The Prompt Edge: Craft AI Prompts That Transform Your Workflow

Raymond Carpenter

RAYMOND CARPENTER

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The Prompt Edge is a detailed, practical guide to ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Business Professionals for readers who want a clear path from understanding the topic to using it confidently in real situations. The book is designed as a structured learning companion rather than a shallow overview: it introduces the core ideas, explains why they matter, then develops them through realistic examples, guided practice, scenario-based explanations, and common mistakes to avoid. Readers are taken step by step from foundational concepts into everyday applications, with each chapter building on the previous one so the material feels progressive, usable, and easy to revisit. The main areas of focus include The Productivity Gap: Why Most Prompts Fail, The Prompt Engineering Framework, Writing Role-Based Prompts, Context Engineering: Setting the Scene, Format Control: Getting Output You Can Use, The Constraint Layer: Precision in Business Prompts, Case Study: Streamlining Weekly Reports, Prompt Chains: Multi-Step Workflows for Complex Tasks, Mistake Audit: The 7 Deadly Sins of Business Prompting, Decision Guide: Choosing the Right Prompt Type, giving the book a concrete learning arc that moves from orientation and confidence-building to applied communication, problem solving, and independent practice. The writing style is direct, supportive, and accessible, making the book suitable for self-study, classroom reinforcement, professional development, or personal improvement. It emphasizes practical understanding over abstract theory, so readers can immediately connect the lessons to conversations, decisions, habits, and challenges they are likely to face outside the page. By the end of the book, readers should have not only a stronger grasp of the subject, but also a collection of repeatable strategies, useful language patterns, mental models, and practical routines they can continue applying after they finish reading.

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About the author

Raymond Carpenter is a business technology strategist and the founder of PromptWorks Consulting, where he helps organizations integrate large language models into their daily operations. Over the past two decades, he has worked across industries including financial services, healthcare, and professional services, leading teams that transformed how information moves through their organizations.

Before founding PromptWorks, Raymond served as Vice President of Knowledge Systems at a global management consultancy, where he oversaw the firm's transition from traditional knowledge management to AI-augmented research and analysis. His team built tools that reduced analyst research time by over forty percent while improving the consistency and depth of client deliverables. Earlier in his career, he led product strategy at an enterprise search company and managed digital workplace programs at two Fortune 500 firms.

Raymond's approach to prompt engineering is grounded in a fundamental belief: the most important factor in getting value from AI is not the sophistication of the technology but the clarity of the human directing it. He teaches that prompt engineering is a communication discipline first and a technical skill second. This philosophy shapes all of his work, from one-on-one coaching sessions with executives to large-scale deployment programs for enterprise teams.

He is a frequent speaker at industry events including the AI Business Summit, the Enterprise Knowledge Conference, and the Prompt Engineering Forum. His writing on AI adoption and workforce productivity has appeared in *Harvard Business Review*, *MIT Sloan Management Review*, and *Forbes*. He serves on the advisory board of the Center for AI and the Future of Work and contributes to several open-source prompt engineering toolkits.

Raymond holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Williams College. He lives in Seattle with his family, where he is slowly losing an ongoing argument with an opinionated cat about the optimal configuration of his home office desk.

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