Practical AI: Your Guide to Claude from Individual to Enterprise

First Edition · 2026

Practical AI

Your Guide to Claude, from Individual to Enterprise

by M. Emmett Townsend

Artificial intelligence is not coming — it is here. Practical AI is a field guide for the rest of us: written in plain language, grounded in real-world application, and built from the inside out with Claude's own assistance. It meets you wherever you are, whether you have never typed a prompt or you are building enterprise systems.

• Practical skills for everyday users, writers, and professionals
• Prompt engineering techniques that produce real results
• Guidance for programmers integrating Claude via the API
• A complete framework for small business and enterprise deployment