AI Guides for People Who Ship
Long-form, opinionated guides on the AI tools, pricing models, and patterns that actually matter in 2026. Written by practitioners, not rewritten from press releases.
All guides
The 2026 AI Tools Cheatsheet for Developers
A practical 2026 reference covering the AI coding tools, MCP servers, and agent frameworks senior developers actually ship with — organized by workflow, with honest trade-offs.
The AI Marketing Stack Guide 2026
How a modern AI marketing team is actually composed in 2026 — writing, SEO, video, ad creative, analytics, and the boring glue that connects them. With cost ranges.
The AI Startup Toolkit 2026
The AI tools a 2026 startup founder reaches for first — for sales, meetings, automation, ops, and product. Selected for ROI, not novelty.
How to Choose an AI Tool: A Decision Framework
A 7-question decision framework for picking AI tools in 2026 — covering total cost, lock-in risk, evaluation methodology, and the failure modes nobody mentions.
AI Tool Pricing Explained: What You Actually Pay For
Token pricing, per-seat pricing, usage tiers, hidden costs, and the BYOK escape hatch — a complete map of how AI tools charge you in 2026.
MCP Servers Explained: What They Are and Why They Matter
Model Context Protocol (MCP) in 2026: what it is, how MCP servers work, why every serious AI tool now ships one, and which ones to install first.
Why these guides exist
Most AI “guides” you find online are landing pages. They list ten tools, summarize the marketing copy, slap on an affiliate code, and call it a day. Reading one teaches you almost nothing about how an experienced practitioner picks a tool, what failure modes show up at month three, or how billing actually works once you scale past the free tier.
Skila AI guides go the other direction. Each one is the kind of document we wish existed when we were evaluating a tool for our own work — opinionated, specific, and honest about the trade-offs. They cite tools by name, give concrete cost ranges, and tell you what to avoid as often as what to try.
They’re free, ungated, and refreshed when the underlying landscape shifts. If you only have ten minutes to learn something useful about an AI workflow, start with a guide.
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