Module 20 · Tier 6 — Workflows Gate

Workflows Assessment

Capstone project and AIQ reassessment. Demonstrate your Applied skills and unlock AI~Leadership.

25 min Tier 6 — Workflows Gate

Why This Matters

AI~Workflows built your capacity for systematic, high-quality AI use. You've moved from individual prompts to documented workflows, from hoping for good outputs to evaluating them deliberately, from occasional use to an integrated personal AI operating system. The Workflows Assessment doesn't test what you've memorized — it tests what you can do.

Three domains, each evaluated through demonstrated performance:

Can you construct prompts that consistently produce excellent outputs? This includes chain-of-thought, few-shot examples, system-level framing, and constraint-setting — applied to a real, complex task.

Can you design, document, and execute a repeatable AI workflow? Can you identify where AI adds leverage versus where human judgment is required? Can you evaluate AI outputs systematically rather than intuitively?

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The Concept

What the Workflows Assessment Measures

Three domains, each evaluated through demonstrated performance:

Domain 1: Advanced Prompting (Tiers 4)

Domain 2: Workflow Design and Integration (Tier 5)

Domain 3: Critical Evaluation (Tier 6)

Can you catch errors that look like good answers? Can you apply the five verification triggers? Can you make principled decisions about AI disclosure and accountability? Can you evaluate AI impact with real metrics?

Assessment Format

Four parts, each building on the others:

Prompt engineering challenge: Solve a complex real-world task using at least three advanced techniques. Document your prompt design choices and why you made them.
Workflow documentation: Submit your most sophisticated documented workflow. It should include trigger, steps with actual prompts, handoffs, output, quality checkpoints, and pitfalls.
Critical evaluation exercise: Evaluate a provided AI output (or one you generate) using the systematic approach from Module 16. Identify at least one verification trigger and execute the verification.
Personal AI OS summary: Your stack, top 5 workflows, decision criteria, and prompt library status — submitted as a document you'll actually use going forward.

After Workflows

AI~Leadership takes everything built in Workflows and scales it: from personal workflows to organizational systems, from individual adoption to team and cultural change, from using AI effectively to deploying it strategically. Tiers 7-9.

What passing looks like

The Workflows Assessment has no numerical pass/fail. The standard:

Prompt challenge: The output you produce is genuinely useful for a real task, and your documentation shows deliberate technique choices — not a lucky accident.
Workflow documentation: Someone else could follow this workflow and produce a comparable output. The handoffs are clear. The quality checkpoints are specific.
Critical evaluation: You identified a specific, non-obvious error or risk and either verified or flagged it — not just "I would check this" but "I checked this and found X."
Personal AI OS: This document reflects your actual practice, not an idealized version. Honest gaps are more valuable than polished fiction.

Hands-On Exercise

Workflows Assessment

ClaudeChatGPTAny workflow toolAny documentation tool

Complete all four parts: **Part 1 — Prompt Engineering Challenge:** Choose a real, complex task from your work. Use at least three techniques from Module 2 (chain-of-thought, few-shot, system framing, constraints). Document: what techniques did you use, why did you choose each, and how did the output compare to a basic prompt on the same task? **Part 2 — Workflow Documentation:** Submit your most sophisticated documented workflow. Required sections: trigger, each step (with the actual prompt for AI steps), human review points, output specification, quality criteria, known pitfalls. **Part 3 — Critical Evaluation:** Take any AI-generated output (yours or provided). Apply the five verification triggers. Identify at least one claim that triggers verification. Execute the verification. Report what you found. **Part 4 — Personal AI OS:** Your documented stack, top 5 workflows, decision criteria framework, and prompt library entry count. Include one honest gap: what's the biggest weakness in your current AI OS? Take the time this deserves. The Workflows Assessment is a portfolio artifact — something worth keeping and sharing.

The honest gap in Part 4 is as important as the strengths. Practitioners who know their blind spots grow faster than ones who don't.

Active Recall

Before moving on — close this lesson and answer these from memory. Then come back and check. Testing yourself (not re-reading) is how this sticks.

1 What are the three assessment domains, and what specific capability does each one test?

2 Looking across all 20 Workflows modules: what is the single most important idea — the one that most changed how you work? Why that one?

Reflection

Workflows complete. You now design systems, not just prompts. You evaluate outputs, not just produce them. You've built infrastructure that compounds. What problem will you solve with it that you couldn't have approached before?

Key Takeaway

AI~Workflows built the practitioner layer: systematic prompting, documented workflows, integrated tools, critical evaluation, and a personal AI OS that compounds. AI~Leadership scales these capabilities to organizational impact.