Teach Your AI Who You Are · The Ten-Minute Upgrade

A free quickstart from the Lab

An AI that feels like it knows you.

You’ve probably felt it: you ask a real question and get back an answer that’s smart, but could’ve been written for anyone. The fix is simpler than it sounds. Tell it who you are first. This ten-minute upgrade shows you how, with nothing to install and no coding.

Get the free Quickstart See the 5-minute move

The Promise

This is a free quickstart: one simple move, made right inside the chat app you already have. Nothing to download to feel it work. You’ll write a few honest sentences about yourself, then watch the very next answer shift from generic to yours.

The Move

Just tell it who you are first.

The whole thing takes about five minutes, in the chat app you already have open. No install, nothing to undo.

  1. Open the chat you already use — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.
  2. Pick a question you have been sitting with. A question, a decision, a plan, etc.
  3. Ask it without context. Read the answer. Fine, isn’t it? Smart, and written for nobody in particular.
  4. Now tell it who you are first, then ask again:
    Before you answer: I’m {a line about you}. I make decisions by {how you actually decide}. What drains me is {…}; what I’d never trade is {…}. Now — {your question}.
  5. Read the two answers side by side.

Read them side by side and you’ll feel the difference right away: a general AI, next to one that actually knows you and how you work. That’s the move, and you just made it.

What’s in the Quickstart

Make it permanent, with a vault you own.

Right now you’d have to paste that context every time. The free Quickstart makes it stick: a ready-to-use starter vault, plus the beginner walkthrough that hands the whole thing to an AI running on your own computer.

A starter vault, ready to copy

A simple home for your notes that you fully own — already set up with the one file that teaches your AI how you work. Copy it, fill in a few honest lines, done.

The beginner walkthrough

Five short lessons that take you from “I use AI like a search box” to an AI working inside your own files — with you approving every step.

No coding required

It runs on Claude Code, which lives on your own computer, and you talk to it in plain English, exactly the way you already talk to ChatGPT. Don’t let the word “Code” send you running; we walk you through every step. (One honest note: like any AI chat, it sends what it’s working on to Claude to think, so it needs internet and isn’t private, on-device-only storage. Keep anything truly sensitive out.)

Get It Free

Send me the Free Quickstart.

Drop your email and I’ll send you the 5-Minute Quickstart: the opener, the walk-through, and the starter vault. Take what’s useful, leave the rest. And honestly, just by trying this you’re already doing what most people who use AI every day never think to do: make it actually yours.

The permanent version runs on Claude Code, which needs a paid Claude plan — the same kind many people already have; the 5-minute move works in any free chat app.

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When You’re Ready for More

Ready to build a system around how you actually work?

Teaching your AI who you are is the first move. When you’re ready for the bigger build, the one that turns a chatbot into a chief of staff who actually knows how you work, that’s Teach Your AI How You Work. Same family, going deeper. Start with the free quickstart. There’s no wrong pace.

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