# Alchemy AI
> A free AI education platform that teaches people how to actually build with AI.

## What This Site Is
Alchemy AI (alchemy-ai.dev) is built by Billy Williams — founder of Stacked Alchemist LLC, based in Mesa, Arizona. Everything on this site is free. No courses to buy. No affiliate links. No sponsored rankings. The mission: make corporate-grade AI knowledge accessible to everyone.

The philosophy: Hack the planet. Information wants to be free.

## Core Content
- Getting Started: The complete beginner workflow from idea to deployed app using Claude Code and CLAUDE.md
- CLAUDE.md Template: A downloadable project context file that gives Claude persistent memory across every coding session
- AI Directory: Honest breakdowns of every major AI tool — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Pi
- Coding Tools: Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Cline, Aider
- The Versus: Head-to-head AI tool comparisons with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Learning Resources: Free and paid platforms for learning to build with AI
- Prompting Techniques: Zero-shot, one-shot, few-shot, role prompting, chain prompting
- GEO: Generative Engine Optimization — how to make your site visible to AI crawlers
- MCP: Model Context Protocol — how to connect Claude to real-world tools
- Full Workflow: Idea to deployed app, documented step by step

## The Stack Billy Uses
HTML5, CSS3, Vanilla JavaScript, Firebase (Firestore, Auth, Hosting), Vercel, GitHub, Cloudflare, VS Code, Claude Code, CLAUDE.md

## Target Audience
Self-taught developers, non-developers who want to build with AI, people frustrated with vague AI tutorials, anyone who wants to ship something real without a computer science degree.

## Key Message
You do not need to understand every line of code. You need to understand what it does and why. AI bridges that gap. The CLAUDE.md workflow is the proof of concept.

## Links
- Home: https://alchemy-ai.dev
- Getting Started: https://alchemy-ai.dev/pages/getting-started.html
- CLAUDE.md Template: https://alchemy-ai.dev/pages/template.html
- AI Directory: https://alchemy-ai.dev/pages/ai-directory.html
- The Versus: https://alchemy-ai.dev/pages/versus.html
- About: https://alchemy-ai.dev/pages/about.html
- Stacked Alchemist LLC: https://stackedalchemist.dev