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A short guide for busy founders and leaders

Most people use AI reactively: open a tab, ask a question, get an answer, close it.

Useful — but not a practice.

The leaders getting the most from AI treat it as a thinking partner they show up to regularly, with context and intention.

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The weekly practice

1) Start your week with one question (not a to-do list)

Before you open email on Monday morning, open a conversation with your AI tool of choice and say:

“Here’s what’s on my plate this week: [list your deals, projects, conversations, pressures]. What’s the highest-value thing I should focus on — and what am I probably avoiding?”

• Give it real context. The more specific you are, the more useful the pushback.
• This takes ~10 minutes. It reorients the week before the week reorients you.

2) Build a dedicated workspace for your most recurring work

If you’re typing the same context into a chat window every week — your role, your clients, your tone, your situation — you’re wasting time and getting worse answers.

Instead: create a dedicated Project (Claude) or Custom GPT (ChatGPT) for the work you do most often. Load it with:

• What you do and who you do it for
• Your tone of voice and how you like to communicate
• Your current priorities and live context
• Any frameworks or approaches you consistently use

Now every conversation starts informed. You stop explaining yourself and start working.

3) Process before you delegate