START HERENever touched AI → AI Curious

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the free primer

If you've never used ChatGPT, Claude, or anything like them — this is the on-ramp. Five short lessons: what AI actually is, who makes the big ones and how they differ, your first real conversation with one, and the three safety rules that never change. No card, no signup, no catch.

5 LESSONS·~45 MIN TOTAL·100% FREE

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Lesson 1 · What AI actually is (and isn't)
Lesson 2 · Meet the big names
Lesson 3 · Your first ten minutes with a chatbot
Lesson 4 · Why AI makes things up
Lesson 5 · Which one should you use?

The lessons

Five lessons, nothing to unlock

Every lesson here is free and open — no purchase, no email required to read them. Click any one to jump straight in.

1 What AI actually is (and isn't)8 MIN · LESSON 1 OF 5 Start → 2 Meet the big names: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity9 MIN · LESSON 2 OF 5 Start → 3 Your first ten minutes with a chatbot10 MIN · LESSON 3 OF 5 Start → 4 Why AI makes things up (and the 3 rules that don't change)9 MIN · LESSON 4 OF 5 Start → 5 Which one should you use? (and what's next)8 MIN · LESSON 5 OF 5 Start →

What you'll walk away with

By the end of five lessons

A real mental model

What a large language model actually does when it answers you — enough to use any AI tool with sense instead of superstition.

The big names, decoded

ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Perplexity — who makes each one and which is worth your time for what.

Your first real conversation

A completed chat with an AI tool, and three safety rules that will protect you no matter which one you use next.

Free, always

No email required to read

This primer stays free and open — it exists so nobody has to feel behind before they even begin. When you're ready to go from "I get it now" to "I'm actually good at this," Level 1 is $9 and picks up exactly where Lesson 5 leaves off.

5 LESSONS · FREE · NO SIGNUP

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