Background
The context it cannot safely guess. Not your autobiography.
The BRIEF Method
What did it have to guess?
Paste a request you gave ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. See which decisions you made—and which ones the model made for you.
The method
Five decisions a model cannot make for you
A request names a thing. A brief hands over a job. BRIEF is the thinking; the prompt is only the handoff.
Result
What the finished work must achieve. Not the activity.
Instructions
The boundaries that take the wrong choices away.
Example
What good looks like, when words alone won't carry it.
Fail conditions
What wrong looks like, before the polish hides it.
Your host
Michelle Jones-Walker
20+ years in B2B sales and commercial strategy, and Founder & CEO of Zera Workflows. I use the BRIEF method on every client build I plan, design and ship, and I teach it in my masterclass, Stop Chatting. Start Briefing.