Your AI Workspace for L&D: Starter pack
The knowledge, instructions and automations we feed our own AI workspace every day. Not a whitepaper about AI, but the folder we actually work from. Free for you to use.
What are you actually feeding your AI?
Most AI output in learning sounds fine and says very little. That's not the tool. That's the input. I'm Margot Sprenkels, Training Optimisation Lead at aNewSpring, and this starter pack is what I feed mine: the knowledge, the instructions and the automations.
You asked AI to write a module. It gave you something that read well and taught nothing
Sound familiar? An empty AI knows everything about the world and nothing about your learners, your standards or the change you are after. So it writes what everybody already knows, in a tone that offends no one.
The fix is not a cleverer prompt. It's what you put in before you prompt.
What's in the starter pack?
L&D knowledge worth feeding it: the theoretical foundation behind our Learning Scan and our Trend Intelligence Report, so your AI argues from learning research instead of from whatever it picked up online.
Project instructions: templates that tell your AI who your learners are, what your standards are and how you sound, before it writes a word.
Automations for the work you repeat: among them a daily briefing, meeting notes turned into actions and a weekly trend radar. Paste them in and they run.
An example skill: how to lock a way of working in place, so you stop retyping prompts and start reusing a method.
Most of it is plain text. I built it in Claude, but the knowledge, instructions and prompts work in whichever AI assistant you already use. The example skill is the exception, that one is Claude-specific.
Start with one piece. An afternoon is enough to feel the difference.
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Margot Sprenkels
Margot Sprenkels leads Training Optimisation at aNewSpring, where she works with customers on the difference between a programme that changes behaviour and one that only produces completion rates. This is the material she works with every week.