garage guidefree · 5 chapters
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OPENCLAW & THE SELF-HOSTED AGENT MOVEMENT

Your Own Agent

The self-hosted handbook.

  • Day-one setup: from a bare machine to your first chat
  • Patrols that work while you sleep — and only wake you when it matters
  • The huge library of add-ons, and how to pick the safe ones
get the Handbookfree · 5 chapters
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Want this done for you, not by you?

The guides are how you do it yourself. When you’d rather hand it off — the automations built, the team trained, the AI wired into how you actually work — that’s the day job.