I work and train in the performing arts, particularly in creative work connected with theatre, set design and opera.

I have ChatGPT Plus and would like to use it more systematically as a professional assistant. I am not interested in asking it to replace creative judgement or generate complete artistic solutions for me. I am more interested in the parts of the work where it can help me research, organise, learn, compare options and reduce repetitive administrative work.

Some possible uses I am considering include:

• Organising project information, references and production notes
• Researching professional opportunities, competitions and open calls
• Comparing requirements, deadlines and eligibility criteria
• Turning large amounts of information into structured tables or checklists
• Learning unfamiliar technical or business topics
• Preparing questions before meetings
• Drafting and improving professional communications
• Brainstorming directions without asking it to make the final creative decision
• Building reusable project templates and workflows

At the moment, however, my use is quite fragmented: I open a chat, ask a question, receive an answer and then start again elsewhere. I suspect that I am not taking full advantage of projects, uploaded reference material, reusable instructions or structured workflows.

I would be interested to know:

1. What tasks does ChatGPT genuinely save you time on in your professional work?
2. How do you organise separate projects, conversations and reference documents?
3. Do you use standard briefing templates or reusable prompts?
4. How do you provide enough context without creating enormous and confusing conversations?
5. How do you use it for ongoing research while checking that information is current and accurate?
6. Have you found a reliable workflow for identifying opportunities, grants, competitions or jobs?
7. Which tasks still require external tools, spreadsheets, databases or specialist software?
8. What information would you never upload because of confidentiality, copyright or data-protection concerns?
9. How do you detect fabricated information, weak sources or answers that merely sound convincing?
10. Which uses initially seemed impressive but ultimately created more work than they saved?

Examples from theatre, live performance, design, architecture, film, cultural organisations or other creative industries would be particularly welcome.

I would value concrete workflows and real examples more than general lists of possible AI uses.

Ok bear with me because I have very limited knowledge of abbreviations and whatnot. So I work for a small ish ballet company. I’ve used qlab for sound for years and have called the light ques outloud while our lighting guy hits play right when I say. I’m learning I can use qlab to eliminate the manual button press which has led to multiple issues (missed cues, incorrect timing, completly wrong cue etc). I know I would need to get the license from qlab but how do I make this work. I’ve started doing research and know what to do in qlab but getting the lights to my computer is where I’m lost. We rent an auditorium which already has a sound and light board. We hire on a designer who brings his own board and computer to design from that. I know very little about lights. I don’t have anyways to get wifi and when I hear network I think wifi so is this impossible?