AI Digest for Work

AI Gist #1

Joseph Ong
January 23, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Hi — Joseph here @Next Automations

Happy New Year! Welcome to AI Gist, newsletter by Next Automations—your weekly dose of AI and automation insights. We keep it simple with bite-sized tips and tricks, sweet, sharp and designed for the workplace, even for your non-tech-savvy colleagues😅.

Each week, we focus on three straightforward categories: AI Stats of the Week, Prompt of the Week, and AI App of the Week —all curated to help you work smarter, not harder. Let’s get started!

Stats to Watch: AI by the Numbers!

AI isn’t the future—it’s the now. Here are this week’s numbers you can’t ignore:

72% of businesses have adopted AI for at least one business function.

Forbes

65% of organizations are regularly using generative AI in at least one business function, nearly double the percentage from ten months prior.

McKinsey & Company

98% of small businesses are utilizing AI-enabled tools, with 40% using generative AI for tasks such as content creation.

Associated Press

🚀 Takeaway: Early adopters of AI tools, like you, are ahead of the curve. Stay curious, and let Next Automations guide you on the path to smarter work.

Prompt of the Week: Persona Pattern

Level: Beginner | Requirement: None | Use-case: Any Department

🧑🏽‍🔧 Have you ever gone to a car mechanic and suddenly found yourself paying for parts you didn’t even know existed? It’s like they have a secret language, and you’re left wondering if your wallet just got scammed! 😢

🤖 Well, fear not! With AI, specifically chatbots like ChatGPT, you can now ask the right questions and validate the information of any experts.

🥷🏽 Use the Persona Pattern to have ChatGPT role-play as a specialist and provide focused advice. Simply ask it to "act as" or "pretend to be" someone with expertise in your problem area.

Pattern:
"Act as [expertise]. [Objective]."

Example:
"Act as a senior car mechanic. My car is making a clacking sound in the engine, has trouble starting, and knocks when accelerating. What could be the issue?"

Sample Use Cases at work:

Act as a:

Project Manager
Tech Support Specialist
MS Excel Expert - now you can stop asking your accountant 😅!
Chef - how to cook the perfect stew that my wife will forget she’s angry at me 😅🍙
Physicist - explain quantum computing to me 😅 like I’m a 10 yr old!

😜 Have a crack and enjoy this Persona Pattern, your imagination is the limit!

💡 Want to take it further? We run Prompt Engineering Team Workshop tailored for the workplace to help teams get the best out of AI. If that sounds like something you’d like, give us a shout!

AI App of the Week: OTTO SEO (AI powered SEO)

Pricing: Start Free | Ease-of-use: Medium | Use-case: Marketing & Sales | Reviews: 5 Star

🌏 SEO used to mean paying big bucks to agencies or consultants. Now, it’s a fair playing field thanks to AI. With OTTO SEO, one of our client saved a whopping 179 days, 5 hours, and 40 minutes 😲(crazy fast!) in optimizing their website—just by letting AI do the work. From keyword research to ranking on Google’s first page, AI handles it all in a few clicks. If you don’t believe me search “zebra blinds” and it’s No. 1 in google search now, if not, at least first page.

💻 See the screenshot from one of our clients who uses it. We don’t do the SEO for them, but we’ve set up some workflow automations in their workplace. They shared this result with us, showing just how powerful AI can be. If you reckon this could help your company, give it a test drive: 👉 OTTO SEO by Search Atlas

Zebra Blinds OTTO SEO Dashboard

🚀 Next Automations is here to help businesses of all sizes simplify their workflows and adopt AI solutions that actually work. Whether it’s streamlining operations, boosting productivity, or just making your 9-5 easier, we’ve got you covered with practical, no-fuss automations. otherwise, you can just enjoy this AI Gist weekly from us with no strings attached!

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