Choose connected tools or make an original song
Choose tools for a real taskDo you need an AI tool, a connection to your files, or just a better brief?
Choose ChatGPT tools and integrations by the job, inspect access and permissions, and test a small task before connecting important accounts.
Read the guide →From an original idea to a release checklistWrite an original song with AI, improve the draft and prepare it for release
Develop lyrics, brief a music generator, review versions and prepare distribution questions without inventing rights, audience results or guaranteed income.
Read the guide →Plan something to watch, play or film
Choose something to watchFind a film everyone wants to watch, then check where it is available
Use your group's tastes, time and viewing constraints to make a useful shortlist without invented streaming availability or unwanted spoilers.
Read the guide →Games that fit your groupChoose a game your group can actually play together
Compare games using players, devices, time, costs and accessibility needs. Verify editions, multiplayer conditions and purchases before planning a session.
Read the guide →Plan a video before filmingTurn a video idea into a script, shot list and filming plan
Prepare a video for a real audience, keep claims supported and organise footage, captions and review without assuming AI has watched files it cannot access.
Read the guide →Get practical answers: ChatGPT, Claude and AI FAQs
ChatGPT FAQChatGPT FAQ: better answers, files, images and everyday tasks.
Get useful ChatGPT answers, analyse a PDF, revise a draft, brief an image and check sources. Twelve practical questions with examples you can adapt.
Read the guide →Claude FAQClaude FAQ: documents, writing, projects and coding tasks.
Brief Claude to analyse reports, use source passages, write in your voice and make testable code changes. Twelve practical questions with copyable examples.
Read the guide →AI FAQ for beginnersAI FAQ for beginners: what to ask, what to upload and what to check.
Start using ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini for real tasks. Understand models and tools, prepare useful inputs, check answers and know when to ask a person.
Read the guide →LLMs for nerds: understand the machinery
LLMs for nerdsHow an LLM works, step by step: from tokens to a generated answer.
Go inside a language model: tokenisation, embeddings, Q/K/V attention, transformer blocks, training loss, sampling and KV caching. With diagrams, worked maths and practical checks.
Read the guide →Create images and improve old photographs
Images you can actually useHow to create images with ChatGPT: from a clear brief to a checked result.
Make a poster illustration, use your brand colours and refine one detail at a time. See our own generated images, exact prompts and checks before publishing.
Read the guide →Old photographs, handled carefullyHow to improve old photos with AI without losing the people in them.
Clean a scan, preserve faces and compare cautious restoration with an ‘as if taken with an iPhone’ interpretation. Includes original synthetic before-and-after examples.
Read the guide →Plan meals, household admin and everyday tasks
Household administrationHow to organise household bills, documents and deadlines with AI.
Set up a simple personal-administration system: a document inbox, useful folders, a bill calendar and a weekly check without sharing passwords or letting AI make financial decisions.
Read the guide →Dinner planningHow to plan a three-course dinner that fits your guests and kitchen.
Brief AI with children's ages, vegetarian guests, allergies, hob count, oven space and serving time; then check the menu, shopping list and cooking timetable before Christmas dinner.
Read the guide →Gemini guideHow to brief Gemini for a useful email, comparison or study plan.
Give Gemini a concrete job, labelled source material, constraints and an output you can inspect. Improve a meeting email, proposal comparison or study plan one requirement at a time.
Read the guide →Start with a question and learn to check the answer
Start here · No technical knowledge neededYour first useful hour with AI.
Start using AI in plain language: choose a first task, ask follow-up questions, work with files and understand the step from chat answers to completed work.
Read the guide →Fix a weak AI answerHow to fix AI answers that are vague, off-topic or in the wrong format.
Use examples to fix mislabelled customer messages, separate source facts from instructions and split a poster task into steps you can approve. Prompting techniques explained through real jobs.
Read the guide →Choose the tools for your taskDoes your AI task need a better model, web search or a file tool?
A practical explanation of AI models, tokens, context windows, tool access and reasoning effort for choosing a useful ChatGPT or Claude workflow.
Read the guide →Brief a difficult decisionHow to ask AI to compare options and show evidence you can check.
Brief reasoning models with clear goals, evidence and acceptance criteria, and understand why step-by-step instructions are not a universal improvement.
Read the guide →Work from your documentsHow to make AI use your documents instead of guessing the missing facts.
Understand context windows and grounding, distinguish supplied evidence from general answers, and make source-based prompts easier to verify.
Read the guide →Check a prompt before reusing itHow to test an AI prompt: inputs, expected results and failure checks.
Our proposed protocol for fair ChatGPT and Claude prompt comparisons: fixed inputs, task-specific criteria, saved outputs and transparent limitations.
Read the guide →Everyday tasks, learning and source checks
Health preparationHow to prepare a symptom timeline and questions for your doctor visit.
Use ChatGPT or Claude to organise symptom notes and appointment questions, with clear limits on diagnosis, medicines, privacy and urgent care.
Read the guide →Output and source reviewHow to check AI claims and citations before relying on an answer.
Fact-check ChatGPT and Claude answers with a claim ledger, source passages, arithmetic and dated evidence, including disputed news and Middle East questions.
Read the guide →Sports administrationHow to draft tournament fixtures and umpire schedules without clashes.
Draft tournament fixtures and umpire rotas with explicit capacity, rest, eligibility and conflict rules, then validate the result before publishing.
Read the guide →Practical boundariesHow to find a repair manual and prepare a safe home or bike repair brief.
Use AI to organise a repair brief, identify the right manual and plan low-risk work without inventing compatibility, torque values or safety guarantees.
Read the guide →Student workflowHow to get AI help with homework, revision and practice questions.
Use AI for homework hints, revision questions and rubric-based feedback while keeping your own reasoning, checking sources and following course rules.
Read the guide →Write, compare, plan, design and fix things
Applications, interviews and responsible reviewApply for a job with AI—and still sound like yourself.
Use ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to build an honest application, replace generic wording and practise interviews. For employers: why style cannot prove AI use and how to check actual experience.
Read the guide →Tool comparisonCompare ChatGPT and Claude on your actual work.
Compare ChatGPT and Claude by workflow, source handling, design needs and coding environment instead of choosing a universal winner.
Read the guide →ChatGPT guideHow to get a useful draft, comparison or work plan from ChatGPT.
Learn how to prompt ChatGPT for useful writing, research and finished work, with copyable examples and checks for better results.
Read the guide →Claude guideHow to brief Claude to compare documents and write in your voice.
Write better Claude prompts for document analysis, consistent writing and delegated tasks using clear source roles and concrete output criteria.
Read the guide →Choose your workflowChat, Work or Code: choose by the job.
Understand when to use a conversation, a delegated work task or a coding agent in ChatGPT and Claude, with examples for each workflow.
Read the guide →Model selectionWhich AI model should you choose for writing, reports, images or code?
Choose an AI model and effort level by task, evidence needs, speed and visual requirements, with current ChatGPT and Claude guidance.
Read the guide →Campaign workflowHow to make an advertising poster with AI: offer, image and layout.
Compare two actual AI-generated posters for the same workshop, see both exact prompts, and learn how audience, house style and layout change the result.
Read the guide →Brand consistencyHow to use your own colours, logo and writing style in AI work.
Use brand guidelines, writing examples, colours and logo assets to create AI content that fits your identity across posters, reports and campaigns.
Read the guide →Creative qualityHow to write with AI without sounding like a generic AI text.
Write AI-assisted text in your own voice with concrete details and before-and-after examples. Learn why typical AI phrasing and detector scores do not prove authorship.
Read the guide →Report analysisHow to analyse a report with AI for the decision you need to make.
Analyse a report with ChatGPT or Claude using its purpose, your role, decision questions, source checks and explicit treatment of missing evidence.
Read the guide →Role-specific questionsWhat should a manager, buyer or finance lead ask about the same report?
Use role-specific ChatGPT and Claude prompts to examine the same report from board, finance, operations, research and customer perspectives.
Read the guide →Codex and Claude CodeHow to ask a coding agent to build a feature or fix a bug you can test.
Write clearer coding-agent prompts for bug fixes, feature work, refactoring and code review, with explicit scope and useful verification.
Read the guide →Work and CoworkHow to delegate an AI work task and review the finished result.
Delegate useful AI work with source boundaries, results, acceptance criteria and review points for reports, campaigns and recurring tasks.
Read the guide →Content and searchHow to plan useful SEO content around the questions people search for.
Plan useful search content with AI: inspect reader intent, identify evidence gaps, build a brief and refresh outdated claims without padding pages.
Read the guide →Campaign writingHow to write campaign headlines, emails and landing-page copy with AI.
Write campaign copy with ChatGPT or Claude using a clear offer, customer evidence, brand examples and channel-specific checks.
Read the guide →Spreadsheet analysisHow to check a spreadsheet and explain its totals and trends with AI.
Analyse spreadsheets with clear definitions, reconciliation checks and decision-focused prompts rather than accepting a plausible chart summary.
Read the guide →Learning workflowHow to use AI to practise a subject without getting the answers first.
Use AI as a study partner with diagnostic questions, targeted practice, useful feedback and checks against your actual course material.
Read the guide →Environmental decisionsHow to compare environmental choices using the same scope and evidence.
Use ChatGPT or Claude to structure environmental comparisons, inspect evidence boundaries and write narrower, supportable claims.
Read the guide →Meeting workflowHow to turn meeting notes into confirmed decisions and an action list.
Turn meeting notes into traceable decisions, realistic action lists and useful follow-up with ChatGPT or Claude.
Read the guide →Prompt repairHow to improve an AI answer that misses your brief without starting over.
Improve a weak ChatGPT or Claude answer by identifying the failure, supplying missing context and making a focused revision you can verify.
Read the guide →Use your own home photosOrganise a bookcase and preview a new cabinet or bedroom colours.
Practical AI photo prompts for organising books, previewing a storage cabinet and choosing wall colours and bedding, with labelled before-and-after examples.
Read the guide →Research workflowHow to research a purchase or work decision with sources you can check.
A practical way to research a decision without letting a confident answer hide missing evidence.
Read the guide →Files and documentsHow to summarise and compare documents for a specific work decision.
Explain a difficult business letter in plain language, draft clarification questions and summarise reports with a trail back to the source.
Read the guide →Put your photos to workUse a photo to plan dinner, pack a bag or arrange your balcony.
Five illustrated photo tasks: cook from your fridge, plan a balcony, pack a weekend bag, clear desk space and gather clues about a plant. Learn what to add, ask and check.
Read the guide →See how AI helped build a real app
First-hand case study · HockeyUmpireHow do you build the best hockey umpire app for the person holding the whistle?
Inside HockeyUmpire: turn an umpire's needs into clear AI prompts, small changes, independent reviews and tests on a real iPhone and Apple Watch.
Read the guide →Research with evidence you can trace
Start with the decision, the options and the criteria that could change your choice. Require sources for changeable facts and distinguish confirmed evidence from estimates. Our research guide shows how to turn that brief into a useful comparison.
Use your documents as the starting point
A report summary is only useful when it answers the reader's question. Our document guide covers source references, conflicting figures and how to check that the short version still represents the original.