About Tried, Actually

I’ve worked in content, editorial management, social media, marketing strategy and digital communications for more than six years. I’ve managed writers, built content calendars, created SEO content, worked with websites and social platforms, and run marketing projects of my own.

After some time away from marketing, I wanted to get back into it properly - not just by reading about what had changed, but by building something, testing ideas and using the tools myself.

I had also wanted to start my own project for a long time. Tried, Actually grew out of both of those things.

I live abroad with my son, without family or close friends nearby, so there are a lot of situations where I simply have to figure things out myself. That’s where AI became part of my everyday life.

I use it for small things and big ones: figuring out how to make a sugar-free cake, comparing products, solving technical problems, organising ideas, or working out how to rebuild a career after maternity leave.

But I’m not interested in proving that AI can do everything. Quite the opposite.

I want to see where it actually helps, where it gets things wrong, where it saves time, where it creates more work, and where a person still needs to rely on their own judgement.

That’s what this project is about.

I take real problems from real life and turn them into experiments.

Sometimes AI finds the answer. Sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes the useful part isn’t the answer at all, but the reasoning process, the questions it helps me ask, or the confidence to make a decision I might otherwise avoid.

And when it fails, I show that too.

AI doesn’t pay me to make it look good. I’m not here to advertise it.

I document what actually happened, what worked, what didn’t and what I would do differently next time.

The specific experiment might be about a bathtub, a laptop, a recipe or a career decision. But the point is bigger than the individual task.

I want each experiment to show something practical about how AI can - and cannot - be used in real life.

So maybe you don’t need to repeat the experiment yourself. You can see the process, understand the limits and decide whether the same approach could help you.

That’s Tried, Actually. Less theory. More trying.