# AI Positioning Session

Connect your experience to a practical direction and one small project.

Built Into Work | Vic Akosile | Version 1.0 | October 5, 2026

For: Professionals exploring how to contribute to AI-related changes at work
Use when: When choosing a learning direction or first project
Suggested time: 20 minutes

Use synthetic or authorized information. Keep sensitive work in approved tools. A named person owns each decision. These tools support discussion and planning; they are not validated assessments.

## 1. Find a problem you understand

Start with your experience and access to real work. A leadership role is a contribution you can demonstrate, not a personality label.

### Experience

What work do you understand well enough to notice failures and judge a useful result?

Your response:

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### Evidence of contribution

What have you already improved, built, explained, or coordinated?

Your response:

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### Direction

Which contribution fits: Navigator, Builder, Practitioner, or Amplifier?

Your response:

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### Small project

What can you complete with approved tools and synthetic information?

Your response:

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## 2. Turn the direction into a learning experiment

Use a short project to test your interest and build evidence. Keep your next move reversible.

### Skill to practice

What specific capability does the project require?

Your response:

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### Support and access

Who can review the work, and what can you use?

Your response:

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### Evidence to show

What will demonstrate learning rather than attendance?

Your response:

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### Next review

When will you decide whether to continue or change direction?

Your response:

________________________________________________________________

## Use this self-contained prompt

Paste the prompt below into your preferred assistant. Answer with generalized or synthetic information; do not paste confidential work material.

### Prompt

Copy the complete text below.

Your response:

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## Completed companion example

All organizations, workflows, numbers, and results in these examples are fictional and provided for learning. Targets are proposed decision criteria, not validated standards or promised outcomes.

**Experience**
An HR operations specialist understands recurring policy questions and service handoffs.

**Evidence of contribution**
Standardized escalation guidance and trained analysts on policy lookup.

**Direction**
Practitioner and Amplifier initially; grow Builder capability through a bounded prototype.

**Small project**
Create a synthetic policy-question set and evaluate cited draft answers.

**Skill to practice**
Define expected answers, inspect source support, and log exceptions.

**Support and access**
Policy specialist reviews synthetic cases; approved AI tool only.

**Evidence to show**
Ten annotated cases, a failure example, and a revised workflow brief.

**Next review**
After two weeks, review the artifacts with a trusted colleague.

**Prompt**
Act as a practical AI work-positioning partner. Ask one question at a time. Help me identify: (1) work I understand deeply; (2) evidence of my current contribution; (3) a useful direction as Navigator, Builder, Practitioner, or Amplifier; (4) one small project using approved tools and synthetic or authorized information; (5) the skill to practice, review partner, and evidence to produce in two weeks. Treat these roles as complementary contributions, not fixed personality types. Do not invent my experience or promise a career outcome. End with a short project brief and a next review decision.

## Working record

Owner:
Review date:
Decision:
Evidence still needed:

Original guide: https://builtinto.work/resources/ai-positioning-session