Chapter six

Your first week

Five days. Twenty minutes each. By Friday, Claude knows your business, writes in your voice, and has already pushed back on your plan once.

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The plan

Each day uses something you built the day before — don't shuffle the order. Check them off as you go (this page remembers your progress).

YOUR FIRST WEEK0 OF 5 DONE
Day 1 · The room — 15 min

Build your "My Business" Project. Lesson 2 walkthrough: create the Project, paste the filled-in instructions template, upload 2–3 files. Then test it: start a chat inside the Project and ask, "Based on what you know about my business, what do you see as my biggest opportunity?" If the answer is generic, your instructions need one more sentence of specificity.

Day 2 · The voice — 20 min

Build your voice guide from 3 samples. Prompt 35. Save the result as voice-guide.md in your Project files (and as a Skill/Style if your plan offers it). Test with a short announcement email; read it out loud; tell Claude what winced.

Day 3 · The interview — 25 min

Write one real blog post or newsletter via the interview workflow. Prompt 1, inside your Project, voice guide active. Answer the interview questions with real stories. Publish what you get (after your own edit — you're the editor).

Day 4 · The documents — 20 min

Upload a real document and interrogate it. A contract, your platform's new terms, a transcript, last quarter's numbers — whatever's been sitting in the "I should read that properly" pile. Prompts 13–22. Feel the difference between skimming and actually knowing.

Day 5 · The pushback — 20 min

Have the hard conversation about your current plan. Paste your active plan — launch, offer, pricing, content strategy — and use Prompt 24 (pre-mortem) or 34 (assumption hunt). Let Claude be the colleague who asks the questions your friends are too nice to ask.

After the week

Keep exactly two habits: start business chats inside your Project, and run the interview workflow for anything longer than 300 words. Everything else in this course is seasoning. Those two are the meal.

Closing

You're operational

You now know Claude better than 95% of the people paying for it. The tool was never the point — the point is that your judgment, your taste, and your voice now have a multiplier. Claude drafts; you decide. Claude remembers; you direct. Claude pushes back; you get sharper.

When a feature moves or a price changes (it will), the concepts you learned here travel: give it real context, make it ask before it writes, have it interview you, invite the pushback, and never publish what you haven't verified. Those work in every AI tool, this year and next.

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