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From Will Stewart · EmpowerCore Solutions

You know AI matters. You just don't know where to start.
This is where.

16 plain-English guides that build on each other, from "what is AI, actually?" to running full workflows. Start at Chapter 1. No jargon, no hype, no assuming you already know.

The Complete Beginner's AI Playbook by Will Stewart

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From the desk of Will Stewart

Washington, DC

Dear buried business owner,

Every week I sit down with founders who are genuinely brilliant at what they do. And genuinely buried under work that shouldn't be theirs.

The pattern is always the same. A smart person built a business. The business grew. And somewhere along the way, the work that made them successful got replaced by the work that just keeps things running. Emails. Scheduling. Research. First drafts nobody reads twice. Twenty hours a week that need their hands but not their brain.

AI is how you get those hours back. Not by becoming a technologist. Not by learning to code. By learning a small set of tools well enough that they carry the operational weight.

And here's what nobody teaching AI will admit: the tools are the easy part. The missing piece is a starting point. Every tutorial, every post, every YouTube video begins three steps in, and assumes you already know the first three.

So I wrote the first three steps down. And the next thirteen. Sixteen guides, in order, each one building on the last. The same frameworks my paying clients get, written the way I talk to them: direct, practical, no fluff.

It's $17. You can be reading Chapter 1 tonight.

Will

Will Stewart · EmpowerCore Solutions

P.S. Chapter 1 is called "What Is AI?" On purpose. It's the question everyone's afraid to ask out loud, so it's the first one I answer.

The fastest-adopted product in the history of technology. And almost nobody uses it well.

November 2022. ChatGPT hits 100 million users in two months. Instagram needed two and a half years to do that. Nothing in the history of consumer technology had ever moved that fast.

Three years later, PwC found that over half of companies using AI have gained zero measurable value from it.

A hundred million people got the tool on day one. The tool was never the hard part. Knowing which tool does which job, and what to say to it, is the hard part. And that's a learnable skill. What it takes is a starting point and a sequence, and the sequence is the thing nobody sells you. There are a thousand tutorials for every tool. There's no order to them.

This book is the order.

Months to reach 100 million users

Instagram
TikTok
ChatGPT

Fastest consumer product adoption in history. Most of those users still type the same three requests.

A taste of what's inside:

  • The 4-ingredient prompt framework that turns "write me a LinkedIn post" into output you'd actually publish (Chapter 2)
  • Why serious AI users quietly move half their work to a tool most beginners never open (Chapter 5)
  • The 20-minute setup that ends generic AI answers permanently. Clients have saved 5-10 hours a week from this one step (Chapter 9)
  • The three-layer stack: research, synthesis, production, and which tool owns each layer (Chapter 11)
  • The AI that finishes real work while you're in a meeting, and the golden rule for briefing it (Chapter 13)
  • The exact quote where AI researcher Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding," and how non-coders now ship real software (Chapter 14)
  • The three conversations to have with your kids before they use AI without you (Chapter 15)
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Every chapter ships with a full-color visual guide.

16 infographics plus 8 bonus guides. Originally published to Will's LinkedIn audience of 46,000. Two samples:

The Beginner's Guide to ChatGPT — visual guide

Chapter 3 · ChatGPT

The Beginner's Guide to Claude — visual guide

Chapter 5 · Claude

Written for beginners.
Taken seriously by professionals.

Real reactions. Real names.

TS
Tim S.
Customer Success Manager · Enterprise GenAI Adoption

"Your spot-on definition of AI: the value lies not only in how concise it is, but also in the clarity it brings to the underlying shift."

His day job is rolling out AI inside corporations. He read a beginner's book and compared notes on the frameworks.

Sammie C. · Sales consultant

But seriously you brought my vision to life in like 3 minutes which is amazing!
I didn't think ChatGPT could do that!

Same tool she already had. The difference was the instruction.

Suzanne M. · Biotech executive

The graphics are really slowing me down. This is great.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!

After a two-prompt technique straight from the chapters in this book.

Full disclosure: Sammie and Suzanne were reacting to me walking them through this live. The Playbook is that walkthrough, written down. All 16 guides of it.

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Will Stewart, AI Implementation Consultant

Written by someone who does this for a living.

I run AI implementation sprints for small business owners. The frameworks in this book are the same ones my paying clients get. Written the way I talk: direct, practical, no fluff.

Will Stewart · LinkedIn Top Perspective Voice in AI · 30 years in tech and operations

What's actually inside

Every chapter builds on the one before it. Start at 1, or grab what you need.

01

What Is AI?The plain-English answer to the question nobody wants to ask out loud.

02

AI PromptingThe skill that unlocks every other chapter. Four ingredients, five rules.

03

ChatGPTThe world's most used AI tool, and how to actually use it.

04

GeminiThe AI that lives inside your Google life.

05

ClaudeThe AI that pushes back. And why that makes it better.

06

GrokThe AI that knows what's happening right now.

07

PerplexityThe AI that shows its work.

08

NotebookLMBuild a private AI that only knows what you know.

09

Your Personal AI AssistantThe 20-minute setup that ends generic outputs forever.

10

Document AnalysisTurn any file into a conversation.

11

AI Tool StackingHow to get 10x more output by connecting your tools.

12

AI AgentsAI that does things, not just says things.

13

ManusThe AI that works while you're doing something else.

14

Vibe CodingBuild real things with AI. No degree required.

15

AI for KidsA parent's playbook for raising AI-literate children.

16

AI EthicsFor regular people. No philosophy degree required.

PLUS the companion visual library: the 2026 AI model breakdown, free AI courses from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and top universities ranked, MIT's free AI pathway, and more.
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Fair questions, straight answers

"Won't this be outdated in six months?"

The specific model versions? Yes. That's exactly why this is a living document: every update is free, forever. Buy it once, own the current version permanently. And the frameworks (prompting, stacking, the assistant setup) don't expire when a version number changes. The tools keep getting better on their own. The principles are the part you're buying.

"Can't I find all this free on YouTube?"

Honestly? Most of it, yes. Scattered across 500 videos, in no order, mixed with hype, half of it outdated. You're not paying $17 for secrets. You're paying for sequence and filter: 16 guides that build on each other, written by someone who implements this stuff for paying clients every week and tells you where each tool falls short.

"I've already used ChatGPT. Is this too basic for me?"

Chapters 1-3, maybe. Chapters 9-14 are where casual users stall: the personal assistant setup, tool stacking, agents, Manus, vibe coding. Tim, the enterprise GenAI adoption manager quoted above, rolls out AI inside corporations for a living. He still compared notes on the frameworks.

"Do I need to be technical?"

No. It's written for the person who's slightly embarrassed to ask the basic questions out loud. No code, no jargon, and when a technical word is unavoidable, it gets defined in plain English the first time it appears.

"What exactly do I get?"

One document, instant delivery: all 16 guides, 16 full-color chapter infographics, plus a bonus library of 8 visual guides covering the 2026 model breakdown and the best free AI courses from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and top universities. Readable on any device. A chapter takes about ten minutes.

The Complete Beginner's AI Playbook

A month from now, you're not the one nodding along.

You're the one who knows which tool does which job, writes prompts that work the first time, and quietly gets more done before lunch than the tool-collectors manage all week.

All 16 guides. One document. Written the way I talk to my paying clients: direct, practical, no fluff, with the same frameworks I use in $1,997 implementation sprints woven throughout.

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Less than one month of the AI subscription you're already not using properly.
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The Clear Path Guarantee: read the first three guides. If this isn't the clearest starting point you've found, email me and I'll refund your $17. You keep all 16 guides anyway.
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P.S. Trying to get paid for AI work, not just use it? That's a different book: The AI Money Playbook, $7. This one teaches the tools. That one teaches the business.