BrainIT Guides

Field Guides

Step-by-step build-alongs. Each one takes you from nothing installed to a tested, working result you can explain.

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Guide 00 AI in Plain English A calm place to begin. What modern AI is, what it is not, and how to choose one safe first experiment. Read

Guide 01 Build Your First App with an Agent From an idea to a working app, with an AI agent doing the typing and you keeping control. Read

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Guide 02 Find the First Process Worth Automating How to pick the one repeatable job in your business that automation will actually improve. Read

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Guide 03 Protect the Data in Your First Business App Practical protection for real business information: what to collect, what to exclude, and who stays responsible. Read

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Guide 04 Give Your AI Agent One Safe Job Draw a boundary an agent cannot cross, then let it do one useful thing inside it. Read

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Guide 05 Build Your First Useful Business MCP Server From a new computer to a tested, read-only business connection — without an API key. Read

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Guide 06 Keep the Human Voice Using AI to draft and shape work without losing the voice your customers recognise. Read

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Master Builds

One real application, taken from an idea to a system you own, run and remain accountable for. Written for owners and finance leads at mid-to-larger businesses — the build is the vehicle, the governance is the value.

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Guide 01 Countercheck 01 — Decide, and Write It Down The specification is the part you cannot delegate. Interview your own operation, write the job sentence, and decide the three refusals — before a line of code exists. Read

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Guide 02 Countercheck 02 — Build It on Accounts You Own Who may transfer a project, and who owns the code you paid for. Then two things that went wrong putting it somewhere real — one that broke loudly, and one that broke nothing at all. Read

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Workshops

Shorter, guided introductions. Watch or read, then try one controlled experiment in your own business.

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Workshop Practical AI for Small Businesses A plain-language introduction to language models, chatbots and agents — and one seven-day experiment to test whether the tool is genuinely useful. Read

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Workshop Build a Tiny Business Agent You Can Inspect Build a small agent whose every step you can see, check and stop. Inspection first, autonomy later. Read

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For Larger Organisations

Written for leaders and technical decision-makers rather than owner-operators: value, architecture, governance, evidence, and pilots shaped for production.

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Executive guide Enterprise AI: From Experiments to Governed Value An executive guide to enterprise AI value, architecture, governance, evidence, adoption, and production-shaped pilots. Read