Book 1 of 10 · Curious Starter tier
Your first 30 days with AI, one honest step at a time.
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Never used AI for real work? Start here. This book takes you from a blank ChatGPT box to using AI every single day — drafting emails, summarising documents, answering customers — with no jargon, no hype, and not one line of code.
The core idea it opens with is simple: treat AI like a fast, capable new hire on their first morning. Brilliant at drafting, rewriting and summarising. Never trust it blindly with facts, figures, or anything that matters without checking first — it will guess with total confidence rather than say "I don't know." That one mental model does most of the work of using AI well.
From there it's practical, day by day: picking one tool and setting it up properly, writing prompts that actually get useful answers, and applying that to the parts of the day that eat the most time — email, marketing content, customer questions, documents, and the numbers you never quite have time for. By day 30 you'll have saved real hours and know exactly what's safe to hand over and what isn't.
The owner, or the person who ends up doing everything, who has heard AI can help but has no idea where to start — or tried it once and it felt like a gimmick.
The kind of week each book is built to produce.
A dental or medical practice
appointment reminders and confirmations handled by hand, by phone. Moved to an automated reminder and follow-up sequence.
This kind of automation typically frees up a meaningful chunk of admin time each week and can reduce missed appointments.
Independent bookkeeping or invoicing
chasing overdue invoices manually, one at a time. Moved to an automated, staged payment-reminder sequence.
A staged reminder sequence like this often speeds up payment without the owner having to chase anyone directly.
No. It's written for someone who has never used AI for work before — no code, no setup beyond creating a free account with an AI provider, which the book walks through.
It's written to work with any of the mainstream assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot). Chapter 2 compares them honestly and helps you pick one — you don't need more than one to get everything in this book.
The book is built around a 30-day plan, but each chapter stands alone — most readers get a usable technique from Chapter 1 alone in under 20 minutes.
