Use AI to translate your technical jargon into plain language that non-experts actually understand.

You understand your work perfectly, but when you explain it to someone outside your department, team, or field, you watch their eyes glaze over. The problem isn't them—it's that you're using insider language without realizing it. Every profession has jargon that feels normal to you but sounds like a foreign language to everyone else. AI can act as your translation layer, converting your expert-speak into clear, accessible language that any intelligent person can follow. This is especially powerful before sending updates to leadership, explaining your work to other departments, or writing anything for a mixed audience. Paste your draft into ChatGPT and ask it to flag every piece of jargon, acronym, or insider term, then rewrite those sections in plain English. You can also go deeper: ask it to produce multiple versions at different simplicity levels—one for executives who want the headline, one for colleagues in other departments, and one for external partners who know nothing about your world. The advanced move is using AI to build a reusable jargon dictionary for your specific role. Ask it to extract every technical term from several of your past documents, define each one in simple language, then save that glossary. Next time you write something, run it through AI with your glossary attached and ask it to replace jargon with the plain-English versions you've already approved. You'll communicate faster, clearer, and stop losing people in the first paragraph.

March 8, 2026