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EDGE
AI in action, for leaders in motion.

Practical, hands-on AI workbooks for leaders who want to do more than just talk about artificial intelligence. Built for the curious, the capable, and the slightly impatient.

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The idea

Most AI training teaches you what AI can do. Manic Edge teaches you what you can do with AI — today, in your actual job.

Every Manic Edge workbook is built around one premise: the fastest way to learn a tool is to use it on something real. No slides, no theory — just tasks, tools, and outcomes.

Each task includes learning objectives, step-by-step instructions, success criteria, and a leadership reflection prompt to help you connect the hands-on skill to strategic thinking.

The workbooks are self-paced, non-sequential, and built for busy leaders who have 20 minutes, not 20 hours.

Format
Self-paced PDF workbooks
Audience
Managers & team leads
Tools covered
Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity & more
Difficulty
Beginner to Advanced
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AI Leadership Workbooks

Workbook 01 Most popular
Productivity & Workflow Automation
The broadest of the four — covering everything from email automation and AI-powered research to parallel tasking, code tools, and knowledge management. The best starting point for most leaders.
29
Tasks
7
Categories
20–40h
To complete
Email automation AI research Productivity tools Prompting Data & reporting Code tools
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Workbook 02 Creative focus
Content Creation & Marketing
Aimed at leaders who want to produce more content, faster — without a full creative team. From brand animations and product shots to video translation, AI avatars, and social ad creation.
14
Tasks
4
Categories
10–20h
To complete
Visual design Video content AI avatars Social media Brand voice
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Workbook 03 Revenue focus
Business & Sales Tools
For leaders who want AI to work on their pipeline. Build an objection handler, a case study generator, a no-code lead widget, an AI phone agent, and a brand design system — no engineering degree required.
7
Tasks
4
Categories
6–11h
To complete
Sales enablement Lead gen Brand & design SEO Voice AI
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Workbook 04 Tech focus
Web Design & Development
For the technically curious leader. Learn to redesign websites with AI, turn screenshots into landing pages, customise AI tools with skills repos, and set up local AI transcription — no coding background needed.
5
Tasks
3
Categories
5–8h
To complete
AI web design Code tools Media processing Cursor Local AI
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Best value
Get all four workbooks,
all 55 tasks.
The complete Manic Edge collection — 55 tasks across productivity, content, sales, and web development. Start anywhere, move at your pace, and build skills that actually show up in how you lead.
55
Total tasks
41–79h
Total content
4
Workbooks
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What's coming

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More workbooks
The series continues. Future volumes will cover AI strategy, HR & people ops, finance, and customer experience — each with the same hands-on task format.
In development
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Merch store
Swag for people who take AI seriously — but not themselves. Quality gear for the AI-forward leader, in the Manic Edge aesthetic.
Coming soon
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Quick-start guides
Shorter, sharper reference guides on single tools and use cases. When you don't have time for a full workbook but need to move fast on something specific.
Coming soon
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Get in touch

Questions, feedback,
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Whether you're buying for yourself or rolling this out across a team, I'd love to hear from you. Licensing and team packages are available on request.

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