Free download
Pre-Build Interview Kit
Get AI to build what you actually mean, the first time. A strong starting point on your project, with the fear, the guesswork, and the missing requirements taken out.
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What's inside
A guide and a template pack
PDF guide
Running a pre-build interview
- Why AI builds go wrong before the first prompt
- A beginner path and an advanced path
- Picking the right first project, and gathering what the AI needs to see
- The interview, step by step, from "discuss options" to "build it"
- Surfacing the requirements you don't know to ask about
- Writing "done" so it can actually be checked
- Guardrails for safety, privacy and cost
- Save points on a free, private GitHub repo, and a progress log between sessions
- Keeping the project clean: maps, audits, root-cause fixes, and a monthly check after launch
- Two worked examples: a family shop, and this website
- A one-page cheat sheet and a plain-English glossary
Template pack (.zip)
Files you can use tonight
- A first-project picker with ten starter ideas, and a context checklist
- The interview flow as copy-paste prompts, short and full versions
- Universal questions, including the ones you don't know to ask
- Six question sets: website, automation, app, content, business process, reports
- Project brief and task templates with checkable "done", plus a filled-in example
- A ready-to-build checklist, plus safety, privacy and cost guardrails
- GitHub save points, a progress log template, and a monthly check
- A starter CLAUDE.md, its checklist, and audit prompts that keep bloat out
Who it's for
Anyone about to hand a real job to AI
Owner-operators who want AI doing real work in their business. Solo founders building their first tool. Developers who want software that really works, without the rework and endless re-prompting. If you can describe the problem, you can use the kit.
It works with Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI chat tool. No coding required to run the interview.