Today’s Perspective Shift

From: Automation as task outsourcing
To: Automation as culture amplification

Theme for the Quarter: Tools With Soul
Theme for the Week: Train Your AI Like You Train Your Team

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✨ In Today’s Episode:

• Why you already have a culture (even in your AI)

• The invisible signals you send to your tools

• A test to check if your automation reflects your beliefs

• AI as your brand’s apprentice, not just your assistant

The Culture You Code Is the Culture You Scale

Your AI agents are learning from you…but what are they learning?

🧠 ONE Smart Idea

Your AI inherits your culture, whether you design it or not.

If AI is now part of your “team,” then every prompt, workflow, and decision tree is onboarding.
And if you don’t install values, it installs assumptions…usually pulled straight from the noise of the internet.

Culture isn’t just for humans.
It’s the logic your AI will loop until you tell it otherwise.

📖 Story Spark

Years ago, I hired a virtual assistant and gave her my inbox.
I told her to “reply to things I wouldn’t want to miss.”

Three weeks in, she ghosted a high-ticket client... but followed up three times with a spammy affiliate pitch.

I was frustrated…until I realized I never taught her how I think.

That’s what most founders are doing with AI right now.

Giving access. No context.
Then wondering why the output feels… off.

⚙️ Tactical Application: The Culture Alignment Test

Run every AI prompt, automation, or output through this quick founder-first filter:

1. Would I want a team member saying this on my behalf?

   • Tone, voice, vibe…does it match?

2. Does this reflect our values or just get it done?

   • Efficiency ≠ alignment.

3. If this scaled 1,000x, would I be proud, or petrified?

   • Automation always multiplies what's there. Good or bad.

💡 Bonus tip: Create a mini “Culture Brief” for your AI agents.

Include 3 words that define your brand tone, 3 values you want preserved, and 3 things to avoid. Use it as a primer in your ChatGPT Custom Instructions or Claude System prompts.

🔦 Tool Spotlight: ChatGPT Custom Instructions

Before you ask GPT anything, update your Custom Instructions with this prompt:

This sets the tone before the tool even talks.

🧭 Intelligent Elevation

You don’t just train AI to do.
You train it to think…like you.

Because culture isn’t a slide deck.

It’s how decisions get made when you’re not in the room.
And guess what? AI is always in the room now.

Leaders who design how their machines think will scale freedom.
Everyone else will scale chaos.

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💬 Closing Insight

You already have a culture.
The only question is whether it’s clear, or default.

When you train your AI like you train your team,
you don’t just scale your business.
You scale your beliefs.

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