Prompt Kit
Prompt Kit: Frontier Operations
Five prompts for executives who need to move past "are we using AI?" and start building the organizational capability that actually converts agent leverage into output: sensing the human-agent boundary, designing seams across it, and structuring teams to operate at it continuously.
How to use this kit
Each prompt is independent — use whichever matches your immediate need. Prompt 1 (Audit) is the diagnostic; start there if you're unsure where you stand. Prompt 2 (Seam Redesign) is the most immediately tactical — bring a specific workflow. Prompt 3 (Org Structure) is for leaders redesigning teams around agent leverage. Prompt 4 (Hiring Protocol) builds the interview rubric for identifying frontier operators. Prompt 5 (Attention Allocation) is for managers whose teams are either over-reviewing or under-reviewing agent output. Run these in ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — any model with strong reasoning and extended conversation capability.
Prompt 1: Frontier Operations Maturity Audit
Job: Diagnose your organization's current capability across all five frontier operations — boundary sensing, seam design, failure model maintenance, capability forecasting, and leverage calibration.
When to use: When you suspect your org is either under-leveraging AI or over-trusting it, and you need a structured assessment to find the gaps.
What you'll get: A maturity rating for each of the five operations, specific evidence of where calibration has drifted, and a prioritized action plan.
What the AI will ask you: Your organization or team's domain, how you currently use AI agents, examples of workflows where agents are involved, and where things have gone wrong or surprised you.
Prompt 2: Workflow Seam Redesign
Job: Take a specific workflow and redesign where the human-agent seams sit — what the agent owns, what the human owns, what artifacts pass between them, and what verification checks go at each transition.
When to use: When a workflow feels wrong — either humans are doing too much, agents are doing too much unsupervised, or handoffs between them keep breaking.
What you'll get: A current-state seam map, a redesigned workflow with explicit seam placement, artifact definitions at each transition, verification protocols, and triggers for when to move the seams again.
What the AI will ask you: The specific workflow, who does what today, where agents are involved, what breaks, and the stakes if something goes wrong.
Prompt 3: Teams of One / Teams of Five Org Structure Planner
Job: Design the team composition for a function or business unit using the Teams of One and Teams of Five model — determining which domains get solo operators, which get pods, and how they connect.
When to use: When you're restructuring a function around agent leverage and need to decide headcount, composition, and the lattice that connects independent operators to pods.
What you'll get: A recommended team structure with composition rationale, risk assessment, fragility analysis, and a transition plan from current state.
What the AI will ask you: The function or unit you're structuring, current headcount and roles, domains covered, risk profile of different work streams, and current AI adoption maturity.
Prompt 4: Frontier Operator Hiring Protocol
Job: Build an interview and assessment protocol for identifying people with genuine frontier operations skill — not tool proficiency, not prompt engineering, but the integrated ability to sense boundaries, design seams, maintain failure models, forecast capability shifts, and calibrate attention.
When to use: When you're hiring for a role where frontier operations capability is the differentiator — whether that's an AI operations lead, a senior IC, or a team lead in an agent-heavy workflow.
What you'll get: Interview questions mapped to each of the five operations, a scoring rubric, red-flag indicators, and a practical assessment exercise.
What the AI will ask you: The role you're hiring for, the domain, the team structure they'd operate in, and the most critical frontier operations capabilities for this specific position.
Prompt 5: Attention Allocation Audit
Job: Assess how a team currently distributes human review attention across agent-assisted work, identify where attention is misallocated, and build a risk-calibrated triage protocol.
When to use: When your team is either reviewing everything at the same depth (bottleneck masquerading as diligence) or reviewing nothing (negligence masquerading as trust) — and you need a differentiated system.
What you'll get: A current-state attention map, a redesigned triage protocol with deep/light/automated tiers, recalibration triggers, and an estimate of attention recovered.
What the AI will ask you: The team's agent-assisted workflows, what currently gets reviewed and by whom, where failures have occurred, and the risk profile of different output types.