Module 1: Pre-Flight Checks
A private setup that respects your workplace data rules.
For knowledge workers & managers
Use AI at work confidently, and appropriately.
You’re the Captain. The crew is here to teach you.
Drowning in email, documents and meetings? This course makes you the person on your team who uses AI well: faster on the busywork, sharper on the thinking, and careful about the line between help and over-reliance.
Module 1 is completely free. No payment required to start.
The whole philosophy in one idea
You are the Captain. The crew is here to teach you.
This isn’t a course where you sit back and let the technology fly. From the first minute, you’re in the pilot’s seat of your own journey with AI. You set the destination. You make the calls. You keep control of the aircraft, always.
You command
AI never flies the plane. It reads the instruments, drafts the flight plan and hands you the options. Every decision stays yours.
The crew serves & teaches
Your working crew: Claude for documents, analysis and tone, ChatGPT for quick drafts and brainstorming, Perplexity for cited research, and Copilot/Gemini where your workplace already lives. They do the heavy lifting and teach you the controls. They never take them.
You graduate in command
You finish not as a nervous passenger hoping the tech behaves, but as a confident captain who knows when to call the crew and when to fly solo.
The fear that keeps professionals quiet about it
Let’s name it before lesson one
“I’ll either look like I’m cheating, or I’ll trust it on something important and get burned.”
Both risks are real, and both are managed by skill. You’ll learn to use AI for the drafting and the donkey-work while keeping your judgement firmly in charge, and to verify anything that matters before it leaves your desk. Quietly competent, not recklessly reliant.
The 6-module flight plan
The same journey, told for you
Module 2: Cleared For Taxi
The four flight controls for emails, briefs, reports and meeting prep.
Module 3: Cleared For Takeoff
Real work: summarising long documents, drafting replies, research with verification built in.
Module 4: In The Air
Your real project: a report, a process, a presentation, done faster and better.
Module 5: Holding Pattern
Where it goes wrong: hallucinations, confidentiality, and what never to paste into a chat.
Module 6: Final Approach
A weekly routine, and a clear sense of when NOT to reach for AI at work.
Module 1 is a free preview: try the controls before you buy the seat.
When you take the controls
By graduation, you’re flying in command, with…
- A faster, reliable workflow for email and documents
- A verification habit that protects your reputation
- A finished work deliverable built with AI
- Confidence to use AI openly and appropriately at work
Everything in the kit bag
What’s included
One course, told in the language of your work. Whichever path you choose, the full kit comes with it.
Six modules of video
Roughly 6 to 8 hours of plain-English lessons, broken into short, watchable pieces.
Screen-recorded walkthroughs
Watch the exact clicks, the exact prompts and the real results. Nothing hidden, nothing sped up.
One-page cheat sheet per module
Print it, stick it next to the keyboard, and fly with it until you don’t need it.
The Cleared To Try workbook
Guided exercises that turn watching into doing, one small win at a time.
The Tool Hangar
A plain-English guide to the wider AI fleet, so you know which tool suits which job.
Lifetime access + quarterly updates
The tools keep changing. Your course keeps up, at no extra cost.
Where AI quietly lifts your day
Mid-career, the quiet pressure is that you are meant to already know. The reply that should take five minutes, the report you are supposed to have read, the meeting you walk into needing a view. AI does not replace any of that judgement. What it does is clear the friction in front of it, so the knowing you already have goes further. None of this involves putting confidential or client information into it, and your final call is always yours.
Here is where it genuinely earns its keep.
Tightening an email or a document. You have written the thing, but it is too long, or too blunt, or the order is off. Paste in your own draft, ask for it shorter and clearer, and you get a tidier version to react to. You decide what stays. It just saves you the third rewrite at the end of the day.
Summarising before a meeting. A forty-page report, or a thread that has run for two days, lands an hour before you need a position on it. Drop in the non-sensitive material and ask for the key points and the open questions. You walk in having actually grasped it, instead of skimming under the table.
Prepping talking points and questions. Before a difficult conversation or a review, ask it to lay out the points worth making and the questions worth asking. You will cut half and add your own, but you are editing a list rather than staring at a blank one.
Turning notes into structure. Your scattered notes from a workshop become a clean outline, or the bones of a slide deck. The thinking is still yours. AI just gives it a shape you can work with.
Getting up to speed fast. A topic comes up that you are expected to follow and do not quite. Ask for it in plain terms, then ask the follow-up you were too busy to ask out loud. It is a private, patient way to close the gap.
Drafting a first version. The hardest part of most writing is the empty page. A rough first draft means you are editing, which you are good at, instead of starting cold.
The expertise, the judgement, and the final work all stay with you. AI removes the friction around them.
Common questions about AI for professionals
Is it safe to use with work documents? Keep confidential and client data out of it. Used on non-sensitive drafting and summarising, it is a genuinely useful tool. Check your employer’s policy first, because some workplaces have clear rules about what can and cannot go in, and you want to be on the right side of them.
Will it make me look like I’m cutting corners? No more than a spellchecker or a good template does. It is a drafting and thinking aid. The judgement, the decisions, and the final work stay yours, and they are what people are actually paying you for.
Where’s the fastest win? Summarising long material before you have to have a view on it, and drafting routine emails and documents. Both give you time back the same day, with nothing sensitive involved.
The runway is clear
Choose your path
Self-paced
Go at your own pace
$49 AUD
- All 6 modules (~6–8 hours of video)
- Screen-recorded walkthroughs
- One-page cheat sheet per module
- Cleared To Try workbook
- The Tool Hangar: guide to the wider AI fleet
- Lifetime access + quarterly updates
Module 1 is free to preview, no payment details, no commitment. Also available: Cleared For Take-Off, the book, $12.99 AUD. Training a whole team? Workshops and institutional programs are available separately.