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Get useful help from AI by asking it properly.

A course on working with AI tools at work. It covers explaining what you want and the context behind it, refining a request when the first answer misses, and checking results instead of trusting them.

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Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.

See what you would learn

Type this when Cadence asks what you want to learn

I want to get more useful help from AI in everyday work. Teach me how to explain my goal and context, refine a request, and check the result instead of trusting it blindly.

Change any word so it fits your situation. The course is built from what you type and a few setup questions.

Best for
AI & technology
Prerequisites
None. Bring the situation you have.
Course length
7 to 30 lessons, sized to your goal
Lesson pace
About 10 minutes a day
Format
Read it, or play the audio
Access
Available on the App Store, with early features and Android testing access

Before the course is built

Setup asks about your situation first.

Lesson 1 opens on the moment you describe, and the examples use your role. For this request, expect questions like these.

  1. Which tasks do you want help with: writing, analysis, planning, summarising, or something else?
  2. Do your results tend to be generic, wrong, or just not what you meant?
  3. Which AI tools do you have access to at work?

Right for now

If any of this sounds familiar, start here.

The answers are generic

You ask a question and get an encyclopedia entry that fits everyone and nobody.

You give up after one try

The first answer misses, and rather than refine it you do the task yourself.

You trust it too much

Something plausible came back and went into a document unchecked.

Course arc

Where the course goes, in order.

Cadence writes the lessons for you, so the exact path follows your answers. This is the ground a course built from this sentence covers.

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Why answers are generic

What the model knows about your situation, which is nothing you did not say.

The brief

Goal, audience, constraints and an example of good, in a few lines.

Refining

Telling it what missed and why, instead of starting over.

Working in steps

Breaking a task into parts the tool handles well.

Checking

Where errors hide, and the habits that catch them before they cost you.

Your repeatable workflows

Turning the tasks you do weekly into briefs you can reuse.

What changes

What you will be able to do, and what you will stop believing.

You will be able to

Brief it like a colleague

State the goal, the context and what good looks like.

Iterate on a result

Move an answer from generic to usable in two or three turns.

Check what comes back

Know which parts need verifying and how.

Ideas this course corrects

You need special prompt tricks

You need clarity. A clear brief a colleague would understand works better than any formula.

A confident answer is a correct one

Confidence is a property of the text, not the facts. Check anything that matters.

Course questions

What to know before you start.

Is this a fixed course?

No. Cadence builds the course when you type the sentence and answer a few setup questions, so the lessons follow your situation. This page describes what a course built from this request covers. You see the whole path before Lesson 1.

Who is this course for?

A course on working with AI tools at work. It covers explaining what you want and the context behind it, refining a request when the first answer misses, and checking results instead of trusting them. It sits under AI & technology in the Work & ambitions part of the library.

Do I need any prior experience?

No. Setup asks what you already know and where you want to use it, and the course starts from there. Bring a real situation if you have one; the examples are built around it.

How long does it take?

Courses run 7 to 30 lessons of about 10 minutes, sized to what you asked for. One lesson a day is the intended pace, and you can go faster. Lessons can be read or played as audio.

Does this course award a certificate or degree?

No. Cadence is for practical self-learning and does not award accredited degrees or professional certification.

Start today

Type it, answer a few questions, open Lesson 1.

The sentence to type

I want to get more useful help from AI in everyday work. Teach me how to explain my goal and context, refine a request, and check the result instead of trusting it blindly.
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