Applied AI is Useful AI.
Applied AI is AI made useful — the part that helps real people do their jobs better.
The AI+ Library is the world’s most complete curriculum for Applied AI: covering 166 professions and 96 transferable skills across more than 300 titles.
Built for the universities, corporate L&D teams, governments and professional associations that train the modern workforce.
Applied AI Guides for every profession and skill.
Engineer-authored, industry-verified, written to one editorial standard, in ebook and print — and refreshed every six months, so your collection stays current as the field moves.
USPs of AI+ Books
Six things every AI+ book is built to give you.
01Hyper-Practical
We teach how AI affects and empowers you in your job practically, not theoretically.
02Role / Skill Focused
We design each book for depth of focus, not breadth of coverage.
03Always Current
We keep our books updated at the speed of AI.
04Built to be taught
We build books that are ready for the classroom — objectives, diagnostics and credentials in place.
05Stackable Skills
We teach skills that stack — each one building on the last, across a career.
06AI+You
We see AI as a force multiplier for human expertise — and we teach it that way.
What’s in every AI+ Book
No two professions are the same — but every AI+ title is built to the same method. Here is what’s inside, shown through real pages pulled from books right across the library.
State of the Industry
Every book opens with a market survey of where the profession stands with AI — real adoption data, what's working, and how the field got here.
Real-World Case Studies
Best-in-class case studies showing how leading organisations actually put AI to work — each closing with a plain “what this means for you.”
Role-Specific Frameworks
Memorable, reusable models built for the job — the profession's own task map, alongside PRISM, TRUST and GUARD.
Latest Tools & Best Practices
A date-stamped survey of the AI tool landscape by category, paired with the practices that get results — refreshed every six months.
Copy-Ready Prompt Library
Numbered, profession-specific prompt templates the reader pastes straight into any AI tool. Useful from day one.
Try This Now Exercises
Short, hands-on tasks done immediately using the reader's own live work — each paired with a reflection prompt.
Safety, Privacy & Ethics
A dedicated chapter turns professional ethics into a practical safety protocol, applied before any AI task touches real work.
Skills Check Diagnostic
A pre/post self-assessment — the gap measures what the reader actually gained.
30-Day Starter Plan
A week-by-week adoption plan mapped to the reader's real workflow.
Skill Declaration
Formal, microcredential-compatible outcomes for course mapping and accreditation.
Full Reference Apparatus
Glossary, tool reference, APA bibliography and a professional index.
The whole field, in four stackable tiers.
Every title lives in one tier. Together they take a professional from first principles, to their profession, to the skills every role shares, to leadership-level research.
- Tier 112 titles
AI+ Essentials
Foundational AI literacy for everyone.
Everyone · Managers · Students · Business Owners - Tier 2166 professions
AI+ Job Roles
A book for every profession.
Doctors · Lawyers · Engineers · Teachers · +more - Tier 396 skills
AI+ Job Skills
Transferable skills for any role.
Report Writing · Presentations · Negotiation · +more - Tier 413 titles
Special Editions
Research & strategy for leaders.
State-of-AI reports · The Prompts Bible · Ethics
AI+ Doctors
“Clinical documentation is consuming a third of your working day.”
Three frameworks every reader learns.
One for prompting, one for judging quality, one for staying safe — plus role-specific frameworks unique to each profession. Hover or tap a letter to see what it means.
Who the AI should be — the role, expertise, or perspective it adopts.
Sourced, cited, verifiable — you can follow every claim back.
Assess the stakes before you start.
Plan your AI+ learning journey.
AI+ Academic Research
“AI fabricated a citation and someone in your department got caught.”
Who are you training?
A whole organisation. A single profession. A skill needed across many roles. Each bundle is a ready-made reading programme for one of those audiences — the books already chosen, the reading order already set. Pick the one that matches your need; we’ve taken the book-by-book decision off your plate.
- COR-01 · Corporate16 books
The Whole Organisation AI Pack
Fourteen titles for whole-organisation rollouts — one book per level (all staff, power users, managers) and per cross-sector function (HR, marketing, sales, finance, legal, IT, admin, customer service, operations).
See the reading path → - COR-02 · Corporate8 books
The New Employee AI Onboarding Pack
Five titles for onboarding new hires — foundations plus workplace communication, business writing, and presenting.
See the reading path → - IND-01 · Industry31 books
The Healthcare AI Pack
Nine titles across clinical practice, allied health, research, and healthcare leadership.
See the reading path → - IND-04 · Industry40 books
The Education AI Pack
Nine titles for teachers, leaders, lecturers, librarians, and learning designers.
See the reading path → - IND-07 · Industry30 books
The Government & Public Sector Pack
Eight titles for civil servants, public-service leaders, and policy professionals.
See the reading path → - ROL-01 · Role11 books
The Leader's AI Pack
Seven titles for executives leading AI transformation — leadership, strategy, decision-making, and the leadership workbook.
See the reading path → - ROL-06 · Role10 books
The HR & People Professional's Pack
Seven titles for HR, L&D, and people-development professionals.
See the reading path → - SKL-01 · Skill12 books
The AI Writing Pack
Seven titles spanning creative, academic, business, technical, and grant writing.
See the reading path → - STU-01 · Student6 books
The Student Starter Pack
Five titles for undergraduates: study, research, write, present.
See the reading path →
AI+ Asia: The Opportunity
“You can recite the headline AI stories — the Singapore bank, the super-app, the sovereign model — but you still can't tell structural shift from hype, or weigh a Jakarta opportunity against a Tokyo one.”
Written by the engineers who build the systems.
The AI+ Library is published by the Straits Institute for Applied AI — the research, publishing and education body of Straits AI Group, an AI engineering consortium that consults on and builds AI deployment systems and infrastructure for governments, think tanks, educational institutions and enterprises across more than fifteen countries. Every title is written by practitioners and reviewed by an academic board of scientists and industry leaders across AI, applied science, and policy.
About the Institute & our academic board →
Practise every lesson in AI+Pro.
Reading builds understanding; practice builds skill. AI+Pro is a multi-model, privacy-focused platform with each book’s full prompt library built in — so readers run the book’s real prompts the moment they finish a chapter.
- Multi-model
The leading AI models, side by side in one place.
- Privacy-focused
Your data — and your people’s — stays protected.
- Full prompt library
Every numbered prompt from the book, ready to run.
- Chapter-linked
Practise each lesson the moment you learn it.
Every prompt from the book — ready to run, adapt and practise.
