How People Work with AIAn independent study

After your report

Put your report to work

For after you’ve uploaded your report, or decided not to. That way the study gets the version your AI first wrote. Use the same chat, or paste your report into a new one.

Your AI can be wrong. Treat the report as a well-informed starting point, not a verdict.

Start with the questions Not uploaded yet? Upload your report first

Using your report

  1. Read Part 1. It takes a few minutes.
  2. Pick move 1. Your AI ranked it the biggest payoff.
  3. Send the “Try this now” message in the same chat and work through a real task.
  4. Keep learning with the questions below, and check back in a month with the progress prompt.

Questions to ask your AI

Start with the first question.

Your AI can be wrong here too. If a question is about confidential work, keep it general or make up a similar example.

Step 1

Understand your report

Make sure the findings make sense to you before you act on them.

  • Why did you put me at this level and not the one above? Point to the two pieces of evidence that weighed most.

  • Show me what the first item under "What's holding you back" looks like in practice. Use a real example only if you actually saw one; otherwise say so and ask me for one.

  • Which of your findings are you least sure about, and what would change your mind?

Step 2

See it in your own work

Turn general advice into something you recognise from your own day.

  • Pick one request I sent you recently (if you can't see one, ask me to paste one) and rewrite it the way someone at the next level would. Explain each change.

  • Did I accept any of your answers without checking them? Only point to one you actually saw; if you can't, say so. Then show me how I could have checked it.

  • What do I ask you for that you could do much better with more context? Which context, exactly?

Step 3

Practise

A few minutes of practice on a made-up task beats rereading the report.

  • Give me a short, made-up practice task from my kind of work. Let me brief you on it, then critique how I briefed you.

  • Write a short answer to a made-up question from my kind of work, with two mistakes hidden in it. Let me find them and push back, then tell me what I missed.

  • Before I start my next real task, ask me the questions a really good briefing would answer.

Step 4

Make it stick

Habits change when the reminder is in front of you, not in an old chat.

  • Turn the habits in my report into a short checklist I can keep next to me while I work.

  • Next time you get something wrong for me, how do I turn my correction into a saved instruction so it doesn't happen again? Show me one. If you're not sure this tool can save instructions, say so instead of guessing.

  • What would someone one level above me do differently in a normal week of work like mine? Give me three signs I could notice in myself within a month.

Follow-up prompts

Longer prompts to copy into your AI once your report is done, including the one-month check-in. In a new chat, paste your report first.

Coach me on my top move

Right after the report, in the same chat.

Thanks for the report (it's above). Coach me on move 1 from "Your next three moves". Start by asking me about one real task I have this week, then walk me through doing it the better way, step by step. Keep each reply short and check with me before moving on.

Turn my report into standing instructions

When you want the fix to happen automatically. Works best in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Claude Code; some workplace tools have nowhere to save instructions.

Using my AI work report (paste it above this if we're in a new chat), write saved instructions that would fix the top two items under "What's holding you back" automatically. Keep them under 150 words and specific to my work. Show me the text; don't save or change anything yourself. Then tell me where tools like this one keep saved instructions, and if you're not sure this tool has such a place, say so instead of guessing.

Check my progress in a month

About a month later. In a new chat, paste your report first.

About a month ago you assessed how I work with AI (my report is above). Tell me honestly which of my three moves I've actually adopted, what changed, and the one thing to focus on next. If you can't see my chats from the past month, say so, then ask me three short questions instead of guessing.

Your report stays yours

Your AI writes it in your own account. The study sees it only if you upload it, and you choose what to remove first. What you do with it afterwards stays between you and your AI. How we handle your data