The READY Method

Stop using AI like a fancy search engine.

Most people type a question, accept the first draft, and walk away with something generic. This course teaches the five-stage method that separates people who get usable output from people who keep rewriting ChatGPT's homework. Module 1 is free and runs about 20 minutes.

Taught by Edwin Ashdown. Founder of AIFirstPartner, 12 production AI systems shipped.

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Who built this

I'm Edwin Ashdown. I also build TranscriptIQ and AI IQ, two tools that score real AI coding sessions. The READY Method came out of watching the same anti-patterns repeat across those sessions: people re-explaining context the AI already had, blindly trusting hallucinated outputs, skipping verification, and never planning before diving in.

The gap between people who get great output from AI and people who don't is rarely about the tool or the prompt. It's about how they think about the collaboration. This course is a structured version of that thinking.

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What you will be able to do after

R

Know why AI is wrong before you hit send

Build a practical mental model of how AI actually works: its strengths, limits, and why it confidently gets things wrong.

E

Decide what to give AI (and what never to)

Use a simple matrix to sort every task into what AI should handle, what stays with you, and what you build together.

A

Get usable output on the first try

Cover the three things every prompt needs (What, How, Who) and six prompt moves that change the output noticeably.

D

Catch the hallucination before your boss does

Spot hallucinations, circular reasoning, and confident nonsense with five quality checks you can run in under a minute.

Y

Put your name on AI work without flinching

Own your output. Build transparency habits and write a personal AI use policy you would actually follow.

How this is different from a prompt engineering course

Most prompt courses

Teach you tricks for one tool. Useful for a month, outdated the next time the model changes.

This course

Teaches a transferable skill: AI fluency. A way of thinking that works across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and whatever ships next.

Course Structure

1

Why most AI output feels generic (and why yours will stop)

5 lessons· Start here. Free. About 20 minutes.

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2

What AI is actually doing when it answers you

READY: Recognise

5 lessons

3

Deciding what to give AI (and what to keep for yourself)

READY: Evaluate

6 lessons

4

Writing prompts that work on the first try

READY: Articulate

6 lessons

5

Evaluating AI output in under a minute

READY: Determine

6 lessons

6

Putting your name on AI work without getting burned

READY: Your Responsibility

7 lessons

7

Run the full method on one real project

4 lessons

Who this is for

A good fit if

  • You use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot at work and sense your output is mediocre.
  • You have read a dozen prompting threads and still feel you are guessing.
  • You want a method that survives the next model release.

Probably not for you if

  • You are an engineer building LLM applications and need API-level depth.
  • You want a list of copy-paste prompt templates for one specific tool.
  • You are looking for hype about how AI will change everything.

About the instructor

Edwin Ashdown founded AIFirstPartner and has shipped 12 production AI systems for clients in government, legal, and enterprise.

He is fractional CTO at Speculo, a cyber risk software company, and manages cloud and data platform engineering for a large Australian government department supporting 20+ agencies across the portfolio.

He publishes his build process at 150days.aifirstpartner.com.

This course is the playbook he uses when onboarding a team onto AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT.

Try Module 1 before you decide anything

Five lessons, two exercises, about 20 minutes. By the end you will have scored your current AI fluency and know which module fixes your biggest gap. No sign-up for the free module.

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