AI Agent Hacks That Work (and the Ones to Skip): A Sorted, Checked-Against-the-Docs Guide
A sorted, checked-against-the-docs guide to popular AI agent hacks: which ones work, which come with caveats, which to skip, and a scored first-week plan.
How to Research Any Topic Faster With AI (Without Skipping the Check)
A tool-agnostic workflow for getting up to speed on an unfamiliar topic with AI: a research brief, a landscape map, source triage, a claim-check log and a know-versus-believe one-pager.
Better Prompts for Better AI Results
A symptom-first guide to weak AI answers: match what you see in the output to the missing piece in your prompt, with three before-and-after rewrites, a diagnostic prompt and a pre-send checklist.
Copilot Dashboards From Excel and SharePoint: Prompts, Checks and Sharing Rules
Copilot can build a dashboard from your Excel data in minutes. The work that matters is choosing snapshot or live, checking the numbers, and controlling who can open the file.
Why Notebooks Are a Great Copilot Feature for Work That Runs for Weeks
A chat is for a question. A Copilot Notebook is for a subject you’ll keep asking about. Here’s the five-question test, a filled-in set-up card, an instruction block and the monthly check that keeps a Notebook current.
How to Use Claude’s Chat Search and Memory to Build on Previous Context
How Claude’s chat search and memory differ, the prompts that make each work, how to keep client contexts apart, how memory carries into Cowork, and the controls to review, pause or delete it.
Five Microsoft Copilot Agents Worth Setting Up This Week
A selection guide to five Microsoft Copilot agents: which to set up first by what they can change, which marketing role each suits, and the signal that earns each a place.
Build Your Own AI Prompt Vault: A Personal System for Reusing Your Best Prompts
A personal AI prompt vault: capture the prompt the moment it works, tag it by the job, retire it when it goes stale, and keep confidential details out of what you save.
A Playbook for Adding AI to Your Workflows
A seven-step AI workflow playbook with filled-in worksheets, a ready-to-paste brief and a 30-day review, sequencing choosing, diagnosing, running and reviewing one workflow.
How to Fix AI-Generated Slides: Make Every Slide Earn Its Place
An edit-and-rescue guide for decks an AI tool has already produced: give each slide one job, rewrite titles as claims you can prove, cut the text load and check readability.
