A book series on AI and tech

The tools you work with, made crystal clear.

One hands-on book per tool, free in your inbox.

  • The whole tool in one overview diagram, before the details
  • A diagram for every idea, and step by step exercises you can run
  • Every claim sourced, updated as the tool changes
  • Written for managers, marketers, ops teams and developers

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37 books, a new one every week. Next up: AI Sales, AI Marketing, Self Hosting.

  • AI Go To Market Made Crystal Clear
  • Higgsfield Made Crystal Clear
  • Kubernetes Made Crystal Clear
  • Cloudflare Made Crystal Clear
  • Jev Made Crystal Clear
  • Supabase Made Crystal Clear
  • AI Video Made Crystal Clear
  • Zernio Made Crystal Clear

Also by the author, outside the tech series: The +1 Method.

37
titles
6,946
pages
1,319
diagrams drawn
793
recipes you can run
4,105
terms defined
3,691
sources cited

Judge for yourself: real pages

AI Made Crystal Clear 1 / 6

AI Made Crystal Clear, page 16: the family map
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AI Made Crystal Clear, page 74: the RAG pipeline
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AI Made Crystal Clear, page 109: where a prompt goes
Page 109

★★★★★

“A good book for leaders or anyone looking to quickly catch up on the key concepts and vocabulary around AI. It's especially helpful when having AI related discussions with vendors or internal teams.”

Mohamed B., Director of Support, in a 5 star Amazon review of AI Made Crystal Clear

Why these books stick

The gist

The whole idea first

Every chapter opens with the whole idea in one box. You always know where you are going.

Picture this

Drawn before it is explained

1,319 diagrams across the series. The picture is what you remember.

Recipe

Hands-on, step by step

793 recipes, each with the result you should see, so you know it worked.

Sourced

Checked, and kept current

3,691 numbered sources, mostly the official docs. Each book is updated as its tool changes.

Christophe Paka, author of the Made Crystal Clear series
Who writes the books

Christophe Paka

Christophe Paka writes every book on the shelf. He spent years in technical support at Salesforce and Microsoft, where the job was to make complex systems clear to customers who needed them working the same day. He has since built and run software as a founder and lead developer, worked as a Salesforce consultant, and grown a YouTube channel on tech careers past one million views.

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