Mark Bowley

My 30 Days of AI journey

Learning, building, and automating with 💯School – Sept/Oct 2025

Days 1-7: AI foundations

Learning the fundamentals

1
Effective prompting
Used the CRISP Framework to create better prompts
2
Using AI to critique ideas
Surfaced flaws in an app idea before wasting time on it
3
Organising complex content
Created a podcast and report using NotebookLM
4
Using ‘temperature’ to guide image creation
Used Google AI Studio for image generation and observed differences between temperature 0.2 → 1
5
Automating repetitive tasks
Created a custom GPT unique to my workflow
6
Checkpoint #1
Assessed my progress so far
7
Finding content patterns
Created a one-page explainer doc in NotebookLM, to reduce manual work

Days 8-14: Building

Turning ideas into functional tools

8
Building a mini-app
Built a 30-day habit tracker app with ChatGPT's help
9
Turning data into clarity
Built an interactive dashboard from raw CSV data, using ChatGPT Canvas
10
Driving real decisions
Used ChatGPT Canvas to create a structured report
11
Spreadsheet data analysis
Used the DIG Framework to analyse data
12
Dashboards to tell a story
Created a dashboard and auto-generated charts with Gemini and Google Sheets
13
Checkpoint #2
Assessed my progress
14
Contribute to the community
Created content to give back to the 100 School community

Days 15-21: AI agents

Automating workflows and building intelligent systems

15
AI research agents
Created an AI Agent in Zapier to surface info from the web daily
16
Classifying tasks
Selected which tasks can be completed with AI and which can be replaced with an AI Agent
17
Workflows
Created an automated workflow in Zapier
18
Workflows that think
Built an n8n workflow that allows me to chat to my calendar
19
Task audit and agent design
Planned and built an AI agent in n8n
20
Checkpoint #3
Assessed my progress
21
n8n agent
Built an agent that summarises my emails so I know what to prioritise first

Days 22-30: Prototyping

Building functional prototypes fast

22
Professional portfolio website
Created a professional one page website from my LinkedIn profile, using Lovable
23
Customised productivity hub
Built a fully functional productivity dashboard tailored to my needs, in Lovable
24
Team tools
Built a functional kudos board app for internal teams, in Lovable
25
Show, don't tell
Built a functional prototype with code and ChatGPT
26
Building with the 80/20 rule
Reviewed and applied design principles to a prototype
27
Checkpoint #4
Assessed my progress
28
My 30Days journey
Built this project gallery with ChatGPT’s help, showcasing my tasks and projects over the 30 days
29
AI for introspection
Used ChatGPT as a conversation partner to reflect on, and summarise the last 28 days
30
Wrapping up
Used ChatGPT to help write a reflection post on social media

You can see more of my AI builds at minitools.carrd.co

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