The link (start here)
Here it is, no faffing about: skills.google/collections/ai-boost-bites
That's the collection page. Every lesson sits on it, each one is a short video from someone inside Google who builds with these tools daily, and you can do them in any order you like.
The reason you couldn't find it
It's Bites, not Bytes. I said Bytes on camera and so does half the internet. If you've searched for it and come up empty, that one letter is why. Search "AI Boost Bites Google Skills" and it turns up instantly.
Open the collection
Go to skills.google/collections/ai-boost-bites. You'll see the Bites laid out as cards.
Sign in with a Google account
Any Google account works — personal Gmail is fine. You need to be signed in for it to track what you've finished, which is what the credential is based on.
Do one Bite. Just one.
Don't enrol in everything and then feel guilty about it on Sunday night. Pick Intro to NotebookLM, watch it, do the hands-on challenge at the end with your own material. That's the whole first session.
What's actually inside
This isn't a vague "intro to AI" course written by a marketing team. Each Bite is one specific job, taught by a Google person, with a hands-on challenge at the end so you actually do the thing rather than nod along to it.
Prompting like a Pro
The prompting lesson. Structure, context, worked examples — the difference between asking a question and giving a brief.
Intro to NotebookLM
Feed it your own documents and it answers only from those. This is the one that changes how you research. Start here.
AI Power-Ups for Google Workspace
Gemini inside Docs, Sheets, Slides and Gmail — the stuff you already have open all day and probably aren't using.
Tame Your Inbox with AI
Triage, drafting and summarising in Gmail. Small, but you'll feel it every single morning.
Gemini Gems come up across the Bites too. A Gem is a saved, reusable version of Gemini with your instructions baked in — so instead of re-explaining your business every time, you build a "client proposal writer" once and it remembers who you are. If you've ever built a custom GPT, it's the same idea.
There's a bigger path behind it
The Bites sit inside a wider Google Skills path with dozens of activities: skills.google/paths/2480. You don't need the whole path. The Bites alone are the good bit.
A week that gets you through it
Four sittings of about ten minutes. The trick is doing each challenge on your own business, not Google's sample data — otherwise you finish the lesson and nothing has changed on Monday. Use these prompts to make each one land in real life.
Monday — NotebookLM
Watch Intro to NotebookLM. Then upload something real: your last three client proposals, your service pages, a long report you've been avoiding.
Wednesday — build a Gem
Watch the Gems material, then build one Gem you'll genuinely reuse. Don't build five. Build the one you do every week by hand.
Friday — Workspace and inbox
Do the Workspace and inbox Bites back to back. They're the ones that pay you back daily.
Weekend — mop up and claim the credential
Finish whatever's left, then go and grab the badge while it's fresh. Section four is what to do with it.
If you only have ten minutes total
Do NotebookLM. It's the one that makes people go "oh". Everything else can wait for next week.
What to do with the badge
Google Skills issues digital credentials for completed learning, and they're shareable — which means they're only worth something if you actually put them somewhere people look. Most people earn one, feel briefly pleased, and leave it sitting in a dashboard forever.
Add it to LinkedIn properly
Not as a post that vanishes in a day. Go to your profile → Add profile section → Recommended → Add licenses & certifications. Issuing organisation: Google. Paste the credential link. That's the bit recruiters and clients filter on.
Then post about it — but make the post useful
"I earned a badge" is a nothing post. "Here's the one thing from Google's AI training that changed how I work" is a post people save. Prompt below writes it.
Put it where clients decide
Your about page, your proposal template, your email signature. If you sell services to people who are nervous about AI, "trained by Google" does quiet work on your behalf.
Be straight about what it is
It's a completion credential from Google, not a degree and not a professional certification. Describe it as what it is — "completed Google's AI Boost Bites training" — and you'll never have an awkward moment about it. Overselling a free badge is the fastest way to look green.
The honest catches
It's genuinely free and genuinely good. It's also not neutral, and a couple of things will annoy you if nobody warns you first.
It's Google teaching you Google
Every lesson is about Gemini, Workspace, NotebookLM or AI Studio. There is nothing here about Claude, ChatGPT or anything Google doesn't sell. That's fine — free expert training from the people who built the tool is a good trade — but it's a shop window, and the skills transfer better than the tool loyalty does.
Some Bites are marked deprecated
A couple of the older ones carry a DEPRECATED tag on the collection page. They still open, but the interfaces they show have moved on. Skip anything flagged and stick to the current ones — you'll spend less time going "that button isn't there".
Ten minutes is the video, not the learning
Each Bite runs about ten minutes, but the hands-on challenge at the end is where it actually sticks — and that's another twenty if you do it on your own work. Budget half an hour per Bite and you'll finish smug instead of behind.
Google Skills changes under you
Google reshuffles this platform regularly — courses get renamed, moved and retired. If a specific Bite has vanished by the time you read this, go to skills.google and search "AI Boost Bites". The collection is the stable thing, not any one lesson.
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