Capability guide · Plain language first
Create things
Turn a clear brief and your own material into a solid first version of something you can then shape.
The pattern
See what changes, and where you return.
A brief and source material become a draft artefact that a person then refines by hand.
Recognisable examples
Begin with work you already understand.
A capability is a broad kind of help. The linked task guides explain how to complete a specific piece of work.
Draft a slide deck from a page of talking points
Get a report into a workable shape
Sketch a visual concept to react to
Stand up a rough prototype to test an idea
AI can contribute
Repeatable effort and a first pass
- Proposes a structure before it commits to the whole thing
- Produces a first version you can edit, such as a downloadable slide deck
- Generates images or a simple interactive draft from a description
- Offers a few directions when the brief is still open
The person contributes
Meaning, checking and responsibility
- Sets the purpose, the audience and the point of view
- Chooses and verifies the material it works from
- Refines the argument, the craft and the final polish
Featured Human Partnership
Turn rough notes into a clear update
The difficult part is not turning fragments into sentences. It is deciding what the reader needs, what the words commit people to, and what should not leave the room.
- AI capability
- Voice and multimodal capture. A person can talk through a meeting while it is still fresh, or provide screenshots, notes and a transcript together, so the first draft begins from the full working context rather than one polished paragraph.
- Human expertise
- First hand context. You know what happened before the notes began, which issue changed the room, and whether a statement was a proposal, a preference or an approved decision.
- Decision
- The person owns the final meaning: what the update says happened, what it asks of others, which uncertainty remains visible, and whether the message is appropriate to send now.
- Skill built
- Audience centred judgement. Used well, the workflow strengthens your ability to separate signal from noise, write for a real reader and recognise how wording changes responsibility, trust and action.
- Finished result
- A concise update that tells the reader what changed, what is blocked and what happens next, while keeping uncertain details visibly marked for you to confirm.
- 01Name the reader and the consequence
State who will receive the update, what they need to understand or do next, and which details must remain internal before sharing any raw material.
- 02Extract without smoothing
Use voice, files or pasted notes to identify decisions, progress, blockers and actions, while marking unclear dates, owners and approvals instead of completing them by guesswork.
- 03Correct the meaning before the prose
Review whether the draft has promoted a preference into a decision, confused activity with progress, or missed the implication that matters most to the reader.
- 04Choose what leaves the room
The person decides what to include, what to omit, what wording creates a commitment, and whether the update should be sent, discussed first or held back.
- 05Check the record and the relationship
Confirm every name, date, number, owner and promise, then read it once as the recipient to test whether the message is clear, fair and appropriately direct.
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