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# Applying AI effectively in your organization

Five steps, in sequence, for the knowledge worker who has an eager intern on tap and still hasn't seen the magic at scale.

You're a knowledge worker at a consultancy. On any given day, you work with clients who have particular, and different, needs. You offer bespoke answers to their specific circumstances and questions.

You've been told AI can alter the trajectory of your career, disrupt your industry, and make your current workflow look like it belongs in the museum of yesterday's business models.

You're not quite seeing it. Life is easier, and you enjoy the perks of having what amounts to an eager, generally smart, if occasionally careless intern at your disposal day and night. But you haven't seen **the magic at scale** yet.

If that's you, you need a more structured, deeper set of steps to maximize value. Here are five things we advise you to do, in sequence.

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## A. Play

The first step is play. Yes, really. When you get a new piece of technology, give yourself space to test its capabilities **without selecting or optimizing**.

Push the AI to its edges. Assume strong capabilities, but verify. Don't blindly trust its output, but don't restrict yourself to a few use cases either. Delegate all types of work just to see how well (or badly!) it performs. Form your own judgment.

Different models have different capabilities, and the same model performs differently at different effort levels. For instance, we ran the same game-building prompt against 10+ model-effort combinations; each yielded different results at different cost and time. See: [swish-by-models.vercel.app](https://swish-by-models.vercel.app).

Timebox this exploration. We recommend one month, done alongside colleagues.

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## B. Interrogate your logs

Download the logs of all your AI sessions: every chat, along with metadata like time, cost, and tool calls.

Then feed these files to your preferred AI app, whether that's ChatGPT or Claude, and ask it to identify usage patterns. For instance:

- Categorize all your queries across sessions and rank them by frequency.
- Identify the queries or tasks where you interacted the most.
- Identify the queries or tasks where you corrected it the most.
- Identify your most frustrating task.

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## C. Set a goal

Now that you know how you typically use AI, step back.

Pick a specific goal you want to achieve at work. Phrase it in terms of time saved, or something more ambitious, like securing a new account or earning a promotion.

If you choose productivity gains, write down a specific target metric and task. Something like: “Research used to take 5 hours; I want it to take 1 hour, including time spent reviewing and correcting AI work.” Or: “We could only review companies' 10-Ks; now we want to expand our research to include data from two other providers.”

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## D. Scope a project

Scope your work with AI as a project with a **two-person team, you and your AI app**, shaped around the goal you defined in step C.

Set success metrics for the outcome you're optimizing. Include the gains *and* the quality bar: saving 2 hours of research is meaningless if the research doesn't meet the standard you'd ship to a client. Create evaluation criteria for what counts as good research.

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## E. Grade the work

Now evaluate the output AI produced in your project. It helps to treat your AI as an intern whose performance you're assessing.

All of this presumes you do the radical exploration right and truly push AI to its limits. Many people, especially nontechnical knowledge workers, limit themselves.

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Talk to us if you'd like to understand how to maximize AI across your organization.

[Talk to us](mailto:team@prewavelabs.com)

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Reach out: team@prewavelabs.com