Playground 1

Tool Selector

Select your output type to see recommended tools, rationale for each, and ready-to-copy starter prompts. The selection principle from Module 4: match tool to task, not to novelty. The most impressive tool is the wrong choice if it doesn't serve your audience.

Each category has an exploration tool and a production tool. Knowing which phase you're in — exploration or execution — narrows the decision before you even open a browser tab.

Before you choose a tool

What format?

Email, brief, slide deck, social card, video, interactive — the format determines the category.

Who's the audience?

The output format that reaches a city council is different from the one that reaches a general public.

What are the stakes?

High-stakes, high-reach pieces warrant the interactive tools. Internal updates don't.

Explore or execute?

If the direction is open, use an exploration tool. If you know what you want, go straight to production.

Select your output type

Choose a category below. Each tool card includes a rationale, a when-to-use guide, and a starter prompt you can copy directly into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or the tool itself.

Text & Reasoning

Drafts, pitches, emails, policy briefs

Claude

Recommended

Open

Best for persistent strategic context via Projects. Load your Story Spine template, audience checklist, and value frame guide once — they stay loaded across every conversation in the project.

Use for

All four workflow steps: spec definition, draft generation, verification, and format polishing.

Starter prompt: co-creation workflow

You are a climate communication co-creation assistant. I have loaded my frameworks as context in this project.

Help me [CHOOSE ONE: define my Step 1 spec / generate a draft / verify this draft against my frameworks / adapt this for a new audience].

My current project:
- Audience: [WHO]
- Value frame: [ECONOMIC / HEALTH / STEWARDSHIP / SECURITY]
- Hero metric: [YOUR STATISTIC]
- Output format: [EMAIL / BRIEF / SOCIAL / PITCH]

[PASTE RELEVANT CONTENT OR SPEC HERE]

ChatGPT

Alternative

Open

Custom GPTs offer equivalent persistent context. Stay here if you're already established in the OpenAI ecosystem.

Use for

Same four-step workflow as Claude via a Custom GPT with your frameworks loaded.

Gemini

Alternative

Open

Gems provide persistent context. Strong integration with Google Drive and Docs if that's your primary workspace.

Use for

When your source material lives in Google Drive or when you want tight Workspace integration.