ACTsights® Field Guide

Words that make AI
work harder for you

Prompts aren't magic. They're vocabulary. Specific words reliably flip specific switches inside an AI model. Here's the map.

Trigger words

Functional groups

Prompt sections

Shape to remember

The Word Map

Every part of a prompt has its own vocabulary

Six places words can work for you. Bigger circles hold more words. Hover a word to see what it does, click to copy its phrase, or click a circle to open its full word list.Tap a word to see what it does and its copy-ready phrase. Tap a circle to open its full word list.

Circle size = number of trigger words in that part of the prompt. ClickTap a circle to see all of them.

The Functional Groups

The 12 functional groups

Every trigger word belongs to a functional group with one job. Click a group to open its full word list; hover any word for its meaning, click to copy its phrase.Tap a group to open its full word list, then tap any word for its meaning and example.

Where this came from

I did not learn this from AI. I learned it from sentence diagramming, Excel formulas, data analytics, teaching remote teams where to click, running an agency, and years of writing marketing newsletters and leading communities. Different disciplines, same lesson: whether you are talking to a person or a machine, the clearer and more deliberate the words, the more reliable the result. This toolkit is those words, mapped to the behavior each one triggers.

Olga Torres, founder, ACTsights®

The Proof

Same request. Different words.

Nine words turn a vague ask into a client-ready instruction. HoverTap the highlights to see which switch each one flips.

✖ What most people typeWrite a report about how the campaign did last month.

⚡ What an operator types

Pocket Version

The 10-word cheat sheet

If you only remember ten, remember these. ClickTap any card to copy its phrase.

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Words that make AIwork harder for you