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AI Setup Guides

Practical setup guides for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, prompting, projects, and AI-assisted workflows.

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Practical setup guides for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, prompting, projects, and AI-assisted workflows.

AI Setup Checklist

A practical starting checklist for setting up AI tools so they support real work instead of becoming another tab to babysit.

  1. Pick the job before the tool: drafting, research, code review, planning, editing, image ideation, or task triage.
  2. Create reusable project instructions with the goal, audience, tone, constraints, examples, and review standards.
  3. Keep source material close so notes, documents, transcripts, or code snippets govern the answer.
  4. Ask for verification steps such as assumptions, source checks, tests, or human review points.
  5. Set privacy boundaries for credentials, private client data, health details, and financial identifiers.

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