AI Governance for Small Business · Module 1 of 11

Start Here: How Stepthrough Works

StepthroughBeginner~2 min practice5 steps

Welcome

Welcome to Stepthrough: you learn AI by doing it, on practice copies of real app screens, free and with no risk to your real accounts. Your first practice takes under two minutes.

Practice

Do every step yourself in a practice copy of the real tool. It checks your work, and “Do it for me” finishes any step you get stuck on.

StepthroughStart Here: How Stepthrough Works5 steps · ~2 min · nothing touches your real accounts

What you’ll do

Prefer to watch? The short video tour

A course is a set of modules in order, from beginner to advanced, built around one goal or one line of work. Your progress shows on the course page, and Up next at the bottom of each module takes you to the next one.

A module is one real job, such as summing up a meeting or answering a tricky email. It explains why the job matters, then you practice it, then you do it for real.

A practice is the hands-on part: you click and type through the job yourself in a practice copy of the app, one checked step at a time.

What you need

  • Nothing to startNo account and no download. Every practice runs here, in your browser.
  • A computer, if you canThe practice works on a phone, but it is easier on a bigger screen, where Watch and Your turn sit side by side.
  • Your own free accounts, laterOnly for the "Do it for real" part of a module. Each module lists what it needs.

How the practice works

Watch a step, then do it yourself

Each step plays first in Watch: a cursor moves to the spot and a ring marks it. Then you do the same thing in Your turn. On a computer the two sit side by side; on a phone, Your turn comes first. When a step asks you to type, type in the box. Close enough counts.

Every step is checked before you move on. Robert’s voice reads each step, and the same words stay on screen, so you can mute the 🔊 speaker and read instead.

Stuck? Do it for me

💡 Do it for me finishes any step for you, so you never get stuck. ↻ Replay shows a step again, and you can slow it down or pause it.

Your place is saved in this browser, so you can stop and pick up where you left off.

A safe copy of the real app

The practice looks like the real app, but it is a copy. Nothing you click sends, posts or changes anything in a real account.

After the practice, "Do it for real" gives you a short checklist to repeat the job in your own account, plus any downloads (templates, prompts, files) you need.

Quick check

3 questions to check you’ve got it.

1. Where do you do each step yourself?

  • In Watch, where the cursor plays
  • In Your turn, the practice copy
  • In your real account
Show the answer

In Your turn, the practice copy. Watch shows you the step. You do it in Your turn, and it is checked.

2. You are stuck on a step. What do you do?

  • Start the whole course again
  • Click 💡 Do it for me
  • Close the page
Show the answer

Click 💡 Do it for me. Do it for me finishes the step, and you carry on from the next one.

3. Can the practice change anything in your real accounts?

  • Yes, it is the real app
  • No, it is a safe practice copy
  • Only if you type something
Show the answer

No, it is a safe practice copy. The practice is a copy. You only touch your real account in "Do it for real", when you choose to.

Up next · Module 2

Use AI at Work Without Leaking Client Data using ChatGPT

First things first: the data rules. Learn what must never be pasted into AI, before you write the policy or pick the tools.

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