The Beginner's Course · Free

AI Without the Hype

This course is free, ungated, and built around one real project of yours.

This is for people who would rather build with AI than be sold it. Solopreneurs, founders, and anyone with an idea. There is no funnel here and nothing to buy. The whole course is free, and the solutions are at the back, ungated.

You do not need a technical background. You need a real problem from your own work and the willingness to direct a tool through it. That is the whole skill, and it is the skill that lasts: the buttons change every few months, the judgment does not.

HOW THE CHAPTERS WORK

Every chapter runs the same seven beats, so you always know where you are:

Recall, then reframe

A quick callback, then the idea that flips how you saw it.

Concept, then worked example

The mental model, then the messy middle where the judgment lives.

Now you try

A drill on your own material, with a worked solution and a clear bar.

Mistakes, then the move

Named traps, what you learned, and the next step on your project.

THE 21 CHAPTERS

Part One · The Reframe

01You direct, you don't operate

02Context is your job

03Your personal constitution

Part Two · Get In

04Install and the three surfaces

05Don't start from a blank chat

Part Three · Make It Yours

06What an .md file really is

07CLAUDE.md, your project's constitution

08What a Skill is

09How to actually delegate

Part Four · The Judgment Skills

10Read a first draft like an editor

11When Claude is confidently wrong

12Is it safe to let it run?

Part Five · Build Real Things

13Your first real build, end to end

14Build it yourself before you buy

15Build your second brain

16Your voice and persona

17Connect Claude to live information

18Make real documents

Part Six · The Operator Mindset

19Workflow thinking

20Where this breaks and what AI cannot do

21Your practice from here

Your project · before you start

Pick the one real project you will grow across the whole course: an assistant for your business, a second brain seeded with your own material, a tool you currently pay for and could build instead. No project in mind? Use the fallback: a personal assistant that knows who you are and helps with your actual week. Write one sentence now: "By the end I will have built ____."

Start Chapter 1

The button-clicking is forgotten in a week. The operator mindset is permanent. Start there.

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