The answers come back stiff. Technically right, but nothing like you. So you rewrite them, every time, and you have started to think that is just how it is.
It is not. Every new chat starts with a guess about your job, your audience, your tone, and how much detail you want. When the guess is wrong you pay for it in every draft, and the picture it builds of you quietly goes stale on top of that. You never see the guess. You only feel it.
Forty five minutes and you will have one file that Claude reads before it starts working, built out of things you said out loud instead of the polished version you would have typed. You will also know how to make it list what it believes about you and fix it line by line.
This is for anyone who has fixed the same tone problem more than three times. No typing marathon required. Most of it happens by talking.
The proof behind this
Liz Elliott runs 33 active social brands and her main account, @liz.on.the.web, has 241,000 followers. A voice that specific does not survive a generic default. It has to be written down once and read every time.
What this lesson is
Lesson 5.3 of the free AI for Entrepreneurs course, in Module 5: Memory And Context.
Every new chat starts with a guess. One file fixes it, and the trick is how you build it. Do not sit down and type it. You will write the polished version of yourself, and the polished version is useless. The details that make this file work are the ones you would never bother writing down. The phrase that makes you close the laptop. The thing you always have to re explain. The client who hates phone calls. Talking gets those out, so you let Claude interview you out loud, one question at a time, for about twenty minutes. There is a second half most people skip. It also builds its own picture of you over time from whatever you happened to say in chats, and that picture goes stale quietly. So every few months you make it show you, and you correct it line by line.
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Behind the paywall
The interviewer prompt, in full, that runs the twenty minute session
What to read before you answer anything, so your answers are not vague
The eight sections of the finished file, with a complete example
Where to save it, and where not to
The audit prompt that makes it list every assumption it holds about you
How to mark each one true, wrong, stale, or missing, and fix it
The three month rhythm, the ten mistakes, and the checklist
What paid subscribers get overall
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