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Draft SOPs and work instructions from a walkthrough

Turn a recorded explanation into a clean standard operating procedure.

Estimated time saved

Estimated: 1–3 hours per SOP compared with writing from scratch. (Estimate; results vary.)

Tools
  • Otter.ai
  • Microsoft Teams transcription
  • ChatGPT or Claude

The problem

Tribal knowledge lives in senior operators' heads; writing SOPs never gets prioritized.

Step by step

  1. 1Record an operator explaining the job step by step (Otter or Teams).
  2. 2Paste the transcript into ChatGPT/Claude.
  3. 3Ask for an SOP with safety notes, tools, steps and quality checks.
  4. 4Have the operator and supervisor review and correct before publishing.

Copy-paste prompt

Prompt
Convert this transcript into a standard operating procedure with sections: Purpose, Safety/PPE, Tools & Materials, Step-by-step instructions (numbered), Quality checks, Common mistakes. Keep the operator's terminology. Mark anything unclear with [VERIFY].

[paste transcript]

Review AI output before using it. Don’t paste confidential, customer or patient data into tools your company hasn’t approved.

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