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Working with AI, one real task at a time.

Twenty plain-English cards: ten foundations that never date, and ten workplace tasks — from meeting minutes to board papers — each with what AI does, what stays yours, and one prompt that works.

Every profession is being told to “learn AI,” and almost nobody is being shown what that means for the actual tasks on their list. These cards fix that, the same way the rest of this Knowledge Base works: one card, one concept, five minutes, no hype. Start with the Foundation if AI at work is new to you; jump straight to a Workflow card when a specific task is staring at you.

One framework runs through every card

AI helps you

  • ✍️ Draft
  • 📄 Summarise
  • 📊 Analyse
  • 💡 Create

You provide

  • 🧠 Judgement
  • ❤️ Empathy
  • 🤝 Relationships
  • ⚖️ Ethics
  • 🎯 Decisions

Every AI-assisted task runs Human → AI → Human. You frame the work, AI contributes, you complete and decide. The second list is longer on purpose — you bring more to the table, and every card below shows what that means in practice.

Foundation — the concepts that don’t date

The thinking layer: what knowledge work is, the framework, the decision tree, briefing, verifying, and staying safe. Read once, use forever.

K-01 What Is a Knowledge Worker? A plain-English definition of knowledge work, why the term suddenly matters, and how to tell how much of your own job is knowledge work. Read the card → K-02 The Knowledge Worker AI Framework The Simply SharePoint signature framework for working with AI: what AI helps you do, what you provide, and why every AI task runs Human, then AI, then Human. Read the card → K-03 The AI Decision Tree: Should I Use AI for This? Five questions, in order, that tell you whether a task is safe for AI help. Read the card → K-04 The Traffic Light System for AI at Work A simple green, amber, red system for judging how much human oversight an AI-assisted task needs. Read the card → K-05 How to Spot AI Opportunities at Work A practical method for finding the tasks in your own week where AI genuinely helps. Read the card → K-06 Writing Better AI Briefs The five-part brief that turns vague AI requests into useful first drafts. Read the card → K-07 Verifying AI Output Before You Use It What to check, how to check it, and how much checking each task deserves. Read the card → K-08 Protecting Confidential Information When Using AI The red lines that never go into unapproved AI tools, the questions to ask before you paste, and the habits that keep confidential information safe. Read the card → K-09 AI Prompts That Actually Work Why most prompts disappoint, the anatomy of one that doesn’t, and how to iterate a mediocre result into a genuinely useful one. Read the card → K-10 Choosing the Right AI Tool for the Task A durable way to choose between AI tools: think in categories, start from what’s approved, and match the tool to where your information lives. Read the card →

Workflow Library — real tasks, start to finish

The doing layer: ten tasks knowledge workers repeat every week, each with the traditional workflow, where AI helps, the traffic lights, one realistic prompt and the better workflow.

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