Workflows / Repeatable practice
The process, with the decisions left in.
A workflow strings prompts and judgments into one repeatable path with a clear outcome. Each one names who does each step, what you decide before moving on, and roughly how long it takes. None of them end with the assistant deciding.
Direction, judgment, facts, release.
Options, drafts, bounded edits, audits.
A short conversational turn.
Start here if you have never run a full session. The other four are close-ups of its stages.
Workflow 01 / End to end
From Rough Idea to Final Draft
A released piece you can defend line by line: your angle, your facts, your voice, with every AI proposal judged and every claim checked before it left the chat.
- 01Set up the session before you ask for anythingYou
- 02Discover the angle, not just the topicYou and AI
- 03Build the outline and mark the gapsYou and AI
- 04Ask for one draft, nothing elseAI proposes
- 05Judge, then make bounded edits one problem at a timeYou and AI
- 06Get a critique in a fresh session, as the readerAI proposes
- 07Run the fact-check pass, by handYou and AI
- 08Do the final human edit, out loudYou
- 09Release it, disclose what you should, and file the ledgerYou
Close-ups on each stage.
Use these when you know which part of the process is giving you trouble.
- 02Discover
Brainstorm With AI Without Outsourcing the Idea
One angle you chose because you can back it, a one-sentence claim, a four-line source note, and a runners-up list for the next piece.
6 steps · 45 to 75 minutes, in one sitting - 03Outline
Build an Outline With AI and Keep the Shape Yours
A one-page outline you chose and reordered by hand, with every section tied to material you have and every gap marked before a single paragraph is drafted.
6 steps · 30 to 60 minutes - 04Draft
Draft With AI Without Giving Up Creative Control
A complete first draft you can honestly call yours: the hardest paragraph in your hand, the rest proposed one draft at a time and judged against your outline, with the master copy in your document, not the chat.
7 steps · 60 to 90 minutes for a 1,000-word piece - 05Rewrite
Rewrite and Edit an AI Draft Deliberately
A draft that has been read aloud, marked by hand, corrected in bounded turns, critiqued as its reader, stripped of generated habits, checked against sources, and finished by you.
7 steps · 45 to 90 minutes for a 1,000-word draft, 15 to 20 minutes for an email
Lessons explain. Prompts direct. Workflows sequence. Examples prove.
Direct, Propose, Judge, Own, and the vocabulary used in every step here.
Mega promptsSession set-up for each formatPaste once, and the workflow's later turns stay short.
Stage promptsOne job per promptThe individual messages each workflow step sends.
ExamplesSessions with the decisions exposedWhat the human kept, changed, and rejected, layer by layer.