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Practical reading for people who use ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini at work, written from hands-on work with real prompts. A new post goes up every Tuesday.

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use cases by team and industry
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If you read three things

  1. 1Brief AI like a new hireWhy most prompts fail, and the eight questions a good brief answers.
  2. 2What an API key is, and why tools ask for yoursPlain English, with what it really costs.
  3. 3How to test a prompt before you ship itTen real examples beat a hundred impressions.

The life of a prompt, step by step

Every prompt that matters goes through the same stages. Each one has a guide and a tool.

  1. 1Write itBrief the model like a capable new colleague.
  2. 2Check itThe ten checks catch what is missing.
  3. 3Test itRun it on real examples, on more than one model.
  4. 4Price itPick the cheapest model that passes.
  5. 5Protect itKeep a chatbot inside its rules.
  6. 6Share itGive it an owner, a version and a review date.

Latest from the blog

Coming October 27, 2026Batch API pricing: the half-price discount teams skipEvery major provider halves the price of work that can wait a few hours, and the bigger win is that the same budget buys the next model up.

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By team and industry

How finance, marketing, support, HR, legal, healthcare, education and more use prompts, with workflows and monthly costs.

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