Beginner 8 mins
Writing & Editing
Turn rough notes into a clear, confident email
Shape scattered notes into a concise email with a clear request while keeping your voice.
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Beginner 12 mins
Daily Productivity
Plan a realistic week from a messy task list
Turn competing tasks into a workable week with priorities, focus blocks and buffer time.
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Beginner 15 mins
Research & Learning
Summarize a long PDF into a decision-ready briefing
Turn a dense report into a concise brief with traceable evidence, risks and next actions.
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Beginner 20 mins
Audio / Video
Turn a transcript into chapters, show notes and key takeaways
Package a recording into accurate navigation, notes and takeaways using only what was said.
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Intermediate 25 mins
Business Automations
Turn spreadsheet data into a plain-English weekly report
Explain changes, exceptions and follow-up questions without inventing causes.
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Beginner 25 mins
Job Hunt
Tailor your résumé to a role without inventing experience
Align your résumé with a job description while keeping every claim truthful and evidence-based.
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Beginner pathways
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Get started with AI at work
Four everyday work tasks that show what an AI assistant is genuinely good at, starting with the lowest-risk one.
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4 recipes in order
Write more clearly
Move from a rough draft to a message that sounds like you, holds up under scrutiny, and works on more than one channel.
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4 recipes in order
Research without trusting invented facts
Use AI for research while keeping a habit of checking sources, because language models state wrong things confidently.
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Organise a busy week
Get everything out of your head, decide what actually matters, and leave room for the things that are not work.
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5 recipes in order
Prepare for a job application
Fix the gaps in your CV, tailor it to one role, write the letter, then rehearse the conversation and the salary question.
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Turn existing content into new formats
One recording can become a clean transcript, chapters, a newsletter, a short script and a shot list, without inventing anything new.
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Workflow Stacks
End-to-end chains that hand work from one tool to the next.
The 15-Minute Podcast Repurposer
Turn a reviewed podcast transcript into accurate show notes, a platform-neutral social thread and a carousel draft without losing timestamps or speaker meaning.
Descript→Claude→Canva
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Inbound Lead Auto-Responder
Turn a new enquiry into a grounded reply draft and notify the right team member, with explicit human approval before anything is sent.
Zapier→ChatGPT→Slack
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Deep Market Research Brief
Build a source-checked market brief whose claims remain traceable to inspected URLs and dates, with assumptions kept separate from evidence.
Perplexity→Source register→Claude
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