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AI for Everyday Work

Lesson 4 of 5 · Beginner

Build a small toolkit of three briefs

About 30–40 minutes, including the practice

You will need. The template habit from Lesson 2, and a single page where three briefs can live side by side. This site will not store them.

What you will be able to do

  1. Choose three repeating jobs instead of a drawer of prompts
  2. Give each brief a different job, a constraint, and a name you will recognize later
  3. Include at least one brief you can use without pasting someone’s identity
  4. Score one brief to the Lesson 1 standard and check the other two for constraints

One brief is a trick you can forget. Ten briefs is a folder you will not open. Three is enough for a small week: something the public sees, something a customer needs to know, and something that is only for you. The toolkit is a page, not a personality. If you would not use a brief on a real Tuesday, it does not earn a place.

  1. 01PublicWhat a neighbor can see
  2. 02CustomerAn update, without their identity in the draft
  3. 03InternalA list only you will use
Three jobs, not three wordings of the same wish. Public, customer, and internal work do not want the same brief.

A practical trio

  1. A public note. The thing a neighbor can see: a window, a post, a menu special, a change of hours you are willing to publish.
  2. A customer update. A message about someone’s own order or appointment. The brief describes the situation. You add the person’s name and details yourself, afterward, outside the tool.
  3. An internal list. A checklist for you: what to gather before you write, or what to confirm before you open. It is not for publication, so it does not need a slogan.

You can rename the trio to fit your work. A tutor might have a weekly note to families, a reminder about what to bring, and a private list of what to prepare. The shape stays: one outward, one to a person, one for you. Do not make all three public captions with different adjectives.

Hypothetical: Rosa at Mesa y Hilo

Rosa takes in hems and small repairs. Her week repeats. Neighbors want to know what she can take on Saturday. People want to know when a garment is ready. She wants a Monday list so she does not start the week by guessing which thread she still has.

Hypothetical · 1 · Public — Saturday window

Context
I am Rosa. I write to neighbors who already bring clothes to Mesa y Hilo.
Goal
Say what kinds of repairs I can actually take this Saturday.
This week
[List only the jobs you are accepting.] [One limit, such as “no wedding dresses this month,” or “no extra limit.”]
Constraints
Do not invent a price, a turnaround time, a celebrity client, or “best tailor in town.” Do not promise a repair that is not on my list.
Style
Like a card in the window. Short, plain, no exclamation pile.
Output
One note of 4 to 6 sentences.

Hypothetical · 2 · Customer — Ready for pickup

Context
I am Rosa at Mesa y Hilo. I am writing to the person who left a garment. I will add their name myself after this draft. Do not ask me for it.
Goal
Tell them the garment described on the ticket is ready, and how to come get it without a new promise.
This ticket
[Kind of garment, with no name.] [Ready today, or the day you have checked.] [Anything they asked that you are not doing, such as “the hem only, not a new zipper.”]
Constraints
Do not invent a price, a discount, a guarantee that it will look new, or a closing time. Do not praise the customer. Do not include a phone number even if I forget and start to type one.
Style
Like a short note on the ticket. Calm. No “great news!!!”
Output
One message of 3 to 5 sentences I can copy, with a blank where the name will go.

Hypothetical · 3 · Internal — Monday open

Context
This list is for me, Rosa, before I open. Nobody else will read it.
Goal
Turn the supplies I actually have into a Monday checklist so I do not promise work I cannot do.
This Monday
[Thread colors you can see.] [Machines that are working.] [Jobs already promised for this week.]
Constraints
Do not add supplies I did not list. Do not turn the list into a social post. If a fact is missing, write [LOOK IN THE DRAWER].
Style
Plain checklist language. No encouragement.
Output
A checklist of no more than eight boxes.

Notice the names: Saturday window, Ready for pickup, Monday open. They name the job. “Prompt 1” and “Make it good” do not. Six months from now, Rosa can still tell which page to open.

What does not belong in the kit

  • A brief you wrote to feel prepared and do not intend to use.
  • Three versions of one caption: cheerful, professional, and viral.
  • A customer brief that only works if you paste the person’s full name, phone, and complaint.
  • A fourth brief for a mood. Add a fourth only after one of these three has been used for three real weeks and still fits. Retire one when the job no longer exists.

A junk drawer of titles without constraints feels like progress. It is the opposite. The constraint is the part future-you needed. If it is missing, the title is decoration.

Recap

Save three briefs with three jobs, three names, and a constraint on each. Make sure one of them does not need another person’s identity. Score one of them as strictly as Lesson 1. Keep the page somewhere you will find it. This website is not that place.

Hands-on task

20 minutes

Build a kit of three. Fully score one. Lightly check the other two.

Option A (preferred)

Use your own week. Rename the trio so the names match your jobs. If you do not speak to customers, the middle brief can be a message to a coworker or to yourself about a handoff — still without pasting someone else’s private details.

Option B

Use Rosa and Mesa y Hilo. You may tighten her briefs. Do not add prices, turnaround promises, or a real customer.

Do this

  1. Write three titles that name three different jobs.
  2. Under each title, write a brief with context, goal, a changing blank, a constraint against invention, a style note, and an output shape.
  3. Make sure at least one brief can be used without a person’s name, phone, or private message in the text you would paste.
  4. Pick one brief and score it with this rubric. A passing kit needs that brief at 8 or above, and the other two must each have a real constraint and a specific output.
  5. Cross out any brief you would not use in the next two weeks.

Finishing the page does not enroll you or certify a business system. It is a kit only if you can find it later.

Answer rubric

Score the whole kit, with extra weight on the brief you chose to finish. Partial is half the points.

Your own tally

Choose a level for every row. The band is a guide for your revision, not a grade anyone else records.

Partial counts as half the points for that row.

The three briefs are three different jobs, not three tones of one job · 2
Each brief has a practical constraint against invention · 2
At least one brief can be used without pasting someone’s identity · 2
The names describe the job · 1
You marked what changes from week to week · 1
The brief you fully finished would pass Lesson 1: context, goal, constraints, style, and output are checkable · 2

Answer every row to see a total.

This number stays in this browser if you save it. Nobody else sees it, and it is not a credential.

9–10: Keep the page. Date it. Use one brief this week before you write a fourth.

8: Pass. Repair the thin brief, then stop adding.

5–7: You have titles more than jobs, or the kit needs someone’s private details. Cut one and rewrite it.

Below 5: Write the three job names only. Add constraints before you add style.

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