← Operator Hour
Season 1 · Episode 1 · Public recap

Start at zero. Finish with a use case.

The opening episode skipped the usual AI inspiration. Instead, a five-minute interview focused on the work already waiting for you.

Recap

Most people do not need another list of "ten AI use cases for your role." It may catch your attention, but Monday morning arrives and the same work is still there. We started with your actual week.

The agent reviewed the context it could see, ranked the options, and asked three questions to get more specific. The volunteer left with one manageable move and a complete first prompt. No workshop theatre. Something they could run the next day.

The operator questionWhat can I stop doing by hand? Then the harder question: what can I attempt now that used to be too much work?

You can use the same interview in Copilot CLI or another assistant that has access to your files and connected tools. More context gives it more to work with. When that context is missing, answer three honest questions and keep going.

Where Otto fits: Otto was the private sidekick for the Microsoft cohort. It answered questions from approved season material and pointed people back to the right exercise. Otto, its conversations, and its Microsoft deployment remain internal.

Operator move: run the Use Case Finder on yourself. Pick the smallest result you would be happy to show someone by Friday.

Take it home

Find your Friday win

Run the prompt and choose one task with visible value that can start small. Give it thirty minutes before you judge the idea.

Do the exercise

Leave with one prompt you can run today

You need an AI assistant and five honest minutes. Connected tools help, but they are optional.

5 to 10 minutesNo setup required
  1. Open the Use Case Finder and copy the prompt.
  2. Let the assistant gather what it can. Correct anything it gets wrong.
  3. Answer the three sharpening questions without trying to sound impressive.
  4. Copy the START HERE THIS WEEK prompt into a new conversation and run the first version.
You are done when: you have one concrete output you can review, share, or improve today.
Keep it safe: only expose work data to tools approved for that data. If you are unsure, use the three-question fallback instead of connected sources.
Resources
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Public slide deck

The seven-slide story, with public-safe speaker notes and the exercise built in.

open slides 🎬

Full recording

Microsoft employees can watch the live Use Case Finder demo after corporate sign-in.

Microsoft employees 🎯

Use Case Finder

The cleaned public prompt from the session, ready to copy.

about 5 minutes 🎓

AI Operator course

Use the self-paced course to turn the chosen task into a working first version.

Still not a developer. Just stopped accepting "too much work to bother" as the end of the conversation.