AI still feels abstract
Start with one recurring task instead of a tour of tools.
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Make AI useful on work you already do.
A practical course for choosing the right tasks, giving useful context, checking the result, and protecting sensitive information.
Open Cadence on the App Store, then choose this course to start free. Android testers can request early access.
30 short lessons. Day 1 is ready.
- Best for
- Focus & habits
- Prerequisites
- No formal prerequisites
- Course length
- 30 daily lessons
- Lesson pace
- About 10 minutes a day
- Total learning time
- About 5 hours in total
- Access
- Available on the App Store, with early features and Android testing access
Try Day 1 now
Choose one useful AI task in two minutes.
Start with work you understand well enough to spot a weak or wrong result. Keep sensitive details out.
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Pick low-risk recurring work
Use non-sensitive notes to draft an agenda, outline, or first-pass summary.
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Name what good looks like
State the audience, length, required points, and facts the result must not invent.
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Keep the final decision
Check claims, tone, privacy, and missing context before you use or share anything.
A stronger first prompt
Turn these non-sensitive notes into a five-item agenda for a 30-minute team meeting. Put decisions first, flag missing information, and do not invent facts.
Read the result once as the meeting owner. Fix anything you could not defend yourself.
Want the full course? Open Cadence free and choose AI for Everyday Work.
Right for now
If any of this sounds familiar, start here.
Every lesson connects to a conversation, decision, or habit you can change between lessons.
The output sounds generic
Give better context and make the expected result visible.
You worry about mistakes
Build source, privacy, and judgment checks into the workflow.
You want time back
Improve summarizing, drafting, planning, and review work you already do.
Inside the course
Your first three days are already mapped.
The course follows a daily sequence, so the next practical move is waiting when you come back.
Task selection
Know when AI can help and when the work needs direct human judgment.
Clear prompting
Make the task, constraints, and output shape easy to follow.
Reliable review
Check facts, sources, tone, and missing context before using the result.
Repeatable workflow
Turn a good experiment into a process you can use again.
Course preview
30 short lessons
AI for Everyday Work
Day 1
Choose your first useful AI task
Choose one low-risk work task and define the AI role, safe input, and human review
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Day 2
The useful prompt shape
Write prompts with context, task, constraints, and output shape
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Day 3
Ask better follow-up questions
Use AI to expose missing context before you act
Course arc
From vague intention to repeatable moves.
Cadence turns the course into a returnable habit: short lesson, quick check, review, and the next useful step.
01 / 04Choose useful work
Find a low-risk task with a clear definition of done.
Guide the model
Provide context, constraints, examples, and useful follow-up.
Review the result
Catch unsupported claims, privacy risks, and weak reasoning.
Build the workflow
Save a repeatable process with a human decision point.
Full syllabus
30 lessons, arranged as one clear path.
Save time on real work with AI: shape useful prompts, turn notes into action, draft clearly, verify claims, protect sensitive details, and build one repeatable workflow.
Module 01
Foundations for Useful AI Work
Know where AI helps, where it fails, and how to ask clearly
- Day 1 Choose your first useful AI task
- Day 2 The useful prompt shape
- Day 3 Ask better follow-up questions
Module 02
Core Workplace Tasks
Use AI for summarizing, note cleanup, drafting, and verification
- Day 4 Summarize without losing decisions
- Day 5 Turn messy notes into next steps
- Day 6 Draft clearer work messages
- Day 7 Verify before you trust
Module 03
Planning and Decisions
Use AI to shape options, meetings, and decisions without outsourcing accountability
- Day 8 Work with documents safely
- Day 9 Brainstorm options that are usable
- Day 10 Use AI for decisions
- Day 11 Prepare for meetings faster
Module 04
Reusable Habits and Safety
Build prompt libraries, critique loops, privacy boundaries, and one repeatable workflow
- Day 12 Build a reusable prompt library
- Day 13 Use AI for feedback on your work
- Day 14 Know what not to paste
- Day 15 Design your weekly AI workflow
Module 05
Research, Data, and Process
Use AI to structure research, synthesize inputs, analyze tables, and create procedures
- Day 16 Write stronger research prompts
- Day 17 Synthesize multiple inputs
- Day 18 Use AI for spreadsheets and data
- Day 19 Create checklists and SOPs
- Day 20 Make plans from goals
Module 06
Communication and Quality
Use AI to practice conversations, improve explanations, and review tone or bias
- Day 21 Role-play difficult moments
- Day 22 Improve explanations
- Day 23 Create learning loops
- Day 24 Review output for bias and tone
- Day 25 Collaborate with AI at speed
Module 07
Operating System
Measure value, set personal rules, and polish the final workflow
- Day 26 Create templates from wins
- Day 27 Handle conflicting AI answers
- Day 28 Measure whether AI helped
- Day 29 Build your operating rules
- Day 30 Final workflow review
How learning works
Read, listen, check your understanding, then keep going.
Short daily lessons
Each lesson is designed around about 10 minutes of focused learning.
Reading and audio
Read the lesson or play its audio when listening fits your day better.
Checks when useful
Lessons can use quizzes, written responses, or guided practice. A lesson can also teach without adding a forced exercise.
Progress and support
Track completed lessons, keep a streak, set reminders, and ask the in-lesson coach for help.
Know the limits. Cadence supports guided self-learning. It does not award an accredited degree or professional certificate, and important AI-generated claims should be checked against reliable sources.
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Course questions
What to know before you start.
Who is AI for Everyday Work for?
This course is for people who want to use AI on recurring work but need a practical starting point for choosing tasks, writing clear instructions, checking results, and protecting sensitive information.
Do I need any prior experience?
No formal prerequisites are required. The course is designed for guided self-learning, and it is most useful when you bring a real situation or goal to the lessons.
How long does the course take?
AI for Everyday Work contains 30 lessons designed around 10 minutes each. You open lessons in sequence and can move at your own pace.
What is the learning format?
Lessons can be read or played as audio. The course includes quizzes or practical checks where the lesson calls for them, plus progress tracking and Ask Coach inside lessons.
Does this course award a certificate or degree?
No. Cadence is for practical self-learning and does not award accredited degrees or professional certification.
What will I learn in an AI for work course?
You will learn how to choose a suitable task, give the model useful context and constraints, check factual claims and missing details, protect sensitive information, and keep a human decision point in the workflow.
Can I try a lesson before downloading Cadence?
Yes. The two-minute task-selection lesson on this page is free to use. Open Cadence on the App Store when you want the full course, saved progress, audio, lesson checks, and Ask Coach.
Start today
Day 1: Choose your first useful AI task
Get access and choose AI for Everyday Work. Your first practical move is ready when you open the app.
Open Cadence on the App Store, then choose this course to start free. Android testers can request early access.