Leaders & managers
For managers who fund and govern AI work, in plain language and focused on decisions: what to ask, what to budget, which risks to own. Each level lists earlier lessons worth reading first, but none are required.
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Enough vocabulary to follow the conversation and ask good questions.
After this level you can decide whether a claim about what an LLM can do holds up, with enough vocabulary to challenge it.
Worth reading first (optional): What is AI?, What is Generative AI?, What is an LLM?, How does an LLM work?, Tokens, Context Windows
The Money
What it costs, and what you are committing to.
After this level you can decide what a system really costs to own, whether to build, buy or tune it, and what each choice locks you into.
Worth reading first (optional): Why tokens are the bill, Prompt Caching, Fine-tuning vs RAG, Choosing a model
The Risk
What a security and legal review should ask.
After this level you can decide which risks go on the register, where data may live and for how long, and which regulations apply.
Worth reading first (optional): Prompt Injection, Jailbreaking, Guardrails, Privacy: what not to paste
Quality and Trust
Quality bars you can put in a contract.
After this level you can decide what quality bar to write into a contract, so that “it works” means something you can check.
Worth reading first (optional): Hallucination & Groundedness, Golden Dataset, LLM-as-a-Judge, Drift
The Team and the Org
Who builds this, and whether they are ready.
After this level you can decide whether your team has the shape and skills to run this, and whether the system is ready to go live.
Worth reading first (optional): What is an agent?, Model Context Protocol, Multi-agent Orchestration
Rethinking Workflows
Changing the shape of how work flows, beyond speeding up its steps.
After this level you can decide whether to automate a task inside today's workflow or redesign the work itself, and how to lead that change.
Worth reading first (optional): What an LLM can and cannot do, Total cost of ownership: the arithmetic, The operational readiness review