Frameworks · AI Brain Coach

Talking to AI
— the way leaders should.

Most people are still guessing at how to use AI. These are the playbooks I've refined with executives, founders, and operators — one for prompting, one for delegating to agents. Same paper. Same discipline. Free to read.

Two field guides HTML + PDF By Ray Tan

§ 01 · The guides

Two disciplines.
One direction of travel.

PROMPT helps you speak to AI when you need better answers. CTRL helps you direct agents when AI starts doing the work for you. Use them together — one for asking, one for assigning.

Vol. 02 · 13 pages · ~12 min For prompting

P· R· O· M· P· T

The PROMPT Framework.

Six pillars for getting clear, strategic, decision-ready answers from a chat model — every time. The difference between a passive tool and a force multiplier.

PPersona RRequest OOrientation MMode PPrototype TThresholds

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Vol. 01 · 15 pages · ~15 min For agents

C· T· R· L

The CTRL Framework.

Four controls for handing real work to an AI agent without losing the wheel. A plain-language handoff for the era when AI doesn't just answer — it acts.

CContext TTask RRules LLoop

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A prompt asks for a response. A CTRL handoff assigns work. Most people are still doing one when the moment calls for the other.

— from CTRL · 04

§ 02 · About the author

Written by Ray Tan.

Both frameworks come from real client work — refined in the room with executives who were too busy to wing it and too senior to read another article that didn't help.

Author · Founder

Ray Tan

Founder, AI Brain Coach · AI strategy for leaders

Ray is an AI coach and operator who works with executives, founders, and consulting teams on the real, day-to-day question: how do I actually use this thing? The PROMPT Framework was built for the leaders who were getting confidently-wrong answers from chat models. CTRL came next — the moment those same leaders started handing AI work instead of questions.

AI Brain Coach is the platform he built on top of that work: a coach-supervised AI that extends real coaching relationships between sessions.

AI Brain Coach Executive AI Strategy Speaker · Operator

Start with the work

Pick the one that fits the conversation you're about to have.

If you need a sharper answer from AI, read PROMPT. If you're about to hand AI a job and walk away, read CTRL.

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Talking to AI— the way leaders should.

Two disciplines.One direction of travel.