Glossary

Making several versions of the same thing, scoring each one against stated criteria, and keeping the best.

A plain question asked about a step’s result, such as whether every number is in the document. A failed check sends the step round again or flags the problem.

One of the four formats of a template: a printable page to follow the steps and tick off the checks by hand. Also a kind of check made of yes or no items.

One of the four formats of a template: a folder Claude loads, so it follows the steps by itself.

A kind of check: numbers, names and quotes must match what you gave the AI.

A workflow shape: make a draft, check it, and fix what the check found, with a limit on rounds.

The page where you change a template (its inputs, steps and checks), preview it in four formats and download or copy it. It runs in your browser and saves there.

To mark a gap for you to look at instead of guessing at it. A workflow flags a missing owner, for example, rather than inventing one.

What one step passes to the next, always in the same shape, such as a table with the same columns.

The material a workflow starts from, such as a page of meeting notes or a draft.

Five steps for your kind of work, in order: Watch, Practice, Use, Make it yours, Set up.

Draft, check, revise. When a check fails, the step runs again with the problem pointed out. There is always a limit on rounds.

One of the four formats of a template: a file you import into n8n, an automation tool, and connect to your own AI account.

What a workflow gives you at the end, with its checks passed.

A place in a workflow where only a person can judge, such as whether a summary is fair. The workflow stops and asks you.

The instructions you give the AI for one step: who it writes as, the task, the rules and the shape to return.

One of the four formats of a template: copy each step into ChatGPT or Claude, one after another.

The person a piece of writing is for. Changing the reader changes how a step writes.

A label on invented example text. Every example on this site is made up, never real people or organizations.

A kind of check: rate the work against what good looks like, with the evidence.

A kind of check: a second look by the AI, asked only to find what is wrong with the first one’s work.

Reading the same material from different sides, such as a writing pass and a substance pass, then combining what each found.

A blank in a prompt that your own material fills, shown in square brackets, such as [Meeting notes].

The line of your material that an item came from, copied word for word so a check can look it up.

Cutting a long file into parts, handling each part the same way, then merging the results into one.

One small job for the AI, with one clear prompt. A workflow is a short chain of steps.

A ready-made workflow with its inputs, steps and checks, free to use and change. It comes as a prompt chain, a checklist, a Claude skill and an n8n file.

One real run of a template that you step through, seeing what goes in, what comes out and what each check found.

A chain of small steps that takes your material to a finished result, with checks along the way.