Paid subscribers now get first access to something I’ve been developing for the past year: a complete course on systematic AI integration for content professionals and technical writers.
This isn’t just about casual ChatGPT tips or prompt hacks. It’s about building the operational framework you need to integrate AI strategically into your actual work …the kind that makes you more effective without replacing your judgment or expertise.
I’m making the beta version available to you paid subscribers, before the polished video course launches publicly. Here’s what that means and why it might interest you.
AI works best when you can articulate your process clearly enough to identify exactly where it helps.
What This Course Actually Is
Writing with Machines teaches content professionals how to move from casual AI use to systematic integration. It’s built around a core insight: AI works best when you can articulate your process clearly enough to identify exactly where it helps.
The course covers ten chapters:
Understanding Your Workflow - Making your invisible intellectual process visible and identifying friction points
What AI Actually Does - Pattern-matching vs. reasoning, and why the distinction matters
The Five Information Types - Structuring content so AI can process it effectively
Grounding AI in Knowledge - Building reliable knowledge bases instead of hoping for accurate responses
Prompt Design - Moving beyond trial-and-error to systematic prompt design
Pairing Prompts with Process - Matching specific prompts to specific workflow stages
Style and Temperature - Controlling AI output characteristics deliberately
The Structured Principles - How content operations thinking improves AI integration
Building Your Prompt Taxonomy - Organizing prompts as operational assets
Workflow Redesign - The capstone where you transform an actual process using everything you’ve learned
This isn’t just theory. Each chapter includes practical exercises, templates you can adapt, and frameworks you’ll use immediately. Chapter 10 has you redesign a real workflow from your work. That’s your deliverable.
What Beta Access Means
The beta course is complete. All ten chapters are written and functional. But it’s developmental. It’s text-based with exercises and templates rather than polished video lessons. You’re getting the systematic framework and practical tools, not production value.
Here’s what you get as a beta participant:
The exchange is simple: You get early access to systematic AI integration frameworks. I get insights that make the final course better. Both of us benefit.
Why Beta Access Now
I could wait until everything is polished and perfect before releasing anything. But that’s not how I work, and frankly, it’s not how good courses get built.
The best educational materials come from real interaction with real learners.
You’re professionals doing actual content work. You have real workflows, real constraints, real stakeholders. Your friction points are different. Your applications will be different. Your feedback will be invaluable.
Also, I’m learning things from my research and teaching this semester that are making the course better week by week. The disciplinary differences I wrote about in this week’s newsletter? That came from watching students map their workflows. Those insights are already improving how I teach the concepts.
If you wait for the polished version, you pay more and you miss the opportunity to shape it. If you join the beta, you get the systematic framework now (which you can use immediately) and you influence what the premium version becomes.
Who This Course Is For
What About Cost?
If you’re already paying for Cyborgs Writing. This beta access is included in your subscription. No additional payment required.
The premium video course, when it launches, will cost significantly more. Early beta participants will get preferred pricing on that, but right now, your subscription covers this beta access completely.
If cost is a barrier: I’m willing to provide access to people who can’t afford or prefer not to pay for the subscription but are genuinely committed to the process and feedback. If that’s you, email me at Lance.cummings@hey.com and we’ll work something out. The goal is to build an excellent course, not to restrict access unnecessarily.
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