This simple shift in how you talk to AI can make a big difference.

Before AI, I learned this lesson in a very different way.

I used to be a web developer.

And I clearly remember that when a client gave us clear, STRUCTURED requirements…

…it was much easier to build what they actually wanted.

The project moved faster, there was less confusion, less back and forth…

…and a much better chance we would deliver something they were happy with.

But when clients were vague, things got harder.

Not because they were bad clients…

…but because vague instructions create vague results.

And there was another pattern too.

When clients were in a similar industry to ours, it was easier to understand each other because we naturally used the same definitions and phrases.

But most clients were in very different industries.

So I had to learn how to TRANSLATE between their business language and our technical language so we could get on the same page.

Then around the mid-2010s…

I started teaching people how to outsource work successfully to freelancers.

And a big part of that was teaching them how to STRUCTURE a proper brief…

…what to include…

…how to explain their goals…

…and some basic tech lingo, so they could TRANSLATE their business needs into clear requirements.

And that is very similar to how AI works now…

If you want better AI results, STRUCTURE matters.

When your context and instructions are clear and strategically organized…

…AI understands them better and gives you sharper, more consistent results.

Clear STRUCTURE helps the AI focus on creating instead of guessing what you meant.

Besides that… there’s the key difference between how humans and AI understand structure… like headings, lists, tables, and so on.

Humans understand it best when it’s VISUALLY formatted… font size, weight, spacing, and so on.

AI understands structure best when the text is PLAIN, formatted with markdown code.

Which means, the formatting is marked with simple characters like hashtags for headings, asterisk for a list element, and so on.

You can either learn some simple markdown yourself…

…OR use a markdown editor, where you create and edit the instructions visually…

…then export them as markdown for AI.

Think of a markdown editor as a “translator” between you and the AI.

It helps you get better AI results, even if you don’t know how to write markdown code yourself.

If you want to see how to use this to create better AI tools then… click on the button below.