AI User Guides
What is this section?
This section is the entry point for practical AI guides in Saurus. It is not a theory section and not a leaderboard. The goal is to help you answer concrete questions such as:
- Which AI should I start with?
- Which product surface do I actually need?
- Do I need a user tool, a developer API, a coding agent, or an enterprise rollout?
- Where do I find the next guide for my specific use case?
How to read these guides
Most provider guides in this section follow the same pattern:
- a mental model of the provider's product surfaces,
- the main use cases and trade-offs,
- a quickstart path,
- a decision guide,
- official links and related internal guides.
If you only need orientation, read the mental model and the decision guide first.
1. What lives here
This area bundles four kinds of guides:
| Guide type | What you get | Best starting point |
|---|---|---|
| Provider guides | Overview of a whole AI stack: products, API, models, quickstart, decision help | Start in section 4 below |
| User rollout guides | Structured onboarding and adoption guidance for teams and companies | Start with Claude in the Company |
| Tool guides | Practical how-tos for a specific tool or workflow | Start with AI Tools Directory or MCP Inspector |
| Skill / workflow guides | Reusable practices for getting more value from AI systems | Start with Skills Guide |
2. Start here by job to be done
| If you need… | Start with… |
|---|---|
| one main AI assistant for daily work | OpenAI Guide, Claude in the Company, or Google Gemini Guide |
| an enterprise-first AI stack with retrieval and secure deployment | Cohere Guide |
| a Google-centric stack across app, API, and workspace | Google Gemini Guide |
| open-weight and self-hosting direction | Meta Llama Guide or DeepSeek Guide |
| a coding-first editor or agent workflow | Cursor Guide plus OpenAI Guide or xAI Grok Guide |
| a modern AI API with strong tool use and business rollout options | OpenAI Guide |
| a live-search-heavy or Grok-centered stack | xAI Grok Guide |
| practical MCP inspection and testing help | MCP Inspector (Web UI) |
3. Fast recommendations
If you do not want to read everything, these are the shortest useful paths:
- Most mainstream general-purpose starting point: OpenAI Guide
- Best company rollout framework in this section: Claude in the Company
- Best Google ecosystem overview: Google Gemini Guide
- Best enterprise retrieval/search entry point: Cohere Guide
- Best open/self-hosting orientation: Meta Llama Guide and DeepSeek Guide
- Best "what tools even exist?" page: AI Tools Directory
4. Provider guides
These guides explain a whole provider stack from the user point of view.
| Provider | Guide | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | Claude in the Company | Team rollout, governance, structured adoption |
| OpenAI | OpenAI Guide | Mainstream assistant + API + coding workflow |
| Google Gemini Guide | Gemini app, AI Studio, Developer API, Workspace | |
| Mistral | Mistral AI Guide | EU provider, Studio, Vibe, enterprise customization |
| Meta | Meta Llama Guide | Open weights, self-hosting, Llama ecosystem |
| DeepSeek | DeepSeek Guide | Low-cost API, open weights, China residency trade-offs |
| Cohere | Cohere Guide | Enterprise retrieval, multilingual, secure deployment |
| xAI | xAI Grok Guide | Grok, live search, large-context API, voice/media |
5. Workflow and tool guides
These guides are narrower and more operational.
| Area | Guide | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Coding workflow | Cursor Guide | AI-first editor usage |
| Tool landscape | AI Tools Directory | Fast orientation across categories |
| MCP inspection | MCP Inspector (Web UI) | Field-by-field setup in the browser |
| Skills | Skills Guide | What skills are, when to use them, and how they work |
| Skill examples | Must-have Skills | Reusable AI working patterns |
| Skill authoring | Skill Authoring | Designing your own reusable instructions |
6. When to leave this section
Use these user guides to decide where to start.
Then move deeper when needed:
- for cross-provider comparison -> Developer Guide – Top AI Comparison
- for coding-agent comparison -> Coding Tools Comparison
- for OpenAI-specific implementation details -> OpenAI docs section
- for Anthropic rollout details -> the linked sub-guides under Claude in the Company
The point of this section is orientation first, implementation second.