About Promptly
Make AI literacy and prompt engineering accessible to everyone, for free.
Promptly is a free place to learn how to communicate with AI: how it reads your instructions, why some prompts work better than others, and how to get results you can actually use.
What we believe
Free, with no paywalls
Every lesson, technique and prompt example is free to use. No premium tier, no locked chapters, no ads.
Beginner-friendly
No technical background needed. Concepts are explained in plain language, one step at a time.
Accurate, never hyped
Simple doesn’t mean simplified. We explain what AI can and can’t do, and we never pass off made-up output as real.
Practical first
Every idea comes with examples and exercises you can use straight away, at work, at school or at home.
The story
Made for Tong. Open to everyone.
Promptly started with a simple idea: making AI easier to understand and more accessible to everyone.
It was originally put together for a friend, Tong, as a friendly way to learn how to get more out of AI tools, without jargon and without needing to be “technical”. Explaining things to one curious person turned out to be the best way to explain them to everyone.
So this little project grew into a free learning space where anyone can discover, experiment, and master the art of prompting.
Because great knowledge is meant to be shared.
Built with ❤️ for Tong.
Who’s behind Promptly
Promptly is an independent project by boatweb.dev. It isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by any AI company. The lessons teach general prompting skills that work across popular AI assistants.