The AI Text Tool: A Complete Guide to Writing with WorkCrafter

The text tool is the workhorse of WorkCrafter: articles, product copy, emails, summaries, rewrites and brainstorms all come from it. This guide covers what it does, which engine to pick, and the prompt habits that separate usable drafts from wasted credits.

What the text tool does

You describe what you want in plain language and pick a mode — write, rewrite, summarize or brainstorm. The tool returns a structured draft you can copy, refine or regenerate. It's built for real work, not novelty: marketing pages, blog sections, outreach emails, meeting notes and idea lists.

Choosing an engine

Each generation lets you pick an engine. You don't need to know what runs underneath — the labels tell you the trade-off:

• Automatic (recommended): WorkCrafter picks a sensible engine for the task. Start here.
• Balanced: the everyday default — good quality at a good speed for most writing.
• Most capable: reach for this on nuanced, high-stakes copy — a sales page, a delicate email, anything where tone and reasoning matter more than speed.
• Fastest: quick drafts, bulk variations, or when you just need a starting point to react to.

“Pick the engine by what the task is worth. Most capable for the page that has to convert; Fastest for the ten subject lines you'll throw nine of away.”— WorkCrafter

Write a prompt that gets results

The model answers what you ask, so the quality of the ask sets the ceiling. A strong prompt names four things: who it's for, what it's for, the tone, and the format.

Write a 150-word product description for a stainless-steel water bottle.
Audience: outdoorsy 25–40 year-olds.
Tone: confident, warm, no hype.
Format: one short paragraph + three bullet benefits.

Notice what that prompt does: it bounds the length, fixes the audience, sets the tone explicitly, and dictates the shape of the output. Vague prompts ("write about my bottle") land on the average of everything the model has seen — which reads like every other bottle description.

The four modes

• Write: produce new content from a brief.
• Rewrite / improve: paste your own text and have it clarified, tightened or re-toned without losing your meaning.
• Summarize: distil a long passage into its key points.
• Brainstorm: get a diverse, numbered list of ideas to react to.

Rewrite is the most underused. Writing a rough draft yourself and letting the tool polish it keeps your voice and your facts while removing the friction — often better than generating from scratch.

Tips that consistently help

• State the length. "A short paragraph" or "120 words" prevents rambling.
• Give one example of the tone you want if you can — it's worth more than three adjectives.
• Ask for structure (bullets, headings, steps) when you'll scan the output rather than read it.
• Regenerate once or twice and keep the best; the second attempt is often stronger because you'll refine the prompt.
• For facts and figures, verify — the tool writes fluently but doesn't check reality for you.

What it costs

A text or code generation costs 2 credits (1 credit = $0.01 of tool spend). Failed generations are refunded automatically, so experimenting is cheap.

Frequently asked questions

Which engine should I default to?

Automatic. It picks a good engine for the task, and you can override it to Most capable when a specific piece really matters or Fastest when you're generating in bulk.

Why did my draft drift off-topic?

Usually the prompt tried to do too much at once. Split it: generate the outline first, then each section separately. Shorter, single-purpose prompts stay on track.

Can I trust the facts it writes?

Treat them as a draft to verify, not as sources. The tool is excellent at language and structure and unreliable at specific numbers, dates and citations — check those yourself.

Start writing

Open the text tool, start on Automatic, and give it a brief with an audience, a tone and a format. Iterate one variable at a time and you'll have a repeatable process in an afternoon.