LAUNCH & LEARN · May 20, 2026
Go deeper with one useful tool.
Turn a new AI feature into a small experiment with a clear goal and a result you can inspect.
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Hosted by Ian McDonald
About 20–30 minutes to work through.
Leave with one completed tool experiment.
Before you start
Choose one tool you already have and one task you want it to help with. Bring a safe input and a description of the output you need.
Use this guide as a practice companion. The recording captures the app and conversation as they were on May 20, 2026; historical announcements and screens may differ today.
Make one useful thing.
Define the useful result
Describe one output you need this week. Pick a task small enough to try in a single sitting and write the criteria you will use to judge it.
Try the existing tool
Provide the source, goal and constraints. Ask it to state missing information rather than fill gaps with assumptions. Keep the first result in draft form.
Inspect and capture the lesson
Compare the result with your criteria. Record the instruction that helped, the issue that remains and whether another trial is worthwhile before adding a new tool.
Give it your context.
These practice prompts adapt the session’s ideas. Replace the bracketed text, review the response and make one specific revision.
Plan my experiment
I have access to [tool] and need [result]. Help me design a small experiment using this safe input [input]. Define success, the review steps and the smallest useful output.
Learn from the result
Compare this output [output] with these criteria [criteria]. Identify what worked, what failed and one instruction to change in the next trial. Do not assume the task succeeded.
Finish with a next step.
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Ideas to listen for
Depth before another subscription. Founders discuss the difficulty of learning many tools while trying to finish real projects.
A small test exposes the next question. Agent demonstrations and troubleshooting show why behavior needs to be checked on a real task.
Get unstuck.
Should I subscribe to every tool discussed?
The exercise uses a tool you already have. Identify a real gap through a small trial before adding another subscription.
Are the pricing and token announcements current?
They describe plans at the time of this call. Check current product information before relying on a price, allowance or roadmap item.
For help in your community, open Help → Support Agent and describe the result you want and where you got stuck.