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From Decision to Deployment

Which workflows get an agent, and how to build it so it behaves.

One-time. Updates included.

“Battle-tested in production environments.”

That is how Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s CMO for AI at Work, described my free, open-source Copilot prompt library in the AI at Work newsletter, February 2026. He was citing that free repo, not this product. This is the paid work from the same practice, held to the same standard.

The situation

Two questions hit every practitioner deploying AI. The strategic one: which workflows should get AI and which should not. Most teams skip it and pay later in eroded trust, bad outputs nobody caught, and a rollout that stalls at twenty percent.

The technical one: when you do build an agent, how do you make it behave consistently for everyone, not just on a good day.

What this is

This bundle answers both. When Not to Use AI gives you the decision framework. The Agent Instruction Block Design Guide gives you the build patterns. Bought separately they come to $48.

What is inside

When Not to Use AI, in full ($29 standalone)
Agent Instruction Block Design Guide, in full ($19 standalone)

Who it is for

Practitioners who own both the "should we" and the "how" decisions
AI champions scoping their first agents

Who it is not for

Anyone who already owns both titles. There is nothing new in the bundle beyond the two books.

Questions people actually ask

Is there anything in the bundle that is not in the two books?

No. It is the two books at a lower combined price. If you own one already, buy the other on its own rather than the bundle.

Is this Copilot-specific?

Half of it. The instruction block patterns were extracted from Copilot work and the examples are Copilot-shaped. The decision framework is platform-agnostic: the question of which workflows should get AI reads the same whichever vendor you are on.

Which order should I read them in?

When Not to Use AI first. Deciding a workflow should not get an agent at all is cheaper than writing a good instruction block for one that should not exist.

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Most buyers expense it. Your receipt email carries a Generate link that opens an invoice generator: add your billing address, put your legal company name and any reference your finance team needs in the Additional notes box, and download the PDF. If you have an EU VAT number, enter it at checkout and no VAT is charged. Here is the approval email, so you do not have to write one.

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Subject: Approval request: From Decision to Deployment ($39, one-time)

Hi [Manager],

I would like to expense a one-time $39 purchase: From Decision to Deployment by Kesslernity.

What it is: Which workflows get an agent, and how to build it so it behaves.

What we get:
- When Not to Use AI, in full ($29 standalone)
- Agent Instruction Block Design Guide, in full ($19 standalone)

Why it is worth it: it is a one-time purchase with future updates included,
and it costs less than an hour of any consultant we would otherwise ask.
The author publishes the open-source Copilot prompt library that Microsoft's
CMO for AI at Work cited as "battle-tested in production environments".

A downloadable invoice is available from the purchase receipt for expenses.

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