Free · Practice drills

AI tools worth learning

AVS values AI-readiness with human judgment. Explore these tools, practice with review, and never paste blindly.

Rule: AI drafts, you own the final. Never send unedited AI output to a client.

Core tools

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Build comfort with writing, productivity, ops, automation, design, and meetings.

Writing

ChatGPT / Claude

Draft emails, SOPs, summaries. Always edit before sending.

Practice: Draft a client status update, then rewrite in your own voice. Save both versions.

Productivity

Gemini / Copilot

Research, Docs/Sheets help, meeting notes cleanup.

Practice: Clean a messy notes dump into 5 action items + owners.

Ops

Notion AI

Knowledge bases, task breakdowns, wiki drafts.

Practice: Turn one SOP outline into a checklist page with owners.

Automation

Zapier / Make

Connect apps — form → CRM → Slack without code.

Practice: Build form → Google Sheet → email alert (test with yourself).

Design

Canva Magic

Fast graphics for social and simple client assets.

Practice: Create one on-brand social graphic; note what you edited by hand.

Meetings

Otter / Fireflies

Call transcripts → action lists (with privacy care).

Practice: Transcribe a 5-min practice call; extract decisions only.

Advanced · After Core

AI practice to deepen

Same rule: AI drafts, you own the final. Best after you’ve used the tools above in real drills.

Ops

Multi-step SOP chains

Outline → checklist → edge cases → QA pass.

Practice: One full SOP with failure paths documented.

Writing

Prompt libraries

Reusable prompts for triage, status, summaries.

Practice: 5 prompts you would trust under review.

Automation

Automation QA

Test Zapier/Make failure and duplicate cases.

Practice: Break your own flow on purpose; fix it.

Meetings

Meeting → CRM hygiene

Transcript to clean notes + next actions only.

Practice: Strip PII; ship only decisions.

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