How this is made
The site teaches AI. Pretending AI plays no part in producing it would be dishonest, and not using it would be daft. So here is the policy, in plain words.
I use AI to help me write. It drafts, it summarises, it suggests. It does not decide what goes in and it does not test anything. Every step in every lesson here, I have done myself on a real machine, and timed. Every number has a source you can click. If something is wrong, it is my fault and my email is at the bottom.
What “written by a person” commits me to
- I have performed every step described, on a real machine, and watched what happened.
- I have checked every factual claim against a primary source, and every source is listed.
- I time the lesson myself and publish the real number.
- I am accountable. There is an email address, I read it, and corrections get made and noted.
- My judgement decides what is in and what is cut.
A lesson that has not met all five does not carry the signature. Some drafts on this site have not met it yet, and they say so at the top rather than quietly.
Where AI is allowed and where it is not
| AI may | AI may not |
|---|---|
| Draft an outline or a first pass | Decide what is taught |
| Suggest alternative phrasings | Decide what is cut |
| Summarise a source I then read myself | Decide whether a claim is true |
| Check readability | Decide the time estimate |
| Generate practice variations | Test whether a step actually works |
The quality bar
Twelve checks. A lesson publishes only if all twelve pass. Six run in the build. Six need a person, and those six are the ones that matter.
| # | Check | Who |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The outcome is something you do, not something you understand | Person |
| 2 | The title is a moment you could overhear in a break room, not a topic | Person |
| 3 | The entry criteria are honest — somebody would actually skip | Person |
| 4 | The time was measured with a stopwatch | Person |
| 5 | Every step says what you should see afterwards | Person |
| 6 | The failures are real ones, hit while doing it | Person |
| 7 | The do-today task is real, today, one thing, and produces something | Person |
| 8 | All required blocks present | Build |
| 9 | Reading age below 13.0, warning above 11.0 | Build |
| 10 | No banned words | Build |
| 11 | Every statistic resolves to a listed source | Build |
| 12 | Links alive, and nothing checked more than 120 days ago | Build |
Copilot lessons are re-checked every 60 days rather than 120, because interfaces and licensing change and a stale lesson there does more damage than anywhere else.
What money never changes
- No lesson is ever paywalled, delayed, or made worse in order to sell something.
- No lesson recommends a product because somebody paid.
- Sponsorship is disclosed on the lesson, never after the fact.
- A paying client gets no influence over what is published.
- If a client asks me to remove or soften something true, I do not, and I say I was asked.
Frameworks, and their licences
| Framework | Licence | What I do with it |
|---|---|---|
| Skills England, AI foundation skills for work | Open Government Licence v3.0 | Reuse and adapt, including in paid work, with attribution. This is the spine |
| DfE, Essential digital skills standards: 2026 | Crown copyright | Align to it and cite it. Check the licence on the document before adapting |
| The AI Fluency Framework, Dakan, Feller and Anthropic | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Cite by name, describe in my own words, link to the original. Not adapted, and never used inside a paid programme, because NonCommercial does not permit it |
Microsoft Learn modules are linked as optional further reading. They are Microsoft's material, not mine, and nothing in a lesson depends on them.