You have access to a brilliant thinking partner. Chances are, you’re asking it to write emails.
You’re bringing AI in too late. You ask it to write the email after you’ve decided what the email should say. You ask it to build the deck after you’ve chosen the story. You ask it to polish the proposal after the strategy is already set.
By then, AI can improve the output. It has missed the chance to help improve the outcome.
This book shows you how to bring AI into your work while the thinking is still open, where it can challenge assumptions, expand your options, strengthen decisions, and help you find a better path before you commit to one.
The foundation is your own custom AI work partner: a brilliant, highly coachable chief of staff shaped around your role, goals, standards, responsibilities, and work. It learns your context, remembers what good looks like, pushes back when your thinking is weak, and becomes more useful as you work together.
And you can build yours as you read. Directing Intelligence includes free access to CraftAI, a guided tool that helps you create the custom instructions for your own work partner.
This is how AI starts helping you do far more than produce things faster. It becomes a partner in thinking bigger, making better decisions, and doing some of the best work of your life.
You’ll learn how to
- create a custom AI work partner shaped around your role, standards, and thinking;
- start important work with a strategic briefing using OCH: outcome, context, help;
- bring AI into the thinking early enough to challenge assumptions, explore stronger paths, and improve decisions before the direction is set; and
- improve the work partner’s instructions so it becomes more valuable over time.
The payoff is stronger thinking, better outcomes, and more room for the judgment, creativity, relationships, and care that your best work requires. The better AI gets, the more valuable your direction becomes.
