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One Useful Task

AI at Work: One Useful Task at a Time

One real job at a time for people who already opened the chat window. A prompt you can copy, a before and after, and three checks before you send. No coding required for this track.

You’ve tried ChatGPT or Claude at work. You don’t need a chatbot wrapper — you need a habit you can repeat on a busy Tuesday.

01
Why this matters
02
The prompt
03
Before and after
04
Check it
05
Do this now

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01Work Recipe

Ask before you write

If the ask is fuzzy, AI still writes something that looks finished. It just guesses what you need.

2 min · Ask questions before you write.

02Work Recipe

Check before you send

AI drafts sound sure of themselves. Sounding sure is not the same as being right, and your name is on the send.

2 min · Check the draft against your notes before you send it.

03Work Recipe

Think before you paste

Pasting the whole document is fast. But deleting the names doesn't make it safe to share.

2 min · Make a safe practice copy before you paste.

04Work Recipe

Check the notes before you share them

AI meeting notes can get people wrong. Once they're emailed out, the notes become what "happened".

2 min · Check meeting notes against what was said before you share them.

05Work Recipe

Don't send workslop

"Workslop" is AI work that looks done but isn't. When you send it, a teammate has to fix it.

2 min · Say what you checked, and what you need, before you send AI work.

06Work Recipe

Write like you, not a robot

People can tell when an email was pasted from a chatbot, and they may trust it less.

2 min · Rewrite the draft so it sounds like you.

Later in the map

Outlines only for now. They ship as Work Recipes on this site first, then Medium, then Substack.

07Coming next

Brief the Model Like a Colleague

Give role, context, and a definition of done — the way you’d brief a sharp new teammate.