This is the prompt you paste into Claude Cowork to start the interview. It surfaces what you already know about how you actually work: the rhythms, the recurring decisions, the standards you hold instinctively, the friction that eats time without adding much.
Most of that knowledge is invisible. Not because you don’t have it, but because it became automatic. You stopped having to think about it. Until now, you’ve never had a reason to make it explicit. The interview is the reason.
Open a new session in Claude Cowork, paste the prompt below, and answer honestly. Don’t rush it. Let Cowork ask the follow-up questions. By the end, you’ll have said out loud things about how you work that you’ve probably never articulated before, and you’ll have something you can actually give Claude to work with every single day.
Once the interview is done, you’ll have a Cowork conversation full of things you know but have never quite said. That’s the raw material. From here, take three steps.
Step 1, capture it. Use the Portable AI Working Identity guide to turn the conversation into a structured document you own, one you can refer back to, update as your role evolves, and use across any platform.
Step 2, save it to Cowork memory. Ask Cowork to save what it learned about you. Say: “Based on our conversation, please add what you’ve learned about how I work to your memory.” Cowork will store it. From that point forward, every session starts with that context already in place, you never have to explain yourself again.
Step 3, let Cowork tell you where to start. Don’t guess what to build first. Ask Cowork directly: “Based on everything we’ve just talked about, what are the three workflows you’d suggest we build first, and why?” Cowork will prioritize based on what it now knows about your work. Pick one and start there.
Pair this with the Portable AI Working Identity guide. Or see the rest of the free resources here.