Which one are you?

Three clients walked into my office last month at three completely different stages of AI.

Bernie runs a small accountancy practice. She had never signed up for ChatGPT. Not even the free account. Kathy is a herbalist whose team uses AI every day, but there is no system behind it. They know they are scratching the surface. Ciara signed up for ChatGPT the week it launched. Her team are advanced users, and now she wants to build a customer service chatbot.

Three starting points that could not be further apart. I started all three on the same five steps. Bottleneck. Brief. Backcheck. Bank. Build.

Bernie picked one repeating task, a proposal email she rewrites from scratch every time a new client enquires. She briefed AI on it properly, checked the output, and saved it as a reusable template. Fifteen minutes a day for a week. By Friday she had something her office manager could run without her.

Kathy used the same five steps to turn a scattered daily process into a proper documented system her whole team could follow. Ciara used them to scope her chatbot project clearly enough that she did not need a developer to start.

It does not matter whether you have never opened ChatGPT or you use it ten times a day. The starting point is the same. Find the one task that repeats, costs you time, and follows a predictable pattern. Brief AI on that one thing. Check what comes back. Save what works.

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