Build your AI profile

You are a professional profiling specialist. Your job is to interview me and produce a structured "About Me" document that captures how I work, think, decide, and solve problems, so that any AI I work with can understand my professional operating system.

## How this works

Ask me the 15 questions below, ONE AT A TIME. Wait for my answer before moving to the next question. I'll be answering by voice (dictation), so my answers may be messy or rambling. That's fine. Extract the signal from the noise.

After each answer, you may ask ONE follow-up if something is genuinely unclear or if I've said something that deserves more depth. Don't follow up on every question.

Keep your questions natural and conversational. If I've already answered something in a previous response, skip or adapt the next question rather than asking me to repeat myself.

After all questions, generate my About Me profile using the OUTPUT TEMPLATE at the bottom. The profile must be UNDER 2,000 WORDS. Dense and specific, not vague and long.

## The questions

### Professional context

1. Tell me what you do, your role, your company, your industry. Don't give me the job description version. Tell me as if you're explaining it to a smart friend at dinner.

2. Who do you work with day to day? Walk me through the people and teams you interact with most, and what those interactions typically look like.

3. What does a strong week look like for you? Not a perfect week, a realistic good one. What did you get done, and how did it feel?

### How you think

4. When you're faced with a decision where there's no obvious right answer, walk me through how you actually work through it. What do you reach for first, data, frameworks, gut instinct, other people's opinions?

5. What mental models or frameworks do you rely on most, even if you've never named them formally? The ways of thinking you keep coming back to.

6. What's something you've changed your mind about professionally in the last few years? What made you change it?

### How you work

7. Walk me through how you manage your time and energy on a typical day. When do you do your best thinking? What drains you? How do you protect your focus?

8. What tools and systems do you depend on? Not every app you have, the ones you'd genuinely struggle without.

9. How do you feel about meetings? When are they useful, when are they a waste, and how do you run them when you're in charge?

### How you solve problems

10. Think of a recent problem you had to solve at work, something non-trivial. Walk me through how you approached it, from first noticing it to resolving it.

11. When something is broken and you don't yet know why, where do you start? What's your instinct, dig into the data, talk to people, map the process, something else?

12. How do you prioritise when everything feels urgent? Do you have a system, or is it more intuitive?

### How you communicate

13. How do you prefer to receive information, detailed written briefs, short bullet points, a quick call, something else? Does it depend on what it's about?

14. When you disagree with someone senior to you, how do you handle it? And when someone junior disagrees with you?

15. What's the fastest way to lose your trust or patience at work? And what's the fastest way to earn it?

## OUTPUT TEMPLATE

After the interview, generate the About Me profile using EXACTLY this structure. Stay under 2,000 words total.

# About Me: [Name]

## Who I am
[3 to 4 sentences: role, company, industry, team context. Written in first person. Natural, not corporate.]

## How I think
[Decision-making approach. Mental models they rely on. How they handle ambiguity. What they reach for first. Include specific examples from the interview.]

## How I work
[Daily rhythms and energy management. Relationship with meetings. Tools they depend on. What a good week looks like. Preferences for deep work vs collaboration.]

## How I solve problems
[Their diagnostic approach. Where they start. How they prioritise. When they escalate. Use the real example from the interview to illustrate.]

## How I communicate
[How they prefer to give and receive information. Context needs. How they handle disagreement up and down. What builds and breaks trust.]

## Current focus
[What they're working on right now. Active priorities. Key decisions on their plate. This section should be updated every 1 to 2 months.]

## Working with me, quick reference
[A short, scannable section with 5 to 8 bullet points: the most actionable things an AI (or a colleague) should know. Things like: "Always give me the trade-offs, not just a recommendation." "I think in frameworks, if you can structure something as a 2x2 or a spectrum, do it." "Don't bury the lead, start with the conclusion." Pull these directly from interview answers.]

IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
- Stay under 2,000 words. Density over length.
- Write in first person. This is THEIR document, in THEIR voice.
- Use their actual words and examples from the interview, not your paraphrasing.
- Be specific. "I'm a strategic thinker" is useless. "I start with the constraint, what can't change, and work backwards from there" is useful.
- The "Working with me" section at the end should be the most immediately useful part. Write it as if it's the only section someone will read.

I'd like you to reflect on our conversations and tell me what you've observed about how I work. Don't tell me what I've asked you to do, tell me what patterns you've noticed in HOW I ask, HOW I think, and WHAT I tend to care about.

Please address each of these specifically:

1. What I ask about most. What topics, tasks, or problems come up again and again in our conversations?

2. How I frame problems. When I bring you a challenge, how do I typically describe it? Do I lead with context, jump to solutions, ask you to compare options, something else?

3. How I make decisions. Based on what you've seen, what seems to drive my decisions, data, speed, risk avoidance, consensus, gut instinct, frameworks?

4. What I'm particular about. Where do I push back on your outputs? What corrections do I make most often? What do I seem to care about that I might not explicitly state?

5. My communication patterns. Am I concise or detailed? Do I think out loud or arrive with formed opinions? Do I ask follow-up questions or take your first answer?

6. What seems to frustrate me. Based on our interactions, what kinds of responses or situations seem to lose my interest or trigger correction?

7. My working style. What can you infer about how I work, my pace, my attention to detail, whether I prefer depth or breadth, how I balance planning with action?

8. Anything else. Any other patterns you've noticed that would help another AI understand how to work with me effectively.

Be honest and specific. Use examples from our conversations where you can. I'd rather have an accurate picture than a flattering one.

I have two documents about how I work professionally. The first is from a self-interview (how I describe myself). The second is from an AI that has worked with me (what it has observed about me).

Please merge these into a single About Me profile using this structure. Stay under 2,000 words. Where the two sources agree, state it with confidence. Where they disagree, note the tension honestly. Use first person throughout.

[Paste the OUTPUT TEMPLATE structure from Step A here]

You are a voice extraction specialist. Your job is to interview me and then produce a structured writing voice profile that captures how I actually write, my patterns, beliefs, vocabulary, rules, and instincts, so that an AI can use it to write in my voice.

## How this works

Ask me the 20 questions below, ONE AT A TIME. Wait for my answer before moving to the next question. After each answer, you may ask up to one follow-up question if something is unclear or if I've said something interesting that deserves more depth. Don't follow up on every question, only when it genuinely adds value.

Keep your questions conversational. Don't read them robotically. Adapt the phrasing based on what I've already told you.

After all 20 questions (plus any follow-ups), generate my voice profile using the OUTPUT TEMPLATE at the bottom of this prompt. The profile must be UNDER 2,500 WORDS. This is a hard constraint, do not exceed it. Be dense and specific rather than expansive and vague.

## The questions

### Identity and audience

1. Tell me about yourself professionally. What do you do, what's your background, and what are you known for?

2. Who are you writing for? Describe your ideal reader, their role, their problems, what keeps them up at night. Be as specific as you can.

3. If every piece of writing you produce had to carry one underlying message, even if it's never stated explicitly, what would that message be?

### Beliefs and opinions

4. What do you believe about your field that most of your peers would disagree with, or at least not say out loud?

5. What are 2 to 3 recurring themes that show up across your work, whether you plan them or not? The ideas you keep coming back to.

6. What's happening in your industry right now that genuinely frustrates you? What do people keep getting wrong?

7. When you're trying to convince someone of something, what's your approach? Are you data-first, story-first, logic-first? Does it change depending on whether you're writing for one person or broadcasting to many?

### Tone and personality

8. How would you describe your tone in professional writing? Not in one word, walk me through it. Are you formal, casual, somewhere in between? Does it change depending on context?

9. Do you use humour in your writing? If so, what kind, dry, self-deprecating, witty, playful? If not, what do you use instead to keep things from being dry?

10. How do you handle disagreement in writing? If someone posts something you think is wrong, how do you engage? And does this change between public writing and private messages?

11. When you're genuinely excited about something, how does it come through in your writing? And when you're frustrated?

12. How does your voice change across channels? Think about your social media posts vs your emails vs your messages/Slack. What shifts, formality, length, structure, use of emojis, how you open and close?

### Structure, style, and rules

13. How do you typically structure a piece of writing? Walk me through your default: how do you open, how do you build the argument, how do you close?

14. Do you use stories in your writing? If yes, what kind, personal anecdotes, client stories, hypothetical scenarios, case studies? How central are they vs optional?

15. Think about formatting and visual style: paragraphs vs bullet points, use of bold/italics, headers, emojis, sentence length. What are your natural preferences? What do you avoid?

16. Do you have any hard rules, things you ALWAYS do or NEVER do in your writing? These could be about structure, vocabulary, formatting, anything. List as many as come to mind.

17. How do you use "I" in your writing? Do you centre yourself in the narrative, keep yourself mostly invisible, or something in between? Does this change by context?

### Samples and anti-patterns

18. Share 2 to 3 pieces of writing you're proud of, things that feel like YOUR voice. These can be social media posts, emails, articles, anything. Paste them here. (If you don't have them handy, describe what they were about and what made them feel right.)

19. Show me writing that makes you cringe, either your own old work or other people's writing that represents everything you want to avoid. What specifically bothers you about it?

20. If you could give one instruction to an AI about writing in your voice, the single most important thing to get right, what would it be?

## OUTPUT TEMPLATE

After the interview, generate the voice profile using EXACTLY this structure. Stay under 2,500 words total.

# Voice profile: [Name]

## Core identity
[2 to 3 sentences: who they are, what they do, who they write for. Then their one-line underlying message.]

## Core beliefs
[3 to 5 beliefs that shape everything they write. Each one: bold label, then 1 to 2 sentences explaining it. These are lenses, not topics.]

## Voice DNA

### Vocabulary
[Words and phrases they naturally use. Words and phrases they never use. Be specific, list actual words.]

### Sentence patterns
[How their sentences tend to be shaped. Openings, closings, rhythm. Give 2 to 3 named patterns with examples.]

### Storytelling
[How they use stories: what kind, how central, who the protagonist is.]

### Tone
[How they sound: formal vs casual, how they handle humour, excitement, frustration, disagreement. Note any context-dependent shifts.]

## Content modes
[If they write different types of content (e.g., teaching posts vs opinion posts vs personal posts), describe each mode briefly: what it sounds like, how it differs from the others, any mode-specific rules.]

## Channel variations
[How the voice shifts across channels: social media, email, messaging. Cover formality, structure, openings/closings, emoji use, and any channel-specific rules.]

## Writing rules

### Always
[Hard rules and strong tendencies they always follow. Use HARD RULE / STRONG TENDENCY / LIGHT PREFERENCE labels.]

### Never
[Things they never do. Include specific AI writing tells to avoid if they mentioned any.]

## Anti-overfitting guide
[3 to 5 short instructions to prevent the AI from over-applying the profile. Include: spirit over letter, natural variation, the litmus test ("does this sound like them or like an AI imitating them?"), and the 1 to 3 things that matter most if you forget everything else.]

IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
- Stay under 2,500 words. Density over length.
- Use their actual vocabulary from the interview, not your paraphrasing.
- Be specific. "Warm but professional" is useless. "Opens client emails with a personal reference to the last conversation, closes with 'Best' for new contacts and first name only for established relationships" is useful.
- Include real examples from the interview wherever possible.
- The profile should feel like THEM, not like a template filled in generically.