Unit Title: Combining AI Systems for Real Work, Productivity, and Creativity
Level: Advanced
Duration: 120–150 minutes (ideal for weekend or deep-dive learning)
🎯 Learning Objectives
By the end of this week, you should be able to:
- Understand what it means to integrate AI tools in workflows.
- Compare and combine outputs from different AI systems.
- Build multi-step workflows using multiple AI tools.
- Use automation logic (manual or tool-assisted) to optimise personal or professional tasks.
🧭 Lesson Flow
| Segment | Duration | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Why Integrate AI Tools? | 15 min | Strategy Overview |
| 2. Comparing AI Tools | 25 min | Cross-System Testing |
| 3. Multi-AI Workflows | 30 min | Building + Sequencing |
| 4. Tool Stacking and Use Cases | 20 min | Real-Life Integrations |
| 5. Exercises + Knowledge Check | 40–60 min | Practice and Debugging |
🧑🏫 1. Why Integrate AI Tools?
📖 Teaching Script:
Expert users do not rely on one AI. They use the right tool for each part of the job — like using a chef’s knife, blender, and oven for different steps of a meal.
Integration is not about code — it’s about logic, sequencing, and outcome quality.
🧠 Common Reasons to Integrate:
- One AI is better at language, another better at data or vision
- Avoid memory limits by splitting tasks across tools
- Use one tool to draft, another to polish, another to convert format
- Reduce repetition and human re-editing time
🧪 2. Comparing AI Tools
📘 Tool Functions in Brief:
| Tool | Strengths | Weaknesses |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT (GPT-4) | General reasoning, writing, structure | Less real-time info |
| Claude | Long memory, safe tone, summarisation | May avoid edgy or creative phrasing |
| Gemini | Google data access, concise | Limited formatting variety |
| Perplexity | Sourced citation output | Surface-level insight |
| Notion AI | Structured task handling, notes | Not flexible for abstract writing |
🧪 Comparison Task:
Write a prompt like:
“Summarise 3 main impacts of AI on university teaching. Include 1 benefit, 1 risk, and 1 example.”
Paste into 2–3 tools. Compare:
- Output clarity
- Accuracy and tone
- Structure or bias
- Which was most useful for your goal?
🔧 3. Multi-AI Workflows: Sequence Design
🧠 Think in Stages:
📥 Input → 🧠 Processing → ✍️ Format → 🎨 Polish → 📤 Output
🧪 Three Workflow Examples:
- Research + Draft + Format
- Claude: Summarise 3 sources
- ChatGPT: Merge into outline + draft
- Notion AI: Convert to study notes with checklists
- Visual Branding
- ChatGPT: Generate slogan and product mission
- Midjourney/DALL-E: Create matching image
- Canva AI: Layout for social media
- Newsletter Workflow
- Perplexity: Provide updated topic news
- ChatGPT: Create a narrative
- Grammarly AI: Refine tone and grammar
- Beehiiv (or Notion): Export formatted design
🔁 Tip:
Use a spreadsheet or canvas planner to diagram your tool flow. Assign roles like:
Research → Draft → Enhance → Translate → Layout → Publish
🧠 4. Tool Stacking and Integration Use Cases
| Case | Stack Used | Goal |
|---|---|---|
| Academic writing | Claude + ChatGPT + Grammarly | Research to draft to final polishing |
| Online course design | ChatGPT + Notion AI + Canva | Curriculum → Slide ideas → Visual delivery |
| Job search | ChatGPT + Resume.io + LinkedIn AI | CV build → Cover letter → Personal profile review |
🧪 Tool Integration Use Templates:
- Blog Post Stack Prompt 1: “Generate a blog outline on [topic].”
Prompt 2: “Write an intro and 3 sections.”
Prompt 3: “Convert to markdown format.”
Prompt 4: “Summarise as social post with hashtag suggestions.” - Multi-AI Plan for Event Management
- Gemini: Research venue trends
- ChatGPT: Draft invitations
- Canva: Design visuals
- Trello AI: Build taskboard
🧪 5. Exercises + Knowledge Check
✅ Exercise 1: 3-Tool Challenge
Create a small workflow using:
- One tool for data
- One tool for writing
- One tool for layout or visuals
Test the sequence and write:
- Which tool was strongest/weakest?
- What was the result?
- What would you automate?
✅ Exercise 2: Build a Personal Use Stack
Pick a weekly or monthly task (e.g., reports, planning, publishing).
Design a multi-AI workflow.
- List the tools
- Define the steps
- Write 1–2 prompts for each step
✅ Exercise 3: Tool Swap Comparison
Run the same task in two tools:
E.g., “Write a 3-point persuasive argument on AI in healthcare.”
Compare:
- Structure
- Bias
- Style
- Output control
Write a 100-word reflection on which tool suits what type of user.
🧠 Knowledge Check (10 Questions)
- Why might you use more than one AI tool in a workflow?
- Give 2 examples of tools and their strengths.
- What is a “stack” in AI use?
- Name a tool useful for layout or visual design.
- Why might Claude be better than ChatGPT in some tasks?
- What tool is best if you need web-sourced answers?
- Describe one use case for Notion AI.
- What is a prompt flow diagram useful for?
- What does it mean to structure a “multi-AI chain”?
- Design a 3-step tool stack for any creative task.
📝 Wrap-Up Assignment (Optional)
Title: “My First AI Workflow Stack”
Write:
- Task chosen (e.g., writing a CV, launching a blog, preparing a lesson)
- 3+ tools used in sequence
- Prompts for each
- Screenshots or copy of outputs (if possible)
- Lessons learned from comparing tools
📦 End-of-Week Deliverables
- ✅ 1 tool integration plan written
- ✅ 3-step stack tested
- ✅ Reflection on tool comparisons
- ✅ Knowledge check completed
- ✅ Optional assignment: personal AI stack