Subject line: Every prompt since January, in one place Subtitle: The complete library update: every template published since Issue #44, organised and ready to use before the format changes on Monday.
Artificial Idea | AI careers · practical prompts · no hype Thursday, March 12, 2026 · Issue #63 · Prompt Tutorial
The library update
The complete Artificial Idea prompt library: every template we've published, in one place
Issue #44 published the first complete library on January 1. This is everything published since then, organised by use case. Bookmark both.
Issue #62 closed seven months of Artificial Idea with the finding that mattered most: reading with the intention of doing one thing differently is what separates the professionals who compounded through this transition from those who accumulated content about it. This issue is the tool that makes that intention easier to act on: every prompt published since the January 1 library, organised so the one you need is findable in the moment you need it.
The original library is in Issue #44. This update covers Issues #45 through #62. Together they are the complete Artificial Idea prompt archive.
Category 1: Career development and positioning
The role reality mapper — for mapping the gap between your formal job description and your actual professional reality. Issue #50.
You are an organisational design specialist
helping me map the gap between my formal
job description and my actual professional reality.
My formal job description: [paste]
What I actually spend my time on: [describe honestly]
My professional context: [role, seniority,
what has changed in the past 12-18 months]
Please:
1. Identify the three most significant gaps
between my formal description and actual
responsibilities, in order of significance
to my organisation's current priorities
2. Identify responsibilities I carry that
represent unrecognised expansion beyond
my formal scope
3. Identify responsibilities in my formal
description I no longer perform or
that have been automated
4. Assess whether the gap is working for
me, against me, or is neutral
5. Identify the single most important thing
my current description fails to communicate
Be specific. General observations are not useful.
The AI integration documenter — for making AI capability development visible in your professional narrative. Issue #50.
You are helping me document my AI capability
development in a way that is professionally
credible and specifically relevant to my role.
My role and function: [describe]
AI applications I have developed genuine
fluency with: [describe specifically —
which tools, which tasks, measurable effect]
Workflows I have redesigned: [before and after]
Outputs measurably better as a result: [examples]
Please:
1. Translate my AI capability into professional
language specific to my function and sector
2. Identify which aspects are still differentiating
versus which have become baseline expectations
3. Draft three bullet points for a job description
or performance review that accurately represent
my AI-augmented working
4. Identify the evidence needed to make each
bullet point credible to a skeptical evaluator
Goal is accurate representation, not polished
aspiration. The difference is visible to anyone
who asks a follow-up question.
The automatability audit — for assessing where your role sits on the Block restructuring spectrum. Issue #53.
You are an organisational design specialist
applying AI restructuring criteria to assess
my professional role.
Apply these three criteria:
1. Process automatability: whether my primary
function is high-volume, rules-based execution
AI tools can now perform reliably
2. Legal and regulatory accountability: whether
my role carries accountability requirements
regulatory frameworks mandate must be human-held
3. Skill scarcity: whether my capabilities are
rare enough that replacing me would be costly
My role and what I actually do day to day: [describe]
My industry and organisational context: [describe]
Assess my role against each criterion and produce
an overall assessment: where does my role sit
on the automatability spectrum relative to the
roles eliminated and retained in AI-driven
restructuring?
Be direct. A comfortable assessment is not useful.
The repositioning designer — for redesigning your role toward lower-automatability activity. Issue #53.
You are an organisational design specialist
helping me reposition my professional role
toward activity more resilient to AI restructuring.
My automatability audit: [from audit prompt]
My role decomposition and value map: [describe]
My organisational context and latitude
to redesign my own role: [describe]
My professional capabilities and development: [describe]
Design a repositioning that:
1. Identifies two or three highest-value,
lowest-automatability activities I am
currently underinvesting in
2. Identifies high-automatability activities
I could reduce, delegate, or AI-assist
without reducing my contribution
3. Proposes a specific ninety-day reallocation
of time and attention
4. Identifies organisational permission or
support needed to make it sustainable
5. Identifies the risk and trade-off honestly
Ambitious enough to change the profile.
Achievable enough to begin next week.
The ninety-day role repositioning tracker — for tracking whether repositioning is actually happening. Issue #53.
You are helping me design a tracking system
for my ninety-day role repositioning.
My repositioning plan: [describe]
Specific reallocation committed to: [describe]
Manager conversation outcome: [describe]
Design a tracking system that:
1. Captures weekly time allocation in under
five minutes per week
2. Identifies leading indicators the
repositioning is working before
the ninety-day review
3. Identifies warning signs the repositioning
is reverting under pressure
4. Produces a thirty-day checkpoint format
completable in fifteen minutes
5. Identifies the single most important
activity to protect when the week
is at its most demanding
Designed for genuinely demanding weeks.
Simplicity is the design requirement.
Category 2: Decision making
The situation framer — for establishing a precise description of a hard decision before any analysis begins. Issue #55.
You are helping me frame a complex professional
decision precisely before I analyse it.
The decision I am facing: [describe completely
and honestly, including your preliminary view]
The context: [professional, organisational,
personal context, relationships, constraints, history]
Please:
1. Restate the decision in the most precise terms:
what exactly is being decided, by when,
with what consequences for each option
2. Identify assumptions embedded in my description
doing significant work that would change the
decision if wrong
3. Identify options I have not mentioned that
are available and worth considering
4. Identify what type of decision this is:
values, strategic, relationship, or combination
5. Tell me the question I most need to answer
to make this decision well
Do not offer any analysis of options yet.
The options expander — for ensuring a decision is made from a complete option set. Issue #55.
You are helping me expand the option set
for a decision beyond what is currently visible.
The decision as framed: [from situation framer]
Options I am currently considering:
[describe each with what appeals and what concerns]
Please:
1. Identify at least three options I have not
mentioned, including uncomfortable ones and
those requiring difficult conversations
2. For each current option, identify its most
different variation: more aggressive, cautious,
conditional, or combined with another option
3. Identify whether any current options are
actually the same underlying choice in
different terms
4. Make the strongest possible case for the
option I have most thoroughly dismissed
5. Propose the option set I should actually
be deciding between after this expansion
Goal: options chosen from a complete set,
not a convenient one.
The values clarifier — for identifying the values that should govern a complex decision. Issue #55.
You are helping me clarify the values and
priorities that should govern a complex decision.
The decision and option set: [from previous prompts]
The consequence map: [describe]
Please:
1. Identify the values most in tension in
this decision, pulling in different directions
2. Identify which I treat as genuinely
non-negotiable versus important but tradeable
3. Identify values I claim to hold that my
description suggests I actually weight
less heavily in practice
4. Identify the decision I would make if
no one whose opinion I value would ever
know which option I chose
5. Propose the values hierarchy that should
govern this decision and which option
is most consistent with it
Do not tell me what I should value. Tell me
what my description reveals I actually value.
Category 3: Feedback
The feedback request designer — for designing requests that produce honest responses rather than polite ones. Issue #51.
You are helping me design a feedback request
that produces specific, honest, actionable
responses rather than polite generalities.
What I am seeking feedback on: [describe
with enough context for an outsider to
understand what it was trying to achieve]
Who I am asking: [their role, relationship
to the work, what their honest assessment
would be worth]
What I most need to know: [be honest
even if you would not state this directly]
Design a feedback request that:
1. Opens with a specific question rather
than a general invitation
2. Includes one question that makes critical
feedback feel normal rather than a departure
from politeness
3. Includes one question about what specifically
worked, framed to prevent generic positivity
4. Closes with a question about what to do
differently, specific enough to resist
a generic suggestion
5. Is completable in five minutes
Make honesty easier than kindness.
The received feedback processor — for extracting maximum useful information from feedback already received. Issue #51.
You are helping me process professional feedback
to extract maximum useful information rather
than confirm existing beliefs.
The feedback I received: [paste or describe exactly]
The context: [what it was about, who gave it,
their relationship to the work, communication style]
My initial reaction: [honest, including what
you agree with and what you find unfair]
Please:
1. Identify the most specific and actionable
observation, worth acting on regardless
of whether I agree
2. Identify any pattern I might be minimising
because it is uncomfortable
3. Identify any part I might be over-weighting
because it confirms existing beliefs
4. Translate vague or diplomatic observations
into plain language: what the giver was
most likely trying to say directly
5. Identify the single most important behavioural
change this feedback, taken seriously, produces
Do not assess whether the feedback is fair.
Tell me what is most useful in it regardless.
The feedback simulator — for generating honest assessment from people unlikely to share it directly. Issue #51.
You are simulating the honest professional
assessment of a specific person who has
observed my work but is unlikely to share
their genuine evaluation directly.
The person I am asking you to simulate:
[role, professional standards, communication
style, relationship to my work, what they observed]
What they have seen of my work: [describe specifically]
What I know or suspect they think: [signals received]
What I most want to understand: [be specific]
Simulate their honest assessment covering:
1. What they consider the strongest aspect
of my work based on what they observed
2. What they consider the most significant
weakness or limitation
3. What they would say about me to a colleague
in a private conversation
4. What would most change their assessment
positively in the next ninety days
5. The question they have not asked that,
answered well, would most advance their
confidence in my capabilities
Flag where your simulation is speculative
versus grounded in information provided.
Category 4: Relationship building
The relationship audit — for assessing the current state of your most important professional relationships. Issue #57.
You are helping me audit my most important
professional relationships against my
specific career objectives.
My career objectives: [describe specifically]
My professional context: [role, industry, seniority]
Relationships I consider most important:
[list 10-15 people with brief descriptions]
For each relationship assess:
1. Current strength: recency of substantive
interaction, how well they understand
your current capabilities and trajectory
2. Strategic relevance: how directly it connects
to current objectives, likelihood of affecting
those objectives in the next two years
3. Trajectory: getting stronger, weaker, or static
Then produce:
4. The three relationships most worth investing
in over the next ninety days, with specific reasoning
5. The relationship whose weakness relative to
its strategic importance represents
the most significant network gap
Be honest about relationships that feel important
but are not strategically relevant.
The value-first outreach builder — for reaching professional contacts in a way that leads with giving rather than taking. Issue #57.
You are helping me write outreach to a
professional contact that leads with
genuine value rather than a request.
The contact: [role, current professional situation,
what they care about, history of your relationship]
What I know about their current situation:
[recent developments relevant to them]
What I genuinely have to offer: [specific insight,
information, connection, or resource relevant
to their current situation]
What I would ultimately like from this relationship:
[honest, will not appear in outreach]
Write outreach that:
1. Opens with something specific to them
demonstrating genuine attention
2. Delivers the value immediately without
requiring anything in return
3. Closes with a low-friction opening for
continued conversation
4. Sounds like me rather than a template
Under 150 words. No "hope this finds you well."
No "I wanted to reach out." Every sentence earns its place.
The reconnection builder — for reconnecting with dormant relationships without it feeling transactional. Issue #57.
You are helping me reconnect with a professional
relationship that has gone dormant without
it feeling like I am reaching out because
I need something.
The person: [describe them, the relationship
history, why it went dormant, why it matters now]
The honest reason I want to reconnect:
[completely honest, will not appear in the message]
What has happened since we last spoke that
gives me a genuine reason to reconnect:
[recent development in their world, mine,
or our shared professional context]
Write a reconnection message that:
1. Acknowledges the gap without dwelling on it
2. Uses a specific, genuine hook for this moment
3. Proposes a specific, low-friction next step
4. Sounds like I thought of them, not like
I needed to activate my network
Under 120 words. Shorter is better
for dormant relationship reconnections.
Category 5: Sales and business development
The prospect situation builder — for building a comprehensive brief before a sales conversation. Issue #59.
You are a senior research analyst helping me
build a brief on a prospect before a sales conversation.
Company: [name, industry, size, stage]
Contact: [role, seniority, tenure]
What I already know: [LinkedIn, news, research]
My solution: [describe]
Produce:
1. The company's current strategic situation:
what they are trying to achieve, pressures
they face, what has changed recently
2. Specific challenges most likely affecting
someone in this contact's role right now,
in language they would use internally
3. The business problem my solution most
directly addresses in their context,
and why this moment is more or less urgent
4. Two or three questions most worth asking
in the first conversation to assess fit
5. The signal that would tell me this is
not the right fit so I can qualify honestly
Flag where the brief is speculative versus
grounded in information provided.
The discovery conversation preparer — for preparing sales conversations that feel useful to the prospect. Issue #59.
You are helping me prepare for a discovery
conversation that is genuinely useful
for the prospect rather than primarily useful for me.
The prospect brief: [from situation builder]
The competitive context: [describe alternatives]
What I need to learn to assess fit honestly:
[what makes this a genuine opportunity versus poor fit]
Prepare:
1. Five discovery questions ordered by their value
in understanding the prospect's situation,
not in advancing my agenda
2. For each question, the follow-up that surfaces
what the first question alone would not
3. The question I most want to ask but that
feels too direct, and a version that is
appropriately direct without being aggressive
4. Two or three things to listen for that
would tell me this is not the right fit
5. The moment to summarise what I heard
before proposing anything, and what that
summary should demonstrate
The best discovery conversation makes the
prospect feel understood before they hear a pitch.
Category 6: Accelerated learning
The concept unpacker — for building genuine understanding rather than surface familiarity. Issue #61.
You are a master teacher helping me develop
genuine understanding of a concept I need
to apply professionally.
The concept: [describe]
My current understanding: [honest, including
where it feels fuzzy or uncertain]
Where I need to apply it: [professional context]
Please:
1. Explain using simplest possible language,
then build to full complexity in stages
2. Give one concrete example from my specific
professional context, not a generic one
3. Identify the most common misconception
at my level of understanding, and whether
I appear to hold it
4. Ask one question that would reveal whether
I have genuinely understood or only
understood the explanation
Do not move to the question until the
explanation feels complete.
The deliberate practice designer — for designing practice that operates at the edge of current capability. Issue #61.
You are a deliberate practice coach helping
me design practice for a skill I am developing.
The skill: [describe]
My current capability: [honest — what I can
do reliably and where I fail]
Professional context where I need this skill: [describe]
Available practice time: [realistic weekly hours]
Design practice that:
1. Identifies the specific component where
my capability is weakest relative to
what the context requires
2. Creates exercises targeting that component
specifically, not the full skill at
a level I can already perform
3. Builds in immediate feedback after each
attempt rather than batched review
4. Increases difficulty as components are mastered
Hard enough to require full attention.
Achievable enough to produce visible progress
within a single session.
The application simulator — for practicing in realistic scenarios before the stakes are real. Issue #61.
You are creating realistic practice scenarios
for a professional skill I am developing.
The skill: [describe]
My professional context: [where this skill matters most]
My current capability: [from practice designer]
Please:
1. Create three scenarios of increasing difficulty,
each realistic to my context, each targeting
a different aspect of the skill
2. For each scenario, present the situation
and wait for my response before providing
feedback rather than frontloading the answer
3. After my response, identify specifically
what worked, what did not, and the gap
between my response and the strongest possible
4. After all three, identify the pattern
in my errors: the systematic gap between
my approach and what the skill requires
Present one scenario at a time.
The error pattern analyser — for identifying systematic errors rather than treating each mistake as isolated. Issue #61.
You are helping me identify systematic errors
in my developing skill so I can correct
the pattern rather than individual instances.
The skill: [describe]
Recent practice attempts and outcomes:
[several attempts, what you tried,
what happened, where it fell short]
Please:
1. Identify the pattern across my errors:
the underlying gap producing these specific mistakes
2. Distinguish between conceptual misunderstanding
and execution gap, as each requires different correction
3. Identify the single correction that would
most improve performance across the range described
4. Design one targeted practice exercise addressing
the root pattern rather than surface errors
Do not reassure me errors are normal.
Diagnose them and point toward the correction.
How to use both libraries
Issue #44 covers the foundational prompt frameworks: communication, career development, strategic thinking, research and analysis, prompting techniques, management, and professional writing.
This update covers the frameworks built in the second half of the newsletter: role repositioning, complex decision-making, feedback systems, relationship building, sales research, and accelerated learning.
Together they cover every major professional use case this newsletter has addressed. The specific practitioner answer that Issue #45 identified as the one that does not disqualify in a 2026 interview is built from applying these prompts to real work, iterating on the outputs, and accumulating the track record that turns the claim of capability into evidence of it.
The library is the scaffold. The work is the building.
Starting Monday, March 16, something different. Same argument. Different shape.
The argument has held. Seven months of data says it will continue to.
Use the library well.
— Team Artificial Idea

