Course 02 · Workflow

AI-Powered Productivity: Unlocking Artificial Intelligence for complete workflows

Fit artificial intelligence into a whole workflow: intake, draft, review, and handoff, without losing the steps a person must still own.

Who it is for. Teams who want AI inside a repeating process, not as a one-off prompt.

What you will be able to do

  • Map a workflow before you add a tool.
  • Put AI on the steps that are drafts, and keep people on the steps that are decisions.
  • Hand work on with a record of what was checked.

Lessons

1. Draw the workflow as it is

Lesson · 40 minutes

A workflow is the path a piece of work takes from request to done. Write the steps you actually follow, including the waiting and the rework. Do not draw the process you wish you had.

2. Put the tool on one step

Lesson · 45 minutes

Change one step, not the whole path. Give the tool the same input a colleague would get, and ask for the same output the next step already expects.

3. Review stays in the path

Lesson · 40 minutes

A workflow without a review step will ship mistakes faster. Put the review where the cost of a mistake is still cheap: before the customer, the ledger, or the public page.

4. Handoff and exceptions

Lesson · 35 minutes

Write down what the tool must not do: send, pay, delete, or change a record of authority. Those actions stay manual.

5. Measure one week

Lesson · 30 minutes

For one week, count items completed, items sent back, and time spent checking. Compare that with the week before the tool was added.

6. Check your understanding

Quiz · 6 minutes