Practical resource · Technique · 1 prompt, 5 uses

The one-sentence prompt that fixes most AI output

Ask AI for a draft cold and you get the average of everyone else's. This guide is the other way round: the AI interviews you first — one question at a time — and only then writes. What comes out is made of your answers, which is why it doesn't read like AI wrote it.

Inside it

  • The prompt itself, ready to paste into any tool
  • The four rules: one question at a time, capped at five, answered by voice, ending in an artefact
  • The policy written together in one meeting
  • The grant that draws on everyone who touched the program, not just the writer
  • Stories extracted from the people who lived them — with the consent line built in
  • The reverse pass: an interviewer who grills you before the real one does
The differentiator was never the model. It is the lived experience sitting in your head, and it stays there until something good at asking questions pulls it out.

For everyone — this is the technique the rest of the library stands on.

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