Clear Promise
Each preview gives one useful move in 10-15 minutes and points to the complete artifact the paid class helps you build.
Free Preview Shelf
Try one useful move before buying a Build.
These previews are small, practical samples from The Practical AI Workbench. Each one should help you make one piece of work clearer in 10-15 minutes, then show what the full class helps you build.
Preview Clarity
The free preview should be useful without pretending to be the full class. Use this quick check before choosing a sample.
Who This Is For
Self-starters who want to test the teaching style, tool-agnostic framing, and artifact-based approach before buying a self-paced Build, Starter Bundle, or Founding Lifetime Access.
First 15 Minutes
Choose one preview, bring one real but low-risk example, complete the small exercise, then decide whether to stop or follow the paid artifact path.
Quality Checks
You can name the useful move, paid artifact, safety boundary, platform-agnostic transfer, and natural next step without a walkthrough.
Preview Lessons
Each preview teaches one useful move. The paid class adds the complete student path, templates, worked example, practice labs, common mistakes, capstone, rubric, checkpoint, and downloadable pack.
Prompt Foundations
Turn one weak AI request into a structured work brief with context, constraints, format, and review criteria.
Make Your Work Legible
Use a safe dry-run cleanup prompt on a messy folder listing without touching real files.
AI-Ready Work OS
Create the first three files that make AI handoffs less repetitive and more inspectable.
AI Surfaces
Route real tasks to chat, projects, harnesses, agents, runtimes, or human-only lanes.
Basic Agents
Decide whether one recurring helper idea should stay a prompt, become a template, or become a narrow draft-only agent.
Agentic Workflows
Score one recurring task before turning it into an AI-assisted workflow.
Choose The Right Preview
Start with the problem you actually feel. The preview library is not a syllabus; it is a set of doors into the right paid artifact.
| If Your Problem Is... | Try This Preview | Natural Paid Path |
|---|---|---|
| AI answers sound generic, vague, or hard to review. | Prompt Foundations Preview | Prompt Foundations |
| Your files, notes, screenshots, or PDFs are too messy to hand to AI. | Make Your Work Legible Preview | Make Your Work Legible |
| You keep re-explaining the same active work to AI. | Work OS Preview | AI-Ready Work OS |
| You are unsure when to use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity, CLI, MCP, or human review. | AI Surfaces Preview | AI Surfaces and Harnesses |
| One recurring task might deserve a helper. | Basic Agents Preview | Basic Agents |
| A recurring process needs a repeatable, reviewable path. | Agentic Workflows Preview | Agentic Workflows |
Default first preview: choose Make Your Work Legible if you want the most differentiated offer. Choose Prompt Foundations if you want the broadest first win.
Not sure where to start? Open one preview, use it for 10-15 minutes with low-risk work, then choose the matching paid Build only if you want the complete artifact path.
Still choosing? Use the Diagnostic to pick by bottleneck, or open the Artifact Gallery to see what each paid class helps you build.
From Free Move To Paid Artifact
The preview should help even if the reader never buys. The paid Build is for the complete artifact path: templates, worked examples, practice labs, rubric, checkpoint, and downloadable pack.
Prompt Foundations
From one stronger prompt to a reusable prompt system.
Free move Rewrite one vague request into a usable work brief.
Paid artifact A prompt pack for drafting, reviewing, meetings, research, and recurring AI work.
Make Your Work Legible
From one folder inventory to a safer context workflow.
Free move Make a read-only inventory and dry-run cleanup table.
Paid artifact A cleanup plan, naming rules, source-of-truth checks, context packet, and cleanup receipt.
AI-Ready Work OS
From three starter files to a maintainable operating layer.
Free move Create the first files for active context, source map, and handoff clarity.
Paid artifact A one-lane Work OS with source rules, assistant notes, receipts, and keeping-current routines.
AI Surfaces
From tool confusion to a platform-agnostic routing map.
Free move Route five tasks to chat, project, harness, agent, runtime, or human-only handling.
Paid artifact A decision system for choosing ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity, CLI, MCP, and human review.
Basic Agents
From a helper idea to a bounded first-agent pack.
Free move Decide whether one recurring helper idea should become an agent at all.
Paid artifact A charter, context packet, permissions, loop, tests, escalation rules, and receipts.
Agentic Workflows
From recurring task to reviewed human-plus-agent workflow.
Free move Name the trigger, inputs, output, and human gate before automating.
Paid artifact A workflow SOP with staged actions, evidence, evals, failure handling, maintenance rules, and receipts.
Bundle cue: choose the Starter Bundle when the problem is both weak prompts and messy context. Choose Founding Lifetime Access when you want the complete six-Build path.
From Preview To Build
A preview should clarify whether the full Build is worth your time. Use what happened in the sample to choose the smallest useful next step.
| If This Happens | What It Means | Best Next Step |
|---|---|---|
| You can name the useful move, paid artifact, safety boundary, and next step. | The preview gave enough clarity to choose. | Use the matching self-serve checkout link if you want the complete Build. |
| The preview helped, but the paid artifact still feels unclear. | The free lesson may be enough for now. | Stop, use the diagnostic, or compare artifacts before buying. |
| You need group delivery or live help. | The self-paced Build may not be the right format. | Use the live workshop page instead of buying a class that does not match the job. |
| The preview solved enough for now. | The free sample worked. | Stop there. No purchase is required for the preview to be useful. |
Paid rule: use checkout only when you want the complete student path, not because the free preview created pressure to continue.
What The Paid Class Adds
The preview should be useful by itself. The paid class is for the complete artifact and review path.
Student Path
A guided lesson sequence with concrete outcomes and a first 15-minute artifact.
Download Pack
Templates, prompts, checklists, examples, labs, capstone material, and completion checkpoint.
Proof Of Work
A rubric or self-assessment that helps the learner choose Complete, Revise First, or Hold.
Use Boundaries
These previews are designed for practical, low-risk experimentation. They do not include custom consulting, done-for-you implementation, external certification, or permission to use AI output without human review.
Good Preview Material
- A fake or low-risk example.
- A small folder listing you can inspect manually.
- A draft prompt, planning memo, workshop idea, or recurring team task.
Do Not Use
- Private client, student, patient, employee, legal, financial, or medical material.
- Files you are not allowed to share with an AI tool.
- Anything that would create a public, irreversible, or regulated action without review.