Bring what you know
Practical AI for real life and real work. One task at a time.
Plain-language guides for people who know their own work and don't want to become AI experts. Every guide says what you'll have when you're done, how long it takes, and what to do when it breaks.
No affiliate links No signup wall No sponsored rankings Every AI output should be checked
Choose what you need to do
All guides- Write a better prompt Turn a vague request into something useful.
- Check whether an answer is trustworthy Find the unsupported claims before someone else does.
- Use AI without exposing private information Separate the safe structure from the sensitive details.
- Connect AI to your files or calendar Understand what access you are actually granting.
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Your first useful hour with AI
Three small tasks to try before you decide whether any of this is worth your time.
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The marketing prompt, in blocks
Five labelled blocks that snap together into any marketing prompt. Use one, use all five.
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How to add an MCP server to Claude Desktop
The one-click way, then the way that works when the thing you want isn't in the list.
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How to use AI without connecting it to your Salesforce org
Security said no. Requirements, logic design, and specs were never the blocked part. Here is the four-step workflow, with the prompts.
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How every guide works
- One task, start to finish. Not a survey of a subject.
- What you'll have when you're done, stated at the top before you commit.
- How long it takes, rounded up. Nothing here runs to four hours.
- What to do when it breaks, which is the section most guides leave out.
Guides walk through a task from beginning to end. Templates are the paste-ready prompts on their own, without the walkthrough.
Why you can trust this
You already know more than you think. This site helps you use AI around what you know, without handing over your judgment. Written by a business systems analyst who works with enterprise platforms and builds AI-enabled products, which means these guides come from someone in roughly your position rather than from a vendor.
Nothing here is sponsored and no tool pays to appear. What this site won't do is the full list, in writing.
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How to check its work
It writes wrong answers in the same confident tone as right ones. Three ways to tell them apart.
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Stop retyping yourself
You type the same five facts about your job every day. There are two places to put them instead, and a rule for which goes where.
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Your first useful hour with AI
Three small tasks to try before you decide whether any of this is worth your time.
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What you should never paste, and why
A short, clear line between what's fine to share and what could get you in trouble, plus what to do if you already pasted it.
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The spec interrogation prompt
The paste-ready scaffold and interrogation prompt, pulled out of the playbook.