AI Resources Hub
This content was developed with AI assistance and is regularly reviewed for accuracy.
Snapshot: October 2026. Model names, prices, and product features change monthly; What's New in AI is the maintained chronology.
This is the reference shelf for the site. The learning tracks teach you how to work with AI; these pages answer the quick questions that come up while you do it: which assistant to pay for, what the free tiers include, which coding agent fits your workflow, what a term means, and where to find a good brief for a task. Fourteen reference pages live here, plus two site-level pages that belong on the same shelf: the maintained What's New in AI (2026) chronology and the AI FAQ.
Start with the question you have
Most visitors arrive with one of five questions. Jump straight to the page that answers it.
| You want to... | Go to |
|---|---|
| Choose between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini | AI Model Comparison |
| Pay nothing and still get work done | Free AI Tools Directory |
| Pick a coding agent or AI IDE | AI Coding Tools Compared |
| Write a better request for a task | Brief and Prompt Library |
| Look up a term you just read | AI Glossary |
Tools and models
These five pages carry the site's current model names and prices. Every other page links here instead of repeating them, so when a vendor changes a tier, the fix happens once.
- AI Tools & Platforms (2026): the full landscape in one pass. The three general assistants, the coding and browser agents, no-code agent builders, writing and visual tools, research tools, and the skills and MCP ecosystem, each with pricing and a one-line verdict.
- ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: AI Model Comparison (2026): a quick-pick table, current lineups, free-tier details, and a decision guide for choosing a daily driver.
- Free AI Tools Directory (2026): what each free tier actually includes after the 2026 cutbacks, where the limits bite, and when upgrading pays for itself.
- AI Coding Tools Compared (2026): Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Devin, v0, Bolt.new, and Replit compared by workflow rather than benchmark.
- Development & APIs (2026): provider APIs with a working first call for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, plus hosting, vector databases, and observability tools.
Build a stack
- Modern AI Stack (2026): the opinionated short version. One assistant, one coding agent, one automation layer, one evaluation habit, and what to stop paying for.
- Open-Weight Models and Running One Locally: which open-weight families matter in 2026, what their licences allow, and how to run a model on your own machine with Ollama or LM Studio.
- RAG: How It Works & When to Use It: retrieval-augmented generation explained step by step, when a 1M-token context or a connector makes it unnecessary, and how to build one when it is.
Learn and get credentialed
- Learning & Education (2026): the free vendor academies (Claude Academy, OpenAI Academy, Google AI Essentials), the agent-era short courses, cohort programmes, university syllabi, and the communities and newsletters worth your time.
- AI Certifications Directory (2026): paid and free credentials compared by cost, study time, renewal, and career value, with a decision guide for which to take first.
Apply it
- Brief and Prompt Library: the six-field brief template that replaces prompt tricks, followed by ready-to-adapt briefs by task, from meeting summaries to code review to lesson plans.
- AI for Small Business: Getting Started Guide: quick wins, tools by budget, agents and scheduled tasks for small teams, and a 30-day plan.
- AI Use Cases by Industry Reference: use cases across ten industries with recommended tools, return potential, and difficulty ratings.
- AI Glossary: one consolidated glossary covering core concepts, the 2026 agent vocabulary (MCP, skills, tool use, computer use, context engineering, effort, connectors, harness, evals, agent loops), and the business and compliance terms you meet in vendor meetings.
Also on this shelf
- What's New in AI (2026 Edition): the month-by-month chronology and the current lineup table. When a page here says "see What's New," this is where it points.
- AI FAQ: 25 short answers to the questions people ask first.
How these pages stay honest
Reference pages rot faster than lessons, so every page here follows three rules. First, each page that names a model, price, or feature carries an October 2026 snapshot line; if the snapshot is older than the change you are reading about, trust the vendor's own pricing page. Second, numbers that come from press coverage rather than a vendor's own documentation are marked "reported." Third, facts are stated once: model lineups and prices live on the five tools-and-models pages and in What's New, and everything else links to them.
If you spot a dead link or a price that has moved, the fastest fix is to check the vendor's page and treat ours as the explanation of what the number means rather than the number itself.
Next steps
- New to all of this? Continue to: Start Here: You Already Use AI
- Want a tool answer first? Continue to: AI Tools & Platforms (2026)
- Ready to build? Continue to: AI Agents Overview