Practical AI / In your everyday work
A clearer email.
A useful team update.
A place to start with AI.
Practical AI means using AI to draft, organize, or help make sense of information from your work. You provide the context and check what comes back.
Start a conversationStart with a 15-to-30-minute conversation. No charge.
Find the point in a report.
Work with a report you can share. Ask a focused question, identify the relevant information, and check the source.
Give an email a useful start.
Supply the situation, the recipient, and the outcome you need. Review the draft before it goes anywhere.
Turn notes into a next step.
Use real notes to draft decisions and actions. Check who owns what and flag missing information.
What context actually means
Give it the information
you would give
a thoughtful colleague.
What are we trying to do? Who is it for? What source material matters? What would make the result useful?
You already know things the tool does not: who the work is for, what happened, and what needs attention. Sharing those details gives it a better starting point.
The Monday team update.
Same task. A more useful starting point.
What you give AI
“Write an update for my team.”
What happened? Who needs to know? Which decisions need attention?
The tool has too little information to write an accurate, useful update.
What you give AI
“Use these notes to prepare a short Monday update for our operations team. Separate decisions, blockers, and next actions. Keep the owners and dates. Flag anything missing.”
Read the fictional source notes
Use the revised checklist. Stock count is unconfirmed. Sam will confirm the count by Tuesday.
Decision: use the revised checklist.
Blocker: stock count still needs confirmation.
Next action: Sam to confirm by Tuesday.
Check the draft against the source notes before sharing. The text shown here is an authored illustration, not a live AI result.
AI can produce an answer that sounds right and still gets something wrong. Use information you are permitted to share, check the source, and stay responsible for the result.
Learn it with your team
A Practical AI
Working Session.
A four-hour paid session for an owner and a small group.
Work directly with me to understand the basics, practice a useful task from your business, and learn how to judge the response. You don't need to arrive knowing exactly where AI fits.
This is guided practice for an owner and a small group who want to use AI themselves. We focus on providing better context, checking the answer, and repeating a useful task.
- A task you can practice again
- A clearer sense of the context AI needs
- A written recap and practical next steps
- A 30-minute follow-up after you've tried it
Start with a no-charge conversation. Scope and price are agreed privately.
Around the session
Relevant work.
A reference to keep.
Before we meet
Spend about 15 minutes sharing your role, tools, and ordinary work so I can prepare relevant exercises.
During the four hours
Build a practical foundation, work through one useful task, and practice providing useful context and checking the result.
After you've tried it
Use your reviewed recap and action steps. We meet for a 30-minute follow-up roughly one to two weeks later. We agree beforehand whether the session will be recorded.
A few useful answers
What if I don't know where AI could help?
That is a useful reason to talk. Start with your work and your questions. You do not need to arrive with an AI project.
Who should take part?
An owner and a small group ready to apply what they learn. A team member can coordinate when an owner or decision-maker supports the work and can join an opening or follow-up conversation.
If you work on your own or already use AI daily, bring that to the first conversation. We can discuss your starting point and whether this format is useful for you.
Do we need to choose a platform first?
Tell me what you use now. We agree any setup needed before the session.
How do we agree the cost and details?
We discuss the task, participants, preparation, and timing in the no-charge conversation. Scope, price, and how we'll meet are agreed privately before you commit. About 15 minutes of preparation, the four-hour session, and a 30-minute follow-up are the planned time commitments.
What information should we use?
Start by describing the work. You do not need to send customer records or account access to request a conversation. We agree what material is appropriate to share and which tools to use before the session.
A useful next step
You don't need
all the answers
to start.
We'll talk about your everyday work, what you've tried with AI, and who would take part. You'll have a clearer sense of whether the Working Session fits before deciding.
15-30 minutes · phone or video · no chargeA conversation with Tom Foote
Let's talk.
Email me your name and business name, along with any question you have. I'll reply personally to arrange a time.
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