Expert Workflows
Expert Workflows is the hands-on project track for turning AI knowledge into reviewed prototypes. Tutorials cover PDF summarisation, APIs, browser extensions, debugging, credential safety, privacy limits, and responsible deployment. Choose the edition that fits your experience and follow the Expert Workflows curriculum in order.
Use the roadmap for the recommended order, or choose a guide below for the problem you are solving now. Each article includes practical limits, verification steps, and links to authoritative sources where details may change.
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![[Step 3-A-2/3] Giving Your Bot a Brain — And Keeping It in Its Lane (Office Worker Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/EW-Step3-A-2-of-3-300x169.png)
[Step 3-A-2/3] Giving Your Bot a Brain — And Keeping It in Its Lane (Office Worker Edition)
Add an AI provider to a Telegram bot with scoped commands, asynchronous requests, privacy-aware testing, input and output limits, refusal boundaries, and safer failure handling.
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![[Step 3-A-1/3] Your First Telegram Bot That Actually Answers — Office Worker Edition](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/EW-Step3-A-1-of-3-300x171.png)
[Step 3-A-1/3] Your First Telegram Bot That Actually Answers — Office Worker Edition
Build a first Telegram bot with BotFather, Python polling, token-safe configuration, private-chat testing, group privacy guidance, and practical troubleshooting for duplicate processes.
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![[Step 2-A-3/3] Making It Yours — Icons, Task Buttons, and a Tool You’ll Actually Use (Reseller Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/EW-Step2-A-3-of-3-300x169.png)
[Step 2-A-3/3] Making It Yours — Icons, Task Buttons, and a Tool You’ll Actually Use (Reseller Edition)
Customize a Chrome extension with branded icons, three reseller task buttons, persistent results, debugging guidance, and realistic API-key security limits.
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![[Step 2-A-2/3] Making It Read the Page and Talk to AI (Reseller Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/EW-Step2-A-2-of-3-300x169.png)
[Step 2-A-2/3] Making It Read the Page and Talk to AI (Reseller Edition)
make your AI requests from the service worker, not from code injected into the web page.
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![[Step 2-A-1/3] Your First Chrome Extension That Actually Loads — For Your Side Hustle (Reseller Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/EW-Step2-A-1-of-3-300x169.png)
[Step 2-A-1/3] Your First Chrome Extension That Actually Loads — For Your Side Hustle (Reseller Edition)
📌Expert Workflows · Step 2: AI Chrome Extension · Edition A (Reseller) · Part 1 of 3 🎯 What You’re Actually Building Here InStep 1some of us built…
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![[Step 1-A-4/4] Structured JSON Output & Shipping the Tool (Developer Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/EW-Step1-A-4-of-4-300x200.png)
[Step 1-A-4/4] Structured JSON Output & Shipping the Tool (Developer Edition)
Learn how to turn AI PDF summaries into reliable structured JSON, recover malformed model output, validate fields, and ship the workflow as a Python CLI.
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![[Step 1-A-3/4] Chunking, Token Limits & Surviving Timeouts (Developer Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/EW-Step1-A-3-of-4-300x150.png)
[Step 1-A-3/4] Chunking, Token Limits & Surviving Timeouts (Developer Edition)
Learn how to chunk long PDF text for AI summarization, estimate token limits, prevent context-window errors, and survive API timeouts with retries and exponential backoff.
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![[Step 1-A-2/4] Extract Text From PDFs — Detect Scans and Encoding Problems (Developer Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/EW-Step1-A-2-of-4-300x200.png)
[Step 1-A-2/4] Extract Text From PDFs — Detect Scans and Encoding Problems (Developer Edition)
Learn how to extract text from PDFs with Python, detect scanned or garbled output, validate the result, and use OCR when a file has no searchable text layer.
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![[Step 1-A-1/4] Build an AI PDF Summarizer — Environment Setup & Your First API Call (Developer Edition)](https://lifetechhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-20-2026-04_29_28-PM-300x200.png)
[Step 1-A-1/4] Build an AI PDF Summarizer — Environment Setup & Your First API Call (Developer Edition)
Build an AI PDF summarizer with Python: create a secure project, store your API key safely, test the connection and diagnose common errors step by step.
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The Expert Workflows Curriculum Roadmap: From Learner to Shipper (Level 3)
This is the master roadmap for Expert Workflows — the hands-on, project-based track that follows AI Essentials and AI Deep Dive.
Not sure where to begin? Compare the AI Essentials, AI Deep Dive, and Expert Workflows learning paths.