The Professional AI Interview Kit is a structured interview agent. It asks you the questions Claude never thinks to ask — about your actual work, your decisions, your daily context. One 20-to-30-minute conversation produces a permanent profile of you as a professional. From that point on, every session starts with Claude already knowing who it is talking to. You stop starting from zero.
Get the Interview Kit — $17Cal Hyslop has been teaching professionals for over 20 years. He has 36,000+ students on Skillshare and teaches at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. He built and deployed real AI tools in a live university classroom — before he was sure they would work. The Interview Kit is the thing he built for himself first.
Most AI advice treats setup as the hard part. Download the app. Write a better prompt. Try a different tool. But if you have already done all of that, and AI still keeps letting you down, setup was never the issue.
The real problem is context. Claude does not know who you are. It does not know how you work, what you need, or what a good answer looks like for your specific job. So every conversation starts from zero. You explain yourself. You get a generic response. You adjust, you get something usable, you come back the next day and start over.
That is the cold start problem. And it does not fix itself — until you fix it.
The Professional AI Interview Kit is a structured interview agent — a system prompt that turns Claude into a professional interviewer. It asks you about how you actually work: your daily rhythms, the decisions you make repeatedly, where your time goes, where AI has already let you down, and what you actually want it to handle.
It does not ask for your job title. It goes deeper. Through follow-up questions and a structured sequence, it surfaces the tacit professional knowledge you carry but have never had to articulate — because until now, no one has asked.
At the end of a 20 to 30 minute conversation, it produces a Personal Operating Document — a profile of you as a professional, written in a format Claude can use directly. Save it once. From that point on, Claude knows who it is talking to every time you open a session. You do not explain your role. You do not re-establish your communication style. You do not start from zero. It already knows.
The entire product in one file. Copy-paste ready. Works in Cowork (save as CLAUDE.md in your workspace folder) and in claude.ai on the web (paste into Project Instructions). Setup takes under five minutes.
Written separately for Cowork and for claude.ai web users. No technical knowledge required. If you can save a file, you can set this up.
Cal walks through the setup on screen — file rename, where to save it, what the agent looks like when it starts, and what to do with the Personal Operating Document once the interview is finished. About 10 minutes.
Download and save the file. Cowork users save it as CLAUDE.md in their workspace folder. Web users paste it into a new Claude Project. Either way, setup takes under five minutes and you will not need to do it again.
Run the interview. The agent introduces itself and begins. It asks one question at a time, follows up when it needs more depth, and moves through six areas of your professional life. Most people finish in 20 to 30 minutes. Do not rush it — the quality of what comes out depends on what you put in.
Save your Personal Operating Document. When the interview is complete, Claude produces your document. Replace the interview prompt with it in the same location. From that point on, every session starts with Claude already knowing your context — permanently, silently, in the background.
I am a university professor who has spent over 20 years figuring out how people actually learn complex things. I have 36,000+ students on Skillshare and teach at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. I am not a developer. I came to AI the same way most professionals do — impressed at first, then steadily frustrated when it kept not quite delivering.
I built real AI tools for my own classroom before I was sure they would work. My grading automation runs on live students — I deployed it on a 2-day turnaround promise and figured out the problems as they came up. The Interview Kit came out of the same process. Not theory. Not a framework I read about. Something I actually needed.
The most common thing I hear from professionals who have tried AI is: “I’ve downloaded it. Now what?” The interview is the answer I wish I’d had at the beginning. Not a prompt tip. Not another tool to learn. The foundational work that makes everything else actually work.
$17. Immediate download. Works with Cowork and claude.ai on the web. No subscription. No upsell.
Get the Professional AI Interview KitQuestions? Email itsme@calhyslop.com