Documented guidelines, standard operating procedures, and step-by-step instruction guides detailing how employees should use artificial intelligence tools in daily work.

Brandished by management consultants to charge $30,000 for a ten-page PDF explaining how to type prompts into a web chat box.

• Tactical Playbook Posture: Comparing a basic PDF instruction guide to a professional football team's playbook.
• Consulting Fee Padding: Selling basic software orientation notes as a strategic corporate transformation asset.
• House-Cleaning Reality Check: Like writing down how to turn on a lawnmower and calling it a "sanitation playbook."

Moneyball (2010s): Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) enforces a new operational playbook, requiring scouts to follow statistical selection rules rather than traditional gut instincts.

Written operating guides explaining how staff should use software tools.

“Our company released new AI playbooks to guide contract review procedures.”

“We wrote a simple 3-page guide showing our paralegals how to use search software and double-check generated quotes.”