Focused AI work

Agent Instruction Templates

Copyable, bounded instruction sets for recurring professional jobs that need clearer evidence, review, and accountability.

Audience
Professionals designing or improving a focused AI-assisted work step
Outcome
A usable starting instruction set with visible limits and human ownership
Explore templates

Choose the job that fits your work, then adapt the configured placeholders and local controls before use.

What these templates are for

Each template defines one bounded, recurring job: what information to use, what the output should contain, what to do when evidence is missing, and where human responsibility remains. They are practical starting points, not autonomous agents, approval engines, or a substitute for organization-specific permissions and governance.

Choose a practical starting point

Decision and investment

Strengthen a business case or pressure-test it through distinct leadership perspectives before formal review.

Procurement and vendor work

Challenge a contract submission or find source-grounded answers about a complex vendor relationship.

Portfolio operations

Retrieve portfolio insight, prepare controlled updates, and create standardized reporting from one authoritative source.

Templates

Business Case Evaluator

Identify strengths, gaps, approval readiness, and practical improvements in a business case.

Open Business Case Evaluator

Five Persona Portfolio Board

Pressure-test a business case through technology, customer growth, finance, operations, and portfolio lenses.

Open Five Persona Portfolio Board

Contract Submission Challenge

Assess contract, purchase, renewal, or vendor submissions against adaptable evidence and readiness criteria.

Open Contract Submission Challenge

Vendor Partnership Intelligence Agent

Find and interpret approved partnership information with visible citations, conditions, and source boundaries.

Open Vendor Partnership Intelligence

Portfolio Manager Agent

Create a governed portfolio-data assistant with source-of-record, confirmation, and reporting controls.

Open Portfolio Manager Agent

Use a template responsibly

  • Replace bracketed placeholders with approved local terminology, sources, owners, and escalation paths.
  • Use only information you are authorized to share with the AI tool you choose.
  • Keep connected-system permissions, data controls, and write confirmations outside the prompt and enforced by the platform.
  • Review output before it informs a commitment, approval, update, or decision.

Need a different starting point?

Use the focused-agent design worksheet to shape a new bounded job, or assess whether the recurring work is ready for an AI-assisted design before creating instructions.

Design a focused AI agent or assess task readiness.