Automation Is the Consolation Prize
I built two AI agents that save me hours every week. They work. They are also the consolation prize, and most companies are quietly building the same one.
Steal My Prompt Vol. 34: The Status Update Compressor
Your weekly status update probably reads like a to-do list. This prompt turns your work brain dump into an impact-driven update your manager actually reads.
Volume 33: Build Smaller Than the Hype
Every morning, an AI agent I built scans 13 sources and emails me what matters. Less than $10/month to run. Inside: how to build the small version of an agent that actually gives you time back, how Copilot's agentic layer works, and a 10-minute audit to rewrite your LinkedIn profile.
The Agent That Reads the Internet for Me Every Morning
I built an AI agent that reads 13 news sources every morning and emails me what matters, before I have brewed coffee. Less than $10 a month to run. Here is what I learned about why the version of an agent you should build looks nothing like the headlines, and the spectrum most professionals miss.
Steal My Prompt Vol. 33: The Self-Performance Review
A reusable prompt that rejects effort framing, demands outcome evidence, and produces a self-review that reads like a thoughtful manager wrote it about you. Includes a Copilot Researcher workflow to crawl your Outlook and Teams for the proof you forgot you had.
Volume 32: Data Is the Work
ServiceNow lost 18% of its value in one trading session. The deeper story is a moat reset, and what hit software is coming for everything else. Inside: the one question to ask before any AI workflow, what Copilot really does in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and a vision-AI workflow for dinner.
The One Moat AI Cannot Erode
Only 12% of organizations have data ready for AI, and 94% of companies that deployed AI report no significant value from it. The bottleneck is not the technology. Here is the one question every leader should ask before any AI workflow, and why healthcare is sitting on a moat it has not built yet.
Steal My Prompt Vol. 32: The Presenter's Brief
A reusable prompt that builds a slide-by-slide talk track for any presentation. You bring the strategic decisions, the model challenges them and produces an opening, transitions, anticipated questions, pushback responses, and a close you can actually deliver from memory.
