What would you keep?

Read one sentence. Mark it Keep, Clarify or Ask.
See what belongs in the next version.

Fictional exercise The note and feedback are authored examples.

Source sheet / three lines to review

A repair shop’s rough note

01 · The work

We repair lamps and small furniture.

Alongside the note

The owner’s current list still includes lamps and small furniture.

Keep what is supported. This sentence agrees with the current source. An edit does not need to change every word.

[1]Preserving the original

02 · Opening hours

Open Tuesday–Saturday, 10 am–6 pm.

A newer owner update

Closing time is now 5 pm. The days and 10 am opening time have not changed.

Clarify what changed. Replace 6 pm with 5 pm. Preserve the unchanged hours and keep the older wording in the record.

[2]Sorting the versions

03 · A promise

Same-day repairs available.

An answer is missing

No turnaround time has been confirmed by the owner.

Ask before promising. What turnaround time can the owner actually promise? Leave this claim out of the revised wording until there is an answer.

[3]Leaving a value open

Read / copy the text record

Carry a question into your own notes.

This is a personal worksheet. Nothing is submitted; reloading clears it.

Bring a question from the exercise, write your own, or leave it blank.

Describe the situation and the material you already have.

What should someone be able to understand or do?

Keep the owner’s intent, confirmed facts and limits in view.

Your brief, in plain text

Your words, including spacing and line breaks, stay as you enter them.

The decisions behind real work.

  1. [1]Keep the source

    Family Library

    Three photographed pages of personal notes became a searchable, illustrated catalogue of 100 ideas, an ingredient reference, a planning tool, an editable website and a combined 46-page printable library. The originals were preserved; new suggestions stayed distinguishable. Browsing, print structure, illustrations and files all needed review.

    Serving pictures are generated illustrations; original notes and new suggestions remain distinct.

  2. [2]Check the version

    OSHA 4 US

    An incomplete training handoff contained two presentations, mixed versions and a supposed PDF that was actually a ZIP. Intake found 48 slides; the expected 56-slide final was missing. Identifying the real files, separating current and historical material, and checking primary sources led to an English/Polish website and course preview, reviewable lessons, instructor and learner companions, and downloads. The ten original course identities remain.

    Source and course-material design, prepared for instructor review.

  3. [3]Keep a question open

    Kestane Menu Rescue

    A restaurant trifold carried handwritten prices and taped slips. A plausible but inaccurate reconstruction was rejected in favor of the real scan. The work preserved the menu’s identity, updated confirmed values and exposed unresolved ones, producing a print-ready two-sided menu, browser-editable files and a confirmation list.

    Some replacement prices remained unconfirmed. The later version retains the original prices for those items.

I’m Jeremy.

I help people learn AI through their own work, refresh information and develop useful ideas. I studied Digital Arts and Design at Full Sail. My family-business upbringing connects me to Greenpoint, Brooklyn and the Polish community. Practical making, small-business operations, websites and workflow tools shape my approach. I’m drawn to teaching, too: we can work through the next update together.

A short field guide.

These are proposed ways to work together. Start with the material you have and the change you want to make.

  1. Learn

    Start withA real task, your source material and the AI tools you have.

    Work towardCompare results to sources, leave with a repeatable method and checklist, then practice the next update.

  2. Refresh

    Start withOne aging page, menu, FAQ, handout or reference, plus what you know has changed.

    Work towardA revised version, editable source and a visible list of confirmed facts, changes and questions for owner review.

  3. Build

    Start withA scoped idea or collection of material, and one useful thing it should let someone do.

    Work towardA usable artifact, editable files, a plain guide and a practice update. Later support needs its own agreed scope.

Sometimes a smaller fix, or an existing tool, is the right answer.