10 AI Tricks That Will Leave Your Competitors Crying Into Their LinkedIn Certificates

Right. Let’s address the elephant in the boardroom.

Everyone says they are “doing AI.” What they mean is someone in marketing asked ChatGPT for a blog post and pasted it into LinkedIn with a rocket emoji and a sentence about synergy.

Then they wonder why nothing changed.

Here are ten things that actually work. The same principles we deploy at Enigmatica when we build Copilot agents inside real companies that need results, not applause.

1. Ask AI For Multiple Perspectives

If you only ask for one view, you get one idea. Usually dull. Like a government committee deciding lunch.

Ask for several voices. Founder. Customer. Investor. Competitor. Angry journalist.

Suddenly you see angles nobody else spotted.

Topic: Productivity for entrepreneursCreate five short viewpoints from different personas such as a bootstrapped founder, venture capitalist, burned out employee, loyal customer, and skeptical journalist. Write each in their natural voice with realistic language and priorities.

2. Change The Output Format

Executives love one format. A 40 page PDF nobody reads.

AI can give outlines, mind maps, scripts, checklists, tweet threads, decision trees. Different formats reveal different thinking.

Topic: Using Notion to stay organized as a content creatorProduce three formats:1. A mind map with main branches and sub branches2. A checklist for beginners3. A 10 tweet thread summarizing the key lessons

3. Always Give Context And A Goal

AI is not psychic. It does not know your audience, your product, or your revenue target.

Most failed AI projects I see were doomed because nobody explained what success looked like. They shouted “Do AI” and hoped for magic.

Topic: Growing a coaching businessAudience: Experienced business coachesGoal: Teach one practical growth tactic and motivate actionTone: Direct, experienced, realisticLength: 600 words with one case example

4. Use Weird Prompts Sometimes

Normal prompts give normal answers.

Ask strange questions and you get fresh thinking. Try poems, analogies, fairy tales. It shakes loose ideas like a dog shaking rainwater all over your new Loro Piana suit.

Explain cash flow management as a fairy tale for children that still teaches accurate business lessons.

5. Brainstorm New Angles, Not Just Ideas

Most AI lists are predictable. Like every crypto pitch deck from 2021 that promised lambos and delivered sadness.

Ask for unusual angles.

Topic: Doubling creative outputGenerate ten unconventional strategies that contradict common productivity advice. Explain why each works and where it might fail.

6. Capture Your Own Style

Feed AI your writing and make a style guide. Now your team sounds like you instead of like a confused intern who swallowed Harvard Business Review.

This is how we scale tone inside Enigmatica projects.

Analyze the text below and create a reusable style guide with tone, sentence structure, vocabulary, and do and do not rules. Then write a new article using that guide.[Insert your writing here]

7. Apply Proven Writing Techniques

AI improves when you give it rules. Persuasion frameworks. Story arcs. Real structure.

This is not cheating. This is engineering.

Write a short article on why prompt engineering matters. Use AIDA structure, include one real example from a corporate setting, and speak directly to enterprise leaders.

8. Experiment With Tone

Tone changes how ideas land. Satire. Formal. Playful. Dramatic.

Sometimes irony tells the truth better than a spreadsheet.

Write ironic advice about companies adopting AI without training staff. Keep it funny but grounded in real examples.

9. Simulate Experts

Want insight from a CFO, lawyer, or customer? Ask AI to role play.

You get questions you forgot to ask. Which is priceless.

Act as a senior AI adoption lead at a Fortune 500 company. Interview me about risks and opportunities in my AI rollout. Ask ten tough questions before giving any advice.

10. Challenge The Popular Narrative

Everyone copies the same advice. Post more. Work harder. Buy tools.

Ask AI what the opposite view is. That is where strategy lives.

Topic: Growing an email newsletter List five strategies that contradict common growth advice. Provide examples or evidence for each and explain when the strategy would be dangerous.