Hey there,
It has been a few months since a regular issue landed in your inbox, and there is a good reason for that. Summer Boot Camp took over the send slot for eight weeks, and it is finally time to get back to our regular programming. Welcome back, and a warm hello to anyone who joined us during the Boot Camp run.
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A lot happened this summer. Let's catch you up.
Boot Camp is done. The newsletter isn't.
Eight weeks, eight prompt cards, one toolkit document that a lot of you built from scratch. If you were with us for 8 Weeks to AI Confident, thank you. Genuinely. Watching people go from "I opened a blank Google Doc" in Week 1 to a full personal toolkit by Week 8 was the most rewarding thing I have done with this newsletter so far.
To be clear, it is the Boot Camp that wrapped up, not AI, Eh? itself. This newsletter keeps going every week, same as always. Boot Camp was just a different track for the summer.
If you missed a week, joined partway through, or just want the whole thing in one place, I put together a PDF version of all eight weeks. Grab it here: theaieh.ca/welcome
Two tools we built this summer
Boot Camp was not the only thing happening behind the scenes. I also spent the summer building two free tools, and they are both live now.
Website Check scans any website and tells you, in plain language, what is working and what needs attention. No jargon, no technical score you need a developer to interpret. Just a clear read on where things stand.
Prompt Fixer takes a prompt you have written, scores it against the things that actually make a prompt work, and tells you exactly how to improve it before you send it off to AI. Handy for anything from a work email prompt to the ones you will see later in this issue.
Both are free to use, right now, no signup required. Try them here: theaieh.ca/toolkit
Three prompts everyone should have in their back pocket
Boot Camp was about building a toolkit one prompt at a time. In that spirit, here are three more prompts worth adding to yours, none of which need a special occasion to be useful.
Prompt 1: The tough email you keep avoiding Business scenario, but the template works for any hard email you're putting off. You know the one. It has been sitting in your drafts folder for three days because you keep rewriting the first line. AI will not make the conversation easier, but it will get you a clear, respectful draft in under a minute instead of an hour of second-guessing. Marcus, a freelance graphic designer in Saskatoon, had a client asking for extra revisions that were well outside the original scope. He did not want to sound difficult, but he also did not want to keep working for free. He gave AI the situation and asked for a draft that was firm but not cold. Fifteen minutes later, the email was sent, the boundary was set, and the client did not push back at all. Fill in the blank:
Ready to use example:
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Prompt 2: The meeting summed up in three bullets This one is not just for the office. Any time you sit through a long meeting and someone else needs the short version, this prompt earns its keep. Denise sits on her strata council in Victoria, and the AGM ran long, the way they always do. Parking, a roof repair quote, a dispute over a fence. She took messy notes the whole time, then pasted them into AI and asked for exactly three bullets: what was decided, what happens next, and who owns it. She sent those three lines to the building group chat and the questions stopped within the hour. Fill in the blank:
Ready to use example:
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Prompt 3: Make this clearer Your notes make perfect sense to you. They will not make sense to the person who was not in the room. This prompt is the second pass, the one that turns your shorthand into something anyone can actually follow. Denise's raw AGM notes were full of half sentences and building jargon only the council would understand. Rather than rewrite them by hand, she asked AI to turn them into something the rest of the owners could read cold, no background needed, no acronyms. What came back was two short, friendly paragraphs she could paste straight into the newsletter she sends the building each month. Fill in the blank:
Ready to use example:
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Your challenge this week
Pick whichever one of these three actually matches something on your plate right now. Not a hypothetical version, the real email, the real notes. And if you want a second opinion on the prompt itself before you run it, that is exactly what Prompt Fixer is for.
Coming up next issue
We are back to regular weekly topics from here. If there is a specific AI headache you would like tackled in an upcoming issue, hit reply and tell me. Some of the best issues this year started as a reply to a question just like that.
AI assisted, Human led. Whatever AI produces for you, always read it, verify it, and make it sound like you. AI is an incredible first draft machine. Your judgment, your voice, and your values are always the final layer. |
As always, I read every reply personally. Did you go through the Boot Camp this summer? I would love to know which Prompt Card ended up being the one you actually kept using. Hit reply and tell me.
If you found this useful, pass it along to someone who has been meaning to get started with AI but keeps putting it off. This is a good week for them to jump in.
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Talk soon,
Chris
Founder, AI, Eh?