Free · no account, ever · 8 lessons and 26 explainers
You are not behind.
Nobody taught you.
Short lessons on the digital and AI parts of work, in plain English. Not sure where to start? Twelve questions will tell you, and give you the next three things to do.
Or skip that and browse all the lessons · or look at the 26 explainers
Step 1 · 3 minutes
Say what is true for you
Twelve plain statements. Tick the one that matches. No scores, no right answers, and nothing leaves your browser.
Step 2 · straight away
See where you are
Four areas, and where you stand in each. Then the three lessons to do next, in order, with the real time each one takes.
Step 3 · today
Do one real thing
Every lesson ends with a task on your own machine. Print the path, or come back to it whenever your circumstances change.
Levels 0 to 1 · 2 published
The bits of work everybody assumed you already knew. Finding things, telling a real message from a fake one, and not losing your work.
A message came in asking you to do something, urgently.
Tell a real message from a fake one15 minutes · Level 0
Digital SkillsIt was there yesterday. Now it is not.
Find a file you saved and cannot find again9 minutes · Level 0
Using AI at work safely, without being a specialist. Five lessons, in order, about 54 minutes altogether.
Everyone says it. Nobody explains it.
What AI at work actually means8 minutes · Level 1
AI FundamentalsYou asked. It gave you something else.
Asking for something and getting it first time12 minutes · Level 1
AI FundamentalsYou want to paste something in and you are not sure you should.
Is it safe to put this in?14 minutes · Level 2
AI FundamentalsIt looks right. Is it?
Checking the answer before you send it10 minutes · Level 2
Levels 1 to 3 · 0 published · re-checked every 60 days
What your employer has actually bought, what it can see, and how to get one useful thing done in an app you already use. Nothing is published here yet. This section is listed anyway, because a track with nothing in it is a fact about the site and hiding it would not be.
Somebody said "we have Copilot". You are not sure which one.
Find out what you have been givenPlanned · no date promised
You have never used one of these and would rather not start at work.
Ask it something daft and see what happens8 minutes · Level 0
The first go should not be at work, with something that matters, in front of somebody. It should be at home, with nothing of yours in it, for no reason at all. That is what this track is for.
What changed · week of 3 August 2026 · 4 minutes
The government published a new national standard for essential digital skills in July, and almost nothing is taught against it yet.
26 pages · about 3 minutes each
Show me, don't tell me
One idea per screen, a big picture on every screen, and under a hundred and twenty words on the whole page. Not lessons — no steps to follow, nothing to complete. They are for the moment before a lesson, when you need to see what the thing actually is.
The numbers
UK adults cannot do all eight of the tasks that make up the basic level.
Ipsos for Lloyds Banking Group · Essential Digital Skills 2025 · Fieldwork 5 March – 2 April 2025
of UK businesses with ten or more staff use at least one AI technology.
Office for National Statistics · Artificial intelligence in UK businesses: 2023 to 2026 · 20 July 2026
say more than half their workforce has had any training on it. Same release, same base.
Office for National Statistics · Artificial intelligence in UK businesses: 2023 to 2026 · 20 July 2026
Every number on this site, with its source — and the ones that were rejected
For channel partners and enterprise reinforcement — a vendor-neutral retention and transfer layer that sits beside organisational teaching programmes, not instead of free lessons.
Councils, housing associations, charities, SMEs
Find out where your team actually is before you buy anything
The same check, run across a team, shows the floor: the one person who cannot open the thing everybody else is being trained on. Programmes are built from that, not from a catalogue. Plain scope, plain price.
Run the team check · 4 minutes
Or work out what an agent could actually do for you — a board for a team, twenty minutes
What a programme includes, what it costs, and what is not offered
Employers, councils and housing associations pay for team programmes. That is what funds the free side. No lesson is ever paywalled, delayed, or made worse in order to sell something.