Cold and Client Email That Doesn't Sound Like a Template
A system prompt for cold and client email — what to open with, what to withhold, and the stock phrases to cut before you hit send.
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Writing on AI for local businesses
Practical takes on AI for local businesses and people who want to understand what's actually happening.
Onboarding · AI for Business 101
Groundwork before anything else — get organized, get access, ask well.
Field Notes
What AI actually does, plainly, without the hype.
AI & Everyday Life
What AI is doing to relationships, habits, and ordinary days outside of work.
Workshops
Sessions OCI is running or has run, and what they cover.
Policy
The rules being written for AI
Oak City Intelligence works out of Raleigh, a few blocks from the General Assembly. This is where we track the AI rules taking shape in Washington and under that dome, plainly, for whoever has to run a business inside whatever passes.
Prompts
Prompts from our own work
System prompts from how we actually write, rewritten so you can paste one in and use it today.
Get a Cold, Honest Edit of Your Own Draft
A system prompt for a fresh-context reviewer — the four defects that account for most professional edits, in the order they actually occur.
Open the promptWrite Cleaner Prose With Any Model
A short system-prompt block that fixes the two biggest tells of AI writing and asks for prose that varies the way real writing does.
Open the promptWrite Findings a Client Will Trust
A system prompt for client-facing findings — state facts, cut the hedging about your own care, and never explain the document to itself.
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