Whether you have never touched AI or you build with it every day, there's a door here for you. Free tools, plain-language guides, and nothing to sell you until you decide I'm worth it.
Three doors, depending on where you're at with all this. Pick the one that sounds like you. Everything here is free to try.
Barely used AI, or it feels intimidating? Start with the Prompt Helper: tell it what you want in plain words, and it writes the request for you. No account, no jargon.
Open the Prompt HelperSmall wins at home and work. Keep in Touch quietly shows you who you're overdue to reach out to, so you stop losing people to a busy life. Private and offline.
Open Keep in TouchYou're comfortable at a command line. Here's the spec-driven method I build with, in the open, plus the tools behind it, like the Instruction Checker that catches vague build instructions before AI runs with them.
See the builder toolsThe professionals you can't always afford, made free and plain. Each runs privately in your browser — nothing saved, nothing sent.
Fix a résumé bullet, draft a tailored cover letter, and rehearse interview answers.
Open Job CoachPrep and rehearse a salary, rent, or bill conversation before you have it for real.
Open the Negotiation RoomTurn a few answers into a day-by-day itinerary tuned to your budget, pace, and taste.
Open Trip PlannerA private, gentle space to think something through and steady yourself. Not therapy — a companion for the space between.
Open Sounding BoardPaste the message that made you pause. Get an instant checklist of what to verify before you click, reply, or send anything.
Take a Second LookWhat I'm learning, built in the open. The takes are free; the receipts are attached.
The tools above are the portfolio. If you want me to do it for your team, here are four ways in.
A fuzzy AI idea in, a clear plan and a working first version out. Fixed scope, fixed price, no hourly billing.
$9k–$14k fixed. Quoted flat before we start.
Book a sprintA short, hands-on course that trains your team to get real, reliable work out of AI instead of confident nonsense.
$10k–$25k per company, depending on team size.
Bring it to my teamA four-week guided course plus a private room of people doing this for real. Learn the method, stay for the people.
Cohort $12k–$20k · community $40–$80 per seat / month.
Join the waitlistA senior product brain steering your AI push a few hours a week: I decide what to build, write the plan, and stop the wrong ideas early.
$4k–$6k / month. Two or three companies only.
Talk to meNo pitch and no call required to start. Say what you're trying to do and I'll reply with whether I can help and what it would cost.
Three self-paced levels. Start wherever you actually are.
A short course for people who feel behind on AI and are not. Five modules, plain language.
See the courseFive real workflows: the job hunt, high-stakes negotiations, real trip planning, staying in touch.
See the courseShip real software without becoming an engineer, by writing specs precise enough that AI builds from them.
See the courseThirty hands-on exercises to get genuinely good at working with AI. Paper, pencil, and a chatbot.
Tell me when it's outA taste of the book, free. Try them today with any AI open in front of you.
Read the free fiveWant to write one yourself? This finds book topics people search for but few authors have covered, so yours can actually get found. A small tool you run on your own computer.
Get itI'm Mick Cairn. I build small tools that work and write about doing more with less, using AI, without the hype. Everything on this page is something I actually made and use.
My whole thing is proof over hype. I don't have a course to sell you or a résumé to wave around. I have working tools you can try right now, the method I built them with out in the open, and opinions I'll back with receipts.
If the tools are good, that's the credential. If they're not, no bio would fix it. Pro-AI, anti-nonsense, on your side, against the people selling you complexity and beside you when it all feels like too much.