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Begin with the Introduction, then work through the tracks in order.

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AI Foundations

The core concepts and first workflows every professional needs before diving into the tracks. Start here.

  • Intermediate

    The Fractional CAIO Playbook

    Boards are asking for AI leadership faster than the market can supply it. This track is for senior operators reinventing themselves as Chief AI Officers: the mandate, the baseline, the governance calls and the fractional path to market.

    5 lessons
  • Beginner

    How AI Actually Works

    You use AI every week. This track explains what it is actually doing, no math, no code, so you can govern, budget for and make sound decisions about it.

    4 lessons
  • Beginner

    Prompt Engineering

    Most professionals prompt like they are asking a question. The ones closing the AI Wage Gap write prompts like they are programming a specialist. This track teaches you the craft.

    3 lessons
  • Beginner

    AI Workflows

    A great prompt is a tool. A workflow is a system. Learn to chain prompts, build repeatable pipelines and create AI-powered leverage that runs without you.

    3 lessons
  • Intermediate

    AI Agents, Explained

    Everyone is talking about AI agents. Few can define one. This track explains what agents are, how they connect to your software and when they are the right tool.

    3 lessons
  • Intermediate

    AI Risk and Governance for Leaders

    Leaders are asked to approve, fund and answer for AI. This track covers the real risks, what happens to your data and the regulation now arriving, in plain terms.

    3 lessons
  • Beginner

    Build a World-Class Personal Website

    Your website is the one piece of professional real estate you own. A complete, step-by-step guide to building one that is genuinely world-class.

    5 lessons
  • Advanced

    Building AI Agents Hands-On

    You understand agents conceptually. This advanced track gets you building real, working AI agents with no code, using n8n, from first automation to shipped agent.

    5 lessons
  • Advanced

    Leading AI Adoption in Your Organization

    Personal AI fluency is the start. This advanced track is for leaders driving AI across a team or company: the roadmap, the business case, change management and governance.

    7 lessons

Every Monday

The Leverage Brief

One actionable AI idea per week. Seven minutes to read. Built to implement.

  • 950 Agents. 21 Hours. 20 Decisions.

    The split underwriting the difference between a commoditized job and an increasing salary in an AI-driven workforce

    • leverage brief

  • 44 Models. No Winner. $477K a Month.

    AI Fire tested 44 models and found no clear winner. Nvidia bought Hugging Face, Meta's Muse took the App Store's top spot from ChatGPT, and open source closed to four months behind the frontier. Meanwhile one operator is billing 3,700 people $129 a month for the layer nobody can download — which is the only part of this week's news that describes your job.

    • leverage brief

  • Your AI vendor just became your regulator

    Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...

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