AI Basics DIY Kit - The Layered Future
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Your free AI Basics starter guide.

This kit is for you, working on your own, at your own pace.
No class needed. Plan on 60 to 90 minutes total, or 15 minutes a day for a week.

What's inside
- AI-Basics-DIY-Workbook.pdf   - 6 short lessons, exercises and fill-in boxes. Print it or fill it on screen.
- web-worksheet/index.html     - the same lessons as a click-through worksheet. Open it in any browser.
                                 Your answers save in that browser only. Works offline.
- practice-files/              - 5 files from Ridgeline Landscape & Hardscape, a made-up company:
    weekly-sales-orders.xlsx       completed jobs, estimates and a revenue summary
    customer-feedback-export.csv   customer reviews, emails and calls
    team-updates-week-40.docx      notes from each crew and the office
    review-instructions.docx       how the weekly review should be written
    last-week-business-review.pdf  a finished example review to match

How to start
1. Open the workbook (PDF) or the web worksheet. Pick one.
2. Open your AI tool (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot, any of them works).
3. Do Lesson 1. Each lesson has a prompt to copy, and boxes to write what happened.
4. In Lesson 4 you upload all 5 practice files. The finished review is the
   example the AI should match.
5. Do the "find the 3 planted problems" challenge before you look at the answer key.
6. Then swap in your own business, and follow the 7-day plan.

Everything in the practice files is made up, so it's safe to upload anywhere.
The CSV has no branding or credit row so it stays clean for analysis.

Next steps
- Free 20-minute call with Curt: https://www.thelayeredfuture.com/book
- 5-minute Quick Check: https://www.thelayeredfuture.com/quick-check
- More free guides: https://www.thelayeredfuture.com/resources
- AI in the Wild, our real-world experiments: YouTube @TLF_by_CloosEffects,
  Instagram @the_layered_future

Learn the basics. Explore the possibilities.
Time is your most valuable currency.

thelayeredfuture.com
Credits: built on ideas from Sabrina Ramonov's 5 Stages of AI Mastery and her
free Practical AI practice files, and Geoff Woods' CRIT prompting
(Context, Role, Interview, Task).
