AI Elements of Style

Practical
AI Style

Essential Elements for Building Your AI Style

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

Navigate the AI Revolution with 
Style and Control

Artificial intelligence is transforming business at lightning speed—but are you steering its power, or is it steering you? Practical AI Style is an indispensable guide for crafting an Organizational AI Style Guide, ensuring clarity, consistency, and responsible AI interactions across your organization.

AI is transforming business fast, bringing both opportunity and risk—messaging can become inconsistent, and brand voice diluted. Practical AI Style offers your AI Style Guide, a modern Elements of Style for AI use. It anchors AI in clarity, consistency, and values, ensuring AI reflects your brand’s true purpose. Unlike policies, it focuses on how to use AI responsibly—setting tone, intent, and transparency norms that turn AI into a trusted partner.

What Is an AI Style Guide?

It defines principles for creating and managing AI content, helping teams produce aligned, trustworthy outputs. 

A Practical Workbook

More than theory, it offers exercises and templates to build your guide. You’ll learn to define your AI’s tone and ethics and train teams to write clear AI prompts.

Start Your AI Journey

AI’s pace is fast—but mastery is possible. Practical AI Style gives you the tools to build clarity and control, turning risk into advantage.

Practical AI Style Chapters

This book provides practical exercises, templates, and guidance for collaboratively creating your AI Style Guide's first draft. It is your essential toolkit for crafting clear, consistent, and responsible AI practices. Chapters build progressively from fundamentals to advanced considerations. For your initial read, follow the sequence; thereafter, use chapters as a reference. This book is divided into eleven chapters:
The chapters build progressively, from fundamentals to advanced considerations. On your first read, follow the sequence. Later, return to the chapters as needed for reference. 

Supported by abundant resources,Practical AI Styleassists your progression along the roadmap to AI style. Working through exercises, you will develop your own Style Guide—one relevant to your intentions, integrity, and approach to AI. By establishing AI usage norms within your organization, your AI Style Guide shapes AI’s future within your walls. This book builds that foundation.
This book is divided into eleven chapters:

  1. Define: Establish foundational concepts.
  2. Decide: Determine your AI's purpose and boundaries.
  3. Elements: Apply core principles for effective AI style.
  4. Assemble: Guide clear and concise interactions.
  5. Brand: Forge your lasting AI identity.
  6. Agents: Shape AI behavior and boundaries.
  7. Augment: Enhance human capability with AI.
  8. Approach: Frame AI guidance through human insight.
  9. Foundation: Anchor AI Style in structure, guardrails, and trust.
  10. Author: Build your own AI Style Guide framework.
  11. Congruence: Concluding principles for impactful AI style.

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.

The Assisting Intelligence Catalogue

Master AI by doing. These are not static courses; they are active, agent-powered workshops. Each one includes a dedicated AI Assistant to guide your work.

Intentional AI
Style

Live

Move beyond generic outputs. In this workshop, you will use a dedicated AI Assistant to engineer strategic arguments, transforming your intent into a high-impact outcome while protecting your authentic voice.


Practical AI
Style

(Coming soon)

This course and its built-in AI Assistant teach you the foundational elements of AI style. You will not just learn theory; you will actively build your organization's authentic voice.

Learning
Story

(Coming soon)

An AI cannot tell your story, but it can be a powerful collaborator. This course and its AI Story Assistant provide the narrative frameworks to shape perspectives and drive outcomes.

PerStart
Onboarding

(Coming soon)

Onboarding is a critical moment of change. This program pairs every new hire with a dedicated AI Assistant, transforming their first 90 days from a simple orientation into a guided Performance Start.

Close the AI Vending Machine.

It is time to stop settling for outputs and start engineering outcomes. Master the Intentional AI Style framework and train with our proprietary AI Coach to turn artificial intelligence into a strategic advantage.

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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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