{"id":31269,"date":"2026-05-07T17:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/31269\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:35:13","slug":"how-to-elevate-ai-workflows-beyond-basic-prompts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/31269\/","title":{"rendered":"How to elevate AI workflows beyond basic prompts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s more to real-world AI work than asking questions.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Michael Perry\u2019s Builders Conference workshop, \u201cReal World Applied AI Workflows for Right Now,\u201d highlighted the importance of context when working with generative AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT. He set up attendees to go beyond one-off chatbot queries to create repeatable systems that can carry out multi-step work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA prompt does one thing. A workflow does the whole job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jason Michael Perry, PerryLabs<\/p>\n<p>Perry, founder of Baltimore-based AI business service company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perrylabs.io\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PerryLabs<\/a>, introduced the RTCCO prompt framework (Role, Task, Context, Constraints and Output) as a way to make AI prompts more reliable, accurate and auditable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A vague prompt, Perry said, leaves too much for the model to guess. A stronger one tells the AI who to act as, what to do, what background information to use and what form the answer should take.<\/p>\n<p>He demonstrated it with a career-prep prompt: asking AI to act as a hiring manager at a midsize tech company interviewing candidates for a junior cybersecurity analyst role, then giving it the candidate\u2019s background as context.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bigger shift, Perry said, comes when teams move beyond typed questions and start feeding AI unstructured information such as emails, PDFs, resumes, images and business data to answer more complex questions or generate more useful outputs.<\/p>\n<p>From there, Perry moved into AI workflows: systems that combine triggers, context, actions and outputs to complete multi-step tasks automatically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA prompt does one thing,\u201d Perry said. \u201cA workflow does the whole job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also previewed agentic AI tools such as <a href=\"https:\/\/openclaw.ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenClaw<\/a>, which can use skills, plugins and memory to complete tasks with less step-by-step direction. This kind of work is often called automation, he said, but that framing isn\u2019t entirely accurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAutomation is not the part that\u2019s difficult,\u201d Perry said. \u201cThe part that\u2019s difficult is the things that we can\u2019t automate, and the parts that we can\u2019t automate are what AI is very good at.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s more to real-world AI work than asking questions. Jason Michael Perry\u2019s Builders Conference workshop, \u201cReal World Applied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,17076,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-31269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-builders-conference","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}