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Monday · March 23, 2026 · Issue #001

The Promptory is officially live — 110 hand-curated AI tools across 20 categories, with Jordan, an AI concierge who finds the right tool for your workflow. No ads. No pay-to-rank. Just tools that earned their place.

Here's what happened in AI last week that you need to know:

⚡ This Week in AI

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OpenAI rolls out persistent memory in ChatGPT

ChatGPT now remembers context across sessions — which changes how you use it for ongoing projects, client work, and recurring tasks.

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Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash is noticeably faster

If you've been frustrated with speed on complex tasks, this is worth testing — especially for high-volume content and summarization workflows.

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Anthropic: Claude's reasoning is measurably improving

Extended thinking mode is showing stronger results on multi-step business problems. Worth revisiting if you haven't tried it recently.

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📌 Prompt of the Week

Copy this into ChatGPT or Claude:

"Act as a senior consultant. I run a [type of business]. My biggest operational bottleneck right now is [describe it]. Suggest 3 AI tools or workflows that could reduce this bottleneck by at least 30%, with specific implementation steps for each."

Replace the brackets and run it. You'll have a roadmap in 60 seconds.

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This Week's Vault Drop — The Judgment Stack

Friday · May 29, 2026 · Issue #042 · Vault Drop We spent this week on one idea: when intelligence becomes cheap, judgment becomes expensive. Today we make it concrete. This is The Judgment Stack — four tools, all vetted and in The Promptory vault, that let you stop spending your most valuable resource on work that doesn't deserve it. Not the most tools. Not the most hyped ones. The right ones, in the right order, for the right reasons. ⬡ This Week's Vault Drop — The Judgment Stack Four tools....

1 day ago • 3 min read

Decision Fatigue Is A Real Thing

Thursday · May 28, 2026 · Issue #041 · Tip Stack Decision fatigue is a real thing. But the version of it most professionals experience isn't about volume of decisions. It's about spending judgment-level mental energy on logistics-level problems. Every time you manually decide when to schedule a meeting, which leads to follow up first, how to format a deliverable, or what your calendar should look like tomorrow — you're spending the most scarce and valuable resource you have on problems that...

1 day ago • 3 min read

The Hidden Cost: I'm working more and earning the same.

Wednesday · May 27, 2026 · Issue #040 Meet a consultant we'll call Renata. Independent. Healthcare strategy. Fourteen years of expertise that clients paid significant money to access. In Q4 of 2025, she billed 61 hours in a single week. Her income that month was identical to a month two years earlier when she billed 38 hours. She didn't have a productivity problem. She had a model problem. She was still trading time for money in a market where time was no longer the scarce resource. ⬡ The...

3 days ago • 3 min read

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