From zero to AI master.
30 days. 5 minutes a day.

Yes. Zekai is an independent AI tools directory — the challenge is how we introduce people to the tools we test. Some tool pages contain affiliate links; the challenge itself costs nothing and requires no purchase.

It will happily replace the paperwork, and that is most of what people picture when they picture the job. What it cannot do is the part that actually delivers: deciding what is true about progress, telling a sponsor something they do not want to hear, choosing which of three plans to defend, and holding a definition of done when everyone is behind. Those are accountability tasks, and accountability does not delegate. What changes is how much of your week goes on producing documents nobody reads.

Installed on day 6, and every other drill in the month is an application of it. You never change a plan, an estimate or a commitment because of a feeling of speed — only on measured throughput. And you never let a document that reads well pass as work that got done. Both halves have evidence behind them: a randomised trial found experienced developers were about 19% slower with AI tools while estimating they were about 20% faster, and a survey of 1,150 US workers found 41% had received AI-generated work that looked finished and was not, costing close to two hours each time to sort out.

None of them. The drills use words most teams share — backlog, estimate, iteration, retrospective, done — and work whether you run sprints, a kanban board, stage gates or nothing formal at all. Where a drill assumes a rhythm, it is the rhythm of any project: a start, a middle where the truth is cheapest, a delivery and a close. If you run a traditional plan-driven programme, day 14 becomes a checkpoint read rather than a mid-sprint one, and everything else lands unchanged.

Stop asking people how it feels, because that is the one signal known to point the wrong way. Days 6, 14 and 23 build the alternative: pick a measure tied to something outside the team — did it ship, did it work, is anyone using it — read it over a window long enough to mean something, and check what is piling up in review rather than what is being started. If output is rising and the review queue is growing, you are producing more and finishing less, and that is a finding you can act on.

Because binge-reading builds nothing. The challenge unlocks one drill per day from the day you sign — the way any skill gets built: daily reps. Day 1 is open right now so you can try it before committing.

Zero. Day 1 assumes you have never written a deliberate prompt. By day 6 you will have a written evidence rule you can hold your own project to.

Life happens, and so does an unplanned stop. The challenge is sequential, not strict-daily. Pick up where you left off; the certificate cares that you finish all 30, not that you were perfect.

Every edition is built the same way, for a different desk — you can see all of them on the challenge hub, and new professions are added regularly. If yours is not there yet, sign up and we’ll tell you the day it launches.