Short lessons · digital and AI skills · free · no account, ever
You are not behind.
Nobody taught you.
Digital and AI skills, one short lesson at a time. Written by a person. Each lesson assumes nothing, takes the time it says it takes, and ends with one thing to do today.
29 July 2026
A bolder face, and the site's first scriptThe colours have not moved. The type has. And there is now exactly one script on this site. Here is what it does, and what it will never do.
Where are you now?
Four starting points. No quiz, no score, no form. Pick the one that sounds like you. If you pick the wrong one you can come back.
Left out
“Everyone assumes I can already do this.”Start with Digital Skills, from the beginning.
Getting by
“I manage, but I am slow and I do not really know what I am doing.”Digital Skills, or the first AI lesson.
Getting going
“I have used it. I want to be better at it, and safer.”AI Fundamentals.
Leading
“People are asking me what we should do, and I do not know.”Horizon Scanning, or the organisations page.
Start here
Not the newest three. The three that help most.
AI Fundamentals · 14 minutes
Is it safe to put this in?After this you will be able to decide whether a piece of information is safe to give an AI tool, under UK data protection rules.
Digital Skills · 15 minutes
Tell a real message from a fake oneAfter this you will be able to check whether a message asking you to do something is genuine, and report it if it is not.
Digital Play · 8 minutes
Ask it something daft and see what happensAfter this you will be able to use one of these tools once, with nothing of yours in it, so that the first time is not at work.
The numbers
| Figure | Base | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 8 million UK adults, 15%, cannot do all eight Foundation Level tasks | UK adults 18+, fieldwork March to April 2025, n=4,175 | Ipsos for Lloyds, fieldwork 5 March to 2 April 2025, n=4,175 |
| 53% of adults with no formal qualifications reach Foundation Level, against 93% of graduates | Same study | Ipsos for Lloyds |
| 35% use at least one AI technology, and 11% report more than half their workforce has had AI training | UK businesses with 10 or more employees, June 2026 | ONS, 20 July 2026 |
All the numbers, with their bases and dates. Including the ones we chose not to use, and why.
Who writes this
Craig Stanley. One person, in the North East of England. I do every step in every lesson myself on a real machine, and time it. More about that, and about how AI is used in making this.
Organisations pay. People never do.
Employers, councils, housing associations and charities pay for team programmes. That is what funds the free lessons. Individuals never pay for anything here, and no lesson is ever put behind a wall.