The New Way of Work
First edition · by Shammah Nei
A practical guide to automate, amplify and work smarter with AI. The prompting craft, the project setup, and the systems thinking behind it. No code required.
Stop chatting. Start delegating real work.
AI has crossed a threshold. It can run whole workflows in the background. This handbook is about getting it to.
Talk so AI understands
The Leading Prompt: why asking for five clarifying questions before it starts beats a one-shot command.
Set up Projects
Upload your brand voice, contact sheets, and past examples once. Stop re-typing who you are every session.
Automate workflows
Inbox triage, weekly status reports, research synthesis, applications, content pipelines, ad copy, follow-up.
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- Chapters 1–3
- The prompting craft, Projects, and your first real automation.
- The prompt template
- The Leading Prompt, written out and ready to paste anywhere.
- The newsletter
- New issues on working with AI. One click to leave.
He builds the things he writes about
Shammah Nei is a software engineer and founder based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Through Renaissance Innovation Labs he has trained over 150 developers across Rivers State — fellowships, hackathons, Kids Code Club, AI Labs, Robotic Labs — and the lab is now building toward robotics and industrial AI for the Niger Delta.
His engineering runs from enterprise AI for contract intelligence and document processing, through consumer products in esports and sports prediction, to the infrastructure his own companies run on: automated QA, autonomous ops agents, multi-tenant agent gateways.
Everything in this handbook was tested in those companies first. He writes about building with AI on his Substack (opens in a new tab).
- Renaissance Innovation Labs
- Runs the lab · Port Harcourt & Dallas
- PhilanthroLab
- Leads engineering · Dallas
- Roxanna Technologies
- Co-founder · software and games