Assisting Intelligence

How to Build Authentic in the Age of AI

The book is published and available in Hardcover, Paperback, and ebook format, and available at all major booksellers worldwide.

A Golden Retriever, a 15th-Century Printer,
and a Generative AI Model walk into a bar …


No, this isn’t the setup of a joke or AI hallucination. It’s the beginning of an extraordinary journey through time and technology. Dive into the age of AI to:

Ignite Ideas

Learn how to craft prompts that spark innovation, and fuel an agile innovation engine.

Preserve Authenticity

Discover how to use AI and protect your unique voice and brand.

Expand Knowledge

Explore the power of AI to assist learning and understanding.

The Journey to Build Authentic Knowledge
in the Age of AI

Want to know what is included in the book, follow the Table of Contents, a journey that spans 500 years of knowledge and learning, two species, and a chairlift.

Opening Lines ...

When you throw a ball to a Golden Retriever, you may think you know what you’ll get back, but you can never be sure. The same is true when you ask an AI a question. You may think you know what the answer will be, but the reality is often far more intricate and surprising than you imagined ...

Our Books

Navigate the AI Revolution
with Clarity & Confidence

We started developing digital learning over 20 years ago. Three years ago, we started the research that resulted in two books and forms the foundational knowledge our courses, our strategy, the frameworks, and the context our AI Assistants leverage to deliver you strategic AI literacy.
AI Literacy 

Two Ways to Begin

Master a skill. Or master the age.
One is complete. The other is continuous. Both deliver absolute value.

Individual Courses

Master a Skill.

Each course is a complete work. You choose a discipline and emerge with a new mindset.

  • Practical teaches you to direct AI with intention instead of hoping for the best.
  • Strategic teaches you to protect your brand voice before AI rewrites it for you.
  • Advanced teaches you to read what AI gives back with the same rigor you put into what you asked.
  • Agile gives you a repeatable method for building, testing, and learning so your work improves every iteration.

What's Included

One complete course. Course Sandbox. Playbooks and workbooks. Audio version.

The AI Literacy Program

Master the Age.

The AI Literacy Program is your commitment to stay current. AI literacy is not a destination; it is how you work now.

  • The Complete Curriculum: You get every literacy course to build your strategic foundation.
  • Built-in Sparring Partners: You gain access to custom AI assistants programmed on the exact frameworks you are learning. They hold the standard, so you never start from zero.
  • Continuous Evolution: AI moves, and the program moves with it. New courses, playbooks, and audio drop as the technology shifts.


Ancora Imparo, I still learn. 

What's Included

Complete and growing course library. Full Sandbox library. AI Lab Bench: build, test, and learn. AI Prompt Lexicon. 24 Sparring Partner Directives. Complete playbook library. Audio library, growing.

From the Work, the Framework .... Our Writings 

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Assisting Intelligence

Assisting Intelligence documents first encounters with AI, making the concepts approachable by connecting it to the familiar—from the journey of a golden retriever to the lessons of history—and placing it firmly in the context of learning. It is a journey from a black box to a place of understanding. It provides the fundamentals for grounding agency, authenticity, values, and norms to hold onto.
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Practical AI Style

Practical AI Style delivers the "how." It translates that philosophy into practice, providing the concrete grammar and lasting rules for directing AI. This is the authentic, structural work—grounded in the logic of language, not fleeting features—that ensures our courses are built on a foundation of reason.
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Substack Channel

A book captures an argument frozen in time. This channel captures evolving evidence. Here, we explore evolving strategies that exist between the finished pages. It is the work-in-progress, a real-time exploration of AI's constant change. Subscribe to read the thinking beyond the books.