F1 · Foundations · about 1.5 hours
2026 curriculum edition · F1Get comfortable with AI
Learn to ask for useful help, improve a draft, and check the facts before sharing your work.
Original course title & technical overview
Working with AI. The one method every track reuses: how to get professional work out of Claude, ChatGPT, Grok or Gemini, and how to check it before a client sees it.
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2026 EDITIONWhat you will practise
Learn to ask for useful help, improve a draft, and check the facts before sharing your work.
Detailed deliverables
Nothing yet. F1 gives you the method every service track is built on, so each track stays short.
Example service prices
Free
Planning estimate, not a promise
Finding clients takes time. There is no guaranteed timeline or income.
Tools (free plans have limits): One AI tool of your choice (free plan), A notes app or Google Doc
You will make
- A saved 5-part prompt card you can reuse for any task
- A brand voice guide built from three samples of a sample client’s writing
- A fact-check habit: two planted errors found and fixed in a generated article
- A client workspace (Project, custom instructions or saved prompts) in your tool
Inside this course
7 lessons · 7 AI instruction templates · 7 worked examples · 3 exam versionsLesson 1 is open as a free preview, ready-to-use AI instructions included. Sign up free to unlock the rest and try AI instructions in the practice area.
- 1🔒 Sign inWhat you will learn · 2 min
- 2🔒 Sign inSet up your tools · 10 min
- 3Preview freeWhat these tools are (and are not) · 10 minAI tools can help you draft and explore ideas, but they can also get things wrong. Try one tool and check its answer before using it.
- 4🔒 Sign inThe 5-part prompt · 15 minTell the AI who it is helping, what it needs to know, what to do, how to format the answer, and an example. These five parts make your instructions clearer.
- 5🔒 Sign inIterate, don’t accept · 12 minTreat the first answer as a starting point. Ask for a specific improvement, compare the new version, and keep editing until it fits the job.
- 6🔒 Sign inBrand voice capture · 15 minLook at a few things the client has written. Describe how they sound so your new writing feels like the same person.
- 7🔒 Sign inFact-check and originality · 15 minCheck names, numbers, quotes, and other claims against reliable sources. Remove anything you cannot support, and protect private client information.
- 8🔒 Sign inSave and reuse · 10 minSave useful instructions and organise each client’s material in its own workspace. That makes the next job easier to pick up.
- 9🔒 Sign inTerminology: the words everyone uses · 20 minLearn the common words you will see in AI tools and client conversations. Use this lesson as a reference whenever an unfamiliar term comes up.
- 10🔒 Sign inCertification exam · 20 min10 questions · 80% to pass · three versions, a retake is never the same test.
- 11🔒 Sign inF1 complete · 5 min
Honest expectations. AI tools write fluent drafts fast. They also invent facts, flatten everyone’s voice into the same voice, and sound confident when wrong. Everything you sell will be AI-assisted and human-finished. The finishing is the job.