Give your assistant a job you can check

Beginners who want to configure a practical personal assistant in ChatGPT and use it to develop and test one small digital product.

Follow the fictional Lena planner case. Configure the task, practise spotting invented facts, build a small product and decide what to do from real observations.

What you receive

18 written lessons with exercises and worked answers, coursebook (26 pages), workbook (29 pages) with 155 fillable fields, offline lessons, a local workshop with JSON export/import, 16 practice files including 11 editable templates and a five-page fictional planner example, a 31-page 30-day starter plan, an offline calculator and a final project.

Written self-study download, not a supplied AI application. No videos, coaching, software licence, subscriptions, hosting or advertising budget included. No income, sales or time-saving guarantee. Optional app material is a development brief, not an installer.

Your learning path

1. 1. Choose a useful first job
   Define an assistant you can actually evaluate.
2. 2. Prepare your workspace
   Separate tools, costs and approved files.
3. 3. Configure and test the project
   Make the starting context explicit.
4. 4. Write instructions that expose missing facts
   Specify process and output without inventing certainty.
5. 5. Build a small knowledge base
   Keep facts, preferences and decisions traceable.
6. 6. Protect data and control actions
   Keep drafting separate from doing.
7. 7. Add voice only when text works
   Make voice optional and testable.
8. 8. Diagnose one layer at a time
   Turn a vague failure into a reproducible report.
9. 9. Brief one small product
   Make the acceptance criteria concrete.
10. 10. Review drafts with evidence
    Count checking and correction as part of the work.
11. 11. Choose a business model you can deliver
    Compare workload as well as potential revenue.
12. 12. Test the problem before expanding
    Separate observation from your interpretation.
13. 13. Build a complete small product
    Make the first use possible without your explanation.
14. 14. Calculate contribution and test limits
    Keep revenue, costs and profit distinct.
15. 15. Write an honest offer and delivery path
    Make the scope understandable before purchase.
16. 16. Run a bounded content test
    Learn from real observations without chasing losses.
17. 17. Scope an optional standalone app
    Understand the work beyond a configured chat.
18. 18. Accept the work and choose the next step
    Use evidence instead of an optimistic average.

Suggested pace: follow the 30-day sequence at roughly 45–75 minutes per planned day, adjusting to your experience. Try each exercise before reading the solution.

Before you buy

A computer, internet connection, your own ChatGPT account, text editor and PDF reader. Features and limits depend on your account and device. A normal text chat is the fallback if project or voice features are unavailable. No API key or programming is required for the core path. Account, subscription, advertising, software, hosting and optional API costs are not included. This is a written self-study course, not a supplied AI app or an automatic income system.