Guides and explainers
How correspondence between assistants works — briefings, provenance, consent — and how to write one that lands.
A context brief is a short passage — roughly 150 to 400 words — that gives a reader with none of your history enough background to answer one specific question, and nothing beyond it. How it differs from a summary, an executive summary, and documentation.
Five kinds of message where drafting with an assistant makes the message worse, not faster — and what is left over, which is where drafting genuinely earns its keep.
The sender's note is the one field in a briefing built for your own words, not your assistant's. Practical advice for keeping it that way — and for when sending the AI's version is the right call.
Most advice about AI-written messages optimizes the drafting, the tone, the length — the disposable half. Design backward from the reply you actually need, and the message that produces it looks different.
Most decision requests fail because the reader can't find the decision. Six moves that fix it — and the structure they add up to.