Look for repeat work, not a big transformation
Think about the last ordinary task that interrupted someone who had better things to do. Turning a public event notice into a parent reminder? Building a checklist from an approved office procedure? Drafting a generic appointment-preparation email? Those are possible starting points.
For this first trial, leave out student records, patient details, customer site information and anything that decides a safety or compliance question. Use public or invented sample material. The goal is to learn how the workflow behaves before adding sensitive information or real consequences.
Give the task a beginning and an end
Write down the input, the expected output and the person who will review it. For example: “Use our public open-house notice to draft a 150-word reminder. Keep the date, location and registration link unchanged. The office manager checks it before sending.”
Try that same task a few times. Save the instruction that worked, along with a good example. If everyone starts with a blank prompt, you are testing individual improvisation as much as the tool.
Count the checking time, too
Time the usual method, then time the AI-assisted method from start to finished, reviewed output. Include rewriting, checking links and fixing mistakes. A draft produced in ten seconds is not a win if it takes twenty minutes to repair.
NCSC warns that AI can present incorrect information as fact. That is why your first task should have an answer a reviewer can check against a short, trustworthy source. Do not ask AI to certify its own accuracy.
Make one decision after the trial
Set a short review date and ask: would we willingly use this again next week? Keep the workflow if it saves total effort at the quality you need. Simplify it if the review is awkward. Stop it if ordinary templates work better.
This week, ask one manager to name one recurring task, one safe sample input and one reviewer. That is enough to start a useful discussion.
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