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Prompt package, from design to screen in six prompts
Six prompts to copy that take you from a briefing to a built screen that actually looks like your design, with a description you read through yourself first.
Creating a design with AI actually works very well today. Things usually go wrong the moment your agent has to build that design. Then you get screens that work, but look different. That is why I simply listed the prompts I use myself, from the briefing to the built screen. The first two are for Google Stitch or another design tool. The others work in any agent that can read images. Count on about fifteen minutes per screen.
What you get
You get six prompts, in the order I use them. Two are for the design tool, and four are for your agent: describe, adjust, build and compare. You already get the first one here. It lets your design tool explore three directions instead of one, so I think you see much faster what appeals to you.
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Step-by-step plan, your first mail agent in six steps
Six steps with ready-to-use prompts to build an agent that goes through your emails every morning and tells you what needs your attention today. Ready in half an hour.
An agent that goes through your emails every morning is, in my opinion, the best first agent you can build. It is small. And you will use it the very next day. This step-by-step plan takes you from an empty chat to an agent you have tested yourself. I wrote it for Copilot, but the prompts also work in Claude or ChatGPT. Count on half an hour.
The first step, in a normal chat
I actually ignore the agent builder. I just start in a chat. And then I let my AI ask questions first. The vague parts in your assignment are exactly what it needs to figure out. Fill in the part between brackets.
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Template, onboarding your AI in six messages
Six fill-in-the-blank messages that tell your AI who you are and how you work, plus the question you use afterwards to check what sticks. Done in fifteen minutes.
You know your AI would work better if it knew you. Only you never get round to it, because where do you start? This template takes that question away. Six short messages with blanks, in the order you would get to know a new colleague. Fifteen minutes, one conversation.
Start with the first message
Each message starts with 'Remember this about me', so your assistant knows it has to save something instead of answering a question. Fill in the part in brackets. Short is fine, honest is a must.
Message 1, your context
As a Member you get the five other messages below, the check question you ask before and after, and what you do if your assistant has remembered something wrong.
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Worksheet, which documents can go into which AI
A fifteen-minute worksheet that divides your documents into three buckets: leave as is, business or European, and local. With the prompt that helps you sort.
You roughly know what you have put into AI over the past month. A quote here, a report there, an email from a client that you wanted to have rewritten. But roughly is not an answer when someone asks where that client's data has been. This worksheet puts on paper in fifteen minutes what you use where, and what you had better do somewhere else from now on. You only need your AI tool, a piece of paper and an honest look at your history.
Three questions per document
Take one document that you recently put into AI and ask three questions about it. Does it contain names, addresses or other data of people? Is it from a client, or did a client entrust it to you? And would you find it difficult if someone outside your company read it? Three times no, then it can stay where it is. One time yes, then it belongs in one of the other buckets. Below is the full worksheet, with the four steps and the prompt that helps you sort without you having to paste a single sensitive document.
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Shareable card, the babysitting loop for vibe coding
One card to hang next to your screen or share with your team, plus six sentences to guide your AI in plain language while it builds for you.
In my building training sessions, one sentence comes back so often that participants finish it themselves after an hour. Dumb it down, chunk it down, and babysit your AI. It fits on a card, and you can find that card below. Hang it next to your screen, put it in your team channel, or send it to that colleague who just told their agent to 'solve it yourself'.
The card
You are free to share it, as long as the name stays on it.
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Checklist, building safely with AI before your app goes online
A short checklist for anyone building apps with AI, including the security paragraph for your brief and the prompt to have a second agent attack your app.
Building an app with AI goes so fast today that security easily becomes an afterthought. And later rarely comes. This checklist fits on one screen and walks with you through three moments: when you write your brief, while you build, and right before you go online. You do not need to be a developer to use it. You just have to ask the right things.
The three questions that catch the most
If you only have five minutes, start here. Where are my passwords and keys, and are they going online? What happens if someone pastes malicious text into my input fields? And where is my users' data stored, in Europe or outside of it? Ask your agent those three questions and really read the answer.
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Swipe file, ten sentences to stop your AI losing the thread
Ten sentences to copy for the start, the middle and the end of a long AI task, so you work with a handover instead of a summary of a summary.
A long task with AI rarely goes wrong in a single moment. It slips away. An agreement about the tone disappears, an exception is forgotten, and three sessions later your AI is working on a project that is just not yours anymore. With the right sentence at the right time, you stop that. These are the ten I use myself, ordered by the moment you need them.
How to use this
A swipe file is a cheat sheet. You do not read it from front to back, you grab the sentence you need right now. Save this page in your favourites, or paste the sentences into a note next to your AI tool.
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Prompt package, six metaprompts that question you first
Six prompts to copy that let your AI ask the right questions first, for an email, a plan, a doubt, a difficult conversation or your own assistant.
You might already know the principle: your AI writes better if it is allowed to ask what it is missing first. Only, on a busy Tuesday afternoon, you have little desire to come up with that prompt yourself every time. That is why I listed the six I use most often myself. Copy, fill in the brackets, paste.
What you get
Six prompts for situations you recognise: a sensitive email, a plan you need to write out, a text for people you do not know well, a choice you are doubting, a difficult conversation and the instructions for your own assistant. They all end with the same reversal: ask first, write later. They work in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini.
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