About the project
A free course to learn to work with AI, from your very first message to complete projects.
Why it exists
Friends and family of Maxime Toulemonde ask him where to start with AI. Videos and tips sent one at a time are not enough: what is missing is a progression, a method, and honesty about what the tools do badly and what they cost.
This course is the answer: a curriculum that starts from zero, has you practice on real needs, and teaches you to stay in charge of the decisions.
The principles
- Start from zero
- Every technical word is explained the first time it appears. Nobody is expected to know it beforehand.
- Something concrete in every module
- One skill, one demonstration, one exercise, and a result you can show.
- Free first
- The fundamentals are done with a free account. A subscription is only announced in the module that really needs one.
- Several tools
- Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Hermes and others: you learn to choose based on what each tool can really do.
- Dated and sourced
- Prices, settings, features: every fact carries a date and a source. What is not verified is marked "to be checked".
- Tested by real people
- A lesson is only "ready" after a real beginner has followed it. A simulation does not count as a test.
Where the course stands
13 modules80 lessons available out of 80
The architecture is provisional: modules may be added or merged based on feedback from the first learners. Version 1: all 80 lessons available in French, English and Spanish, still being tested.
The author
Maxime Toulemonde
Business Development, Tech and AI, in Lille.
His background, his CV and his other projects: maximetoulemonde.com.