THE BRAIN

    The People
    Ops AI
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    The most thorough working file on running People functions with AI. Twenty-seven guides. One link, yours to keep.

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    Read by heads of People at Series B SaaS, defence tech, and founder-led services firms.

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    Claude Cowork for People Teams. The desktop AI that does the work while you live your life. Twelve pages, straight from inside the Brain.

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    What's inside

    9 examples. 27 deep practical guides.

    Each one starts with a real problem and ends with what we'd keep.

    01

    Foundations

    Setting up your AI workspace

    Projects architecture, the three-tier document strategy, and custom instructions that actually shape output. The step most people skip, and the reason their AI feels generic.

    02

    Foundations

    From prompts to skills files

    Move past throwaway prompts to reusable skills. Chain them without context drift, and build conductor skills that orchestrate whole workflows across Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini.

    03

    Skills

    Getting better output

    Critical thinking applied to AI output. Devil's advocate prompting, perspective shifting, and the critique-and-refinement loop that turns mediocre drafts into useful work.

    04

    Skills

    The People Ops domain map

    Seven domains, sixty-plus AI capabilities mapped across TA, EX, performance, comp, L&D, ER and analytics. Find exactly where AI helps in your patch.

    05

    Skills

    Workflow assessment framework

    The Workflow Canvas, the AI Opportunity Score formula, and a ninety-day integration roadmap. Audit systematically; find the highest-value places to start.

    06

    Systems

    Claude Cowork for People teams

    The desktop agent that runs multi-step work across files and tools. Four People Ops playbooks: weekly digest, offboarding orchestrator, survey synthesis, vendor review pack.

    07

    Systems

    Building your first automation

    End-to-end build: a New Hire Welcome automation with n8n + Claude. The five-component anatomy, testing, and deployment, all in one sitting.

    08

    Human Layer

    Designing the AI-native People team

    AI-Enabled → AI-Augmented → AI-Native. Maturity definitions, role evolution, the AI Champion model, team structures by company size, and the governance underneath.

    09

    Human Layer

    Leading the AI transformation

    Understanding fear, yours and theirs. The five-phase transformation sequence, resistance patterns, building champions, and the ninety-day organisational plan.

    Matthew Bradburn, founder of Deepgrain

    Who wrote this

    Matthew Bradburn.

    Two decades inside companies, building People functions, fixing them. The kind of exposure that turns instinct into pattern.

    The Brain is the working file: what we've actually tried, what works, and the systems we'd keep if we were starting from scratch tomorrow.

    20+ yrs People OpsAI-native operatorsFounder-tested

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