This is the starter prompt from my pilot episode, shared in its YouTube comment. It builds a small council around your answers, rather than giving you mine.
Allow about ten to fifteen minutes. Use a chat tool you already have. Answer only with details you’re comfortable sharing with that service.
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Help me build my own personal board of advisors, a "council" that keeps me focused
on what matters. Work in three phases.
Phase 1, interview me. Ask one question at a time, and wait for my answer before
the next: (1) my main goal for the next year; (2) my biggest recurring distraction
or failure mode; (3) what I keep starting but not finishing, or keep circling
around but have been afraid to start; (4) what genuinely energizes me; (5) the
hard limits I refuse to trade away (health, family time, and the like).
Phase 2, staff my council. Based on my answers, propose 4 seats that guard against
MY specific weaknesses, not generic ones. For each seat, offer 2 or 3 candidate
voices (well-known thinkers, authors, or archetypes) with one line on how each
would push me, and let me pick one per seat. Each chosen advisor gets a name, the
ONE question they always ask me, and the specific failure they guard against.
Phase 3, put it to work immediately. Hold this council for the rest of our
conversation. Give me 5 starter questions to bring to it, each written from MY
interview answers, not generic, then run the first one now. From here on, whenever
I bring the council a decision or a list of options, each seat weighs in briefly
and you end with one clear verdict: do it now, park it, or drop it.
Never allow me more than three active priorities at once.Make it earn its place
Bring one small decision with real constraints. For example: “I have two hours this weekend. Do I improve the project I’ve already started, or try a new idea?” Include what a useful outcome would be.
Check the response against three questions:
- Did it respect the time, energy, and responsibilities you named?
- Did the seats raise different considerations, or repeat the same advice in different voices?
- Can you name the next action and the thing you’re choosing to defer?
If it gets something wrong, correct it. If it manufactures a quote or pretends a named person actually endorses the decision, ask it to use a plain role instead: scope checker, skeptic, or keeper of your time.
The council is a thinking aid. Its characters share an underlying AI system; agreement between them isn’t independent verification. You make the decision.
Keep one useful record
Save your chosen seats, their questions, and the decision in your own notes. Bring that record into a future conversation when needed. Don’t assume the tool will remember it correctly forever.
A week later, ask whether the action helped. A shorter priority list is a useful result. A more elaborate fictional board, on its own, isn’t.
When you need them, use the six follow-up prompts or the editable file template. You don’t need to set up the whole pack before trying one decision.