Guides

These pick up where the beginner tracks leave off. Intermediate lessons are one job with the prompt written out. Advanced lessons send, book, research, or publish, and each one stops for your OK.

Agents

Grok Bot builds that read, draft, and wait for you to send or book.

Intermediate

Intermediate

How to Build a Grok Bot logoGrok Bot That Organizes Your Email (Triage, Labels and Reply Drafts)

Build a Grok Bot that sorts your Gmail every weekday: labels, a short 'needs you' list, and reply drafts you approve. No code. Copy-paste prompts.

25–30 min, plus 2–3 test runs

Intermediate

How to Build a Grok Bot logoGrok Bot That Turns Your Blog or Videos Into a Week of Social Posts

Build a Grok Bot that turns your newest blog post or video into a week of social post drafts in your voice. Saved to a doc. You publish.

25 min, plus 1–2 test runs

Intermediate

How to Build a Grok Bot logoGrok Bot That Tracks Your Spending and Finds Forgotten Subscriptions

Build a Grok Bot that turns your bank CSV into a monthly spending summary and finds forgotten subscriptions. No bank login. You cancel.

20–25 min, plus 10 min each month

Intermediate

How to Build a Grok Bot logoGrok Bot That Plans Your Trip and Watches Prices (You Book)

Build a Grok Bot that compares flights and hotels, writes your itinerary, and pings you when prices drop below budget. You book.

25–30 min, plus a daily check until you book

Intermediate

How to Build a Grok Bot logoGrok Bot That Checks Your Calendar Every Week (Conflicts, Prep Notes, Free Time)

Build a Grok Bot that checks next week's Google Calendar every Sunday: conflicts, no-agenda meetings, focus time and prep briefs. Read-only.

20–25 min, plus 1–2 test runs

Intermediate

How to Build a Grok Bot logoGrok Bot That Writes Your Weekly Report From a Google Sheet

Build a Grok Bot that reads your Google Sheet every Friday and writes a one-page report: week vs last, 3 wins, 3 risks, a chart. Read-only.

25–30 min, plus 2 test runs

Advanced

Advanced

How to Build an AI Team With Grok Bot logoGrok Bot: a Chief of Staff and 3 Specialist Bots

Build a Grok Bot team: a Chief of Staff Bot that writes your morning digest and hands work to Inbox, Calendar and Research Bots. One owner per job.

75–90 min, plus one supervised week

Advanced

How to Run a Content Calendar With Grok Bot logoGrok Bot: It Queues Your Posts, You Press Post

Build a Grok Bot content calendar: it plans a month of posts in a Google Sheet, drafts each one, and at post time hands you the final post to publish.

75 min, plus two supervised weeks

Advanced

How to Build a Grok Bot logoGrok Bot That Logs Important Emails Into a Google Sheet (and Reminds You to Follow Up)

Build a Grok Bot that logs orders, receipts, invoices and leads from Gmail into a Google Sheet, then drafts follow-ups for anything still waiting.

45–60 min, plus one supervised week

Advanced

How to Build a Grok Bot logoGrok Bot Research Desk That Watches Your Market and Sends a Sourced Monday Brief

Build a Grok Bot research desk: it tracks competitors, prices and news, reads newsletters sent to its own address and sends a sourced Monday brief.

60–75 min, plus three Mondays to tune

Advanced

How to Build a Grok Bot logoGrok Bot That Schedules Meetings From Your Email

Build a Grok Bot that spots meeting requests in Gmail, finds free times, drafts a reply with 3 options and books the slot after you say yes.

60 min, plus one supervised week

Advanced

How to Build a Grok Bot logoGrok Bot That Sends Your Weekly Report for You, With Your Approval

Upgrade your weekly-report Grok Bot: it reads your Sheet, writes the report, drafts the team email or Slack post, and sends only after your OK.

60 min, plus one supervised week (two Fridays)

Chatbots

Prompting, memory, files, images, research, and reusable assistants.

Intermediate

Intermediate

How to Make AI Images: Every Chatbot Compared

Make AI images free in ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI or Copilot, or step up to Midjourney. See which is best for text, photo edits and style.

~15 min

Intermediate

AI Projects Explained (ChatGPT logoChatGPT, Claude logoClaude, Gems, Grok logoGrok, Copilot, Perplexity logoPerplexity)

What AI Projects are, how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Copilot and Perplexity versions differ, their file limits, and how to set one up.

~13 min

Intermediate

How to Use AI With Your Files: PDFs, Screenshots, Spreadsheets

Upload a PDF, screenshot or spreadsheet to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok or Copilot and get answers you can check. File limits and what never to upload.

~12 min

Intermediate

ChatGPT logoChatGPT Projects Step by Step

Set up a ChatGPT Project the right way: files, instructions, project-only memory and sharing. Includes Free vs Plus vs Pro limits for 2026.

~10 min

Intermediate

How to Talk to AI: A Simple Prompt Formula That Works in Any Chatbot

A 5-part prompt formula (goal, context, example, format, check) that gets better answers from any AI chatbot. Before-and-after examples included.

~14 min

Intermediate

Make AI Remember You: Memory and Custom Instructions

Set custom instructions once and see, edit or switch off what ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok and Copilot remember. Copy-paste templates for 4 personas.

~11 min

Intermediate

Instant vs Thinking vs Pro: Which AI Mode to Use (2026)

Every AI app renamed its modes in 2026. Here's which mode to pick in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok for everyday jobs, plus old-to-new names.

~12 min

Advanced

Advanced

Advanced Prompting: Prompt Chains, Self-Checks and Reusable Templates That Work in Any Chatbot

Five advanced prompting techniques for any chatbot: prompt chains, AI interviews, rubrics, self-critique and saved templates, each shown on a real job.

~16 min

Advanced

Put AI on Autopilot: Automations That Run on a Schedule or When an Email Arrives (Grok logoGrok, ChatGPT logoChatGPT, Claude logoClaude, Gemini logoGemini)

Set up a 7 AM AI briefing and an important-email alert in Grok Automations, ChatGPT tasks, Claude scheduled tasks and Gemini. Safety tips included.

~15 min

Advanced

How to Make AI Videos in 2026: Gemini logoGemini Omni, Flow, Grok logoGrok Imagine and Midjourney logoMidjourney Compared

Make AI videos from a photo and an idea in Gemini Omni, Google Flow, Grok Imagine and Midjourney. Costs, clip lengths, watermarks and likeness rules.

~14 min

Advanced

Build a Mini-App Without Code: Grok logoGrok Build, Claude logoClaude Artifacts, Gemini logoGemini Canvas and ChatGPT logoChatGPT Sites

Describe a budget calculator, chore chart or booking page and get a working app you can share with a link, using Grok Build, Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT.

~15 min

Advanced

Build Your Own AI Assistant: Gemini logoGemini Skills, Claude logoClaude Skills, ChatGPT logoChatGPT Plugins and Grok logoGrok Skills (Custom GPTs Are Retiring)

Custom GPTs are retiring. Build the same reusable assistant as a Gemini skill, a Claude Skill, a ChatGPT plugin or a Grok Skill, and move old GPTs and Gems.

~16 min

Advanced

Deep Research That's Actually Right: ChatGPT logoChatGPT vs Gemini logoGemini vs Claude logoClaude vs Grok logoGrok vs Perplexity logoPerplexity (Step-by-Step)

How to use deep research in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok and Perplexity: a 4-step method to scope, edit the plan, cross-check and get a 1-page brief.

~15 min

Advanced

The Google Research Stack: Deep Research → NotebookLM logoGemini Notebook (Formerly NotebookLM logoNotebookLM) → Audio and Video Overviews

Chain Google's research tools: run Gemini Deep Research, import it into Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM), ask cited questions and make Audio and Video Overviews.

~15 min