analysis prompt
The Era Locator
Calibrate how you talk about AI to a specific audience by diagnosing where they actually are across eight eras of AI adoption — and crafting an opening that meets them there.
Use it for
The Curse of the Expert
The prompt
I need to calibrate how I talk about AI to a specific audience. Help me figure out where they are.
My audience: [DESCRIBE YOUR AUDIENCE — e.g., "coaches and consultants in a mastermind group, mostly solopreneurs, tech-cautious but curious"]
Here's a rough framework of how people's relationship with AI has evolved:
- Era 1: Asking questions (treating AI like Google)
- Era 2: Crafting prompts (prompt engineering as the skill)
- Era 3: Building frameworks (mega-prompts, templates, repeatable systems)
- Era 4: Creating platforms (custom GPTs, Claude Projects, reusable tools)
- Era 5: Curating context (RAG, knowledge bases, feeding AI your data)
- Era 6: Delegating strategically (AI-augmented judgment, high-trust tasks)
- Era 7: Encoding expertise (skills, agents, codified workflows)
- Era 8: Orchestrating autonomy (multi-agent systems, ambient intelligence)
Based on what I've described about my audience:
1. What era are they MOST LIKELY operating in right now?
2. What era do they THINK they're in (people often overestimate)?
3. What's the ONE next era transition that would be most valuable and achievable for them?
4. Give me a 2-minute opening that acknowledges where they are without condescending, then creates genuine curiosity about that next transition — using a concrete example they'd recognize from their own work.
Keep it conversational, not academic. I'm presenting to peers, not students.Worked example
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