A practical handbook
AI AT WORK
From Your First Prompt to Your Own AI Assistants · Laurentiu Robert Niculescu
“Use AI well. Check it properly.
Keep other people’s details safe.”
A plain-English handbook for UK workplaces, from your first prompt to assistants and automations that do real work.
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- 246 tested prompts
Three lines from the book
Ask well
“The tool isn’t short of ability. It’s short of information, and it fills every gap with the most average thing it can think of.”
Chapter 4
How to brief a tool like a new colleague, and let it ask you questions first.
Keep it safe
“Treat everything you paste as if it has left your control, because it has.”
Chapter 8
Three questions to ask before you paste anything, and what never goes in at all.
Check it
“The more specific and checkable a claim is, the more you should check it.”
Chapter 1
Names, numbers, dates, prices and quotes are where the mistakes live.
The book
What’s inside
Most people’s first go with an AI tool ends the same way. The answer sounds clever, half of it is padding, and one fact in it is quietly wrong.
AI at Work starts there, with a free account and an email that needs fixing. It finishes with assistants, agents and automations doing real work in real businesses. On the way you learn to ask well, to check what comes back, and to keep personal and confidential information where it belongs.
It’s written for UK workplaces, in plain English, with UK law and prices as of October 2026. Four people go through the book with you: the office manager at a plumbing firm in Leicester, a letting agent in Swindon, a dental receptionist and a one-man bookkeeper. Their wins are in it. So are their mistakes.
There are 246 numbered prompts, each with the words to type and what to check afterwards. Every one was tested before it went in, and where a test found a problem, the book says so.
From your first prompt to assistants and automations that do real work: a plain-English handbook for UK workplaces.
The catalogue entry
Book details
| Title | AI at Work |
|---|---|
| Tagline | Use AI well. Check it properly. Keep other people’s details safe. |
| Genre | Artificial intelligence, business, computing |
| Author | Laurentiu Niculescu Credited on the cover as Laurentiu Robert Niculescu |
| Edition formats | Paperback, Kindle eBook, Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 (Paperback) | 979-8165938894 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardcover) | 979-8165939532 |
| ASIN (Paperback) | B0HPJNFBYD |
| ASIN (Kindle edition) | B0HPHQJVQ3 |
| ASIN (Hardcover) | B0HPK1GPP2 |
| Publisher | Independently published |
| Publication date | 2026-10-28 (Paperback) |
| Publication date | 2026-10-28 (Kindle eBook) |
| Publication date | 2026-10-28 (Hardcover) |
| Page count | 351 pages (print editions) |
| Page count | 444 pages (Kindle print length, as shown by Amazon) |
| Trim size | 6 × 9 in (15.2 × 22.9 cm) |
| Length | About 102,000 words |
| Language | English (UK) |
| Kindle+ | Included |
| Distribution | Amazon global print and Kindle Store |
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