A practical AI workflow design playbook
A Playbook for Designing Reliable, Reviewable AI Workflows
PDF download · 328 pages · Revised Edition · October 2026
Better prompts are only the beginning. Move from one-off AI experiments into reusable prompt systems, context packages, source boundaries, evaluation rubrics, human review gates, and governed workflow pilots.
Educational guide and workflow-design materials. Human review remains required. No final regulated professional advice.
The problem
A useful answer can still be difficult to repeat safely. Without clear context, source boundaries, review criteria, risk screens, and human approval points, AI output becomes harder to trust and easier to misuse.
Prompt engineering helps you ask better questions. Context engineering helps you design the conditions for better work.
The method
The goal is not to make AI automatically right. The goal is to make output easier to aim, check, improve, and govern.
Practical outcomes
Inside the Playbook
Modern prompting, the 7-part formula, risk, reviewability, and the bridge to context engineering.
Role, task, objective, context, audience, format, guardrails, and instruction hierarchy.
Prompt chains, handoffs, workflow maps, review loops, prompt libraries, and team standards.
40 professional prompt templates for practical work, QA, governance, assistants, and workflow design.
Files, sources, context windows, retrieval concepts, assistants, multimodal work, and automation boundaries.
Quality rubrics, test cases, failure logs, red-team checks, regression checks, and human review.
Sensitive-data boundaries, high-stakes rules, approval gates, documentation, and pilot readiness.
Worksheets for prompts, context packages, workflow maps, output review, testing, assistants, and governed pilots.
Choose the right path
Free starter path
Primer, Jumpstart Guide, and Readiness Assessment.
$0
Explore the free pathPDF download · Templates
25 prompt cards in a 60-page PDF, with input boundaries, review checks and fictional practice tests.
$19 founding price Planned standard $29
Get the Starter PackPDF download · 328 pages · Revised Edition · October 2026
For readers who already understand basic prompting.
$39 founding price Planned standard $59
Get the Playbook onlySix-PDF learning bundle
One ZIP with six PDFs: the 53-page Handbook, 60-page Starter Pack and 328-page Playbook, plus the three free guides included for convenience. The free guides remain available separately at no charge.
$79 founding price Planned standard $99
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Who it is for
Who it is not for
Safety and trust
Use AI to draft, summarize, organize, compare, plan, test, and suggest. Humans still approve, decide, verify, and own the result.
For work affecting people, money, rights, safety, compliance, security, public trust, or sensitive information, use AI to support preparation and review—not to make the final decision.
License and responsible use
Individual purchase permits copying and adapting designated Playbook prompts and blank worksheets for your own learning and work, including a private assistant accessible only to you. Ordinary work outputs may be used. Uploading the whole book, redistributing templates, publishing shared assistants containing the material, and model training are excluded. Team, classroom, workshop and client distribution require the corresponding permission or license. See the full purchaser license on page 7.
The Playbook is educational and does not create a professional relationship. Third-party product and platform references are used for identification and education; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Common questions
No. It includes patterns and examples, but the focus is context packages, source boundaries, review criteria, evaluation, prompt libraries, and governed workflow pilots.
No. You need to be willing to define the work clearly, protect sensitive information, review outputs, and improve the workflow over time.
It is best for people who understand basic prompting. Beginners can start now with the free Primer; the Handbook is included in the Complete System.
It is the practice of designing the information environment around an AI task: what the AI may use, what it must not assume, what needs verification, what the output should look like, and how the work moves through review.
An individual purchase does not grant permission to distribute the book or templates to a team. Team, classroom, workshop and client distribution require the corresponding permission or license.
AI tools may have supported drafting, editing, organization, formatting, review, or cleanup. Loga Fixico reviewed, selected, arranged, edited, revised, and approved the final material.
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