Blog & intelligence
Notes from the workshop.
Engineering, token economics, and the thinking behind Expert AI Unlimited, written by the SSV.ASIA team.
Learn AI · Beginner
Your first hour with an AI terminal
What a terminal is, why AI belongs in it, and how to go from zero to your first prompt in under 60 seconds. No experience required.
Learn AI · Models
Frontier AI models explained simply
Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Llama, Qwen — what each is good at, and how one terminal routes to 200+ of them.
Learn AI · Tokens
AI tokens, honestly explained
What a token actually is, free vs Pro lanes, and why 530M tokens a month is effectively unlimited for daily work.
Learn AI · Research
Research workflows, run from one command
Deep research with citations, literature reviews, paper audits, replication plans and peer review — all from a terminal.
Learn AI · Comparison
AI terminal vs ChatGPT — the honest comparison
When each wins, what they cost, and why the best advice is to use both well.
Learn AI · Reference
AI & terminal glossary — 60+ terms
Token, agent, RAG, context window, provenance, CLI and more, each explained in one jargon-free line.
Learn AI · Terminal
The 20 most useful terminal commands
Navigate folders, inspect files, search, and run AI — a copy-paste cheat sheet for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Learn AI · Prompting
How to write better AI prompts
Five habits and five patterns that turn mediocre answers into answers worth using — with real examples.
Learn AI · Routing
AI model routing explained
How one terminal picks the best model for each request — and what the ssv.asia free, pro, aec and foundation lanes mean.
Learn AI · MCP
What is MCP? The AI plug-in standard
Model Context Protocol explained simply — how AI connects to your files and tools, with real examples.
Learn AI · Privacy
AI privacy & data security, explained
Local-first, zero-retention, air-gapped — what the privacy terms actually mean for your data.
Learn AI · Offline
Run AI offline: local & air-gapped
Local models, the /offline workflow, and when offline AI is the right choice for privacy, travel and sensitive work.
Learn AI · Knowledge
Obsidian + AI: your second brain
Pair your notes with AI — local vault search without tokens, persistent memory, and a knowledge base that answers back.
Learn AI · Content
Publish from Obsidian to Ghost with /og
Notes in Obsidian, posts on Ghost — with stats, SEO audits and a growth strategy, all from one command.
Learn AI · AEC
AI for architects & engineers
Building codes, standards and materials answered with citations — the cited AEC engine behind ssv.asia.
Learn AI · SEO
SEO basics for the AI age
Rank on Google and get found in AI answers — titles, meta, structure and the new rules of discoverability.
Token economics
Why 530 million tokens a month is a better deal than it sounds
500M free + 30M Pro refreshed every month. Here is what that actually buys a working developer, in codebases, prompts, and coffee breaks.
Engineering
How we shipped a 3 MB AI terminal with zero install anxiety
No Python, no Docker, no Node setup, a private runtime in a lightweight binary. The engineering trade-offs we made so onboarding is sixty seconds.
Product
Monthly tokens, honestly explained
What refreshes, what doesn't roll over, and why the monthly plan is effectively unlimited for uninterrupted daily work.
Guide
From click to first prompt in under sixty seconds
The full documented onboarding, subscribe, download, activate, with cross-platform installs and troubleshooting.