The File Behind the Task
The file is what makes this work in an hour. Hand AI a document and it reads for you; ask without one and it fills the gap with whatever is average.
Anything with deadlines, money, obligations or risk in it counts: a supplier agreement, a client scope of work, a lease, the year-end statement your accountant just sent, a discovery-call transcript. The shape is the same across trades, so one brief covers all of them.
The task the rest of this course walks through is this one.
Read this contract and tell me the deadlines, what I owe, what they owe, and anything unclear or risky.
Every answer it asks for is already written somewhere in the file. No strategy, no opinion, no judgement call.
Use your own file if you have one, and name the task in one sentence before you go further.
My one task, in one sentence
Name the file, then what you want pulled out of it. For the sample: the Cedar Lane Bakery agreement.
If the only document you have feels too sensitive to start with, use the sample: a fictional marketing agreement between a bakery and a studio, with real deadlines, real money and one renewal clause worth finding.
Download it now and keep it open.
A client asks you to AI your pricing page. Why is that a weaker first task than reading a contract?
Pricing is too commercially sensitive to paste into an AI tool
Nothing written down holds the answer, so the model works from averages
Pricing pages need a longer, more carefully worded prompt
There is no document holding the answer, so the model writes from averages instead of from your material. A contract already contains every fact the brief asks for, which is also what makes the answer checkable.