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Build the room before you write the memo. Grab the 4-prompt project room kit: source inventory, duplicate log, missing-context list, grounded draft.
When AI produces a mediocre draft from a messy folder, the prompt is almost never the problem. The room is.
TL;DR
- The effectiveness of AI generation relies heavily on the preparation of source materials, not just the prompt.
- An 'AI project room' is a bounded workspace that organizes messy source files for a specific job.
- Key preparation steps include identifying authoritative documents, summarizing sources, and creating an inventory.
- Current AI agents are now capable of performing the necessary file-level operations for preparation.
- The bottleneck for useful AI output has shifted from generation to the organization of source data.