AI Doesn't Suck, Your Onboarding Does
If you've tried AI and you think it sucks, I promise you it doesn't. But the way you're using it might. Hear me out.
Using AI is like hiring a new employee or an intern. On their first day, you don't hand them a task and say go. You spend a day, a week, sometimes longer training them: what your business does, your SOPs, your ideal client, your marketing strategy, everything happening in that office.
Level one of AI is using it like a search engine. You type in a question, it spits out an answer, and yeah, it might suck. That's because you haven't trained it. If you're not treating AI like an employee and onboarding it properly, you're never going to get good outputs.
People keep asking me where to start, whether there's a course I recommend. The truth is my recommendation isn't really a course. It's building a foundation for whatever AI platform you use: a brand blueprint.
I did this almost two years ago and it has been the foundation for everything I've done with AI since. It takes about a day, and it walks you through every step, even if you're a complete beginner. You answer prompts about your business, and at the end you walk away with a document that covers every corner of it. That document becomes the training tool for whatever AI engine you use.
Once you do that step, the outputs start blowing your mind, and suddenly you have a tool that can actually help run your business. The one I used, and still recommend, is on my resources page. If you're looking for a place to start, start there.