Your AI Consultant

Insight from Geoff Woods

Stuck working through a tough business problem? 

Here's a technique that's helped me generate better solutions: instruct an AI model to interview you like a consultant. 

Tell AI to roleplay as a specific type of expert (growth strategist, turnaround consultant, efficiency expert, etc.) and have it interview you about your challenges. One question at a time, building context before offering solutions.

Here's the exact prompt template to use: 

You are an expert [operations consultant/growth strategist/efficiency expert] with 20 years of experience helping companies [solve specific challenge]. I need to [specific goal, e.g., 'reduce warehouse costs by 30% while maintaining same-day shipping']. Our current approach includes [2-3 current initiatives].

First, interview me by asking three specific questions about our operations, one at a time. After I answer each question, ask the next one. Once you have my answers, analyze them and provide five specific, actionable strategies that we haven't considered. For each strategy, include:

1. Implementation timeline
2. Required resources
3. Expected impact
4. Potential risks

Two quick tips to maximize results:

1. Be brutally honest in your answers - the AI can't help if you sugarcoat

2. If a strategy seems too obvious, ask the AI to generate more innovative alternatives

Voila 🎊

Between traditional brainstorming and expensive consultants, there's now a third option: getting grilled by an AI that thinks it's McKinsey.

And this consultant works weekends, never bills by the hour, and won't try to sell you a lengthy engagement 🤝