AI Tutorials & Guides

Real workflows, real tools, no fluff. Each guide is a step-by-step recipe you can copy in under an hour.

What you get in each guide

• A clear problem statement and end result with screenshots
• Tools used, linked to available reviews and editorial context
• 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.

Guides & tutorials (50)

• Build an editorial fact-check pass - Set up a source-first review pass so generated prose never becomes evidence by itself.
• Make a brand voice reference - Turn approved examples into practical writing rules that a human editor can apply and update.
• Prepare a board update - Condense verified operating data into a board-ready narrative while retaining links to the underlying evidence.
• Build a customer-success QBR - Prepare a QBR narrative from validated account data and make recommendations reviewable by the account team.
• Design an email nurture sequence - Draft a consent-respecting nurture sequence with clear exits, approvals, and measurement definitions.
• Create a competitive landscape brief - Map public positioning and gaps without assuming competitor claims are current or complete.
• Plan a privacy-aware research study - Use AI to organise a study plan while keeping identifiable participant data and consent decisions with researchers.
• Make a recruiting interview kit - Create structured interview materials from approved role criteria, with a human deciding every hiring outcome.
• Create a course assessment rubric - Build a transparent rubric that explains judgment criteria rather than delegating grades to a model.
• Prepare a lesson plan with AI - Draft a lesson plan around learning objectives, then have an educator verify level, safety, and inclusion.
• Create a nonprofit grant outline - Organise evidence and program logic for a grant application without inventing outcomes or citations.
• Turn a webinar into learning assets - Repurpose an approved recording into clips, notes, and exercises with timestamps for verification.
• Plan a local event promotion workflow - Coordinate event copy, visual assets, and reminders while keeping attendee data out of prompts.
• Write a release-notes draft - Draft reader-friendly release notes from confirmed changes, then route every claim to a product owner.
• Prepare an engineering handoff - Turn approved designs into an implementation packet with ambiguity called out rather than guessed.
• Prototype a mobile app flow - Move from a bounded user story to a testable prototype without presenting AI output as usability evidence.
• Create a podcast episode brief - Shape a researched episode brief that protects guests from fabricated context and unsupported claims.
• Make a user onboarding video - Plan a short onboarding video around a real task, with a human checking every UI instruction.
• Triage a product feedback backlog - Cluster feedback as a starting point, then have a product lead validate each theme against source records.
• Create a support macro library - Turn approved support guidance into editable response macros with clear escalation rules.
• Build a sales-call research brief - Prepare a concise, source-linked brief for a discovery call without treating web summaries as facts.
• Prepare a client kickoff pack - Create a practical kickoff pack that exposes assumptions and assigns next actions.
• Draft a plain-language policy explainer - Translate policy language into a reader-friendly explainer while preserving a legal review gate.
• Plan a product discovery workshop - Use AI to prepare—not replace—the facilitator's questions, evidence, and decision log.
• Create an accessible social carousel - Draft a slide-by-slide carousel, then check contrast, captions, and factual claims before publishing.
• Build a weekly content calendar with AI - Plan one publishable week from real audience questions without automating your editorial judgment.
• Turn interview notes into a decision brief - Convert consented interview notes into an evidence-led brief with claims a human can trace.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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'
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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