AI for Real Humans
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What do you want your time for?
Take the quiz · @janellkarst
Take the quiz · @janellkarst
This is no techy bro stuff. This is real talk, and we're going to dig right in.
Everyone wants to know what tool they should use. That's not the right question. The right question is what you want your time for.
Seven questions. Ninety seconds. No shame if you're using AI as a glorified Google right now. I meet you where you are.
And fair warning, I'm not going to hand you a cute label and wave you off. You'll leave here having actually done something.
This is the question I ask myself every single week. Write the real answer, not the polite one.
Not a to-do list. The one that's been whispering. The chapter heading of your memoir.
Pop your email in and I'll send you a copy, so you've still got it next week when you actually need it.
You'll come straight back here to your result. One screen, ten seconds.
Your archetype and what it means, the Foreplay Framework, and three prompts written for your type. Yours to keep.
Nothing to fill in. Your own answers are already in it. Copy it, paste it into Claude or ChatGPT, and you'll have your Keep, Stop, Start page and one job off your plate in about two minutes. This is the part where you actually do the thing.
Forget the empire for a minute. Forget projects, connectors, skills, departments, all of it. That comes later and it's worth it, and none of it matters if you're still typing into the box like it's a search engine.
Prompting is the first skill, and it's the one that pays you back immediately. You don't have to build a single thing. You just have to stop asking it questions and start briefing it properly. That alone buys back real hours in your week.
Learning this is not an admin task you squeeze in on a Sunday. It's a CEO move. It's a power move. And it's the least techy thing on this entire page.
Prompting is foreplay.
Warm it up before you ask it to perform. This is the whole reason most people think AI is disappointing.
Tell it who it is and who you are. "You're my executive assistant." "You're a skeptical CFO." Give it a role and it stops sounding like a search engine.
The actual ask, out loud, specific. Not "help me with this." What is the thing, and what does it need to do.
Context. Who it's for, what's already been tried, what matters to you, what the history is. This is the step with the highest return and almost nobody does it.
Paste an example of what good looks like. One sample beats a paragraph of description every single time.
Define what done means. Length, format, tone, the constraints. If you don't say it, it guesses, and it guesses generic.
Nobody nails it first go. Tell it what's working and what isn't and send it back. The first draft is the warm up.
Save what works. A prompt you rewrite from scratch every time is a chore. A prompt you save is a playbook. Document it once, delegate it forever.
That's also where this stops being prompting and starts being infrastructure. A saved playbook becomes a project. A project with the right context and connections becomes a department. Enough departments and you've stopped using AI and started running something. That's the empire. But it all starts with one prompt you didn't have to write twice.
For when you want to go further. These ones have blanks, so save them for when you're at a keyboard.
Screenshot this, put it on your story, tag me. I want to see what you got.
Send me your someday goal on Instagram. I'm not being polite. Tell me what it is and I get all fired up and want to go all in with you. Fair warning, if you tell me your someday goal it's probably going to freaking happen.
The research says it takes 40 to 60 hours to really get good at this on your own. You don't have 40 to 60 hours. So we collapse time instead. Two live sessions, WhatsApp access to me in between, and you walk away with your Claude Empire built and working. Not a pile of notes you'll never look at again.
I take a small number of these each month.
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