AI Foundations: Zero to AI Hero

AI Foundations: Zero to AI Hero starts with the skills that make a first conversation useful. In Talk, you learn what AI is good at, how prompts and context shape an answer, and why verification matters. Personalize turns that practice into a reusable working profile that captures your preferences, goals, and boundaries.

Build uses that profile to produce a finished document, plan, analysis, or checklist. Visualize turns the Build artifact into a clear diagram, deck, or one-pager with accurate labels and accessible presentation. Connect shows how to ground AI in your own files and tools, then create a cited briefing from learner-provided material.

Act introduces safe delegation. You write a bounded job specification, keep approval points clear, and finish one agent task with an audit checklist. Scale combines your profile, briefs, guardrails, workflows, and verification rules into a personal AI playbook. You run a workflow twice, note the improvement, and keep the version you can reuse.

The core path requires no coding and has no hard lesson locks. You can work in ChatGPT or Claude throughout. Lessons 5 through 7 also offer optional, clearly bounded coding-agent stretches with Codex or Claude Code for learners who want them. Each lesson links to what you made before, while remaining useful on its own. By the end, you have practical evidence of how you work with AI and a portable system you can adapt as tools change.

1. 1. Talk: Understand AI and Get Useful AnswersCurrent lessonUnderstand prompts, context, and verification through useful conversations.
2. 2. Personalize: Make AI Work Like YouNot startedBuild a portable working profile that makes every AI session more relevant.
3. 3. Build: Turn Ideas into Real WorkPREMIUMTurn a clear brief into a finished, verified artifact you can reuse.
4. 4. Visualize: Communicate with Images and DataPREMIUMTransform verified evidence into an accurate, accessible visual.
5. 5. Connect: Ground AI in Your Files and ToolsPREMIUMCreate cited briefings grounded in your approved files and tools.
6. 6. Act: Delegate Work Safely with AI AgentsPREMIUMDelegate bounded work with approvals, proof, and rollback.
7. 7. Scale: Build Your Personal AI Operating SystemPREMIUMCombine your profiles, briefs, guardrails, and workflows into a portable playbook.
8. 8. Style fixturePREMIUM