From Complex to Concise: Intelligent Prompting for Plain Language

Presented at the AI in Action Conference at the University of North Texas. Plain-language compliance is a real, legally-mandated burden for government writers. This talk showed how intelligent prompting — prompts designed around the actual rules and reader needs — can turn dense, jargon-heavy source text into clear, compliant prose without sacrificing accuracy, and what guardrails keep that process trustworthy.