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What AI is genuinely good at
A plain-English map of where an assistant saves real time - and the tasks where it quietly wastes it. No capability is oversold.
A Clerq Publication
AI at Work: The Practical Method.
Four books, eleven chapters each, none longer than ten minutes. Every one of them teaches the complete method, then rebuilds the last three chapters around a job family. Buy the one that matches your work and you get the whole thing. Written by the people who build these systems inside UK businesses.
Every chapter is self-contained and runs about ten minutes, so you can read straight through or open the one that matches today's problem. Each is built around a worked example with real names and numbers rather than theory. Every book runs 25,000 to 26,000 words across 67 to 71 pages, in PDF and EPUB, DRM-free, emailed to you within minutes of payment from launch day. The files are yours to keep for good, on as many of your own devices as you like - no link to expire and nothing to renew. Lose them and we re-send free, any time. Every purchase also includes AI at Work Monthly free: the same method applied to whatever changed that month, plus new prompts and walkthroughs. One click unsubscribes you and you keep the book.
The complete set
All four books. One payment. £45.
The complete set: you own the whole series in one delivery - the flagship method plus all three role editions, with the prompt and playbook pack included free. The four books are £68 bought separately; the set is £45.
Complete set £45 (£68 bought separately). Prompt and playbook pack £12 on its own, free with the set.
£17One payment. PDF + EPUB. Files yours to keep once downloaded.
The flagship - start here
AI at Work: The Practical Method for Everyday Office Work
How to use AI safely for emails, meetings, documents, research and spreadsheets. For any office professional who suspects AI could save them hours but does not trust the hype and does not have time to experiment. If your week is made of email, documents, meetings, spreadsheets and deadlines, this is your book. No technical background needed.
Chapters 1 to 8 are the method in full - the same eight chapters open every book in the series. Chapters 9 to 11 apply it to general office work.
Contents - 11 chapters, 25,200 words
- 01Start with the Work, Not the Tool
- 02Write a Brief an AI Can Actually Use
- 03Emails, Meetings and First Drafts
- 04Research Without Making Things Up
- 05Spreadsheets, Numbers and Decisions
- 06From Repetition to a Safer Workflow
- 07Learn, Share and Adopt AI at Work
- 08Keep Your Judgement and Your Job
- 09Build Your Personal Office AI Kit
- 10Your Weekly Workflow: Inbox to Decisions
- 11A 30-Day Office Improvement Sprint
Judge the thinking before you pay for it: how to use AI at work is a free article version of the approach this book runs on - one task, a proper brief, and the check that tells you whether to trust the answer. Read that first; the book is the same discipline, chapter by chapter.
AuthorThe Clerq team
Length25,200 words, 67 pages
FormatPDF + EPUB, DRM-free
DeliveryEmail attachments, within minutes
Reads onLaptop, phone, Kindle, e-reader
LevelNo technical background
UpdatesCorrections sent free
SampleFree, ungated
For your team
A team licence covers 5, 10 or 25 copies of this edition under one invoice - the files are delivered to you to share within your team.
Role editions
The same method, rebuilt around your job.
Each role edition carries the complete method - the same eight opening chapters as the flagship - and then three chapters written for one job family. You do not need to buy two books. Pick the edition that matches your work and you have the whole thing.
£17One payment. PDF + EPUB. Files yours to keep once downloaded.
Role edition
AI at Work: The Practical Method for Finance and Accounting
Safe, checkable workflows for analysis, reporting and routine admin. For finance managers, accountants and FP&A analysts who live in month-end, reconciliations and reporting packs - and who, quite rightly, will not trust a tool that invents numbers.
Chapters 1 to 8 are the complete method, identical in every book in the series. Chapters 9 to 11 are written for finance and accounting.
Contents - 11 chapters, 26,000 words
- 01Start with the Work, Not the Tool
- 02Write a Brief an AI Can Actually Use
- 03Emails, Meetings and First Drafts
- 04Research Without Making Things Up
- 05Spreadsheets, Numbers and Decisions
- 06From Repetition to a Safer Workflow
- 07Learn, Share and Adopt AI at Work
- 08Keep Your Judgement and Your Job
- 09Month-End Without Losing the Trail
- 10Forecasts, Scenarios and the Story Behind the Number
- 11Controls, Confidentiality and Safe Finance Automation
AuthorThe Clerq team
Length26,000 words, 70 pages
FormatPDF + EPUB, DRM-free
DeliveryEmail attachments, within minutes
SampleShared-chapter extract, free
£17One payment. PDF + EPUB. Files yours to keep once downloaded.
Role edition
AI at Work: The Practical Method for Managers and Team Leads
How to build useful team workflows, skills and safeguards. For managers and team leads who are being asked what their team should be doing with AI, and who need an answer that survives contact with a real workload.
Chapters 1 to 8 are the complete method, identical in every book in the series. Chapters 9 to 11 are written for managers and team leads.
Contents - 11 chapters, 25,300 words
- 01Start with the Work, Not the Tool
- 02Write a Brief an AI Can Actually Use
- 03Emails, Meetings and First Drafts
- 04Research Without Making Things Up
- 05Spreadsheets, Numbers and Decisions
- 06From Repetition to a Safer Workflow
- 07Learn, Share and Adopt AI at Work
- 08Keep Your Judgement and Your Job
- 09Lead a Safe AI Adoption Sprint
- 10Better Meetings, Delegation and Decisions
- 11Supervise Workflows and Agents
AuthorThe Clerq team
Length25,300 words, 68 pages
FormatPDF + EPUB, DRM-free
DeliveryEmail attachments, within minutes
SampleShared-chapter extract, free
For your team
A team licence covers 5, 10 or 25 copies of this edition under one invoice - the files are delivered to you to share within your team.
£17One payment. PDF + EPUB. Files yours to keep once downloaded.
Role edition
AI at Work: The Practical Method for Marketing
Practical AI workflows for briefs, campaigns, research and reporting. For marketing managers and brand, content and campaign teams who want the speed without publishing copy that sounds like everyone else's machine.
Chapters 1 to 8 are the complete method, identical in every book in the series. Chapters 9 to 11 are written for marketing.
Contents - 11 chapters, 25,200 words
- 01Start with the Work, Not the Tool
- 02Write a Brief an AI Can Actually Use
- 03Emails, Meetings and First Drafts
- 04Research Without Making Things Up
- 05Spreadsheets, Numbers and Decisions
- 06From Repetition to a Safer Workflow
- 07Learn, Share and Adopt AI at Work
- 08Keep Your Judgement and Your Job
- 09From Brief to Campaign Work
- 10Research the Customer, Not the Algorithm
- 11Campaign Workflows, Reviews and Learning
AuthorThe Clerq team
Length25,200 words, 71 pages
FormatPDF + EPUB, DRM-free
DeliveryEmail attachments, within minutes
SampleShared-chapter extract, free
What's inside
Written for the job you actually have.
These eight chapters of method are identical in all four editions; your edition then adds three more built around your job. Every chapter runs about ten minutes and stands on its own: a real task, a worked example with names and numbers, the exact way to hand it to AI, and the check that tells you whether to trust the answer. Dip in and out - you are never lost for missing a chapter.
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Briefing, not prompting
Forget "prompt engineering". You already know how to brief a colleague; the book turns that skill into repeatable templates.
03
The trust-but-verify habit
Simple checks for numbers, facts and tone that take seconds and catch the errors that would embarrass you in front of your boss.
04
Worked examples, not theory
Ten walkthroughs per book, with names and numbers rather than hypotheticals: messy 35-minute meeting notes turned into a team update, a supplier chase that does not annoy the supplier, a broken figure caught before the report goes out. Copy the pattern, change the details.
05
Judgement and confidentiality
What never goes into an AI tool, how to stay on the right side of your employer's rules, and where human judgement stays in charge.
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From repetition to a workflow
How to turn the tasks you repeat into a safer, checkable workflow - and how to share what works with the people around you without becoming the office AI evangelist.
How it will work at launch
A book, not a commitment.
From launch day, pay by card through Stripe's secure checkout and your books arrive by email within minutes, attached to the message. No account to create and nothing recurring you did not choose - the complete set, a team licence and the prompt pack are one-offs you decide on, never an upsell funnel.
DRM-free PDF and EPUB files - yours for good, on laptop, phone, Kindle or e-reader, as many of your own devices as you like. No licence to renew and no link to expire; lose them and we re-send free, any time. Future corrections to your edition are sent free too.
A full sample of the writing is published free and ungated on this page. It is the same voice and the same density as the book - if the sample is not useful to you, the book will not be either, and you will have paid nothing to find that out.
Included with every book
Your copy keeps up. AI at Work Monthly.
The honest objection to any AI book is that the tools move faster than the print. So every purchase includes the monthly, free, for as long as you want it - written to exactly the same standard as the book.
Not a news roundup. When something genuinely shifts - a tier moves behind a paywall, a feature finally works, a shortcut stops being safe - you get it explained the way the book explains things: plain English, what it means for your Tuesday, and what to ignore.
The walkthroughs that did not exist when the book was written. Same shape as the ones inside it: a real task, the brief that works, the check at the end. They slot straight into the method you already have.
Once a month, roughly the length of one chapter. No sequences and no pressure. One click unsubscribes you and you keep every book you have paid for - the optional extras never get in the way of that.
The reader list
Not on sale yet. Be first when it is.
Join the reader list for launch news and first access when the books go on sale, plus the occasional practical AI-at-work note. All four books are written and the lineup is final; only the shop is still shut. One or two emails a month at most, and unsubscribing takes one click.
Checkout is not live just yet. Leave your email and you will be first to know the moment the books are on sale.
Still deciding? A free sample extract of the flagship guide is on this page, and the FAQ answers the sensible questions.
Read a sample
This is the mistake the book exists to stop.
A real walkthrough, lifted from chapter three - not a teaser. An assistant handed a set of messy meeting notes will confidently turn a suggestion into a confirmed date and invent an owner for a task nobody claimed. It reads beautifully. It is wrong in four places, and your team will act on it.
Every chapter works like this: a real task, the version that goes wrong, the brief that fixes it, and the check that tells you which one you are holding. Ten minutes each, and you can start anywhere.
You can read the method itself today. How to use AI at work sets out the whole approach in one free article - one task, a proper brief, and the check at the end. It is the short form of the book, and it costs nothing while you wait for launch.
Want more before launch? Join the reader list below for launch news and first access when the books go on sale.
Join the reader listFrom chapter three - Emails, Meetings and First Drafts
The same notes. Two very different updates.
Thirty-five minutes of project meeting, written down badly on purpose:
Launch date discussed. Tuesday was suggested, but Sara said the final test is not complete. Ravi will ask the supplier about the missing labels. Jo said the customer list may be ready tomorrow, but that was not confirmed. Someone mentioned a revised installation plan. No owner recorded.
Before - what you usually get back
"The launch is confirmed for Tuesday. Ravi will resolve the labels and Jo will deliver the customer list tomorrow. The installation plan has been revised."
Three sentences, four inventions. A suggestion became a date. "May be ready" became a promise. Jo never owned that list. Nobody owned that plan. Send it and you have committed your team to things nobody agreed.
After - the briefed version
"The launch date remains open while final testing is completed. Ravi will ask the supplier about the missing labels. The customer list may be ready tomorrow, but this is not yet confirmed. We also need an owner for the installation plan."
Less dramatic, and the only one of the two you can actually send. The chapter gives you the exact prompt that produces it, and the check that catches the difference.
AI at Work: The Practical MethodFrom Everyday Office Work
Questions
The sensible questions, answered.
What exactly do I get when I buy?
A digital download of the book in two formats, PDF and EPUB, delivered to your email address within minutes of payment once the series launches. Every edition is 25,000 to 26,000 words and 67 to 71 pages, DRM-free. No physical copy, no subscription, no account to create.
Which one should I buy?
Start with Everyday Office Work. It carries the complete method and the habits that apply to any office role. The three role editions - Finance and Accounting, Managers and Team Leads, and Marketing - share those same eight chapters of method and then rebuild the final three around one job family, so a role edition is the whole book plus your job, not a thinner one.
Do I need to be technical, or pay for AI tools?
No. The guides are written for non-technical professionals, and everything in them works with the free tier of mainstream AI assistants. Where a paid tool genuinely earns its fee, the book says so and explains why.
Will it go out of date?
The tools change; the method does not. The book teaches habits of briefing, checking and judgement that survive every model release. Two things keep it current: corrected versions of your edition are sent free, and every purchase includes AI at Work Monthly, which applies the same method to whatever actually changed that month. One click unsubscribes you and you keep the books.
What is AI at Work Monthly?
A short monthly email included free with every purchase, about the length of one chapter. It covers what genuinely changed in the tools and what it means for ordinary office work, plus new prompts and walkthroughs built the same way as the ones in the book. It is written to the same standard and included free with your book - you never have to buy or upgrade anything to keep receiving it. Anything else offered later is a separate, one-off product you can ignore without losing anything you already have. Unsubscribing takes one click and does not affect any book you have bought.
Can I buy copies for my team?
Yes. From launch day, the books page sells team licences for 5, 10 or 25 copies of the Everyday Office Work or Managers and Team Leads editions, with one invoice and the files delivered to you to share within your team. For more than 25, or a different edition, email stephen@aiclerq.com and we will set it up when the books go on sale.
What if it is not for me?
Read the free sample on this page first - it is a full extract, not a teaser, and it is the honest test of whether the book suits you. We do not offer change-of-mind refunds. If the book itself is faulty, incomplete or not what this page described, that is different: email stephen@aiclerq.com and we will fix it or refund you, as your statutory rights require.