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You are in Degree 3 · Practical masteryunit 1 of 6Ahead of you: A real piece of professional work, and the page that shows you checked it.

Degree 3 · Unit 3.1

From command to commission

When you give a new employee a piece of work, you do not simply say "write a report". You tell them who they are in this particular task, who the work is for, what material you already have, what to avoid, and how the two of you will know when the work is good. Then you read their draft and send it back with notes.

Working with an AI system is exactly that. And the thing people complain about most — that the results come back general and shallow — happens because they handed it a question and then expected the work of a consultant. The output never exceeds the context you put in. That is the first rule of this degree, and there is no exception to it.

FIG. 12 — The five layers of a professional commission
1
Role
Who is speaking? "You are an expert compliance auditor" — it sets the vocabulary, the depth and the assumptions.
2
Context
For whom, in what circumstance, and what material is available. The longest layer and the most consequential.
3
Task
One clear verb: analyse, compare, draft, summarise. Not three verbs in one commission.
4
Constraint
Length, format, what is forbidden, and most importantly: "if you do not find the information in the material, say: not available".
5
Standard
How is the success of the output measured? State it outright — the result improves merely from your stating it.
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A comparison

WEAK PROMPT

"Write me a policy for using artificial intelligence."

What you get back is a general text that would suit any organisation anywhere in the world — which is another way of saying it suits yours not at all.

PROFESSIONAL BRIEF

"You are an expert governance consultant. Our organisation is an engineering consultancy, 40 employees, handling confidential client drawings, and bound by contracts that forbid sharing client data with third parties. Write a two-page AI use policy, divided into: permitted, forbidden, requires approval. Executive language with no padding, and do not name any tools. Constraint: every clause must be verifiable as complied with. Standard: a new engineer understands it in ten minutes and works by it without asking. And if you lack necessary context, ask me before you write."

That last sentence — "if you lack necessary context, ask me before you write" — is one of the most useful things you can add to any commission. It turns the system from a blind producer into something closer to a colleague you are talking to.

The basic recipe for an effective prompt

The quality of the output is a direct reflection of the quality of the input. Four ingredients cover most cases.

FIG. B15 — The four ingredients
The task
What do you want? (write, draw)
The context
Why, and for whom?
The persona
The tone and the role
The format
The shape of the output
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A precise recipe
One example holds them all: «write a summary of the main challenges of solar power in desert regions, in a simplified academic style for university students، in a paragraph of no more than 150 words.»

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One example holds them all: "write a summary of the main challenges of solar power in desert regions, in a simplified academic style for university students, in a paragraph of no more than 150 words". Delete the context and what is left is a general request whose answer suits anyone — that is, no one.

The review: where quality is made

A beginner writes a commission and takes whatever comes back. Someone who has mastered this writes a commission and treats the answer as the place where the work starts. Three moves will double the quality of what you get. Ask for alternatives. Ask for criticism — "criticise your own answer the way a seasoned opponent would". And ask for narrowing — "delete every sentence that adds no information". Then close, every time, with the strongest question of the four: "what might be wrong in your answer?"

Do this

  1. 1 — On the tool. Take the last question you asked an AI system and rewrite it in the five layers. Compare the two outputs side by side.

  2. 2 — On the tool. Ask for an answer, then ask for its criticism, then ask for the corrected version. Record: how much better is the third than the first?

  3. 3 — In your field. Write one commission template for the task that recurs most for you, and save it in a file called "my templates". You will add to it in every unit after this.

Where to after this unit? You have mastered the single commission. The next unit widens it into a broader skill: what you put in, in what order, and what you withhold.