Guides

Short, practical guides to get real work done with an AI assistant. Every guide comes with example prompts you can open in 1avance with one click.

• Prompting tips: how to get better answers from an AI
  The four ingredients of a good prompt, the mistakes that lead to vague answers, and before and after examples.
• What 1avance can do for you, with real examples
  A day with 1avance: news briefings, work, study, cooking, travel and code, plus the things it cannot do.
• Writing emails in English with an AI: a practical guide
  Follow-ups, cold emails, apologies and polite refusals: how to brief an AI so the email sounds like you.
• Studying with an AI: active recall, practice tests and more
  Use an AI assistant the way good students use a tutor: quizzes, spaced repetition, the Feynman technique and mock exams.
• Planning a trip with an AI assistant
  From a rough idea to a day-by-day itinerary, a realistic budget and a packing list, and what you must still check yourself.
• 1avance FAQ
  Free, sign-up, the model behind 1avance, memory, privacy, speed and the websites it recommends: all your questions answered.
• About 1avance and its open AI model
  Why 1avance is built on an open-weight model, what open weights means, how the service works and how your data is handled.