If you've ever uploaded a policy, report or strategy into ChatGPT and typed:
"Summarise this."
...there's a good chance you've started in the wrong place.
Summaries give you fewer words but don't necessarily give you better understanding.
Let's move from:
❌ "What does this document say?"
To
âś… "What problem is this document trying to solve?"
That question will alter the quality of the conversation and set you up to navigate complexity with ease.
We've put together a new guide on how to use AI to understand complex documents without outsourcing your thinking.
Whether you're reading policies, business cases, research papers, strategies or guidance documents, the goal is to understand better (quicker!).
đź“„ Inside you'll find:
- Practical prompts you can copy and paste
- A simple framework for making sense of long documents
- Ways to challenge AI instead of accepting its first answer
- Techniques I use myself whenever I'm trying to understand something quickly
➡️ You'll find everything in the "Working with AI" section of the Classroom 👆
I'd love to know what you think!!
And if you try one of the prompts on a document you're working on this week, let us know how it goes! 👇