A Beginners Guide To (ChatGPT) Generative AI

Generative AI is everywhere – but I find that most people are still using it like a basic chat or search tool.

I want to show you how to change that.

In this advanced-basics practical introduction, you’ll learn how to move from open-ended chat to structured, controlled AI systems. We start with structured prompting — designing behaviour instead of repeating instructions and hoping for consistent results.

From there, you’ll see how Projects and GPTs help persist that behaviour, before moving into UI Agents and Agent Builder, where structure becomes more deliberate and repeatable.

Along the way, you’ll build real examples, including a policy-based assistant grounded in a real document. You’ll see how AI can follow defined rules, apply constraints, and produce consistent, professional outputs that are clearer, more reliable, and easier to verify.

This is not a coding course. It’s about understanding how modern AI tools actually work in practice, and how to design them intentionally so your outputs are safer, more structured, and fit for real workplace use.

If you want to go beyond “ask and hope” prompting and begin building structured AI systems you can confidently rely on, this course provides a clear, step-by-step foundation you can apply immediately.

No hype. No jargon. Just practical, usable skills.