Foundation Route

How to Get Into AI: Do Something Real in Your First Session

The fastest way to get into AI is to do a real work task with it today, not watch an introduction course. Pick a task. Follow the route. Get a result.

15 steps ~1h 15min For all professionals Free

Getting into AI means building the habit of using it on real tasks, not finishing a series of theory videos. The most effective starting point is a hands-on route where you do actual work with AI tools from step one. On aidowith.me, the Practical Prompts route has 15 steps that cover the core AI skill: writing prompts that produce useful output on real work tasks. You'll do writing tasks, analysis tasks, research tasks, and summarization tasks, each one building on the previous step's prompting approach. The route takes about 75 minutes and ends with a personal prompt library you can use at work the next morning. No prior AI experience needed. No accounts to set up before you start except a free ChatGPT account. Most people who've spent weeks watching AI tutorials get more practical skill from this 75-minute route than from 10 hours of video content, because doing a real task with AI is how the skill develops, not watching someone else do it.

Last updated: April 2026

The Problem and the Fix

Without a route

  • You've watched 5 YouTube videos about AI and still don't know what to do with it at work
  • Every AI intro course starts with history and theory instead of showing you how to use the tools
  • You feel behind your colleagues who seem to get real output from AI while you get generic text

With aidowith.me

  • 15-step route where you do real tasks with AI from step 1, no theory required first
  • Prompting frameworks that work on writing, analysis, research, and summarization tasks
  • A personal prompt library you finish and use at work the next morning after 75 minutes

Who Builds This With AI

Marketers

Content, campaigns, and briefs done in hours instead of days.

Sales & BizDev

Prep calls, draft outreach, research prospects in minutes.

Managers & Leads

Reports, presentations, and team comms handled faster.

How It Works

1

Do your first real task with AI

Start with a writing or summarization task from your own work. The route shows you how to frame the prompt and what to do when the output needs adjustment.

2

Build your prompting framework

Work through the core patterns: context, role, format, constraint. Apply each one to a different task type. By step 10 you'll have a system that works on almost anything.

3

Build and save your prompt library

Take the 5 to 7 prompts you've refined during the route and save them in a format you can reuse. This library is what makes the skill stick after the route ends.

Get into AI by doing something real today

15 steps. About 75 minutes. Real work output from AI before the session ends.

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What You Walk Away With

Do your first real task with AI

Build your prompting framework

Build and save your prompt library

A personal prompt library you finish and use at work the next morning after 75 minutes

"I'd been avoiding AI because I didn't know where to start. Finished the route in one evening and used 3 of the prompts the next morning in a real meeting prep."
- Project manager, consulting firm

Questions

Start with a language model like ChatGPT, which requires no technical knowledge to use. The skill you're building is prompt writing: giving AI clear instructions and context so it produces useful output. The aidowith.me Practical Prompts route builds that skill in 15 steps and about 75 minutes. You need a free ChatGPT account and something you want to get done at work. No coding, no API keys, no technical setup required to complete the route and get real results.

Focus on the tasks you do every week that take more time than they should: writing emails, summarizing documents, preparing for meetings, drafting reports, and researching topics. AI can speed up all of these if you know how to prompt it well. The aidowith.me Practical Prompts route covers these use cases in 15 steps. You'll finish with a personal set of prompts built around your specific work, not generic examples from a textbook. That's the practical edge that changes how you work.

You can have AI producing useful output on real work tasks in about 75 minutes if you follow the Practical Prompts route on aidowith.me. That's the time it takes to work through all 15 steps and build your prompt library. Some people get useful output in the first 10 minutes of step 1. The route builds on that initial success and turns it into a repeatable system. After 75 minutes you have both the skill and the saved prompts to use the next day.