The stuff we give away

Know-How.

Everything we've figured out, in take-it-with-you form: a letter worth your coffee break, an archive that keeps paying rent, and a shelf of free tools you can use today without talking to a salesperson.

The letter

The TL;DR.

How leaders should think about AI and their people, written for normies. Short enough for a coffee, useful enough to forward, and allergic to hype in either direction. It lands biweekly and leaves your inbox alone the rest of the time.

Four thousand-odd leaders get it. More than half of them open every issue, which we are told is unusual.

The archive

Start with one of these.

A 2007 photo: a man in a garbage-bag cape and a paper mask brandishes a cardboard torch under the words Are You R3DY to Light Your Fire? Governance

Defining "AI Governance" Like It's 2007

What the summer of 2007 teaches about the technology panic of 2026, and why governance is an opportunity wearing a crisis costume.

4 min read → A college classroom of students at their desks, Dan Newman at the front of the room Fluency

What 35 College Students Asked That Your Coworkers Are Too Afraid To

Two marketing classes, seventy-five minutes each, and the questions we all forgot we were allowed to ask.

6 min read → Keanu Reeves in The Matrix: I know outbound sales, front-end design, PowerPoint slides Skills

Growing a Beautiful AI Bonsai

Why AI skills are less like Keanu's kung fu download and more like patient gardening. Pruning shears included.

7 min read →
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Testimonial from Bobbi Bidochka, Director of Le Shaw Institute: Learn to Scale has cross-cutting, intersectional knowledge that makes them uniquely positioned to provide a breadth of advice.
The toolbox

Nifty little AI things.

Small, free, and built because client conversations kept circling the same questions. No login, no demo call, no credit card. This shelf grows as we keep making things.

Quiz · four minutes

3 Questions Before Your Next AI Decision

A four-minute read on where you actually stand: what your people are allowed to do, what they believe about their jobs, and what you want next year to look like. You get an honest answer at the end, including the times it's "you don't need us for this."

Take the read
Builder · a coffee break

The Acceptable Use Policy Creator

Answer plain-English questions, walk away with a draft acceptable use policy your staff can actually react to. The fastest way to turn "we should have rules" into a document with edges.

Build your policy
Explainer · one read

The Express Grant Explainer

Massachusetts reimburses employers up to 100% for training their own people, and most of them never claim a dollar of it. What the program covers, whether you qualify, the four rules that get applications denied, and a recording of somebody filling out the form in under ten minutes.

See if you qualify
Prompt · paste and go

The AI Advisory Board

One master prompt, five advisors: a no-nonsense coach, a chess master, an alchemist, a north star, and a diplomat. Paste it into your AI tool of choice, bring a knotty problem, and get pushed from five directions at once.

Meet the board
Archive · browse anytime

Show Me Something Cool With AI

The rest of this shelf is ours. This one belongs to everybody who ever presented, and it is the biggest by a mile: every demo from our monthly meetup, written up with what they made, how they made it, and a prompt you can paste into your own AI tonight. Plus the Cool Person Feature, because whoever cracked it deserves the credit.

Browse the cool stuff
Say hello

Like the free stuff? The conversations are even better.

Tell us what's going on with AI where you work, and we'll write back.

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