Quick take: The reason most people stall with AI at work isn’t the tools — it’s starting in the wrong place. This diagnostic asks 4 questions and hands you a one-week plan: which workflow to try first, which guide to read for it, and the exact prompt to open with tomorrow morning.
Who this is for: Professionals who keep meaning to “use AI properly” but don’t know which of the hundred workflows to start with.
Skip this if: You already run AI workflows daily and want advanced material — go straight to the guides index.
Take the Diagnostic
Everything runs on this page — nothing is uploaded, tracked, or stored. Pick the honest answers, not the aspirational ones.
4 Questions
How the Diagnostic Decides
No magic: the mapping is hand-built from the workflows already tested and published on this site. Your role picks your starting playbook, your two time sinks pick the workflow guides, and your tool answer picks the right tool guide — so you don’t pay for anything before knowing whether the free tier covers you.
Two rules sit under every recommendation. First, start with one workflow, not five — the people who stick with AI at work build one habit at a time (skipping this is one of the 3 biggest mistakes beginners make). Second, always read the output before you use it — AI still makes things up, and knowing how to catch hallucinations is a week-1 skill, not an advanced one.
The Real World Story
This page exists because of a WhatsApp message I kept receiving in different forms: “I know AI is useful, I have ChatGPT open right now — what do I actually do with it?” The honest answer was always a question back: what role, what eats your time, what tools do you have? After typing that same diagnosis by hand a dozen times for friends and colleagues, I turned it into this page. The recommendations are the same ones I’d send you in chat — just faster, and with the guides linked.