The Master Prompt Method: Unlock AI’s Full Potential (Part 1)
By Tiago Forte
Summary
## Key takeaways - **AI as a Strategic Partner, Not Just an Assistant**: AI is evolving beyond a simple tool into a strategic partner capable of driving exponential growth for businesses, fundamentally changing how companies are built and operated. (00:07, 00:21) - **Master Prompt: Full Context for AI, No Repetition**: The Master Prompt Method allows you to provide AI with full context about your business every time you prompt, eliminating the need to repeat information and significantly improving response quality. (05:59, 06:05) - **Master Prompt Boosts Quality and Productivity**: Implementing a master prompt can drastically improve the quality of your work by up to 40% and significantly boost productivity, allowing tasks that previously took weeks to be completed in under an hour. (07:38, 08:10) - **Democratizing Execution with AI**: AI enables even small, one-person companies to undertake complex processes typically reserved for large corporations, narrowing the gap in execution capabilities between small and large businesses. (14:41, 14:55) - **AI Streamlines Hiring and SOP Creation**: AI can automate the creation of detailed job descriptions, recruitment materials, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), tasks that previously consumed significant time and resources for HR departments. (16:07, 23:23) - **AI Reshapes Team Structures**: AI is predicted to eliminate the director layer in companies and expand the manager layer, leading to larger companies with fewer employees, primarily consisting of owners and front-line workers. (27:34, 30:16)
Topics Covered
- AI can 10x your company's annual growth.
- Stop prompting AI like it's a simple chatbot.
- AI democratizes execution for small businesses.
- Use AI to fill in for your personal weaknesses.
- AI will eliminate the entire director layer of management.
Full Transcript
Today we're diving deep into the future
of business operations with Hayden, a
serial entrepreneur who's using AI not
just as a tool, but as a core operating
system for building, scaling, and
protecting his companies. You'll learn
how the master prompt method is changing
the rules, turning AI from a flashy
assistant into a strategic partner that
drives real exponential growth. If
you're serious about surviving and
thriving in the AI first era that we're
entering, you're going to want to watch
this all the way through. And if you
stay till the end, we'll teach you how
to build your master prompt step by
step. Let's get into
it. Welcome to the channel, Hayden.
Thanks for having me, Tuggo. How are you
spending your your time these days when
it comes to to AI? Yeah, I work pretty
long days. um typically wake up around
4:30 and spend the first 5 hours or so
of the day just learning and typically
playing with AI. I have a several
businesses so typically over the last
decade I've probably spent 40 hours a
week or so learning something, tinkering
with it and if it works uh attempting to
systematize it and then teach it to all
my leadership teams. So when you say
leadership teams plural um what are the
different kinds of businesses that
you're involved in right now and how?
So, I have three different holding
companies. Um, and between those holding
companies, we've got probably like 30
active businesses. I'd say twothirds of
those were acquired. Onethird of those
were started. Each of those businesses
has a CEO. Each of the holding companies
has a CEO. And the businesses run a
really wide gamut. So, we've got one
holding company that's really a lot of
brickandmortar. So, HVAC, plumbing
roofing. Um, we've got another holding
company that's a lot of digital stuff.
When you think of what's going on with
AI right now, your time, I think it's
safe to say, is is limited and in
demand. What makes AI worth spending
like you said, four, five plus hours per
day learning, experimenting with, and
and and uh figuring out I firmly believe
that AI can potentially double to triple
every single one of my companies per
year. That's how big I think it is. Um
typically leadership teams up until now
have been setting goals to have like 30
to 50% year-over-year growth, right?
That's can be considered sustainable
growth. And I think some of the scalable
companies that I mentioned, I think you
can 10x that today with AI. I mean, it
takes a lot of work, don't get me wrong.
Um, and I think some of the less
scalable ones, so more of the brick and
mortar where a lot of the fulfillment is
done in person, I still think, you know
instead of 30 to 50% a year, I think
probably six to 100% growth per year is
is doable. Say a little bit about um
Acquire and Empower, which are two of
your companies. Um, Acquire is a
business that helps people basically
become acquisition entrepreneurs
typically buying a million dollar a year
cash line business that's in profit. um
financing them through SBA loans. Uh and
then Empower is working more on the
seller side. So we're helping doing exit
planning uh for sellers and kind of
connecting the two. And how many how
many people have you worked with or
across how many businesses or
acquisitions have you have you worked
on?
Uh a bunch. Uh definitely over hundred.
Um I think we had like six closes last
quarter.
Um, and we probably had
about sort of working with another 50
people. And on the seller side, we
probably talked to thousands of sellers
off market. When you say the valuation
drivers,
um, which of those valuation drivers
does AI affect? All of them. All of
them. Every single one. Yeah. Every
single one. Different ones I would say
have. So you know I said you can get
like two you know three to 5x growth in
some areas and maybe 2x growth in
others. So I think marketing for example
you can have massive growth. Um sales
today you on the actual sales side AI
can help a lot with things like call
reviews, pipeline management, um
autoresponders. It can make probably a
manager maybe three times more
effective. Right? So a sales manager
might have 25 to 30 reports. They can
remove a lot of the reporting, a lot of
the that people don't like
doing, but it can't currently take
calls, right? So you're still limited by
someone actually taking the calls. Now
that might change in the next year or
two um
operations, things like creating
process, things like all of that is so
much faster. Uh it removes a lot of the
monotony. Mhm. Um but there's still a
level of training and buy in uh that you
know takes a lot of work. So what is the
master prompt method? So basically when
you prompt you want to be able to give
the AI as much detailed instruction and
context as possible. If you do a simple
one-s sentence prompt and you've got no
other context, the answer you're going
to get is going to be no better than
really a Google answer in most cases.
And so some people do start that way and
they prefer to make turn it into a
conversation, right? So do you know do
this for me and then it gets back. Okay
now make it this way. Okay, and now make
it this way. So they kind of look at
like it's a Google on chatbot. Yeah.
Right. And then so that's kind of your
first introductory level. And the second
level up after that would be you've
probably all seen like an Instagram reel
where someone says like copy this prompt
and it's a super long thing, right?
Yeah. um and you are my executive coach
and you won't take any from me. And
it's like then it becomes super mean.
And so we've all seen that. What the
master prompt is was basically how can I
give full context for in my case for my
business every single time I prompt
without having to write anything. Yeah.
Um and I first thought of this when like
Chad GPD first came out with memories
right? The way memories worked was it
was just, you know, one at a time. You
had to ask it to remember it, right? And
eventually after you used it a lot, it
became really, really useful. But just
the way it worked, it probably took
like, you know, hundreds of
conversations to get to that point. And
I found myself always saying, "Remember
this, remember this, remember this."
Right? And then I found then I started
playing with other tools and I found
that um Claude basically had these
account preferences uh that let you put
in effectively like all of the memories.
So I actually had chatbt export all of
its memories uh and put it into cloud
and then it it uses that and accesses
that every time um I ask it anything
right? So it now has the full context of
my business. And so I worked on
developing that out, developing that out
for each of my companies. Uh and then
sharing it with my leadership teams and
showing them how to use it. And this one
prompt would maybe be like on a Google
doc 30 pages long, right? And those 30
pages are being accessed every single
time you type something in. So once you
do that, it's just night and day that
type of response you get and you just
continually iterate and iterate and it
just gets better and better. One more
question before we look at uh a couple
different uh kind of case studies. What
is the impact that it has? Like why why
does why is it important? Why does it
matter? What difference does it make to
have a master prompt? You get more done
better and faster. Quality of the out of
your work improves drastically. Like
there's some stats around quality
improving 40%. The productivity, the
amount of work one person does uh
improves drastically. and you can get it
out faster. So, literally, it's all
three, right? And that all comes from
more and better context. More and better
context and the fact that it's AI. What
would take, you
know, someone two weeks to put together
everything you need to to really do a
thorough job uh of something now takes
you know, under an hour. And so what I
what I find really interesting is and
what will happen is that there will be a
democratization of execution. So and
it's going to take a different amount of
time depending on what industry you're
in and how adaptable um the industry is.
Um so like the brick and mortar stuff
will probably take several years. Um but
some of the digital stuff, software
marketing, um legal finance, that stuff
will probably move much faster because
of this. you can take you can do very
thorough things that typically only very
large companies have the resources to do
uh in very little time. So sort of
narrowing the difference or the gap
between the small companies and the
large companies. Yeah. Democratization
of execution. Let's get into both some
real life demos and then we're going to
actually teach you how to build the
first version of your master prompt for
you and your company or organization. So
watch till the
end., All right., So, now, we've, moved, to
the computer and we are looking now at
your claude account. Say a little bit
about why you have chosen to use cloud
for this. I use claude because it has
this basically setting preference that
lets you basically put in this. It's
called personal preferences. Um that
lets you put in everything about your
company. So this goes into every single
prompt. And then the other reason I use
cloud is that it also has projects and
these projects um for example can when
you go in it has a sources right and so
these sources over here also have
project knowledge and I can share these
projects with other people whenever I
make a prompt from within this project
it uses not only what's in the settings
but it also uses everything that's
within this project knowledge and if I
can share this project with other people
so notebook element it's kind of like
this is like notebook LM with a separate
notebook for everyone. Um, what notebook
Ellen doesn't have is this sort of
preferences thing and and that's your
master prompt basically. Could we see
that again real quick? Sure. Just to
give people a little preview. So this is
that you said 20 or 30 page doc that has
all the context about this particular
business. Yep. So I I share this with
everyone on the team and I always ask
them to uh just update this part. Right.
So obviously this is me and this is my
position. I'm the founder. also some
personal stuff, right? Shows what my
strengths are. Also shows what my
weaknesses are. And I also have a how I
want AI to help me. I hope to be able to
use AI and technology to fill in for the
weakness, which is driving
accountability, keeping everything on
schedule, internal communication, not
doing things that I don't like doing.
These are the co key focus areas. Again
this is for acquir uh and empower
together in one. It's not we have
separate ones for different businesses.
Then we have like business structure
stuff, which I don't often use. We have
sort of what of our what our products
are. It's like a compendium of knowledge
about this business. Yeah. So, you know
what I used to use and was we had what
was a goo a big Google doc that I just
called our executive um library and I
just put everything in there. Now, this
is kind of the same, but it's also NI.
So, yeah. So, it shows our salesunnel
and our conversion metrics, our sales
process, our timing of closes, our
qualification,
um our workshops. This is all stuff on
our team. Who's on the team? What's the
cost of each team? And this is where
we're going to show people in a minute
to, create, for, themselves., At least, the
first version. Exactly. Yeah. And some
of the the pieces that matter at the end
are sort of more like so we're going to
show how to do this, but so for example
131 is something I've used in all of my
businesses. Uh whenever I ask for one
I'm asking you to help a decision-making
framework in which you determine the
problem, the outcome, and provide three
potential paths and one recommended
course of action. And then I always ask
it to ask five questions one at a time
um to get what you need to do this and
answer each question based on what you
know about the business and situation.
Present your answer and allow me to edit
it or approve it before you proceed to
the next question. It's not just uh
literal factual information about the
business like you would find in a
business directory. It's like frameworks
that you use. Yep. Yeah. So all of these
are like we're going to show how what
this actually creates this AI hiring
one. Um so this is one prompt. Uh AI
CMO. We can show that as well. AISP, we
can show that as well. They're sort of
like almost like mini programs that you
write protocols. Yeah. They're like
little protocols. Um, and like the nice
thing about LLMs is that they are, you
know, you multimodal, so you can take a
screenshot and put it in. You can, you
know, take all sorts of stuff and put it
in. So, a project you mentioned is just
really just a conversational interface
to a set of documents. Exactly. Right.
Yeah. So, it's almost like it's adding
to the master prompt, but just for those
things. So in this project for example
this is on this is all related to um the
seller funnel and us working with
sellers and not working with buyers. So
there's no reason for me to put this in
the master prompt that all people on the
buyer side of the business will use.
Might even get confusing and pull the
wrong info. Exactly. It's almost like
you want this global context, but then
you actually want silos. Yep. You want
little enclaves of protected information
that aren't shared universally. Yep. And
how about um the sharability? You
mentioned if you have someone working
with, you, on, one, of these, projects,, you
can share it with them. Yep. You can
share chats uh and you can share
projects. And if you share a project
can they have their own conversation
with that project? Yep. And do you have
access to that conversation or it's it's
private to them? I believe I do. Um I
don't really use it like that very
often. and chatbt. Just as a point of
comparison, at least on the day we're
recording this, you can create a
project, but you can't share that
project with anyone, right? Yeah. When I
first looked into chat GPT for these
options, it was a bunch of different
things that it couldn't do. Um, the
master prompt is another one. Chat GPT
can't do it. Gemini has gems and they
just don't work properly. Mhm. Uh at
least right now as of April 29th at 4:46
p.m.
Uh and uh the only two that are kind of
options for this are are Notebook LM and
Claude. I find that Claude is just a
little bit better for just share general
sharability. Yeah. Um but notebook. All
right. So this was a good introduction
to how you use Claude. Let's look at a
couple use cases. So what are some
examples of of uh problems you were
trying to solve or things you were
trying to build that were either way
faster or way more effective or
profitable or whatever it is because of
because of the master prompt method in
AI. AI like I said is can democratize
execution meaning even small enterprises
even you know a one-person company can
now take on a process that would be
typically reserved for a company the
size of GM right and so one hiring
practice that um we use in our companies
uh is top grading and top grading is a
lot of work uh you have to you know
obviously the cliche of you know hiring
slow and firing fast definitely exists
but you put in a ton of effort, you have
way more interviews. Um, and then you
also measure um much more uh regularly.
Do you want to do this without the
master prompt first or I can if you
like. Sure. Yeah. So, yeah, this has no
no, personal, preferences., Just, kind, of a
blank account. Um, so let's say I I just
want to say uh uh I want to hire a
marketing director or acquire a
help. So you can see interesting. I have
to, go, back., It's, like,, all right,, well,
give me context, right? What does
acquire do? What are the key
responsibilities? What are the specific
qualifications or experience you're
looking for? So it's basically kind of
like if I have to type all this out, I'm
basically someone's just typing for me
right? Right. Or, you know, adding some
words in. Okay. Okay. So, if I go to my
version here, I just say do AI hiring
for marketing director. And AI hiring is
like a trigger word that activates that
protocol., Yeah., So,, that's, one, of the
words I had in my in my master. And when
you say acquirer, that one word, it
knows everything about acquir.
Yeah. So, first is ask me questions.
This is what I have it programmed to do
and it answers its own question. So what
are the primary responsibilities of this
market? By the way, we don't have a
marketing director require. Um, so it's
interesting that it kind of understands
this. Um, so leading overall marketing
strategy, generate leads for both of our
programs, managing our multi-
channelannel marketing approach. It
knows it's emails, a AI agent texting
and paid ads, overseeing content
creation for nurturing our list
directing both buyer side and seller
side marketing efforts, managing
marketing team that includes blah blah
blah. So I mean, this is perfect, so
I'll just say yes. Yeah.
All
right. Right. So now it's just going to
create a job descript. This is the other
thing I really like about Claude is it
has these things called artifacts.
Um and you'll see it'll it'll create
multiple in a second. But notice how
over here it's doing exactly what I
mentioned. So it's got the
responsibility, it's got the market, the
metric to measure, and it's got our
quarterly target for each one of these.
And again, we don't actually have this
position. So it's making some
assumptions here. Mh. Uh, it's got the A
player versus B player performance
across all of these. Um, it's got the
month one outcomes, the month two
outcomes, the month three and beyond
outcomes. It's got what the ideal
background. When you've done this in the
past, you've gone through this in great
detail and really verified it. Yeah. I
mean, we we can go through it that
typically the things that will that I
will always look at will be like
specifically this and like the targets
make sure they're accurate. This would
have taken our HR director a bunch of
time to create. like how much time would
you estimate? So each of it's creating a
lot of artifacts right now. So this is
probably the hardest one. Um this would
probably take the better part of a week
simply because you have to have meetings
with in this case whoever the direct
report or the direct manager would be
which would probably be like the CEO.
Mhm. Right. Because we don't have like a
a VP there. That's multiple meetings and
multiple reviews and then also just at
least a couple days of work putting it
putting it together. So okay that that's
one thing. Um this is right here is the
recruitment materials. So it creates
again this is part of the prompt in AI
hiring. It creates uh a screening
interview uh criteria. So obviously
we're, going to, put, out, um, job, ads, and, we
don't want to have to interview every
single person. So it asks for a cover
letter. It defines what should be in
that cover letter and it based on it
being able to screen and score so that
when we actually do interviews uh we
don't we only do it with people above 20
out of 30 to advance. Uh and so this
here are some of the sample questions.
Uh here's if we email to our list about
the role. Uh here is a job posting for
external sites. Um, and then here is if
people pass that screening interview
here's what the working interviews would
be. Mhm. So, in a position like this
we'd probably have a couple working
interviews with a couple people. Um, so
we'd have one here, this just what it's
recommending. Marketing funnel
optimization. Another is email marketing
revitalization. A third is new product
launch marketing plan. Uh, it also gives
we always do homework for managers or
above. Um, and so basically giving us a
couple options for homework to give
them. This always took me a ton of time
to think about like good homework for a
role and they're always really good.
Um, and then again, this is like top
grading would do all of these things.
Most people in a company of like 30 to
40 people like Acquir, you wouldn't do
this. You'd just be like, "Yep, looks
like he can type on a keyboard." I mean
give him a chance. Yeah. It's like for a
company already like a massive
multinational already doing top grading.
This is like okay more efficiency faster
time but for I mean I'm thinking of my
company which is much even much smaller
five people we would simply not do
anything like this. We would be like oh
we know a guy who does this so and so
and just invite him invite him on and
like what's the difference? So, so the
difference might
be that you know
a let's say 50% more people in this
method are a players. Mhm. Right. Then
in your method. So you take two
companies, two ident two identical
companies going at the same motion, you
maybe need to make if you're growing
maybe year one you make three hires. Um
maybe one of yours works out and two of
mine work out. That's right. Huge. But
that's huge. And now next year because
two of mine work out I need to make six
hires and you need to make three hires
and now four of mine work out and one of
your like that just it's a divergence.
It's huge because companies really it is
about people right nowadays because you
can do this like this in my opinion will
become common place again it'll depend
on the industry and how much people use
AI. It'll probably take many years
before every small business is doing it
but there's no reason in my opinion why
should people shouldn't do this right
now. Everybody watching this video
should do this. This was an awesome
example. Um, let's look at a different
one. Let's look at kind of the opposite
like something operations related in all
my
companies. Another thing that is I'd say
we do at a smaller size than most
companies because it's I think it's
really important to get consistency
across the board is fulfillment engines.
Um, but they're basically flowcharts of
process. Uh and so this is a process
that we use uh and in one of our
products basically to um you know
someone pays money they get onboarded
and we start searching for a business
for them and it kind of starts here at
us receiving money and it ends this just
this part ends at getting uh an LOI a
letter of intent a letter of intent
counter signed by a seller right and so
there's kind of two mark two paths to it
there's on market and offmarket we do
both um at the same time effectively
like this is a good onboarding tool for
people because and it's also just good a
good tool for your onboarding of
customers as well as your employees and
then it's also like each of these
actually links to process right and SOPs
and checklists right and I think
everyone knows they should do this but
it's a pain in the ass you have to be
like a a certain kind of weird to enjoy
it um which I'm not and my daughter is
she loves it but check this out so I'm
just going to take a screenshot any chat
here and just to test this out. I'm
going to say what is this? Let me paste
it in the
screenshot. Okay, it says this appears
to be a process flow diagram for the A+
program onboarding and deal sourcing
workflow.
Um, it's describing it to me accurately.
Mhm. So, I'm just going to say do AI SOP
where we stop which is another protocol.
Yeah, another protocol that we define in
the master prob. This one is like two
paragraphs right?
which starts with whenever I say AOS
SOP.
And so what it's now doing is it's
taking every single step here and it's
turning it's basically creating the SOP
for it. Uh now you can go even further
and you can actually have if you have
Claude make this flowchart for you uh
and then have it do it. Um I personally
prefer when we're teaching companies, I
personally prefer to actually do this
manually just so people really think
about it. Um because I think that piece
does
require some brain power. What's the
impact of being able to document a
process like this? What what difference
does it make? Uh accountability. Mhm.
It's probably the biggest difference.
Accountability for for employees to to
follow the process. To follow the
process. Yeah. Uh there's never, you
know, if if something doesn't get done
there's only a few reasons why that
happens, right? um either they didn't
know it needed to be done um they didn't
know how to do it or they weren't bought
in to do it right and so this completely
eliminates
the first two right you know it needs to
be done and you know how to do it I
guess and on the buy in it helps a lot
it's much easier to understand what
you're helping achieve and what your
role is in it and so actually we have
these things called clarity boards so if
you go back to like this other one that
I did here, right? Um, by the way, I
always, have, at least, three, chats, going
on at once while I wait for AI. Yeah.
Um, so in this one right here, like what
we do is we have like a clarity board
which has all of these on separate um
it's like a one-stop shop for employees
and it also has a fulfillment engine for
that employment employee just what they
need to do, right? It's almost like an
employee handbook or a man a manual in a
way. That's also included. The actual
employee handbook's included in it as
well. M um do you ever find that the the
people in your companies following this
do they ever ask the AI for help, if
they get stuck on one of the steps or
somewhere in the process? They
absolutely can. I just want to like
stress that that each one this is just
it's a pain to do. They're very
accurate. Like they're actually when I
reviewed these, they were more accurate
than the first reviews I did when they
were actually made because for Acquir
we made these maybe a year ago, a little
under a year ago. And it took months to
do and it was a lot of work for a lot of
people, right? Um because and then you
have someone who has to own the SOP.
This right here was probably the
replacement of at least three months of
work. Mhm. Now there's still part of the
challenge now is like how do you get buy
in? Because sometimes when someone has
spent months working on it like they
just need to get buy in because
it was so much work. uh and now so
sometimes you can see that people care a
little bit less because the effort
wasn't there. SOPs and documentation is
so interesting because it's it's
important for companies of all sizes.
Like I can I can imagine a massive
corporation needing to do that but also
in our tiny team of five. The only way
we can run our company with so few
people is with really good
documentation. It's like every person in
our team on our team has five hats that
they wear and they to switch between
those roles they need they need, you
know, notes and documentation. So that's
that's a the solution you showed is one
that encompasses a super wide variety of
companies and organizations. Yep. And
it's just one example, right? This if
you recall in my preference when I said
what my weaknesses were, it was exactly
this. And I said, I want AI to help me
with this. And so that's how I use it.
But I think as people use it, they're
going to find even more use cases again
just with an LLM. Yeah. Going back and
forth. And the the thing that I really
encourage is whenever so it's a couple
things. Um when you're using Claude, I
always encourage you to ask Claude to
ask you questions. And then if you have
a master prompt, I always encourage like
answer your own question based on what
you know and then stop and let me look
at it just to save you time. So you
don't actually have to type anything. Um
and then you also are able to see what
does Claude not actually understand
correctly, right? And then you can go
back and change the master prompt.
Interesting. Right. So that's part of
the iterative process. say a little bit
about how this is impacting the
structure of teams or the size of teams
or the roles on those teams. I think
there will be no director layer at all.
Um and I think the manager layer will
probably expand like so typically you
kind of had like this a 50 person
company would have sort of seven um sort
of front-facing technicians, right? Um
for every manager. And so you'd have
seven people to seven managers to like
you know, let's call it one CEO. And so
that's a 50 person structure. And when
you think about that like from a from a
headcount ratio perspective, um it's not
bad, right? You've got effectively 42
people um being paid that are revenue
generating and you have eight people
that are supporting.
However, getting to that stage
is a ton of work. And so there's there's
this stage everyone some people call it
the valley of death some people call it
the swamp right and it's the stage where
you're kind of you're still too small to
be able to afford to like hire that
layer of management. And so the only
real way to overcome it is you either
take a risk and do a hire with with all
your profit or stop paying yourself or
you work way more hours or you do both.
And so to get to that 50 of efficiency
most, of the, companies, that, we're, buying
actually have about 25 30 employees and
it becomes super inefficient. So you end
up having maybe 12 or 13 sort of front
level techs and then you end up having
like
five managers and like two people that
wear like four hats and so it ends up
being really inefficient and maybe in a
in your previous company or in your
current company you have something like
that where I c I mean I certainly have
and so what I think will happen is you
will just have the front level people
right just the people actually doing the
workney
Yeah. And depending on the business
plumbers, HBAC, like you need actual
people to go to someone's house, right?
You need cars. You're limited to the
number of, you know, hours they have in
a day. Yeah. Um, but what you sell, you
sell an info product, right? And
actually, you sell an info product
without sales. So, actually, it could
be, you could have almost infinite
amount of revenue coming in with very
very few employees, right? Yeah.
Um and so that's why we have we have two
portfolios. One portfolio is like will
not be replaced by technology but will
not scale at like 5x a year and then we
have the other portfolio that's like
scale like crazy. Um but you're going to
be competing with other people who are
scaling like crazy. Interesting. So
yeah, long answer to your question. I
think you're going to have far larger
companies with far fewer employees. AI
will be all your director layer will be
your CEO layer. Um it will just be
basically owner and then front level
people. So if you're still watching at
this point, you want to do this, you
understand the context, you understand
the impact, you understand the
implications, I really want you to try
this for yourself. So, we are going to
move over to the flip chart and teach
you how to come up with at least the V1
of your master prompt. Ready? Let's do
it. So, I'm going to assume you work in
an organization of some kind like a
company. You might be a manager, a
director, a VP, a CEO, or even the
owner. How would someone working in an
organization or company like that get
started with the master prompt method?
Yeah. So, I would first probably just
create a Google doc. Um, and I'd start
creating some sections. And so I think
the first section would be personal
info. Pardon my writing. I was a doctor
in a former life.
So outside of your name, um, this is
going to be like what's your
role? What company do you work in? How
do you want to use AI? What are your
strengths? What are your weaknesses?
That will help AI kind of personalize
and give it the context that you need.
Okay. Next, obviously we need some
company info.
Um so here is like when was the company
established
how many employees does it
have who if it's part of the personal
like who do you report to and then some
important questions about like what
markets do they serve who is their ideal
customer what products and services do
they have so each of these questions and
we can go over them but each of these
questions I actually recommend if you
don't know the answer actually just talk
to AI right and so if you don't know who
they serve perfectly just literally you
know type a message like hey help me
determine who our ideal client u profile
is totally right and take their answer
like put it in a separate artifact take
their answer copy and paste it in your
Google Google doc when you're happy with
it um so yeah that's the that's the who
right there's also like the what which
is like what do you do right? Um what is
the outcome that you're effectively
trying to give to your customer? And
again, you can if if you don't know
exactly how to phrase that, it's
probably good to actually chat back and
forth. Use AI as a thought partner.
Third is that is the how, right? So, how
do you do it and how is that different
from your competitors? So, then I would
say like market information. Who are
your competitors is a good one. Um what
do they do? I especially if you're in
marketing, that's super useful. For each
of these sections, is there like a
minimal length you would look for, like
a word count or what level of detail?
Honestly, a paragraph is probably fine.
Um, any level of detail is better than
none. Yeah. Uh, and what you may find is
as you work back and forth with Claude
or Notebook LM or whatever, you may
decide that based on the results, you
may decide, you know, that wasn't
perfect. And so, I'm going to go and add
a little bit more info. So, I would
actually just recommend everything I
talked about, maybe write like one to
two sentences. Outside of market, this
is going to be more than five. Uh, we
have uh people or team, who's on the
team, right? If you're the owner of a
small business, I would actually just
talk about, you know, who reports to
you, who reports to each of those
people. If you want to bring finance
into this and you can make financial
decisions, uh, you can put that stuff
in. Just keep in mind if you're going to
share this with people on your team, you
might there may be some stuff you don't
want to share. I like to put team plus
APIs. So for each person, what is their
one number, which is super important.
Um, again, if you don't know, then ask
Claude, hey, you know, this person does
this. I need to figure out what would be
the best KPI for them. And then products
and services. So, this I'll
um talk about all of the products
including potentially planned products
what do they cost, what are their
features, what are the benefits, and
like that's a great start, those five
things. Um the the last thing that
especially for someone who's a business
owner or someone in a leadership
position I would say would be like
culture and this
is quite
important because culture which would
include core values right it's a kind of
like a who is on the bus right um
mission
all of that stuff will kind of define
everything you do in each of these and
like the AIS SAP for example our core
values require our serve right
systematic excellence which you probably
see a lot and what I'm talking about um
is the S and so it knows whenever we say
we want to create an SOP it knows to do
that when we do an email to the list it
knows to do that when we create content
it knows to mention our core values and
ultimately that's kind of what creates
and positions you in your market and
people who share those values kind of
orient towards
become true fans. So culture is really
important. So those things it's so
important. I'm just going to put a
little little subheader here.
So I would say core
values if you don't know them. Cloud's
really good at helping you identify
them.
Mission um be hag is a nice one. It's
like your big hairy audacious goal
right? And then the the final thing
which is maybe outside of the scope of
this video um would be the actual kind
of prompts, right? And and a lot of that
can be tailored to your business, right?
So the AI SOP, the um AI hiring, right?
And as you and again, you just figure
that out as you keep on going. Maybe you
read a book and you really like some
concept and you think to yourself, how
can I implement this into the master
prompt? Oh, fascinating. Oh, that's such
a good So, it's like sometimes you're
reading a book, you're like, I wish I
could just like install this book like a
software program into my business and
now you can. Yeah. Yeah. I played with
some stuff too about like, you know
there's like what would Jesus do, right?
Or what would this ex business person
do, right? It's so easy to do with AI
right? Just prompt it because it has all
the information about the Yeah. Right.
What about like goals or strategy? Does
that figure into here as well? For sure.
Um, the only reason I wouldn't put this
in in your first master prompt is as you
use AI, any goals and strategy you have
today are most likely going to change
massively. Um, as you kind of explore
and realize what AI is capable of. Uh, I
know for ourselves, you know, we used to
I mean, we used to plan three years in
advance. M I've gone down to 6 months in
advance just because I've noticed that
technology shifts um just make new
things possible. Mhm. Um I know at the
beginning of I was looking at like my
2024 goals that we shared with our
leadership team uh and it had like the
2-year goals and so like three year
goals 2024 25 26 I was looking at the
2026 number and today like in 2020 25
our 2026 number is like four times what
it was back then mostly because of AI
mostly all because of AI like it's only
in the last year last six months really
that that changed mass massively. Wow.
Okay, that's a great piece of advice.
Don't don't put in free AI
plans that you expect to come to
fruition. I'd love if you give this a
try. If you could share with us in the
comments below what you found, how did
it go? What were the wins? What were the
obstacles? We'll do our best to respond
to those comments and guide you further.
But otherwise, uh, thanks for being a
guest on the channel and teaching us
what you know. Hayden, I would also love
to know in the comments if you are able
to use this in something that's not
business. What kind of master prompt did
you create and like what kind of uh
sections did you put in it? That'd be
really interesting to me. I hope that
was interesting. I hope it was valuable
and most of all, I hope it was helpful.
You can find out much more about the
master prompt method and the new program
that we're teaching called Second Brain
Enterprise at the link below. Thanks for
watching and I'll see you next time.
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