About right now (yeah, this post is scheduled), I am presenting to the audience of the Association of Progressive Rental Organizations (APRO) on the topic of AI. I’m stepping in for a colleague who was unable to present, so the title is a little different than what I might have chosen:

Ok, let me hit a few highlights and resources.

2025 New Year, New Commitment to Using AI

View slide deck at https://go.mgpd.org/apro

My Favorite Points

For this presentation, some of my favorite inclusions appear below:

APRO Custom Resources

• APRO Prompt Design Tips with Examples
• Resources in PDF for aPRO Members
• Seven Step Playbook for Bold AI Strategy for APRO Members
• ChatGPT Custom GPT – RTO Navigator for APRO Members
• BoodleBox Bot- APRO RTO Navigator

Miscellaneous Resources

• AI Tools for Note-Taking, Email, Legal, Chat, and Project Management
• MGpt Prompt Designer
• MGpt Social Media Assistant
• On My Own: Learn AI

APRO Prompt Design Tips

Getting prompting right can be a pain since it’s all about conversing with an AI rather than asking questions (like we would with a search engine). So, I put this together using the aPRO acronym for fun…

In the presentation, I share some tips that are custom to Rent-To-Own (RTO) situations, along with a prompt primer. This primer is a condensed version of a prompting booklet I share when facilitating longer sessions.

You can find a lot more content about AI tools in the presentation, but one of the tools I feature that I had NOT planned to include is Boodle Box. I “built a bot” (one of several I have planned) with Boodle Box, something equivalent to the ChatGPT custom GPT version, and it has been a lot of fun reading up on the process, fine-tuning to get the result I want. What I like about Boodle Box’s process for bot building? They have spent some time thinking the components through and how you can get the most bang for your buck.

They frog-leap over similar tools like Perplexity’s Spaces, Claude Projects, and ChatGPT Projects, allowing you to connect various chats, bots, and Knowledge Banks with each other. That way, you build the Knowledge Bank in an organized way and you can tap into any of them for a chat. This elevates the quality of the chats you have because you’re never “just in one pretrained generative transformer (GPT)” at a time. That is, while I’m working in one chat, I may get the thought that I need to connect another Knowledge Bank, so why not do that?

I have more to learn, but showing this off in a presentation a few days after learning about it (and still learning) is always fun.

It’s so busy, I haven’t had much time working in the evenings to learn stuff, but I’ve now spent a LOT more time.

Thanks to the aPRO folks (and my work colleague) for letting me share AI-related ideas curated from various places, as well as create a Rent To Own (RTO) Navigator on two different AI platforms for them.

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