Your Reference Card

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Intro

This is the last module of the Enabled User stage. After this, you do not need the course to use AI well. Here is how to build the thing that replaces it.

You have built a set of skills across fourteen modules. Verb choice. Stopping conditions. Constraints. Context. Opening seeds. Restating. Planning ahead. Re-seeding. Each one is a tool. You have used most of them on real work.

The most useful reference is the one you wrote yourself. Course-provided templates are starting shapes. A reference card written in your own language, for your own most common tasks, is what you will actually reach for.

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Three questions to answer before you write

Take a few minutes with these. Write down your answers — loose notes are fine.

1. Which three principles do you actually use?

Not all of them. Not the ones that felt interesting in the module. The ones you actually reach for when you sit down with a task. If you are not sure, think about the last three or four times you sent a message to an AI. What did you do differently because of this course?

Common answers: verb choice, stopping conditions, constraints, the load-bearing test, restating, asking for a plan first. Pick the three that show up most in your own work.

2. What are your three most common task types?

What do you actually use AI for? Not what you plan to use it for — what you have used it for. Three tasks. For example: drafting emails, summarising documents, writing first drafts of reports, generating options, preparing presentations, creating instructions for others.

Three is enough. If you have more than three, pick the three you do most often.

3. What is your default opening seed for each of those task types?

For each of the three tasks you named, what is the opening message you would send? Not a perfect message — a default. The starting shape you would use and then adjust.

If you have not sent an opening seed for one of your task types yet, sketch one now. Role + task + one piece of context + stopping condition. It does not need to be polished.

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The reference card

Your reference card has five sections. Write it now, using your answers to the three questions above. Keep each section short.

Your role

One line. What you do, written for use as context in an opening seed. "I'm a [role] at [type of organisation] and I work on [main focus]." You will paste or adapt this at the start of most opening seeds. Write it once here.

Your three principles

In your own words, not the course's words. If one of your principles is "safe verbs", write what that means to you: "Start with fix, summarise, or draft. Don't use improve or clean up." If one is "the load-bearing test", write your version of it. Short. The version you will actually remember.

Your three task templates

For each of your three most common tasks: an opening seed with the stopping condition and constraint filled in. Use the template structure from E-03:

I'm a [your role]. [Verb] [specific thing]. [Context: what the AI needs to know]. [Stopping condition]. [Constraint].

Fill in everything except the task-specific details you will swap in each time. The parts that stay the same for every instance of this task type should already be written.

Your verb shortlist

Three or four verbs you actually use. The ones from E-01 that worked for your tasks. Keep this very short — it is a fast reference, not a full table.

Your re-seed template

The template from E-06, personalised for your situation:

I'm a [your role]. I've been working on [task] and [one sentence: what was decided or produced]. Now I need to [verb] [specific thing]. [Stopping condition]. [Constraint].

Fill in your role. That part stays the same every time. The rest you swap in.

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Now make it

Spend ten minutes. Write the card using the five sections above. Do not try to make it perfect. The goal is a working draft you can use today.

Where to keep it:

• A note in your phone
• A document pinned in your work files
• A sticky note beside your keyboard
• A saved note in the platform you use most

It should be somewhere you can open in under ten seconds.

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What good looks like

You open it and immediately know what to send.

The role line goes straight into your opening seed. The task templates need minimal adjustment. The verb shortlist is the one you actually check when you are not sure which word to use.

If you open it and feel like you need to read it carefully to remember what it means — rewrite it in shorter, plainer language. This card is for you. No one else will read it.

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Closing

There is no recovery path for this module. There is no wrong version of a personal reference card. If it helps you send a better message, it works. That is the only test.

You are now an Enabled User. You can use AI independently for your own work. You know what to send, how to shape it, when to stop, when to start over, and when to move to a fresh conversation.

The Advanced track is there when you want more control — longer tasks, complex projects, working directly with files. For now, use what you built.

The machine will wait. It does not mind. Go do the work.