AI Resources

Free tools that show how AI works, and short guides for using it well.

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Prompts from our workshops, ready to copy, for any business and for home builders.

Plain-language definitions of the terms you’ll hear: LLM, hallucination, tokens, context window, RAG, and more.

Canva, Adobe Express, and Microsoft Designer for graphics, photos, and short videos.

Teachable Machine: train an image model in your browser in about two minutes. This is the hard hat demo.
Transformer Explainer: watch a real language model pick the next word, with the odds it gives each option.
Quick, Draw!: two minutes of doodling that shows how a model learns from examples.

Free tiers work for everything in our workshops.

ChatGPT from OpenAI
Microsoft Copilot: sign in with your work account if your company uses Microsoft 365
Google Gemini
Claude from Anthropic
Google Labs: Google’s current AI experiments.

Use the RACE framework. Brief the tool the way you would brief a new assistant on their first day.

R — Role: What do you want the AI to “think” like? For example, a project manager or a safety officer.
A — Action: What specific task should it do? For example, build a project schedule or a safety checklist.
C — Context: What other information should it know? For example, regulations, constraints, and the material you paste in.
E — Expectation: What should the output look like? For example, an email or a spreadsheet.

See RACE in action in the Prompt Library.

What goes in? Don’t paste anything into a free tool that you wouldn’t email to a stranger.
Who sees the output? Anything headed to a customer, a lender, or an inspector gets a second set of eyes.
Can a mistake be undone? Numbers, codes, contracts, and legal language get a qualified person’s check.

Before anything goes out the door, ask one question: would you put your name on it exactly as written?

For organizations, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework is the published standard behind responsible AI use.