Tutorials and Guides
Long-form, magazine-style tutorials that take a real creative or business problem and walk through the AI workflow that solves it, tool by tool.
What you get in each guide
- A clear problem statement and end result with screenshots
- Every tool used, linked to its full review with editor's rating
- Step-by-step instructions with prompts, settings, and gotchas
- Cross-promotion of related stacks and alternative tools
Topics we cover
We focus on workflows where AI tools genuinely save time or unlock something new: content production, design and brand work, code and app building, research and analysis, voice and audio, video, and personal productivity.
All guides are written by editors who actually use the tools daily. No sponsored placements, no copy-paste vendor pitches.
All published guides (23)
- How to make a viral AI short in 30 minutes (2026 edition) - A four-tool stack and a repeatable script that turns a single idea into a polished, scroll-stopping vertical video — wit
- How to make a polished AI song from scratch (2026) - Two song generators, a vocal cleaner, and a smart arranger. Walk in with a vibe, walk out with a 3-minute track that act
- How to clone your voice ethically with AI (and what nobody tells you) - A 30-minute walk-through to record, clone, and deploy your own AI voice — plus the consent, watermarking, and use-case r
- How to launch a real website in one afternoon (2026) - From blank page to a polished live site with payments, contact form, and an email list — in about three hours, with thre
- How to write an AI-assisted newsletter people actually open - A weekly research-to-send workflow with a 50%+ open rate. Three tools, three hours, zero recycled prompts.
- How to make AI product photos that out-convert real ones - A studio-grade product shot with no studio, no photographer, and no expensive lighting kit. Three tools, repeatable acro
- How to make a 60-second AI explainer that doesn't look AI - A repeatable workflow for explainer videos with real motion, real voiceover, and zero uncanny-valley moments. Used by fo
- How to ship a working app this weekend without writing code - A real app — auth, database, deploy, custom domain — built and live in 48 hours by talking to three AI builders. Used by
- How to research any market in one hour with AI - A 60-minute deep research workflow that produces a full competitive landscape, customer insights, and a 10-page brief —
- How to design a pitch deck that doesn't look AI-generated - A 90-minute workflow for a 10-slide deck that closes meetings instead of ending them. Three tools, real numbers, and the
- Otter.ai vs Granola vs Fireflies.ai — Best AI meeting note-taker for 2026 - We ran the same three meetings through all three apps for a month. Here's which one earns a permanent spot in your stack
- Best AI translation earbuds 2026 — Timekettle vs Vasco vs Pocketalk - We took three of the most popular AI translation earbuds on a two-week trip across five countries. Here's the one that g
- Midjourney vs ChatGPT Images vs Firefly vs Leonardo vs Stable Diffusion — The 2026 image generator showdown - Five AI image generators dominate 2026 — and they're each best at something different. We ran the same six prompts throu
- Suno vs Udio vs AIVA vs Boomy — The honest 2026 AI music generator comparison - We generated 40 tracks across four AI music tools and tested them on real producers, real listeners, and real streaming
- Synthesia vs HeyGen vs D-ID vs Hedra — Best AI avatar video generator for 2026 - AI avatar video has quietly become a $2B market. We tested four tools on the same script in five languages. Here's which
- Runway Gen-4.5 vs Sora 2 vs Veo 3.1 — The honest 2026 video generator comparison - Three AI video models have eaten the entire generative video market. We rendered the same five prompts on each one. Here
- Perplexity vs ChatGPT Search vs Gemini vs Claude — Which AI search engine actually wins in 2026? - Search has changed more in the past 18 months than in the previous 18 years. We ran 50 real queries across the four AI s
- ElevenLabs vs Murf vs Play.ht — The 2026 AI voice generator comparison - We cloned the same voice in five tools and synthesised the same 200-word script in 12 languages. Here's the only one we'
- Cursor vs Windsurf vs Replit Agent vs Bolt vs Lovable — Best AI coding tool 2026 - We shipped the same small SaaS product five times — once with each tool. Different bugs, different speeds, different cos
- Jasper vs Copy.ai vs ChatGPT vs Claude — Best AI writing assistant for 2026 - Most marketing teams have replaced one writer with one AI seat. But which seat? We tested the four leaders on the same 1
- ChatGPT vs Claude in 2026: which one for what task (real-world test) - We ran both side by side for a week on writing, coding, research, vision, and long-context work. Here is what actually c
- The 12 best free AI tools we still use in 2026 (no trials, no asterisks) - Most lists of free AI tools are stitched together from affiliate trial links. This one is not. These twelve have free ti
- The 7-tool AI stack a solo founder actually needs in 2026 - After two years of testing every shiny launch, this is the boring, opinionated stack we keep coming back to. Seven tools