Today’s Perspective Shift

From: AI as just a task assistant
To: AI as a cultural amplifier

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 your AI needs more than instructions…it needs identity

• A simple framework to turn your values into prompt templates

• How to build an internal “AI Culture Deck”

• What Starbucks, Tesla, and your GPT have in common

Your Core Values Need a Prompt Sheet

If you don’t teach your AI your beliefs, it’ll just copy the feed.

🧠 ONE Smart Idea

If you wouldn’t hire someone who doesn’t understand your values, don’t deploy AI without them either.

Most people give AI the what and the how.
Rarely the why.

That’s like training a barista on the espresso machine but never teaching them hospitality.

Or teaching your GPT to summarize emails… but not which tone builds trust with your clients.

AI isn't just executing tasks.
It's making micro-decisions (based on your data, your tone, your unspoken rules.)

Time to make the unspoken… documented.

📖 Story Spark

One founder I worked with gave ChatGPT access to his knowledge base and said:
“Create a coaching plan for new clients.”

The AI did. It looked sleek. Efficient. On-brand.
Until he realized it was pushing quick wins over long-term clarity, something he never stood for.

Why?
Because nowhere in the prompt was the value: “Clarity over dopamine.”

The tool was trained on tasks.
Not beliefs.

⚙️ Tactical Application: The “Prompt Sheet” Framework

Here’s how to encode your values into every automation, agent, or prompt.

1. Define Your Core 3 Values
   (e.g. “Clarity over complexity”, “Long-term trust > short-term hype”, “Strategic warmth”)

2. Translate Each Value into Prompt Language
   (e.g. “Always prioritize clarity. Avoid jargon. Make insights usable, not flashy.”)

3. Add Contextual Tone Rules
   (e.g. “Sound like a founder who’s wise, not robotic. Speak directly but respectfully.”)

4. Create a Template You Reuse
   Start every workflow or GPT input with this:

“Respond as a strategic advisor who values {value 1}, {value 2}, and {value 3}. Maintain a tone that reflects {your brand tone}. Avoid {what not to do}.”

⚡ Pro move: Store this as a “system prompt” in GPTs, Claude, or your automation builder. Make it part of your team’s culture deck too.

🔦 Tool Spotlight: Custom GPTs + Claude System Prompts

Both tools let you set persistent system-level rules for behavior.
Here’s how to integrate your Prompt Sheet:

• GPT Custom Instructions: Paste your values into the “What should I know about you?” field

• Claude Artifacts: Add your culture prompt to a saved workspace template

• Zapier/Make AI Step: Preload prompt sheet values as part of the input trigger

This ensures every output carries your intentional bias. (Yes, that’s a good thing.)

🧭 Intelligent Elevation

This isn’t about controlling the machine.
It’s about teaching it who you are.

Because values don’t show up in the output unless they’re baked into the input.

You can’t outsource culture.
But you can encode it.

The founders who scale with soul are the ones who teach their tools to think like them.
That starts with a prompt sheet.

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💬 Closing Insight

If you want aligned automation, don’t just program actions…program beliefs.

🧠 Reply with one value you'd want your AI to reflect
💾 Save this if you're building your own Prompt Sheet
➡️ Forward to a founder building AI without boundaries

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