From zero to AI master.
30 days. 5 minutes a day.

Yes. Zekai is an independent AI tools directory — the challenge is how we introduce people to the tools we test. Some tool pages contain affiliate links; the challenge itself costs nothing and requires no purchase.

No, and in a growing number of places it is now illegal for it to try. The therapeutic relationship is the treatment, and nothing that has never been in a room with a person can hold one. What this challenge does is take the documentation, the letters, the billing justifications and the admin off your evening, so that more of your attention is available for the part that actually helps. Every drill sits deliberately behind the relationship, never inside it.

Installed on day 6, and every other drill in the month sits on one side of it. AI never occupies the therapeutic relationship. It works behind it — the notes, the scheduling, the billing, the paperwork, your own preparation and reflection. The clinical decision, the treatment plan and the words that reach a client stay with a licensed human clinician. That is increasingly the law and not only an ethic: Illinois prohibits AI from making independent therapeutic decisions, generating treatment plans without licensed review, or communicating with a client in a therapeutic role; Nevada prohibits AI from providing professional mental or behavioural healthcare; Utah requires a mental-health chatbot to disclose that it is AI.

Not into a general chat tool, no. Day 2 is entirely about this and it comes before almost everything else for a reason. Client material is the most sensitive category of personal data there is, and what you paste into a consumer tool sits outside the safeguards your practice has built. Purpose-built clinical documentation tools operate under agreements written for health data; general assistants generally do not. Where AI touches documentation, several jurisdictions now require the client’s documented consent as a condition, not a courtesy. Most drills in this challenge are written to work on de-identified or clinician-side material for exactly this reason.

The truth, in plain words, and day 7 is a rehearsal for exactly that conversation. Tell them what you use, what it does, what happens to the recording or the text, who can see it, how long it is kept, and that they can decline without any effect on their care. If declining is not genuinely easy, it was never consent. It is also worth staying curious rather than defensive: for some clients the question is administrative, and for others it touches something about being recorded, watched or handled — which is clinical material, not an obstacle.

Because binge-reading builds nothing. The challenge unlocks one drill per day from the day you sign — the way any skill gets built: daily reps. Day 1 is open right now so you can try it before committing.

Zero. Day 1 assumes you have never written a deliberate prompt. By day 6 you will have a written statement of how AI is used in your practice that you could hand to a client or a regulator.

Life happens, and so does an unplanned stop. The challenge is sequential, not strict-daily. Pick up where you left off; the certificate cares that you finish all 30, not that you were perfect.

Every edition is built the same way, for a different desk — you can see all of them on the challenge hub, and new professions are added regularly. If yours is not there yet, sign up and we’ll tell you the day it launches.