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Grand Départ · Barcelona · July 4, 2026

Tour de AI

Master AI in 21 stages. One lesson a day.

AI splits into two roads: the work it does for you, and the things you build with it. Most people find neither — they open an empty chat box and hunt for a use case. Show it your actual week instead. Over 21 days, Barcelona to Paris, we ride from your first delegated task to an AI system of your own. No code, no jargon — just start where your life already is.

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Show it your realityPrompt as briefingBuild your brainConnect your toolsDelegate to agentsShip your system

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The Route · 23 days · One stage a day

GRAND DÉPART · BARCELONAPARISStage 1 · July 4 — Sign-on: you and your AI team1Stage 2 · July 5 — Prompting is briefing2Stage 3 · July 6 — The border crossing3Stage 4 · July 7 — Context is everything4Stage 5 · July 8 — The tool landscape (as I see it)5Stage 6 · July 9 — The unsexy climb: files, folders, terminal6Stage 7 · July 10 — Templates: your house style7Stage 8 · July 11 — The feedback loop8Stage 9 · July 12 — Connectors: the Swiss army knife9Rest day · July 13 — Rest day: the grupettoRStage 10 · July 14 — Skills: your SOPs10Stage 11 · July 15 — Build your own cockpit11Stage 12 · July 16 — Research & synthesis12Stage 13 · July 17 — The long haul: judging quality13Stage 14 · July 18 — Agents 10114Stage 15 · July 19 — Your first agent workflow15Rest day · July 20 — Rest day: system checkRStage 16 · July 21 — The solo time trial16Stage 17 · July 22 — Delegation tiers17Stage 18 · July 23 — Orchestration: many hands18Stage 19 · July 24 — The big climb: assembling your system19Stage 20 · July 25 — Alpe d'Huez, again: hardening20Stage 21 · July 26 — The Champs-Élysées: the road ahead21

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One stage a day, July 4–26. Miss a day? The grupetto always rides back on.

Week 1

AI for working
1July 4Barcelona → Barcelona19.6 kmTeam time trialSign-on: you and your AI team

The map that orients the whole tour: the two roads of AI — working with it vs building with it — the ladder from consuming to delegating to building, and getting on the bike.

You'll learn

  • The two roads: working with AI vs building with it
  • The ladder: consuming → delegating → building
  • Pick one ~$20 tool and take your first delegation
Ride the stage →
2July 5Tarragona → Barcelona168.5 kmHilly unlocks July 5Prompting is briefing

You've been briefing colleagues for years. That skill is the whole game.

3July 6Granollers → Les Angles195.9 kmMountain unlocks July 6The border crossing

The race crosses from Spain into France. You cross from consuming AI to working with it — and glimpse the building road ahead.

4July 7Carcassonne → Foix181.9 kmHilly unlocks July 7Context is everything

Your AI brain: what it knows about you, written down once, portable anywhere.

5July 8Lannemezan → Pau158.3 kmFlat unlocks July 8The tool landscape (as I see it)

Chat apps, Cowork, Claude Code, APIs. An opinionated map, not a directory.

6July 9Pau → Gavarnie-Gèdre186.2 kmMountain unlocks July 9The unsexy climb: files, folders, terminal

Where do you put things? What even is a terminal? The climb nobody photographs, and everybody needs.

7July 10Hagetmau → Bordeaux175.1 kmFlat unlocks July 10Templates: your house style

Recurring outputs deserve reusable shapes. Write the format down once.

8July 11Périgueux → Bergerac180.4 kmFlat unlocks July 11The feedback loop

First drafts are never final. The trick is corrections that persist.

9July 12Malemort → Ussel185.5 kmHilly unlocks July 12Connectors: the Swiss army knife

It's very smart. It's just not very smart when it can't do much. Time to hand it tools.

RJuly 13Rest day unlocks July 13Rest day: the grupetto

Behind? Ride back on. Week 1 recap and catch-up.

Week 2

The crossover
10July 14Aurillac → Le Lioran166.6 kmHilly unlocks July 14Skills: your SOPs

Find the repeatable process. Put it in a system. Never explain it twice.

11July 15Vichy → Nevers161.3 kmFlat unlocks July 15Build your own cockpit

Vibe-code a UI over the boring tools you live in. If you like pink, make it pink. It doesn't affect the data.

12July 16Magny-Cours → Châlon-sur-Saône179.1 kmFlat unlocks July 16Research & synthesis

AI over your documents and knowledge. Passive collection, active recall.

13July 17Dole → Belfort205.8 kmHilly unlocks July 17The long haul: judging quality

The longest stage of the race, for the least glamorous skill: taste.

14July 18Mulhouse → Le Markstein155.3 kmMountain unlocks July 18Agents 101

Delegation, not conversation. What an agent actually is.

15July 19Champagnole → Plateau de Solaison183.9 kmMountain unlocks July 19Your first agent workflow

Multi-step autonomous work. Supervised, for now.

RJuly 20Rest day unlocks July 20Rest day: system check

Week 2 recap. How's your system holding up?

Week 3

AI for building
16July 21Evian-les-Bains → Thonon-les-Bains26.1 kmIndividual time trial unlocks July 21The solo time trial

One real task, end to end, alone against the clock. The exam.

17July 22Chambéry → Voiron174.7 kmFlat unlocks July 22Delegation tiers

Full, supervised, manual. The audit that tells you what to hand over.

18July 23Voiron → Orcières-Merlette185.2 kmMountain unlocks July 23Orchestration: many hands

Divvy the work out like you would to three or four people. Come back and check in.

19July 24Gap → Alpe d'Huez127.9 kmMountain unlocks July 24The big climb: assembling your system

Context, templates, skills, connectors — together. Capstone, part one.

20July 25Bourg d'Oisans → Alpe d'Huez170.9 kmMountain unlocks July 25Alpe d'Huez, again: hardening

The Tour climbs Alpe d'Huez twice in two days. You harden the system until it holds.

21July 26Thoiry → Paris133 kmFlat unlocks July 26The Champs-Élysées: the road ahead

How this compounds. Your three-month roadmap. Champagne.

Ride the whole tour

One stage a day, July 4–26. Miss a day? The grupetto always rides back on.

Community · Happy Operators Hackathon

Built at the Happy Operators Hackathon

Tour de AI is one entry in the Happy Operators Hackathon — a community build-along where operators ship real projects alongside the 2026 Tour de France. More builds are rolling in through the race; here's what's on the road so far.

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