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Workflow · Intermediate · 1h
Expert interview prep and synthesis workflow
Prepare for an expert interview from their published work and synthesise the conversation into checkable notes.
- When: Before and after any expert conversation.
- 1. Map their positions
- 2. Write questions that go past the public record
Steps 4Tools Any assistant, The expert's public writing, A recorder with consentClaudeChatGPT
Workflow · Intermediate · 1h 30m
Literature scan for a decision workflow
Scan what has been written on a decision you face and extract only what changes it.
- When: A decision worth more than a day of work.
- 1. Define the decision criteria
- 2. Extract per source against the criteria
Steps 4Tools Any assistant, SourcesClaudeChatGPT
Workflow · Intermediate · 1h
Source-tracked research on a question workflow
Answer a question from sources you can cite, with facts and inferences kept apart.
- When: Any question whose answer will be repeated to someone else.
- 1. Sharpen the question
- 2. Collect sources with dates
Steps 5Tools Any assistant, Search, A notes documentClaudeChatGPT
Checklist · Advanced · 10 min
Agent production readiness checklist
What must be true before an agent is allowed to act on real systems.
- An agent is code that decides. This list is the difference between a demo and something you can leave running.
- ☐ The job and the boundary are written down
- ☐ Every side-effect tool is behind approval or a strict allow-list
Items 10ClaudeChatGPT
Code recipe · Advanced · 15 min
Tool call with schema validation and retry
Wrap a model tool call so bad arguments are caught and retried once with the error shown to the model.
- Models sometimes emit arguments that do not match a tool's schema; executing them blindly causes errors deep in your code, while failing hard wastes the run.
Language TypeScriptClaudeChatGPT
AI tool guide · Intermediate · 20 min
OpenAI Assistants and Agents for AI agents
Use OpenAI's agent tooling for tool calling, file search and structured outputs.
- OpenAI's agent APIs provide tool calling with JSON schemas, built-in file search and code execution, and structured outputs that force a response shape, which covers most single-agent business tasks without a framework.
- Workflow: Document Q&A with citations
- Workflow: Structured extraction
ClaudeChatGPT
AI tool guide · Intermediate · 20 min
Claude Agent SDK for AI agents
Build agents that use tools with the same loop Claude Code uses.
- The Agent SDK gives you the agent loop, tool definitions, permission hooks and session handling that Claude Code is built on, so an agent that reads files, runs commands or calls your APIs is configuration plus your tools rather than a hand-written loop.
- Workflow: A read-only research agent
- Workflow: A gated operations agent
ClaudeChatGPT
Automation recipe · Advanced · 45 min
Nightly agent evaluation run: automation recipe
Build nightly agent evaluation run as a GitHub Actions automation: run the agent's fixed test set every night and post the score with any regressions.
- Trigger: Schedule: nightly at 02:00 UTC.
- 1. Checkout
- 2. Run
Platform GitHub ActionsActions 4ClaudeChatGPT
Automation recipe · Intermediate · 45 min
Ticket classifier with escalation: automation recipe
Build ticket classifier with escalation as a n8n automation: classify incoming tickets and route anything uncertain or sensitive to a human queue.
- Trigger: Webhook from the help desk on new ticket.
- 1. Webhook
- 2. Anthropic or OpenAI
Platform n8nActions 4ClaudeChatGPT
Workflow · Intermediate · 45 min
Agent runbook for on-call workflow
Write the runbook an on-call person needs when an agent misbehaves at 2 a.m.
- When: Before an agent goes to production.
- 1. State the symptoms
- 2. Write the stop procedure
Steps 5Tools A document, Your monitoringClaudeChatGPT
Workflow · Advanced · 1h 30m
Human-in-the-loop approval step workflow
Add an approval gate to an agent so anything that spends money or contacts a customer waits for a person.
- When: When an agent gains a tool with external side effects.
- 1. Classify tools
- 2. Insert the gate
Steps 5Tools Your agent runtime, A queue or inbox for approvalsClaudeChatGPT
Workflow · Advanced · 40 min
Evaluate an agent with a fixed test set workflow
Run an agent against a fixed set of inputs after every change and compare against the last run, so regressions are caught before users are.
- When: After any change to the agent's prompt, tools or model.
- 1. Freeze the test set
- 2. Run and record
Steps 5Tools A test file of inputs and expected outputs, A script that runs the agentClaudeChatGPT
Workflow · Intermediate · 1h
Design an agent before building it workflow
Specify an agent on paper — job, tools, limits, failure behaviour — so the build is a transcription and not an exploration.
- When: Before writing any agent code or prompt.
- 1. Write the job and the boundary
- 2. List the tools with contracts
Steps 5Tools A document, Any assistant for critiqueClaudeChatGPT
Tool · Beginner · 3 min
CSV cleaner
Tidy a CSV export before importing it anywhere, without opening a spreadsheet.
- Trims cells, drops empty rows, normalises line endings and reports ragged rows so an import does not fail halfway.
ChatGPTClaude
Checklist · Beginner · 10 min
Assistant use policy for a small team checklist
The rules a small team needs before everyone starts pasting things into assistants.
- Without a short policy, someone will paste a customer list or a contract into a consumer tool. Write the rules once.
- ☐ Which tools are approved and on which plan
- ☐ What must never be pasted: customer personal data, credentials, unreleased financials
Items 8ChatGPTClaude
Checklist · Beginner · 10 min
Before automating a business process checklist
Questions to answer before you build an automation, so you automate the right thing.
- Automating a broken process makes it break faster. Ten minutes on this list saves a rebuild.
- ☐ The process has been done manually at least ten times and is stable
- ☐ Inputs arrive in a consistent shape (or the first step normalises them)
Items 10ChatGPTClaude
Code recipe · Intermediate · 15 min
Extract invoice fields to JSON with validation
Call a model to pull invoice fields from text and validate the result before it touches your books.
- Model output is only useful in bookkeeping if it is strictly shaped and checked; a hallucinated total is worse than a null.
Language TypeScriptChatGPTClaude
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Notion AI for AI for business
Use Notion AI to summarise, draft and fill properties inside the pages and databases you already keep.
- Notion AI acts on the page or database you are in: it summarises pages, drafts sections, translates, and can auto-fill database properties such as a summary or a category from the page content.
- Workflow: Auto-summarise meeting notes
- Workflow: Draft from an outline
ChatGPTClaude
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Microsoft Copilot in Office for AI for business
Use Copilot inside Word, Excel and Outlook for documents you already have open.
- Copilot reads the document, sheet or mailbox you are working in and can summarise, draft, rewrite and build formulas from that content, which removes the copy-paste step of a standalone assistant.
- Workflow: Summarise a long thread in Outlook
- Workflow: Explain a sheet you inherited
ChatGPTClaude
Automation recipe · Intermediate · 45 min
Weekly KPI snapshot to leadership: automation recipe
Build weekly KPI snapshot to leadership as a n8n automation: pull five numbers from a sheet every Monday and send them with a one-paragraph narrative.
- Trigger: Schedule: Monday 08:00.
- 1. Google Sheets
- 2. Code
Platform n8nActions 4ChatGPTClaude
Automation recipe · Beginner · 45 min
New customer welcome and internal alert: automation recipe
Build new customer welcome and internal alert as a Make automation: when a customer signs up, send the welcome sequence and post a short internal note with what they bought.
- Trigger: Webhook from the store on new order.
- 1. Webhook
- 2. Email marketing tool
Platform MakeActions 4ChatGPTClaude
Automation recipe · Intermediate · 45 min
Invoice PDF to bookkeeping row: automation recipe
Build invoice PDF to bookkeeping row as a Zapier automation: read supplier invoices that arrive by email and append the key fields to a bookkeeping sheet for review.
- Trigger: New email with a PDF attachment in the Invoices label.
- 1. Gmail
- 2. PDF parser
Platform ZapierActions 4ChatGPTClaude
Workflow · Beginner · 25 min
Policy draft from a decision workflow
Turn a management decision into a short written policy employees can follow, with the examples that stop questions.
- When: When a decision will apply to more than one situation.
- 1. Write the rule
- 2. Test it on the situations
Steps 4Tools Any assistantChatGPTClaude
Workflow · Beginner · 30 min
Supplier quote comparison workflow
Normalise several supplier quotes into one comparison so the decision is made on the same terms.
- When: When two or more quotes arrive for the same purchase.
- 1. Extract to a fixed table
- 2. Normalise the price
Steps 4Tools Any assistant, The quotes as textChatGPTClaude

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