I spend most of my time teaching people who feel behind on AI how to actually use it — not just play with ChatGPT once and give up. The same 3 mistakes show up over and over:

1. Pasting sensitive info into prompts. Client data, passwords, unreleased business plans — once it's in a prompt, assume it's not private anymore. Fix: strip names/numbers before you paste, or use a tool with an enterprise data policy.

2. Trusting the first answer. AI sounds confident even when it's wrong ("hallucinating"). Fix: for anything factual — stats, legal, medical, code — ask it to cite sources or verify with a second tool before you act on it.

3. Using one giant vague prompt. "Write me a marketing plan" gets generic mush. Fix: give it a role, a goal, and a constraint. "You're a growth marketer for a 10-person SaaS company. Give me 3 low-budget acquisition channels I can test this week." Night and day difference.

None of this is complicated — it's just not obvious until someone points it out. That gap between "I tried AI once" and "I use AI safely and well every day" is exactly what I built The AI Edge to close.