October 1, 2026
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Two prompts from Session 2, ready to copy and paste.
🤖 What is an AI employee?
At The Uncommon Business, AI agent and AI employee mean the same thing: an AI you've trained to do a specific job, and it does that job the same way, every time, without being asked twice.
🪜 The 4 levels an AI employee can climb
Each level adds one new capability. Higher isn't always better. Build the level the job actually needs.
| Level | What it has | What it can do |
|---|---|---|
| 1️⃣ The Contractor | One skill | Does one specific job with a repeatable process |
| 2️⃣ The Trained Employee | Skill + brain | Does the job using your business context and standards |
| 3️⃣ The Connected Employee | Skill + brain + connectors | Works inside your real tools (calendar, email, Notion) |
| 4️⃣ The Autonomous Employee | Skill + brain + connectors + schedule | Does the work automatically, without waiting for you to ask |
✨ Your Session 2 Prompts
Pro tip: run these in the AI tool you use the most (Claude or ChatGPT). Both prompts read your past chats and memory, so the more you've used it, the better the results.
🏆 Prompt 1: Find your Top 5 AI Employees
What it does: your AI looks back through your chat history and finds the jobs you keep repeating. Then it hands you your Top 5 AI Employees to build, with the hours each one saves you and which one to build first.
⚡️ How to use it
- Open a new chat and paste the full prompt.
- Answer its (up to) 3 questions.
- Say yes when it offers to build your first one.
✨ See the Prompt
ROLE: You are Tiago Forte, creator of the Building a Second Brain methodology and expert in personal knowledge management, workflow systematization, and turning cognitive overhead into automated systems. You've helped thousands of founders reclaim their attention by externalizing repetitive mental labor into reliable, repeatable systems.
CONTEXT: I am a founder or leader and I want you to act as my AI Systems Auditor. Your job is to analyze the full history of my conversations available in this chat environment—every question I've asked, every task I've delegated, every piece of context I've had to re-explain, every output I've requested—and identify the hidden patterns that are quietly stealing my focus from my zone of genius.
Look specifically for:
Tasks I've asked for more than once (any variation of the same job)
Context I've had to re-provide repeatedly (business background, tone, audience, processes)
Outputs I've requested that follow a repeatable format (emails, analyses, summaries, frameworks)
Decisions or thinking I've outsourced that follow a pattern
Any workflow that required more than two back-and-forth messages to get right
Take your time on the audit... go back through ALL my chats from the last 180 days that you have access to. Also look at my connectors, acocunt configuration and any other settings/context that you may have access to that would sharpen your output.
REQUEST: Before delivering your analysis, ask me up to THREE high-impact clarifying questions to ensure your recommendations are directly actionable and specific to my business stage and priorities.
Then, deliver my Top 5 AI Employees—each one either a Claude Project or a Claude Skill—formatted as follows for each:
AI Employee #[X]: [Memorable Job Title]
🔁 The Repetitive Task It Owns: What pattern from my history does this solve?
⏱️ Time Reclaimed Per Week: Estimated hours returned to my zone of genius
Close with a prioritized build order—which AI employee to create first for the fastest ROI.
At the very end of the delivery, offer to build one for me.. start with the simplest and clearest win for the business.📘 Prompt 2: Build your EA Operating Manual
What it does: an EA Operating Manual is one document with all your preferences, habits, and rules, so an assistant (human or AI) can serve you well from Day 1. This prompt pulls what your AI already knows about you, asks you up to 5 questions, and writes the manual for you.
⚡️ How to use it
- Fill in the MY DETAILS section before you paste it.
- Answer its questions one at a time.
- Save the finished manual and upload it to your EA project as knowledge.
✨ See the Prompt
**ROLE:** You are Chris Ducker, virtual CEO mentor and personal outsourcing expert, author of *Virtual Freedom* and *Rise of the Youpreneur*, specializing in helping entrepreneurs systematize their life and business so their teams can operate independently without constant hand-holding.
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**CONTEXT:** I am building an EA Operating Manual—a living document that captures every meaningful preference, habit, rule, and personal detail a new executive assistant or personal assistant would need to serve me at the highest level from Day 1. I want to extract everything you already know about me from our conversation history and combine it with targeted questions you'll ask me—one at a time, up to 5—before producing the final document.
**MY DETAILS:**
- Name / Preferred Name: [YOUR NAME]
- Role / Industry: [YOUR ROLE AND INDUSTRY]
- Primary Location / Time Zone: [CITY, TIME ZONE]
- Current EA or PA situation: [DO YOU HAVE ONE NOW, OR IS THIS FOR A NEW HIRE?]
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**REQUEST:** Follow this exact sequence:
**PHASE 1 — EXTRACT:** Scan everything you know about me — my conversation history, memory, stated preferences, habits, recurring topics, relationships, tools I use, how I communicate, and anything else that reveals how I operate. Pull every stated or implied preference you can find.
**PHASE 2 — QUESTION:** Ask me up to 5 clarifying questions, strictly ONE AT A TIME. Wait for my answer before asking the next. Each question should unlock a full category of preferences you couldn't confidently infer. Do not ask what you already know.
**PHASE 3 — BUILD:** Compile everything into a polished, full **EA Operating Manual** in Markdown format.📺 Missed the session?
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