Prompting Path: A Couch to 5K for AI
There is no shortage of AI training out there, but most of it is either priced like a luxury, too basic, or too advanced. Prompting Path is our answer: a friendly, self-paced course that works like a couch to 5K for AI, with the first two weeks free and the rest a one-off payment.
Key takeaway
The hardest part of learning AI is not the tools, it is knowing where to begin. Prompting Path gives people a gentle, self-paced route from their first prompt to building their own workflows, with the first two weeks free.
Most people we talk to are not short on curiosity about AI. They are short on a sensible place to begin. They have heard it will change how they work, they have poked at ChatGPT once or twice, and then the momentum quietly fizzles out. Not because the tools are too hard, but because nobody handed them a route.
That is the problem Prompting Path was built to solve. Think of it as a couch to 5K, but for AI: small, daily, achievable steps that take you from your first prompt to building your own workflows, without ever needing to write a line of code.
What we kept noticing
We spend a lot of our time helping organisations put AI to work, which means we spend a lot of time looking at how people are being taught it. After enough conversations and a good look across what is on offer, three things kept coming up.
- There is no shortage of AI training, but a lot of it is priced like a luxury item.
- Most of it misses the middle. It is either so basic it is patronising, or it drops you straight into the deep end and leaves you confused.
- The hardest part is rarely the learning itself. It is knowing where to start.
Any one of those on its own is a nuisance. Together they leave a lot of capable people stuck on the sofa, so to speak: wanting to begin, and not quite able to.
What Prompting Path Is
So we built the thing we wished existed. Friendly, self-paced, and genuinely accessible. Ten minutes a day for thirty days, where each day is a short lesson followed by a small, real task you actually do, not just read about.
It is tool-agnostic, so it works whether you are on Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot. Week by week it builds from prompting foundations, to context and judgment, to choosing the right tool, to building your first reusable workflow. By the end you have made something that saves you time every week.
Ten minutes a day, thirty days, from your first prompt to your own AI workflows. The first two weeks are free, always.
Free where it matters, fair everywhere else
The first two weeks are free, and they always will be. No card details, just an email address. For a lot of people, that fortnight alone is enough to get genuinely comfortable with AI.
If you want to go further, the advanced track is a single one-off payment. No subscription, nothing recurring, and future updates are included and refreshed quarterly as the tools move on. In a market full of monthly fees, we think that is honest value.
Bringing it into a business
Prompting Path works well for individuals, and if it helps you we would love for you to share it with your network. We also build bespoke versions for organisations who want a straightforward, structured training plan for their people, tuned to how their teams actually work.
If that is something you are weighing up, get in touch and we can talk it through. And if you just want somewhere sensible to begin, the first fortnight is waiting, and it is free.
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This piece was written by Liam D. at Futureformed. If it sparked a thought, we’d be happy to continue the conversation.
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