Capability guide · Plain language first
Think through decisions
Compare options, surface assumptions and prepare questions without handing over the final choice.
The pattern
See what changes, and where you return.
Options are compared through visible trade-offs before a person makes the decision.
Options→Trade-offs→Person decides
Recognisable examples
Begin with work you already understand.
A capability is a broad kind of help. The linked task guides explain how to complete a specific piece of work.
Compare two suppliers
Challenge a plan
Surface hidden trade-offs
Prepare questions before a commitment
AI can contribute
Repeatable effort and a first pass
- Structures criteria and competing trade-offs
- Challenges the leading option from another angle
- Makes assumptions and unknowns easier to inspect
The person contributes
Meaning, checking and responsibility
- Sets the real constraints and non-negotiables
- Judges which trade-offs matter in context
- Makes and remains responsible for the decision
Featured practical task
Research a topic with reliable sources
Turn a broad question into a bounded, source-linked briefing you can inspect and challenge.
- You provide
- The decision the research supports
- AI helps
- Plans research questions
- You check
- Whether sources are primary and current
- Finished result
- A focused briefing with links, disagreements, gaps and next questions kept visible.
- 01You provide
A decision, scope and source rules.
- 02AI helps
A cited first briefing across several sources.
- 03You check
The decisive links, gaps and conflicting claims.
- 04Finished result
A checked explanation that supports the next human question.
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