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Agenda and Meeting Prep

Lay out a single poster artboard for the permit package that shows site contours, labelled spot elevations, and draina…

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The same job, four heights

do it · improve it · decide · become
AExecute — “help me do it”Lay out a single poster artboard for the permit package that shows site contours, labelled spot…+
Lay out a single poster artboard for the permit package that shows site contours, labelled spot elevations, and drainage lines with a clear legend and scale bar for submission to the city planner by Wednesday.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Make the contours and drainage diagram easier for the permitting reviewer to approve: put the…+
Make the contours and drainage diagram easier for the permitting reviewer to approve: put the legend and scale diagram top-right, use two distinct line weights and colours for existing versus proposed drains, label flow direction arrows and list the contour interval and datum in the legend.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

1 of them
Create a clear legend and scale diagram of site contours and drainage lines for permitting submittal.

Who does this

1 roles
Landscape Architect

Questions people ask

honest answers

Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Illustrator — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.