Capability guide · Plain language first
Organise recurring work
Make the work you repeat every week easier to set up, keep together and hand on, with a clear point where a person still checks.
The pattern
See what changes, and where you return.
Repeated inputs move through a reusable workflow and stop at a human review point before anything is shared.
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.
Prepare the same weekly report from fresh figures
Triage incoming requests into the right buckets
Keep all the context for a project in one place
Build a checklist you can reuse each time
AI can contribute
Repeatable effort and a first pass
- Reuses one consistent brief and structure every time
- Keeps related chats and files together in a project
- Can run on a schedule and prepare the draft before you arrive
- Carries earlier context into the next round
The person contributes
Meaning, checking and responsibility
- Keeps the source material and the rules up to date
- Reviews the exceptions before anything goes out
- Stops or rewrites a routine that has stopped earning its place
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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