How to Get Ahead With AI: A Six-Step System

How to get ahead with AI in six steps: multiply your skills, learn faster, build your own tools, automate the admin and use AI as a second brain. Watch or read.

Most people who've tried AI and shrugged at it were using it to rephrase emails. That's a fine use of a powerful tool in the same way a sports car is a fine way to pop to the shops.

Early AI tools earned the scepticism. They felt dumb and often created more work than they saved. What changed was pointing AI at code, automations and workflows instead of writing, where the newer models went from dumb to smart and fast almost overnight.

What follows is a six-step system for how to get ahead with AI, in business and outside it, with the examples and prompts that go with each step. The framing is familiar but holds up: AI won't necessarily replace you, but a person using AI will.