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AI Basics: 3 free modules that walk you through AI Agent vs Chatbot vs Automation: One Job Done Three Ways, What Is a Webhook? Send a Test and Watch the Data Arrive and Safe AI at Work: What Not to Paste, Training Settings and Checking Answers, using ChatGPT and Webhook.site.

Each module is a real project. You watch a step, do it yourself in a practice copy of the tool, and it checks your work before moving on. It is free, and no experience is needed.

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AI Agent vs Chatbot vs Automation: One Job Done Three Ways

Chase six unpaid invoices three ways: a chatbot writes a template, an automation follows a rule, and an AI agent works out the steps and flags the tricky one.

Free · Live ~7 min

What Is a Webhook? Send a Test and Watch the Data Arrive

Point a plumber's website contact form at a free webhook tester, send a test and a real message, and watch the data arrive the moment it's sent.

Free · Live ~6 min

Safe AI at Work: What Not to Paste, Training Settings and Checking Answers

Turn off model training, strip a tenant's bank details and address out of a prompt, then catch the two promises ChatGPT made up before the reply goes out.

Free · Live ~7 min

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Each step is shown on the left, with a cursor pointing to exactly where to click. You do the same thing on the right, in a practice copy of the real tool. Get it right and it moves on. Nothing touches your real accounts until you're ready to build it for real.

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