Challenge: Build Your Personal Agent Workflow

You have now covered the three most impactful everyday use cases – email and calendar, research and documents, and drafting and templates. This challenge asks you to combine what you have learned into a workflow you will actually use next week.

What You Will Do

You will identify two or three recurring tasks from your real work, build a prompt template for each one, and run each template at least once to test and refine it.

This is not a theoretical exercise. By the end of it you should have a small set of ready-to-use prompts that save you time starting from your next workday.

Step 1: Identify Your Recurring Tasks

Think about the last two weeks of work. Write down the tasks that came up more than once and involved a significant amount of reading, writing or information processing.

Good candidates include:

• Summarizing incoming reports or updates before a meeting;
• Writing follow-up emails after client calls;
• Preparing a weekly status update for your manager or team;
• Researching a topic or competitor before a decision;
• Extracting action items from meeting notes.

Pick two or three that feel most relevant to your current role.

Step 2: Build a Prompt Template for Each Task

For each task you identified, write a reusable prompt template using the structure from the previous chapter:

You are helping me [goal]. The audience is [audience]. The tone should be [tone]. Here is the input material: [paste content here]. Please produce [format and length].

Do not try to make it perfect on the first attempt – write a working version and plan to improve it after you run it.

Step 3: Run Each Template with Real Input

Take each template and run it with actual content from your work – a real email thread, a real set of meeting notes, a real topic you need to research.

Review the output using the checklist from Section 2:

• Is anything important missing;
• Are there any confident errors to verify;
• Does the tone match how you actually communicate.

Send one follow-up message to fix anything that is not right, then save the refined version of your prompt.

What You Should Have at the End

By the time you finish this challenge you should have:

• Two or three tested prompt templates tailored to your actual work;
• A clear sense of which tasks in your workflow benefit most from agent assistance;
• At least one output you could realistically use or send with minor edits.

Carry these templates into Section 4 – the next section will help you understand when to trust those outputs and when to slow down and verify.