Tonight’s kit

1Can’t wait for Day 1? Start tonight

Ten minutes, and you’ll have an AI that knows who you are, so every answer from now on is about you, not about a stranger. Here’s how.

Let it interview you

Open Claude or ChatGPT in a fresh chat and paste this. Then just answer. Out loud if you can.

Interview me, one question at a time, until you could introduce me the way my biggest champion would. Ask about my work, my home life, what I juggle, what usually slips, what I’m brilliant at, and how I like to be spoken to. Don’t answer for me. Stop after twelve questions, then write everything as one clear page called “About me”, in my own words.

Save the answers in a Project

Copy the “About me” page it wrote. In Claude, click Projects in the left-hand menu, then New project, give it a name (“Me” is fine), and paste the page into the box called Instructions. Save. From now on, start your chats inside that project and it already knows you. In ChatGPT it’s also called a Project. In Gemini, a Gem.

Talk, don’t type

The best thing I ever did with AI was stop typing. I use Wispr Flow: hold a key, talk, it types. Ninety days free at wisprflow.ai/nishma. I’m an ambassador for Wispr Flow, which is how the link gets you 90 days free. Then have a good moan into it:

What’s on my plate at the moment: [talk it out, messy is fine]. Before you suggest anything, ask me three questions, one at a time. Then tell me the challenges you can spot and where things could be easier. Finally, pick one thing you could take off my plate, and tell me how you’d go about it.

2The six words

• LLM. The thing you’re talking to. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot are four brands of the same kind of thing. It has read most of the internet and guesses the best next word, very fast.
• Prompt. What you ask it. The more you tell it, the better it answers.
• Project. A folder inside Claude or ChatGPT that remembers you. Your “About me” page lives here, and every chat you start inside it already knows you.
• Skill. A one-page how-to for a job you give it again and again. It’s just documentation.
• Agent. AI you give one job to. It does the job and checks with you before anything matters. A colleague with one job.
• Connectors. Letting it see one part of your life: your diary, your inbox, your files. Diary first. Inbox when you’re ready.

Put those six together once, keep them up to date, and it stops being a stranger. That’s what I mean by a system. Set it up once and you can move between any of the brands.

3Chat, Cowork, Code: what you get from each

Three ways to use it. The difference is what you get at the end.

• When to use what. Think in Chat. Do in Cowork. Build in Code. Start in Chat; most people never need Code, and that’s fine.
• What each one needs. Chat needs a login. Cowork (or Agent mode) needs connectors: you can connect your diary on the free plan now, with limits, and the paid plan (about £20 a month) gives you room to use it every day. Code needs the paid plan and a bit of patience.
• Models. Engine sizes inside the same car. A small fast one for quick jobs, a big slow one for thinking. The names change every month. The idea doesn’t. Check which one you’re on; the free plans quietly give you the small one.

4Where are you?

• 1. You ask it. You ask it questions.
• 2. You brief it every time. You give it a full brief, from scratch, every time. Most of the room is here. That’s not behind. That’s doing all the work yourself.
• 3. It remembers you. A project that remembers you. Tonight’s three things get you here.
• 4. It starts on its own. It does a job on its own, every morning, and leaves you a note.
• 5. You run a team. Several agents, one in charge. I call them my band.

Levels 4 and 5 are what the 5-day course and the online sessions are for.

5My tool stack

Five tools, not fifty. Any one of them could change next year. The system doesn’t.

• Claude. The thinking. Chat for answers, Cowork for doing, Code for building.
• Wispr Flow. The talking. I talk, it types, everywhere.
• Notion. The notes. My to-do list and my plans, where the band can read them.
• Kit. The emails. This course, the Weekly Spark, the reminders.
• Canva. The pictures. Decks, carousels, the things you see on Instagram.

6Keep it safe

• Two-step verification on. If you do one thing, do this.
• Three settings. In Settings, check whether it trains on your chats, what it remembers, and what it shares.
• Share what you’d tell a temp on day one. Never your bank details or passwords. Diary before inbox.
• Is it safe for my daughter (or my mum)? Same rules, said out loud together: nothing private, nothing you’d not say to a stranger, and check the three settings on her account too. Claude and ChatGPT both have age limits (13 and over, with a parent’s say-so under 18).
• Work gives me Copilot or Gemini. Use it. The six words are the same in every brand. Do the interview prompt there, save the page in whatever your work tool calls a project, and you’re at level three on work time.

7The ones you photographed

“I fear AI without women.”Nishma

“Avoidance is not a strategy. Capability is.”Nishma

“You will never have a better chance to be more unapologetically fabulous.”Nishma

8What’s next

Tonight you got curious. Next, we get you capable. Tick the boxes at the top and you’re in.