What Should I Use AI For? Thirty Answers from Real Workdays

The most common question after a course day is never how the technology works. It is this: what should I use it for?

This is a reasonable question. You know others get something out of AI, but the examples you hear are about writing blog posts, and you don’t write blog posts. You process cases, send quotes, call customers, hold meetings, read reports you didn’t have time to read.

Here is a list of things people actually do. None of them require you to know anything about AI. All can be done in EuroWork, and most take less than a minute to try.

The Camera Is the Underrated Button

This is the example that usually makes people pick up their phones during the course.

You find a gadget in a box in the storage room. You can’t search for it because you don’t know what it’s called. Take a photo, press Attach a document, and ask what it is and if it can be thrown away. The same works for the spare part no one knows the number of, for a component in a switchgear, and for that cable in the server room.

Same approach, more variations:

1. The whiteboard after the meeting. Take a photo and ask for a clear project plan instead of copying fifteen arrows and a messy box.
2. An old document with ornate handwriting. A marriage certificate, a protocol from the fifties, a note in an old binder. Ask for an interpretation, and for uncertain words to be marked so you know where to look closely yourself.
3. The sign, label, or manual in a language you don’t read. Take a photo and ask what it says.
4. A report page you photographed with your phone. Ask for a summary half the length, so you know in ten seconds if it’s worth reading the whole thing.

It sounds like a toy. Then you use it at work every week.

Reading What No One Has Time to Read

Here lies the biggest untapped gain in most operations. Not writing faster, but avoiding reading everything.

5. The annual report or interim report you were sent. Attach it and ask: what in this concerns me, as a teacher? As a procurement officer? As a property manager? The same document gives completely different answers depending on who is asking.
6. Ask it to argue against itself. First: give me the four strongest reasons to proceed with this. Then: give me the four strongest reasons not to. You get a better picture in two minutes than you do from an hour of pondering.
7. Two versions of the same contract. Attach both and ask what differs. Someone did this for real and discovered that a small word had been removed from the purchase agreement, the one that meant the buyer no longer took responsibility for the staff at handover. That word had gone unnoticed during the read-through.
8. Procurement request against your own references. Attach the request and a summary of what you have won and delivered before, and ask outright if this is worth spending three days on.
9. The law or regulation. Ask for an explanation in language aimed at someone who is not a lawyer. Preferably ask for a version a sixteen-year-old would understand; it often turns out best for adults too.
10. Applications against the job ad. Attach the job ad as a checklist and the applications one by one, anonymised, and ask for a yes or no with reasoning. The decision is still yours, but the basis is consistent.

Writing, and Keeping Your Own Voice

11. Let it review instead of writing. Write the answer yourself and ask for an assessment of the tone. You often hear that what you wrote is good, and one concrete thing that would make it better.
12. Shorten to seventy percent. Not because the text is bad, but because it will be read. Make it a habit for everything you send to more than five people.
13. The reply to the angry email. Paste what you received and ask for a reply that calms things down instead of escalating. Read through, edit, send.
14. Change tone completely. The same text as formal, warm, self-deprecating. Seeing your own text in three tones is the fastest way to understand which one fits.
15. The response to the debate article in the local paper. Ask for the strongest counterarguments. You don’t have to use them directly, but you know where you stand.
16. The translation that needs to hold up. Under Documents, there is document translation for text documents and presentations. Formatting is preserved, tables and layout remain, and you get back a ready file to download. If the text will live long in print or online, have someone with the language as their mother tongue glance through it anyway.

One thing to remember: as soon as you publish something, it is your words. This applies regardless of who or what wrote the first draft.

Assistants: When the Same Question Comes Every Day

This is the feature that changes the most for those who answer similar questions over and over. Under Assistants, you build your own expert by giving it an instruction and some sources to rely on.

17. The quote responder. A colleague who answers a couple of hundred emails a day has entered the entire range, prices, and discount rules. He pastes the incoming email, skims the answer in ten seconds, and sends. What took a quarter of an hour now takes a few seconds.
18. The reviewer against your graphic profile. Upload the sixty-page design manual as a source. Then attach an ad, a brochure, or a presentation and ask for a review. You find out that the logo’s proportions are off and the colour is wrong, things no one bothers to look up every time.
19. The reviewer against regulations. Same principle with the Consumer Agency’s guidelines, your own procurement rules, or your environmental policy as a source. It even reads the image in an ad and tells you what in it risks breaking the rules.
20. The introduction helper. Point the assistant to what is already in your HR documents, and it answers new employees without anyone writing a single new text.
21. The house tone. Add a couple of texts you are happy with as a source and ask it to write in the same spirit. Now it sounds like you, not like a brochure.

Meetings That Don’t Eat Up the Day

Under Documents, you upload the audio from a meeting and get back a transcript. The work continues in the background, so you can close the tab and go to the next meeting.

22. No one needs to be the secretary. The person who would otherwise take notes can join the conversation instead, which is usually the one who has the most to contribute.
23. Decisions that don’t fall through the cracks. Save the transcript as a document, so it is searchable for everyone who needs it, instead of sitting in someone’s notebook.
24. The summary for those who weren’t there. A post in Channels instead of another meeting.

Tasks That Do Themselves

25. The morning report. Under Scheduled, you set a recurring task that runs before you arrive. The result waits as an AI conversation when you log in. Monitoring a topic, a weekly summary on Fridays, a compilation on the first of the month.
26. Tasks with step-by-step control. Under Missions, describe what you want done. You get a plan, and then Approve or Skip for each step before anything happens. It can search the web, search your own material, and create a document from the result. If you have connected your email under Connections, it can also read your calendar and inbox, but only read: nothing is sent in your name and nothing is booked behind your back.
27. Deep research. Choose Deep research when the question is too big for a direct answer: a mapping of competitors in your county, a basis for what research actually says about what you are considering implementing. It keeps working while you do something else, and you get the sources with it.

Looking at Numbers with New Eyes

If you attach a spreadsheet or a csv, EuroWork gives you a summary of the entire file: each column with its value range, most common values, and outliers, plus the first rows in plain text. This means you can ask about the shape of the material directly, while exact amounts are still something you check against the source.

28. Upload the file and ask for an analysis, without guiding it. Just say what role you have, for example that your job is to market courses or to keep heating costs down in a property portfolio. You get back a review you didn’t know you wanted, and almost always two or three questions worth digging into further.
29. Ask it to challenge your gut feeling. "I think the big customers order the most. Do you see anything in this file that contradicts that?" Having your own thesis tested is worth more than a summary.
30. Ask outright, in your own words. You don’t need to know technical terms and you don’t need to spell correctly. Write "what’s strange here" if that’s what you mean; it’s enough.

This Is Not Magic, It’s Craftsmanship

One thing that surprises many: those who get the most out of AI are not the most technical. They are the most skilled in their profession. The lawyer asks the best contract questions, the economist immediately sees if a number is unreasonable, the case officer recognises an answer that sounds right but is wrong. Your professional knowledge becomes more valuable, not less, because it is what makes you know what to ask for and when the answer isn’t good enough.

Two habits make a bigger difference than all the tricks combined:

Don’t wait for the answer. Give the task, go and do something else, come back. Deep research, missions, and meeting transcription are built for this.

Ask for the plan first. Add "describe first how you plan to do this" to your question. It’s the same as asking a new colleague to show the approach before they start. Quality improves immediately.

And What Makes You Dare

All of the above would be uncomfortable if you didn’t know where the data ends up. That’s why it states under every answer in EuroWork which model responded, in which country it was processed, and what the answer cost. The default is European models. The content is never used to train any model. If you choose Sensitive information, everything stays in the EU regardless of what you asked for, and content that may not be processed is stopped before it is sent.

This means you can use the list above on real cases, real contracts, and real customers. Not on made-up examples.

Start with Three

Pick three things from here and do them this week. For example: take a photo of something you’re wondering about, attach the longest document you’ve received this month and ask what concerns you, and set up a morning report under Scheduled.

In two weeks, you won’t remember how you did things before.