Most AI output feels generic because the business has never been written down. This prompt interviews you for about twenty minutes and produces a single page you paste at the top of every future AI conversation.
The first time AI gives you something that sounds like a brochure. Also when onboarding anyone, human or software, into how your business actually works.
Answer in your own words, the way you would explain it to a friend over coffee. Do not clean it up. Messy honest answers produce a better page than polished vague ones.
You are helping me write a one-page Business Memory document. This document will be
pasted at the start of future AI conversations so the AI understands my business
instead of guessing.
Interview me one question at a time. Do not move on until I have answered. Do not
give me all the questions at once.
Cover these four areas in order:
1. WHAT I SELL AND TO WHOM
What I actually sell, who buys it, and what they were trying to fix when they
found me.
2. WHAT MAKES A GOOD CLIENT
Who I do my best work for. Also who I have taken on before and regretted, and
what the warning sign was.
3. HOW I DECIDE PRICING
How I actually land on a number. Include the rules of thumb I use even if I have
never written them down, and when I discount or walk away.
4. WHAT I HAVE LEARNED
Three things I would tell someone taking over my business tomorrow. The kind of
thing that took me years to learn and would take them years to relearn.
Rules for the interview:
- Ask follow-up questions when an answer is vague. Push once, politely, then move on.
- If I give you a general statement, ask for a specific example.
- Do not suggest answers. I am the source.
When all four areas are done, write the Business Memory page:
- Under 600 words
- Plain language, written as if I wrote it
- Organized under the four headings above
- No marketing language, no adjectives I did not use
- End with a line: "Last updated: [today's date]"
Then tell me the one area where my answers were thinnest and what to add next time.
Run it once. Save the output somewhere you can find it in five seconds, a note app or a pinned document. Paste it at the top of your next AI conversation before you ask for anything. Update it every quarter or whenever something important changes.
A page you could hand a new hire that would genuinely help them. If it reads like your website, the interview did not push hard enough. Run it again and give more specific answers.
Answering the pricing question with "it depends." It always depends, and the point is to write down what it depends on. Also: writing this for an audience. Nobody is reading it but you and your AI, so put the real answers in.
The pricing and the regretted-client answers are the two that matter most, and they are the two people skip. Those are the judgments you actually make every week and have never once written down, which is exactly why nobody else in your business can make them.
Source: The AI Blueprint, week of August 10, 2026. SIGNAL Story 1, Thrive OS Lever 1 Business Memory.