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AI+ At Work: Foundations

Use AI Tools Confidently in Your Daily Job

Make AI part of how you work.

You know AI could probably help your work — you just don't know which tool to use, whether sharing anything is safe, or where to start without wasting an afternoon. This book gives you a practical daily AI routine, 25 copy-ready work prompts, the AI Safety Checklist to keep your data protected, and a 30-day adoption plan. Built by an AI engineering firm. Tested against real work.

Tier
Tier 1 · Essentials
Category
Foundations
Format
Guide
Updated
Q2 2026
Inside
  • 25 ready-made, market-tested prompts: emails, meetings, documents, research, learning at work
  • A four-stage workflow for any written task — brief, draft, edit, check
  • The AI Safety Checklist applied to workplace data — what's safe to paste, what isn't
  • A daily AI habit that fits between your existing meetings, not on top of them
  • A 30-day plan with a clear answer for when your manager asks how you're using AI
Who this is for

Any employee in an established organisation — early-career or mid-career — who works at a desk for some part of the day and produces written or analytical work as part of their job. Not a manager (that's T1-05), not a business owner (that's T1-04), not yet an AI power user (that's T1-07). They might be an analyst, a project coordinator, a customer service lead, a junior engineer, a comms officer, an HR generalist, a graduate trainee, a teacher, a junior doctor, or a civil servant. They have a manager, a team, and an employer with rules they need to respect.

Also for:New hires being onboarded (COR-02 audience); recent graduates entering the workforce (STU-03 audience); career changers in their first AI-era job (STA-02 audience); experienced staff who skipped the early ChatGPT wave and now need to catch up; anyone reading for an organisation-wide AI rollout (COR-01 audience).

You’ll be able to
  • Identify which AI tools are available to them at work and choose a daily-driver tool to start with
  • Apply the PRISM Prompting Framework to at least 5 categories of everyday workplace tasks (email, meetings, documents, research, planning)
  • Apply the AI Safety Checklist before sharing any work-related information with an AI tool
  • Evaluate AI outputs against professional standards using the TRUST Framework
  • Build and execute a 30-day plan to embed AI into their daily working routine
What’s inside
Diagnostic
How AI-Ready Is Your Workday?
Chapter 1
Why AI at Work, Why Now
Chapter 2
The Workplace AI Toolbox
Chapter 3
How to Prompt AI at Work
Chapter 4
AI for Email and Messages
Chapter 5
AI for Meetings
Chapter 6
AI for Documents and Reports
Chapter 7
AI for Research and Learning at Work
Chapter 8
AI Safety at Work
Chapter 9
Working With AI on a Team
Chapter 10
Your First 30 Days at Work With AI
Back matter
Skill Summary · Recommended Next Reads · Glossary · Tool Reference

Built by an AI engineering firm — for the professional running out of patience with theory.

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