Your report
Your report: what you’ll get
Your AI writes a report on how you work with it, and you keep it. Part 1 is for you to act on; Part 2 is the evidence, for the study. You upload the whole report, so the researcher sees both.
Your AI can be wrong. Treat the report as a well-informed starting point, not a verdict.
What’s in it
Part 1: For you
Your level, what you do well, what’s holding you back, and up to three next moves with examples. It ends with a message to send your AI.
Part 2: For the research
The evidence behind each finding, in a fixed format so the study can compare people.
A sample of Part 1
Invented for illustration and shortened, for a marketing manager. Your AI writes your report as a plain text file, shown here as most AI chats display it. The headings are the same in every report; what’s under them is written from your own work, so yours will read differently.
Invented example, shortened
At a glance
Your level: Novice › Experimenter › Practitioner › Expert
In one sentence: you use AI every day for one-off drafts, and you accept most first answers without checking them against anything.
To reach the next level: turn your two most repeated tasks into saved, reusable instructions.
What you do well
- You give context. Most requests explain the audience and the goal. Tip: add one example of a past piece you liked.
- You use it daily. Small, frequent use is how habits form. Tip: keep a note of the prompts that worked.
What’s holding you back
You stop at the first answer. Most tasks end after one reply, so drafts need heavy editing later. Cost: rework you could hand back to the AI.
Your next three moves
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Ask for a plan before a draft.
Try it like this:
Before you write anything, give me a three-line plan: who it’s for, the one message, and the structure. Wait for my OK.
You’ll know it’s working when you rewrite less than half of the first draft. Effort: minutes.
Save your briefing as standing instructions, so you don’t retype audience and tone every time. Effort: an hour, once.
Check one claim per draft against a real source before you send it. Effort: ongoing.
Try this now
Thanks for the report. Coach me on move 1. Ask me about a real piece I’m writing this week, then walk me through planning it first, one step at a time.
The four levels
1
Novice
Not yet getting real value from AI.
2
Experimenter
Uses AI often, mostly for one-off tasks.
3
Practitioner
AI is built into repeatable ways of working.
4
Expert
Builds AI workflows, tools or automations for themselves and others.
In Section’s 2026 survey, about 3 in 4 US knowledge workers were experimenters. Every level is useful to the study, and every report gives you a next step.
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