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Before You Build AI Agents, Build Your AI Foundation.

Free guide from the video: the 4 steps and every copy-paste prompt to build one place your whole business runs on, with Claude Code or Codex.

  • The 4 steps, in plain language, in order
  • The full interview prompt that gets your business out of your head
  • The build prompt that turns it into one organized foundation
  • The prompt that finds your number one constraint AI can fix now

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Start with Claude Code or Codex, get AI to interview you about your business, use AI to build one foundation your whole team and every AI tool reads from, then find the number one constraint AI can fix right now. Includes the full interview prompt, the build-your-foundation prompt and the constraint prompt.

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What's inside

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What's Inside

Step 1: start with Claude Code or Codex (no code) Step 2: the interview prompt that gets everything out of your head Step 3: the build prompt that turns it into your AI foundation Step 4: the prompt that finds your number one constraint

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How to Build Your Own AI Foundation

You commented FOUNDATION.

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Step 1: Start with Claude Code or Codex

Chat apps are easier to start with, but they forget.

The rest of the guide

  1. Step 2: Get AI to interview youThis is the most important step.
  2. Step 3: Use AI to build your AI foundationNow the AI turns everything you said into one organized folder.
  3. Step 4: Find your number one constraintNow that the AI knows your business, ask it where to start.

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Cooper Simson

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