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Make AI
useful.

You’ve tried asking AI questions. Now discover what you can do with it.

Past the chat window

There’s more to AI
than an answer.

Most people stop at asking questions. The useful part starts when AI does work for you: running a task on its own, reading your documents, connecting to the tools you already use, or helping you build something of your own.

What the channel covers

Where to go next

What could you build?

All guides

/01

Automate the repetitive.

Hand off the work that comes round every week: sorting, summarising, filing and following up. Keep a check before anything important happens.

Choose your first automation

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/02

Understand agents.

What an AI agent actually is, who chooses the next step, and what it should be allowed to change on your behalf.

Agents, assistants and automations

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/03

Connect AI to your tools.

Let AI work with your email, calendar, documents and spreadsheets instead of copying and pasting into a chat box. Know what you are sharing first.

Before you connect your information

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Build your own small tools.

Use AI to make the tracker, calculator or helper you have always wanted, shaped around how you actually work.

Start with a better brief

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On YouTube

Less abstract.
More hands-on.

Each video works through a real build: what I set up, what it cost, where it broke and what you need to check before you trust it.

See what’s coming

Keep the human in the loop

AI does the work.
You make the call.

A useful system gathers the pieces, organises them and prepares the next step. You check the result and decide what happens. Every build on the channel shows where that check belongs.

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Kris York
Founder, York Studio

The person behind the channel

Curious, like you.
Hi, I’m Kris.

I work in IT operations and spend a lot of my time building with AI: automations, agents and small tools that take real work off my plate.

York Studio is where I show what works, what doesn’t, and how you can do it yourself.

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There’s more to AIthan an answer.