Your own work × AI worksheet

This is what the pilot cohort actually used. Fill it in alone, or pair up with someone. Do not try to finish it in one sitting. Part 1 does not need to be complete. Your partner digs it out of you in Part 2 anyway.

This is a preview. Leave an email and the writing view opens, where you actually fill the boxes in and can send what you wrote to yourself.

Writing alone

It does not have to be finished. Your partner will dig later.

1. 01

   Recently, anywhere at all — your company, your industry, how work gets done, a hobby — was there a moment you felt “this isn't quite right,” “couldn't this be done differently,” “something is missing here”? However small.

2. 02

   What did you feel then? Anger, regret, frustration, impatience. Write it however it comes.

There are 5 more questions in this part

Interviewer card

Digging out your partner's weapons · 18 minutes each way · recording

1. 01

   Is there something you poured time into without anyone asking you to?

2. 02

   How exactly did you do it?

There are 6 more questions in this part

Your work-asset card

A noun boxes you in. A verb opens you up.

1. 01

   The line that moves you. The core of your work in one sentence.

2. 02

   Your three weapons. If nothing comes, read the slip your partner wrote again. The weapons are already in there.

There are 1 more questions in this part

Finding references

Find people doing something close to yours and the market appears, and so does your difference.

1. 01

   Is there a person or a service doing something close to what you want to do? (If nothing comes to mind, skip it. AI will help.)

2. 02

   How do they define themselves?

There are 2 more questions in this part

Product ingredients

1. 01

   Who were they? (Be specific — age or years of experience, what they do.)

2. 02

   What did you help with?

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I am someone who does ___ for people

This one sentence is the starting point for what you build with AI in the afternoon.

1. 01

   When someone in ______ finds ______ hard, I do ______ for them.

Understanding the fear and setting your own bar

If you have made it and are too afraid to throw it out there, sort it out here first.

1. 01

   What is the biggest reason you are hesitating right now?

2. 02

   If it is money, what is the minimum you actually need?

There are 4 more questions in this part