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Start here if AI feels useful but confusing.

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Learn how to ask better questions and get more useful results.

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Useful AI tools explained without the hype.

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Practical ways Canadian small businesses can use AI.

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Use AI more thoughtfully and protect what should stay private.

Latest guides

Boot Camp Week 1: Prompt Better

The skill everything else depends on. Build a better prompt, learn how to fix AI’s answer, and save your first Prompt Card.

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Your next job search just got a lot less painful

A practical guide to using AI to make job searching less painful, from decoding job postings to tailoring resumes, writing cover letters, and preparing for interviews.

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No waitlist. No tuition. No judgment. Using AI to learn something new.

A plain-English guide to using AI as a patient, always-available tutor to learn something new, while knowing when to verify high-stakes information.

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You've been using AI for years. Nobody told you.

A plain-English look at the everyday AI Canadians have already been using for years, from email filters and maps to recommendations, banking, and phone keyboards.

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What Does AI Actually Do With What You Type?

A plain-English guide for Canadians on what happens when you type into AI tools, what not to share, and how to use privacy controls more wisely.

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I asked ChatGPT to draw me. Here's what came back.

A practical look at ChatGPT image creation, what changed, what worked, and how everyday Canadians can use AI images thoughtfully.

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ChatGPT isn’t what you think it is anymore

A practical plain-English guide to what ChatGPT can do now, including brainstorming, memory, web search, and decision support.

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Worth the wait (and the sunburn): a proper look at Claude

A plain-English look at Claude, the AI writing assistant Chris uses every day, including what it is good at and how Canadians can try it.

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How AI can help you with online reviews (on both sides)

Learn how AI can help Canadians write better online reviews and respond professionally to positive, mixed, and difficult customer reviews.

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The email you have been putting off? AI can write it for you.

A practical guide to using AI to write better everyday emails, including follow-ups, complaints, sensitive messages, invoice reminders, and polite no responses.

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30 minutes. A whole week of posts. Here’s how.

Learn how to use AI to plan, draft, adapt, and organize a full week of social media posts in about 30 minutes.

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Why your AI answers are meh (and how to fix that)

Simple ways to get better AI answers by adding context, setting tone, asking for the right format, pushing back, and improving prompts.

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5 things you can ask AI to do for you today

Five practical everyday tasks Canadians can hand off to AI today, with simple examples for emails, reviews, bios, research, and follow-up notes.

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Are you talking to AI the right way?

Learn how to write better AI prompts using plain-English examples, context, tone, specificity, and follow-up questions that improve results.

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4 AI tools worth trying this week (no tech skills needed)

A plain-English starting point for Canadians who want to try AI, with four beginner-friendly tools and simple ways to use each one.

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