The Stepthrough blog: page 14

Updated October 20, 2026

Practical, plain-English guides to using AI at work: better prompts, email replies you can trust, and automations that do the busywork. Every post points to a free lesson where you build it yourself, one click at a time.

Updated Claude calculator with a number of visits box and a 10 percent discount applied to 26 visits

Claude Artifacts for Office Managers: 6 Tools to Build

Six small tools office managers can build with Claude artifacts, from a quote calculator to an onboarding checklist, with a prompt and a check for each.

Oct 20, 2026 6 min read

$Claude lawn price calculator artifact showing a $104 estimate for aeration on an 8,000 square foot lawn$ Claude Artifacts Mistakes to Avoid (7 Fixes)

Seven common Claude artifacts mistakes, from made-up prices to sharing before you test, with the fix for each one from a free hands-on lesson.

Oct 20, 2026 5 min read

Claude artifact panel showing a lawn price calculator with lawn size and service buttons

Claude Artifacts Prompts: 14 to Build Office Tools

14 copy-paste Claude prompts for artifacts: calculators, checklists, trackers and one-page tools, plus follow-ups to test, change and share them.

Oct 20, 2026 7 min read

ChatGPT's finished plumbing apprentice job posting with duties, requirements, pay and how to apply

ChatGPT for Managers: Briefs, Reviews and Job Posts

How managers can use ChatGPT's interview prompt for job posts, project briefs, review notes and team updates: it asks you questions first, then writes.

Oct 20, 2026 7 min read

ChatGPT summing up what it learned about the plumbing apprentice job and waiting for an OK

ChatGPT Interview Prompt Mistakes (and the Fix for Each)

Seven mistakes that make ChatGPT's interview prompt fall flat, from a wall of questions to skipping the summary, with a simple fix for each one.

Oct 20, 2026 6 min read

ChatGPT message box with an interview prompt asking up to five questions, one at a time, before writing

ChatGPT Interview Prompts: 14 That Make It Ask First

14 copy-ready ChatGPT interview prompts that make it ask you questions one at a time before it writes, for postings, FAQs, proposals, reviews and more.

Oct 20, 2026 7 min read

Month-End Bank Reconciliation with ChatGPT: 20 Minutes, Not 3 Hours: intro video still

ChatGPT Bank Reconciliation Mistakes to Avoid

Eight mistakes bookkeepers make reconciling a bank statement with ChatGPT, from "reconcile this" with no balances to trusting its math, and fixes.

Oct 20, 2026 6 min read

ChatGPT Bank Reconciliation Prompts: 14 to Copy

14 copy-ready ChatGPT prompts for month-end bank reconciliation: match a bank CSV to the books, list exceptions, build the summary and check the math.

Oct 20, 2026 7 min read

An FAQ page ChatGPT wrote only from the firm's facts, with the IRS-letter answer marked [ask Dana] because that fact was missing

ChatGPT Search: 8 Mistakes That Keep Your Firm Unnamed

Eight mistakes small firms make trying to get recommended in ChatGPT search, from asking the wrong question to guessed FAQ answers, and the fixes.

Oct 20, 2026 7 min read

ChatGPT naming three accounting firms in Cedar Hollow with citation tags, and the Sources panel listing the firm websites, a Chamber directory and a local best-of list it read

ChatGPT Prompts to Check Your AI Search Visibility

14 copy-ready ChatGPT prompts to see how AI search describes your business, find the gaps, and turn your own facts into answers it can use.

Oct 20, 2026 7 min read

Your First Make.com Scenario: Google Forms to Google Sheets: intro video still

Make Router and Filter Examples: Send Data Two Ways

How a Make router and filters split one scenario into routes: urgent vs routine, a fallback route, route order and five filter setups you can copy.

Oct 20, 2026 4 min read

On a Schedule: A Daily Summary Email from a Google Sheet in Make.com: intro video still

Make Filter Operators Cheat Sheet: Text, Number, Date

Every Make filter operator group on one page: text, numeric, date, basic and array, with an office example for each and the mistakes that block bundles.

Oct 20, 2026 4 min read

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