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The Grill Me Workflow: How to Extract Domain Expertise for Better AI

Generic prompts result in generic outputs. To build tools that reflect your unique taste, you must let the AI interview you until it understands your logic.

  1. Recursive Interviewing

    Use a specific prompt that commands the AI to interview you relentlessly about a project or process. Tell it to ask only one question at a time. This ensures you cover every branch of a decision tree without overwhelming the model or skipping critical details.

  2. Persistent Markdown Checkpointing

    AI sessions can lose focus as the conversation grows. Instruct the model to create a dedicated brainstorm folder and write every insight to a markdown file immediately. This persistent log acts as a permanent memory of your specific business logic.

  3. Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Action

    After the interview, ask the AI to identify gaps between your conversation and your current system prompts. Tell it to update your skill files and technical documentation based on the session highlights. This turns a simple chat into a functional upgrade for your automation.

Why it matters

Small business owners often struggle to make AI sound or act like them. This recursive method extracts your taste and decision-making framework into a reusable format. It reduces the time spent on manual iterations and increases the success rate of your AI tools from the very first run.