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AI Feedback Checklist
The first answer is a first draft. Give AI the notes you'd give a colleague.
Decision Criteria Starter
Write down your last 10 decisions. Let AI draft the rules you use, then check them.
Team AI Ground Rules
Three rules your team can agree on in 5 minutes, plus a meeting script.
Automation Failure Checklist
Who finds out when it breaks? Owner, success signal and failure alert.
Senior-Leader Review Prompt
Get the CFO's hard questions before the meeting, not during it.
Photo Edit Prompt Guide
Practical prompts, examples and checks for your next task.
Agent Interrupt Rules
Practical prompts, examples and checks for your next task.
ChatGPT Memory Check
Practical prompts, examples and checks for your next task.
Before You Paste Checklist
Practical prompts, examples and checks for your next task.
Cross-Functional Decision Check
Practical prompts, examples and checks for your next task.
Chat Handoff Prompt
Practical prompts, examples and checks for your next task.
Answer-First Rewrite Prompt
Practical prompts, examples and checks for your next task.
AI Tool Selection Scorecard
Practical prompts, examples and checks for your next task.
10 AI Skills Checklist
Practical prompts, examples and checks for your next task.
First Agent Problem Brief
Practical prompts, examples and checks for your next task.
First AI Workflow Selector
Practical prompts, examples and checks for your next task.
Draft-and-Approve Automation Planner
Practical prompts, examples and checks for your next task.
The Current Brief Template
Reset a drifting AI conversation with one clear source of truth for the current audience, decision, constraints and output.
Plan First: Prompt and Approval Checklist
Ask for the approach before the deliverable, review the plan and keep risky actions behind an approval point.
One Question at a Time
Use an adaptive interview prompt, a fixed-deadline example and an approved brief before drafting.
Publish-Ready Review Checklist
Check figures, assumptions, decision, owner, deadline, tone and permissions before AI-assisted work leaves the draft.
AI Tool Comparison Worksheet
Compare AI tools on the same brief, sources and checks, then choose for the job you actually need.
Google Drive App Readiness and Decision Brief
Test the account, permissions, source retrieval and five-bullet decision brief before using a workplace file.
Visual Draft-to-Code Handoff Checklist
Keep approved content as the source of truth while a reviewed visual draft moves into a bounded code change.
ChatGPT Settings Review Checklist
Review Data Controls, Memory, chat history, Library and connected apps, then record the decision and owner.
Thinking-Method Menu
Ten practical thinking lenses, a workplace example and an evidence check for examining a problem from a useful angle.
Learn an Unfamiliar Topic for Work
Ten copyable learning prompts and a seven-day worksheet with spaced review, application and teach-back.
Public Framework Evaluation Checklist
Check provenance, business facts, evidence and promises before relying on a public AI framework.
Documents to a Visual Answer
Sample travel-expense PDFs, copyable prompts and checks for turning documents into a table and interactive map.
Presentation Brief Template
A four-part brief, worked management example and review checklist for turning existing work into clear slides.
Your AI Working Brief
An interview prompt, reusable brief and worked example to give AI the context it needs before drafting.
AI Agent Boundaries Checklist
Define what your agent can do, what needs approval and how to test the boundaries.
Workplace Prompt Pack
Five everyday-work prompts and a five-step decision sequence, with examples and a decision template.
Write in Your Own Voice
Two revision prompts and a checklist to preserve your meaning and make the writing sound like you.
Outcome-Based Service Buying Checklist
Questions to define success, compare services and check exceptions before buying an outcome.
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The Thursday Brief
The exact prompt, the schedule settings and the one-minute check for a one-screen brief on every 1:1 that shows up on its own.
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The Hand-Over List
What to hand ChatGPT's Work mode first, how to brief it in four lines, and the two-minute check before anything goes out.
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The Weekly Update Project
Three files and one line of instructions that turn a ChatGPT Project into the writer of your weekly update.
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The Report Reviewer
Five rules for AI-written reports, plus the instructions for an agent that flags every claim with no source or owner.
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Build Your Own Morning Briefing
The exact prompt and the one-page context template. Start with the ten-minute version and move up only if you need to.
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The ChatGPT Setup Most People Never Touch
The settings that change how ChatGPT talks to you, what it remembers, and who can get into your account. Fifteen minutes, once.
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