The Roadmap to Becoming AI-Ready — Let’s Start the Journey

— Issue #19 of The Artificial Newsletter

Author

Sankalp Srivastava
June 11, 2025

What are we changing?

If you've ever bookmarked AI tools, copied prompts, or tried Zapier but dropped off — this is your second chance.

Because starting now, The Artificial Newsletter is getting focused. We're going from random drops to a 7-phase roadmap designed to help you:

✅ Automate your day-to-day work with AI
✅ Actually understand how AI works technically — one concept at a time

🧭 Here's How It Works

Every week, you’ll get 2 structured issues:

📅 Day

Focus

What You’ll Get (Example)

Tuesdays

Automation/DIY

Hands-on agent builds with ChatGPT + Power Automate

Thursdays

Core AI Concepts

Technical deep-dives to make you truly AI-literate

No fluff. No 50 tools in a list. Just a clear path.

📌 The 7-Phase Roadmap

Here’s how we’ll move, week by week:

🔹 Phase 1: Awareness & Setup

  • Build your first AI agent (Knowledge Agent using ChatGPT)

  • Understand what makes an AI agent, not just a chatbot

🔹 Phase 2: Automate Daily Work

  • Auto-summarize emails, convert tasks, analyze Excel files

  • Use GPT + Power Automate/Zapier to offload your workflow

🔹 Phase 3: AI Thinking

  • Learn prompt engineering frameworks (like TCREI)

  • Understand what GPT needs to perform well

🔹 Phase 4: Workflows & APIs

  • Connect your GPT agents to APIs

  • Build flows that actually do things (calendar, Slack, Odoo)

🔹 Phase 5: Custom GPTs

  • Build internal copilots for HR, Sales, Projects

  • Use memory, personality, and upload files as context

🔹 Phase 6: Data-Driven Agents

  • Analyze Excel, CSVs, PDFs using Code Interpreter

  • Generate reports, detect trends, flag anomalies

🔹 Phase 7: Real AI Concepts

  • Learn about embeddings, vector stores, RAG

  • Understand LLM internals, token limits, transformer blocks

  • So when people talk AI, you don’t just listen — you contribute

🚀 Launch Schedule (Starting Next Week)

Date

Title

📅 Tuesday

Build Your First AI Knowledge Agent (No Code)

📅 Thursday

What Is an AI Agent Really? (Technical Deep Dive)

This is Week 1 of the journey.

✅ What You Should Do Now

  • Hit Reply and tell me what’s your #1 use case

  • Forward this email to a teammate or friend

  • And bookmark next Tuesday. We’re building.

🧠 P.S. No more random. No more fluff.

The Artificial Newsletter is now a cohort-based journey — and you're on the inside.