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In depth: How to get AI to: A Library of Guides Sorted by the Outcome You Want

Written from How to get AI to's own profile data — claims, answers and testimonials — in a measured human voice via ScriptGrain · last written 2026-10-02

Most people who sit down with an AI assistant don't start with a tool. They start with a problem. Teach me Spanish. Build me a website. Sound like me. The tool comes second, if it comes at all, and that ordering is basically the whole idea behind How to get AI to.

The usual way of organising advice about AI runs the other way round. You get a guide to one assistant, then another guide to a different one, and you're left to work out which fits your question. How to get AI to flips it. It is a library of practical guides, each answering a single question of the form "how to get AI to…", and each sorted by the result you're after rather than the software that might deliver it.

What It Is

The site is part of Adapt Progress Evolve, the UK studio behind a run of small software products, and it's based in London. Its own description is short: a growing library of guides, each one a route from a real question to a result, with sources. The topics it covers include learning with AI, AI for small business, AI-assisted writing, no-code websites and GEO (generative engine optimisation).

As of 30 September 2026, the library holds 119 published guides across eight categories: Build something, Write & communicate, Grow my business, Research & discover, Create something, Teach me, Get work done, and Everyday life. Individual titles run from the practical to the slightly unexpected. Summarise a document. Take meeting notes. Edit a photo. Plan a trip. Be honest with me.

How the Guides Work

Every guide opens with an "At a glance" card, which covers the assistant and the tools involved, a cost band, the difficulty, and any privacy notes. The cost is given as a band rather than a price, which keeps the information from going stale the moment a provider changes its plans. Of the 119 guides, 85 can be followed from start to finish on free tiers.

Beyond the card, each guide carries a review date, a sources section and copy-and-paste prompts. That last part matters more than it sounds, because the gap between reading about a prompt and having one to paste is where most people stall.

The writing process is stated plainly. Each guide is drafted in the founder's own writing voice, then read in full and checked against its sources before it goes live. Topics that are planned but not yet written say so openly, and they stay out of the sitemap and out of llms.txt, the file that points AI readers to a site's content. They are also marked noindex. So only reviewed, published guides are offered to search engines and AI systems as guidance. Honestly, that's a rarer discipline than it should be.

The Shape of the URLs

The site launched on 15 September 2026, and its addresses read like the end of the question they answer. A guide on sounding like you lives at /sound-like/me/. Building a website sits at /build-me/a-website/, and a tool-specific variation, such as one using Lovable, nests beneath it at /build-me/a-website/with-lovable/. Advice on recommending AI for a business sits at /recommend/my-business/.

The logic is hierarchical. The general outcome comes first; the tool-specific route sits underneath it. Someone who knows what they want can often guess the address, and someone who doesn't can work down from a category.

Built for Machines Too

The site doesn't only serve people reading in a browser. It offers its recommendation engine to other software without requiring a key. A plain GET request to the recommend endpoint, with an "ask" parameter, returns an answer. There is also a remote MCP server with four tools: recommend_ai_workflow, personalised_guide, search_guides and list_categories. Every answer is grounded in the catalogue behind the guides, and, as with the pages themselves, costs come back as bands rather than prices.

Privacy

The privacy position is specific. The site sets no cookies unless a visitor signs in, and then it sets one session cookie. It uses no third-party trackers. Its own anonymous analytics record which pages were viewed, how far a page was read and which outbound links were clicked, and they store no IP address, user agent or identity. The analytics honour Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track, and a switch on the privacy page turns them off entirely.

One further record is kept: which AI systems and search crawlers fetch which pages, identified by user-agent string. Email signup is double opt-in, handled through Resend.

Who Is Behind It

The publisher is Adapt Progress Evolve, a UK studio whose other products include ScriptGrain, visibility to ai, Launch Video Maker, whatisgeo.app, Hilyt and Assets for three.js. Questions go to hello@howtogetaito.com.

The library is described as growing, and the catalogue reflects that: published guides on one side, honestly labelled placeholders on the other. A question goes in and a route comes out, with the sources sitting alongside it.