Where are you on the AI tree?

Morning!

Quick one from the boxes-everywhere chaos of a house mid-move. I’m leaving the UK on Wednesday so this week is a little up in the air!

Saturday I shared the first version of the AI skill tree I built at aiwithkyle.com/ai-ready. A lot of you have already had a poke around and the feedback has been really useful, so keep it coming.

Here’s what it looks like:

This week, instead of livestreams, I'm going to walk you through it. One email a day, Monday to Friday, each one pointing at a different part of the tree. A guided tour rather than five random emails. Sounds good?

The tree has seven levels. It takes you from "I've opened ChatGPT once" all the way to running your own stack of AI tools deliberately.

This isn’t just about technical levels though. It’s about how we work with AI. Our “relationship” with AI if we’re being fancy.

You start out talking to AI. You ask questions, you get answers, you treat it like a smarter search box. Totally fine - it’s where we all start. But we can do more.

Then you start organising that talking. Persistent workspaces, your own defaults, nudging your setup to sound like you rather than a generic blank chatbot.

Then AI reaches into your actual tools. Your calendar, emails, notes. No more copy-pasting, it touches your real sources and your real outputs. It’s connected.

And then the big flip. You stop consuming AI and start creating with it. You build things. You automate recurring work. You maybe even sell whatever you’ve built.

Seven levels.

Beginner → advanced.

Talking → doing.

Consuming → creating.

The fastest way to find where you actually are on that path is the placement test. About a minute, ten questions, and it'll drop you at the right level rather than making you slog through the basics again.

👉 Take the placement test: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-ready/test (free! It’s all free)

Reply and tell me what level you landed on. I'm curious where most of you are starting from, and it'll help me shape where the tool goes next.

Also, this tool is very much work in progress. Any and all feedback is very helpful. I’ll use to adjust and improve on the fly.

Tomorrow: the two levels everyone technically uses but almost nobody does properly.

Kyle