Write clear, developer-facing API documentation. Use when asked to document an API endpoint, write API reference docs, create a developer guide, or turn a raw spec/Postman…
Compare the total cost of car ownership across buy-new, buy-used, lease, and keep-your-current-car — depreciation, insurance, maintenance ramp, and fuel over a real horizon, not…
Assess an injection-mold or production tooling decision before cutting steel — soft vs hard tooling tradeoff, tool life vs forecast, cavitation math, T1 sample timeline, cost of…
Cut compulsive screen and phone use with a workable plan — friction, environment, and replacement habits — instead of relying on willpower or deleting everything.
Imagine your plan already failed, then get five independent 'here's why it died' stories — before you commit.
Run an office move or reconfiguration without losing a week of work — the dependency-ordered plan (internet lead times rule everything), the workstream owners, the comms that keep…
Transcreate marketing/brand copy for another language and culture — recreate the impact, not the words.
Specify the tracing, metrics, and alerting for an AI agent or LLM feature in production. Use when asked what to log for an LLM app, design agent tracing or spans, define quality…
Plan the localization of a product/content for a new market — beyond translating the words. Use when asked to localize a product, plan market entry localization, prepare a…
Negotiate a recurring bill down — internet, phone, insurance, cable, gym — with a ready-to-read script, the competitor leverage that actually moves the price, and exactly what to…
Think clearly about whether bankruptcy is the right move, or whether another path fits better — without shame and without a sales pitch.
Set up a chart of accounts and rules for categorizing transactions. Use when asked how to categorize expenses/transactions, set up a chart of accounts, organize bookkeeping, or…
Design deliberate practice that actually builds a skill — targeted, effortful, feedback-driven — instead of mindless repetition that just entrenches your current level.
Outline documents before drafting them — the argument skeleton that gets alignment cheaply, the one-line-per-section discipline, and the review-the-outline step that saves…
Deliberately take the opposite position from your leaning and make you defend yours — a forced second opinion that isn't just an echo.
Build a short-term (13-week) cash flow forecast to see if you can cover what's due. Use when asked to build a cash flow forecast, a 13-week cash flow, a cash projection, or to…
Get foreign qualifications, degrees, or professional licenses recognised in a new country — figure out whether recognition is even needed, which body assesses it, what evidence…
Decode a 401k or workplace retirement plan — the real cost of its funds, the match's fine print, vesting math, and the plan features worth using or avoiding.
Write a B2B partnership proposal or business case. Use when asked to write a partnership proposal, draft a partnership brief, structure a co-marketing proposal, or create a…
Build a comparative market analysis (CMA) to price a property. Use when asked to do a CMA, a comparative market analysis, price a home, or estimate a property's value from…
Cut through the model soup to buy the right appliance — the features that actually matter for you, the ones that are marketing, and when to buy.
Write the small UI text that guides users — buttons, labels, tooltips, CTAs, confirmations. Use when asked to write microcopy, button/CTA text, form labels, tooltips, helper text,…
Use AI personas for early-stage research signal — with hard guardrails on what synthetic methods can and cannot validate.
Climb ranked on purpose instead of on tilt — a VOD-review protocol (three deaths per game, one pattern per week), a tilt debrief that ends queue-rage sessions, and honest…
Create structured technical specification documents that bridge product requirements and engineering implementation.
Design an MCP server for a product — the tool surface, auth model, and safety boundaries that make it genuinely usable by AI agents.
Make a decent decision when you're too depleted to think well — a low-energy protocol that protects you from bad tired-brain choices.
Write a portfolio-level lending risk brief: concentration analysis by sector, geography and single name, vintage performance, migration matrix narrative, macro-sensitivity…
Publish 'how to work with me' as a literal API spec — endpoints (what to ask me for and what you'll get back), rate limits (meeting and interrupt tolerance), error codes (what…
Build a trade quote that wins the job and protects the margin — materials and labor itemized, assumptions and exclusions stated, variations priced by rule, and the professional…
Write a monitoring setup guide for a service — defining what to measure, how to alert on it, and how to build the observability stack covering the four golden signals, business…
Write a strategy memo that commits to a bet and says what you won't do. Use when asked to write a strategy memo, articulate a strategy, make the case for a strategic direction, or…
Argue hard against whatever you just concluded — so your decision has to survive a real challenge instead of an echo chamber.
Create a competitive sales battlecard for any competitor. Use when asked to build a battlecard, competitive comparison, sales cheat sheet, or objection handling guide for a…
Design a referral or viral-loop program that actually drives growth. Use when asked to design a referral program, build a viral/invite loop, set referral incentives, or improve…
Organise the document pile for a visa, work-permit, or residency application — what to gather, in what order, and the common rejection triggers to avoid.
Make introductions that respect both sides — the double-opt-in flow (ask each party privately before connecting them), the forwardable blurb that makes saying yes easy, and the…
Reach back out to a friend or person you've lost touch with — past the awkwardness of the gap — with a message that reopens the door warmly.
Audit a content library, docs site, or blog for AI-generated filler that's eroding trust and search performance — and triage what to fix, rewrite, or delete.
Read your team's messages the way opposing counsel would in litigation discovery — prevention training that makes communication hygiene visceral.
Autopsy a slide deck from photos or screenshots of its slides — the narrative arc, the numbers, and what each slide is hiding.
Design an out-of-office that actually protects the time off — the auto-reply that routes instead of apologizes, the coverage map behind it, and the pre-departure handoff that…
Investigate a commercial vehicle incident so the record is defensible and the cause is actually found — evidence secured in the first hours, the preventability decision made on…
Design an evaluation plan for an LLM or AI feature before shipping it. Use when asked how to evaluate a prompt/model/agent, set up an eval harness, define quality metrics for an…
Cash runway as a distribution, not a number — Monte Carlo simulated. Use when someone asks how long their cash lasts, when to start fundraising, or how burn/revenue volatility…
Be a club or association treasurer without being an accountant — the two-column cashbook that's genuinely enough, monthly reconciliation in 20 minutes, the treasurer's report…
Write a warm donor update or stewardship message that makes a supporter feel their gift mattered. Use when asked to write a donor update, a thank-you/stewardship email, a…
Decide when to buy a big-ticket item to get the best price — the sales cycles, model-refresh timing, and 'buy now vs wait' math for the specific thing you want.
Prune your own recurring-meeting load — the personal calendar audit (your role in each, honestly), the four exit moves (leave, delegate, downgrade to notes, halve), and the…
Prepare and rehearse a coming-out conversation, tuned to the specific person and the real risk — what to say, how to open, how to handle the likely reactions, and a safety-first…
Respond to a performance improvement plan strategically — decode what the PIP really is, decide fight-vs-land-softly with clear eyes, build the evidence file, and run the parallel…
Write the failure story of your year, relationship, move, or big life bet in advance — imagine it's a year later and it went wrong, tell that story vividly, then mine it for the…
Simulate your thesis defense before the real one — a committee of examiner archetypes probing YOUR actual thesis, the questions you hoped nobody would ask, and a debrief with…
Triage a raw bug report into something a team can act on — clean repro steps, a defensible severity/priority, environment, likely area/owner, and duplicate check.
Run the pre-flight checklist before an agent drives a browser — the untrusted-web-content threat (every page is attacker-controllable), the credential and session-cookie exposure,…
Run a hard two-option decision through Benjamin Franklin's 'moral or prudential algebra' — the weighted pro/con method he described to Joseph Priestley in 1772 — including the…
See an idea through two committed extremes — a true believer and a hard skeptic — so you get the full range before settling in the middle.
Cut a full plate down to the single highest-leverage move — the one thing that, done today, makes everything else easier or unnecessary.
Project completion as a distribution, not a date — Monte Carlo over the task graph. Use when a plan's finish date came from summing 'likely' estimates (it's wrong,…
Simulate the calibration meeting that discusses your promotion after your manager leaves the room — the debate, the packet's holes, the verdict.