AI guides for people, not press releases

AI moved faster than the explanations did. Somewhere between the research papers and the hype threads, the practical middle went missing: which of these tools should I actually use, and how? My Guide to AI exists to fill that gap.

Who this is

One person. I'm Dhaval, and I build software that sits next to AI tools for a living, which means I spend most days finding out where these things break. This site is where I write that down. There's no editorial team and no contributor network, so everything here is one person's testing and one person's opinion, and you should read it that way.

What's here

Practical, tested, plain-English guides to AI: the models and chatbots, the tools worth your time, the agents that are supposed to do the work for you, the workflows that pay off, and the fundamentals that make everything else click.

The rules I write by

• Test it, then write it. If a free tier is called usable here, it got used. The method is written down.
• Say what doesn't work. Where a tool is weak is usually the most useful thing in the article.
• Plain English. If a sentence needs a glossary, the sentence gets rewritten.
• Date the things that decay. Prices and limits change monthly, so they carry the date they were checked.
• Declare the money. Affiliate links, and anything here that I built myself, are named as such where they appear. Full terms in the editorial policy.

Start here

New to AI? Begin with What is AI, really? and Prompt Writing 101. Choosing a chatbot? The three-way comparison is the most useful twenty minutes you'll spend. On a budget? Everything in the free-tools guide costs nothing.

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