delegation

Working With AI

What's left to review when the AI checks its own work

Newer models check their own drafts before you see them. That raises the floor and makes the polish more convincing — here's the review that stays yours.

Working With AI

The effort dial: how much thinking does a task deserve?

Claude Opus 5 lets you dial how hard it thinks. Which consulting tasks earn maximum effort, which are actively worse for it, and how to set defaults.

Setting Up Claude

Stop pasting into chat. Point Claude at a folder.

Claude can work in your folders now — read raw notes, write finished deliverables. What that changes for consultants, and the folder anatomy that works.

Working With AI

Stop prompting, start briefing: delegating whole deliverables to Claude

How to hand Claude a whole deliverable: the five-part brief, a worked example, when to steer instead, and the review pass that keeps it client-grade.

AI Strategy

The three categories of consulting work — and which ones AI should never touch

The rule for deciding which consulting tasks to give AI — and which to keep yourself. Specific examples across the three categories.