The Grimoire · Section I
The Handbook
The practical how-to-use-AI guide. Foundational chapters that teach the words, the tools, and the work — so you stop guessing and start using.
Every Needs a Watcher
Orientation: what you're walking into, what the words mean (Prompt, Model, Training data, Tokens, Hallucination), and the four AI types everybody argues about.
The Briefing Rules
The 5 rules for talking to any AI tool — so you actually get back what you wanted, instead of beige.
The Skeleton Key
The reusable profile — Custom Instructions, Memory, Projects — that travels with you across every tool. Set up once, use everywhere.
The Field Guide
Five tool categories, with familiar names scattered across them. Match the type to the task; the right tool falls out.
The Account Rule
Personal vs. company account — the data-safety rule. Closes the chapter with the Deb cautionary.
Chapter 6 onward
More chapters in the Handbook will appear here as they're written.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's general-purpose assistant. The one most people try first.
Claude
Anthropic's assistant. Strong with long documents and careful work.
Gemini
Google's assistant. Lives where you already work — Docs, Gmail, Drive.
Copilot
Microsoft's assistant. Lives where you already work — Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams.
Perplexity
An AI search engine. Cites its sources by default.
NotebookLM
Google's notebook assistant. You give it your sources; it answers from only those.