Smart Prompts For AI Podcast

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Transition from task-monkey to strategist. This is the Companion Podcast to the Smart Prompts For AI Newsletter. smartpromptsforai.substack.com (https://smartpromptsforai.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Smart Prompts For AI

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Aug 2026

Latest episode

24 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

54 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Oct 2026

   Make AI Write Like You (Podcast Season 1 Episode 54)

   The Smart Prompts for AI podcast just released an episode exploring my social voice system for solo operators. This is the same system I use with clients who would rather post nothing than post something that does not sound like them. If your best posts are the ones you delete, if you would rather stay quiet than publish something generic, or if you spend hours sanding AI drafts until they sound human, this breakdown is built for you. What We Cover in the Episode The hosts dig into why brand voice tools fail, and why the answer is not a better adjective: an adjective is not a voice, a voice is a set of measurements taken from writing you have already finished. Here are the primary systems we break down in the show: 1. The Voice Capture Feed the model three to five pieces you finished and published yourself, and it builds a Voice Card: how you open, your sentence rhythm, the words you reach for, the words you never use, how you make a point, and how you close. Then it has to pass a test in front of you, three lines that sound like you and three that are close but wrong, so you can correct it in plain words. A consultant fed it three client emails and two LinkedIn posts, and his next draft needed two line edits, after a brand voice tool draft the week before needed a full rewrite and got deleted. 2. The Voice Card, Installed A card sitting in one old chat is a measurement written on a napkin. Install it where you actually write, in ChatGPT Custom Instructions, as a Claude Style or inside a Project, or, in Gemini, pasted from a doc at the top of the session, so every draft starts from your measurements. A real estate operator used a compressed card for daily market notes and cut his routine from thirty minutes of heavy editing to six minutes of reading and tweaking one sentence. 3. One Week From One Thing Take one real event from your week, rough notes from a client call, a mistake you had to fix, a surprising metric, and pull five different post angles from it: the lesson, the mistake, the number, the broader question, and the receipt, one hyper specific detail that proves you did the work. The golden rule is invent nothing. If your notes do not support an angle, the prompt skips it instead of padding it with generic filler. 4. The Batch Board One master post, reshaped for every platform you use, in a single table, with character limits, formatting rules, and line breaks handled, while your voice card stays constant. Jeff Payne runs social media across 17 sites for one client. Reviewing and tweaking posts for those 17 sites took an entire afternoon. With the Batch Board, he approves one master post and reviews the reshaped set in about twenty minutes. 5. The Anti-Slop Pass Even with good measurements, drafts still pick up machine cologne, the lingering scent of AI in lines like “delve,” “unleash your potential,” or “a rich tapestry.” This editor pass hunts any line that could appear word for word on a competitor’s website, fixes it against your voice card rules, and runs a giveaway test: name the single line that sounds least like you, fix it or cut it. A coach ran it on a week’s posts, it flagged nine problematic lines, including two identical openings she had not noticed, and she shipped four posts with total confidence. 6. The Sunday Batch Run the whole pipeline as one thirty minute weekly habit: collect your rough notes, generate your angles, reshape them for your platforms, run the Anti-Slop Pass, and read every post out loud before it goes live, because your ear catches what your eyes miss. A solo founder who dreaded drafting sessions now does thirty minutes once a week, and she finally got her evenings back. Key Timestamps * 00:00 – Tuesday Morning, Coffee Cold: a three hour to twenty minute client win, and a brochure draft. * 01:13 – Why That Frustration Happens: James Sterling, Pacific Northwest consultant, prompt systems since 2019. * 02:04 – The Copy Paste Tax: forty minutes, five times a week, over three hours gone to the disguise. * 02:46 – Barbara: “If I didn’t mind garbage social media posts, I’d be very active on social media.” * 03:33 – The False Fix: brand voice tools, adjectives, and the costume off the rack. * 04:22 – Why Adjectives Fail: prediction engines, and the average of ten thousand writers. * 05:10 – Voice Lives in Specifics: rhythm, reach-for words, never-use words, openings, and closings. * 05:49 – The Tailor, Not the Rack: the Voice Capture, measured from your own finished writing. * 06:07 – What Goes in the Card: openings, rhythm, vocabulary, argument structure, and closings. * 07:02 – The Test: three lines that sound like you, three that are close but wrong, corrected in plain words. * 08:03 – The Consultant: two line edits, versus a full rewrite and a delete the week before. * 08:47 – The Skeptic’s Objection: a card in one chat develops amnesia, so install it. * 09:29 – Installing Per Platform: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, the free character limit, and the Card Compressor. * 10:57 – The Real Estate Operator: thirty minutes of editing down to six minutes a day. * 11:15 – What to Say: One Week From One Thing, five angles from one real event. * 13:12 – Invent Nothing: the skip rule, and why it overrides the model’s people pleasing habit. * 14:07 – The Distribution Wall: a LinkedIn post dies pasted word for word onto X. * 15:19 – Jeff and the 17 Sites: an entire afternoon of review, down to about twenty minutes. * 16:09 – Machine Cologne: the Anti-Slop Pass, the competitor test, and the giveaway test. * 17:55 – The Coach: nine lines flagged, four posts shipped with total confidence. * 18:22 – The Sunday Batch: thirty minutes, four steps, and read it out loud. * 19:19 – The Solo Founder: forty minute dread, thirty minutes a week, evenings back. * 19:33 – The Pitch: $99 a year, the archive, the Manual, the Mailbag, and Smart Prompt Studio. * 21:34 – The Close: sounding human is an advantage now, and what happens when voice cloning becomes standard. Read the Full Article & Copy the Prompts Give it a listen, run the Voice Capture on your own finished writing, and open the front door on the work you have already done. Read the companion article: My Social Posts Sounded Like a Robot. Now They Sound Like Me. (https://smartpromptsforai.substack.com/p/my-social-posts-sounded-like-a-robot) Smart Prompt Studio (mentioned in the episode): https://www.smartpromptstudio.com/lifetime (https://www.smartpromptstudio.com/lifetime) Hope this helps! James Get full access to Smart Prompts For AI at smartpromptsforai.substack.com/subscribe (https://smartpromptsforai.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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   23 Oct 2026

   How to Write Better Hooks (Podcast Season 1 Episode 53)

   The Smart Prompts for AI podcast just released an episode breaking down one of my most practical systems: They took my four hook-writing prompts for experts whose work nobody clicks, the same frameworks I use with consulting clients whose content deserved better than it got. In this Episode, we start with Mark: a commercial real estate operator who spent six months writing 2,000-word market analyses, then watched a gym selfie captioned “Real estate is a mindset” pull 4,000 likes against his three. One rewritten headline later, the same expertise drew 50 comments from business owners and two listing leads. If your best work is the stuff nobody opens, if you refuse to write clickbait but cannot afford to be ignored either, or if your headlines read like academic abstracts, this breakdown is built for you. What We Cover in the Episode The hosts dig into why expertise loses the feed to platitudes, and why the answer is not louder hype: clickbait is a lie, a hook is a promise, and professionals are allowed to make promises. Here are the primary systems we break down in the show: 1. The Curiosity Gap Generator Experts bury the lead by putting the conclusion in the headline. This prompt hunts your finished draft for its most counter-intuitive fact and tilts it into a question, with hype phrases banned outright. Mark’s sublease report became “Why 40% of Seattle’s ‘empty’ offices are actually off the market,” and his clicks tripled. 2. The Specific Benefit Refiner Adjectives are opinions; numbers are facts. This prompt strips the adjectives from your hook and replaces them with the hardest outcomes already inside your text, and where a benefit was never numbered, it leaves a placeholder instead of inventing one. The prompt that refuses to fabricate your results for you. 3. The Pattern Interrupter Brains are prediction machines, and a hook that breaks the prediction earns the half-second that matters. Four styles, from the quit-doing-that hook to the myth-buster, all leashed to one constraint: the hook must be supported by the text. The Chelsea Test: if the payoff is not in the piece, the hook does not ship. 4. The Story Opener Most expert content opens with throat clearing. This prompt finds the inciting incident in your draft and starts there, in the middle of the action, first person, no lesson yet. Advice raises the reader’s guard; a story lowers it. This episode opened inside one. Key Timestamps * 00:00 – The Lunch Table: 4,000 likes for a platitude, three for six months of expertise. * 01:50 – The Asset, Named: a paywalled post, and why the copy-paste prompts stay behind the wall. * 02:26 – Who Is James: University of Washington computer science, 2012; Pacific Northwest consultant; prompt systems since 2019. * 03:29 – The Thesis: clickbait is a lie, a hook is a promise, and Mark was refusing to promise anything. * 04:03 – Digital Numbness: the callus readers grow, and the two-second filter your headline has to survive. * 05:31 – Information Gap Theory: Loewenstein’s itch, and why the gap has to be bridgeable. * 06:49 – Prompt 1, The Curiosity Gap Generator: hunt the counter-intuitive fact; hype phrases banned. * 07:53 – Mark’s Result: the empty offices headline. Clicks tripled, 50 comments, two listing leads. * 08:30 – The Skeptic’s Objection: isn’t a hook just dressing? For written work, the hook is the distribution. * 10:22 – Prompt 2, The Specific Benefit Refiner: adjectives are opinions, numbers are facts. * 11:19 – The Placeholder Rule: when the draft never stated the number, the prompt leaves a blank instead of a hallucination. * 11:45 – The Bakery Result: from a lullaby about flour ordering to an 18% waste cut in month one. * 13:25 – Prompt 3, The Pattern Interrupter: prediction machines, and the half-second stumble. * 15:01 – The Chelsea Test: no strawmen, and promise dirty water only if the piece is about dirty water. * 15:41 – Prompt 4, The Story Opener: in media res, first person, no lesson at the top. * 16:46 – The Meta Moment: this episode opened inside a story opener, and the hosts noticed. * 17:12 – The Danger Zone: open a curiosity gap, close it in the first 20% of the piece. * 18:19 – The DIY Objection: why not just ask a free chat for a catchy headline? * 19:35 – The Guardrails Pitch: what $99 a year actually buys is the tested constraints, not the idea. * 20:04 – The Testing Workflow: draft first, run all four prompts, Chelsea Test, then A/B test the finalists. * 21:15 – The Recap: refusing to make promises just hands the feed to the gym selfies. * 22:12 – The Question: the best thing you published this year that almost nobody read. What was its first line? Read the Full Article & Copy the 4 Prompts (https://smartpromptsforai.substack.com/p/how-to-write-better-hooks-4-prompts) Give it a listen, run the four prompts on your next draft, and open the front door on the work you have already done. \Smart Prompt Studio (mentioned in the episode): https://www.smartpromptstudio.com/lifetime (https://www.smartpromptstudio.com/lifetime) Hope this helps! James Get full access to Smart Prompts For AI at smartpromptsforai.substack.com/subscribe (https://smartpromptsforai.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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   21 Oct 2026

   AI for the ADHD Entrepreneur (Podcast Season 1 Episode 52)

   If writing the instruction blocks is the part you dread, Smart Prompt Studio turns a plain-words description of the job into a ready-to-paste agent prompt, plus three variations. Five free generations, no card: smartpromptstudio.com/lifetime (https://www.smartpromptstudio.com/lifetime) Read the Full Article & Copy the 4 Frameworks https://smartpromptsforai.substack.com/p/ai-for-the-adhd-entrepreneur (https://smartpromptsforai.substack.com/p/ai-for-the-adhd-entrepreneur) The Smart Prompts for AI podcast just released an episode breaking down one of my most personal systems: They took my four rigid prompt frameworks for neurodivergent entrepreneurs, the exact constraints I built with a client whose AI kept hijacking her workday. In this Episode, we start with Paula: a bleisure travel planner with ADHD, forty-seven browser tabs open, who asked AI for a quick itinerary and got fifteen hotel options, a history of Portuguese ceramics, and a visa briefing. Three hours later, she knew a lot about 16th-century architecture. The invoice she was supposed to send never moved. If your AI chats keep turning into fascinating detours, if extra context feels like a trapdoor instead of a bonus, or if a fifty-step plan makes you freeze harder, this breakdown is built for you. What We Cover in the Episode The hosts dig into why the standard advice (give the AI more context, ask bigger questions) backfires for a distractible brain, and why the real goal is the opposite: getting less out of the AI, on purpose. Here are the primary systems we break down in the show: 1. The Sequential Interrogator Client intake without the wall of text. An unconstrained AI hands Paula a twenty-point questionnaire, and she abandons it to go organize her email folders. The constrained version asks exactly one question at a time, waits, and ignores her tangents, pulling her back to the question at hand. Borrowed executive function, holding the rails from outside her head. 2. The Anti-Rabbit Hole Output Constraint The ETIAS email that tried to become an essay. Unconstrained, the AI wrote five hundred words on Schengen history and border technology, and Paula lost an hour reading it. The constrained version runs a hard word cap, bullets only, no opening or closing sentences, and one ruthless cutting rule: if a detail does not change the physical action the client must take, it is omitted. Three bullets, copied, pasted, sent in under two minutes. 3. The Voice-Note-to-SOP Pipeline Paula thinks out loud, so her process starts as rambling dog-walk voice notes: half-finished sentences, tangled ideas, one interruption where she yells at a squirrel. The framework sorts the transcript into fixed buckets (one-sentence objective, required tools, action-verb steps, pitfalls drawn only from her own concerns) and is forbidden from inventing steps or best practices she never mentioned. Where something is missing, it plants a clarification flag instead of a guess. Her gaps show up as gaps, not as plausible nonsense wearing her name. 4. The Micro-Step Finisher Beating task paralysis on a full CRM migration. A fifty-step project plan would just itemize the wall she was already frozen against, so this framework forbids the plan, the list, and the encouragement. It returns a single bolded sentence: the smallest physical action she can take in under two minutes. The assignment was essentially “log in,” and momentum did the rest. Key Timestamps * 00:00 – The Avoidance Question: are you opening that chat for an answer, or to dodge the other sixty things on your list? * 01:13 – Meet Paula: bleisure trips, a hyper-empathy superpower, and forty-seven tabs of dread. * 02:24 – The Ceramics Detour: fifteen hotels, a history tour, and a visa briefing, while the actual task sat untouched. * 03:19 – The Reframe: a search engine gives you answers; a language model gives you a conversation that will not shut up. * 03:53 – The Slot Machine: for an ADHD brain, extra context is a trapdoor, and feeling busy is the trap. * 05:55 – The Intake Problem: farm chores, or wine near a barn? The twenty-point questionnaire that never got answered. * 06:50 – The Sequential Interrogator: one question at a time, tangents ignored, borrowed executive function. * 07:26 – The Skeptic’s Objection: isn’t one at a time slow? Speed you abandon isn’t speed. * 09:09 – The Anti-Rabbit Hole Output Constraint: the physical-action cutting rule that turned an essay into three bullets. * 10:42 – The Voice-Note-to-SOP Pipeline: fixed buckets, zero invented steps, and the squirrel stays out. * 12:15 – Task Paralysis: the CRM migration freeze, and why a plan is the worst thing to hand it. * 13:10 – The Micro-Step Finisher: no plan, no list, no cheerleading. One bolded sentence. * 14:02 – The Unifying Insight: every framework wins by what it refuses to do. The constraint is the feature. * 14:28 – Heat and Timer: coffee roasting, forty-five seconds between a divine light roast and a burnt tire. * 15:12 – Prosthetics, Not Cures: Paula still does the work; the guardrails keep it from becoming a ceramics seminar. * 15:37 – The Invitation: if your tabs look like Paula’s, the full frameworks are waiting in the paid post. Read the Full Article & Copy the 4 Frameworks Give it a listen, test the frameworks in your workflow, and give your AI a smaller door to walk through this week. Read the companion article: https://smartpromptsforai.substack.com/p/ai-for-the-adhd-entrepreneur (https://smartpromptsforai.substack.com/p/ai-for-the-adhd-entrepreneur) Smart Prompt Studio (mentioned in the episode): https://www.smartpromptstudio.com/lifetime (https://www.smartpromptstudio.com/lifetime) Hope this helps! James Get full access to Smart Prompts For AI at smartpromptsforai.substack.com/subscribe (https://smartpromptsforai.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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