Prompting guides

Free, practical writing on getting better output from any AI assistant.

The five-part structure behind every good prompt

Role, context, task, rules, self-critique. The same five parts turn a vague request into output you can actually use, with a worked before-and-after.

Five mistakes that quietly ruin your AI output

Leftover placeholders, polluted context windows and asking for everything at once are the common errors that make a good prompt produce mediocre results, and here are the fixes.

Why AI cold emails get ignored (and the prompt that fixes it)

The default AI cold email is 200 words of flattery with no specifics. Here is what to change in the prompt, with a full example you can copy and use today.