Howard Workshop Group - A Blog for AI Workflows
The best AI users in firms aren't the most technical. They're the clearest writers. The HWG blog explores what that means for your team with practical strategies, workflow breakdowns, and takes on where AI is headed.
Each essay is drafted with Claude from human ideas grounded in research and pedagogy, revised with human thought, and published as-is. This is public iteration: the same drafting-revising-refining cycle we teach in workshops, but transparent. You see the friction points, test whether the writing actually works, and watch what sticks.
Why Your Team’s AI Problem Is Actually a Writing Problem
The training lasted three days. By most measures, it went well. A room full of intelligent professionals worked through the demos, asked good questions, and left with a clearer picture of what AI tools could do. But when participants sat down in the weeks that followed to use the tools on actual work tasks, the outputs were vague. The suggestions were generic. The drafts needed so much revision that it often seemed faster to just write the thing from scratch.
This pattern has a recognizable shape. It’s the same one writing instructors see when students who already passed English move into upper-division coursework and their communication gaps resurface the moment the scaffolding drops. AI training follows the same curve. The tools get learned, but the confidence doesn’t follow. And the gap between the two usually isn’t a technology problem—it’s the same communication gap that was already there. It’s a writing problem.