Course The ai Interview

# The AI Interview: How to Collaborate with Claude

## 1. Teachable Marketing Copy

**Course Title:** The AI Interview: How to Collaborate with Claude

**Subtitle / Promise:** Stop writing from scratch and start collaborating with your new AI Chief of Staff.

**Course Description:**
You've tried Claude. You typed something like "write me a marketing email" or "summarize this doc," and what came back was... fine. Generic. Forgettable. So you tried again. And again. And eventually went back to writing it yourself.

Here's the thing: you weren't prompting wrong. You were prompting alone.

Most people treat Claude like a vending machine — drop a request in, hope something useful comes out. The professionals getting real value treat it like an interview. They brief Claude. They let Claude ask *them* clarifying questions. They draft together, refine together, and end up with work that's actually theirs — just produced in a fraction of the time.

In this free 5-lesson course, you'll learn the exact 4-step pattern those professionals use. By the end, you'll be able to take any blank-page work task — an email, a memo, a plan, a pitch — and produce a polished first draft in under 10 minutes.

**You'll Learn:**
- Reframe Claude from "a tool you instruct" to "a colleague you collaborate with"
- Brief Claude with the context, audience, and goal that produce sharp output every time
- Flip the interview by getting Claude to ask *you* clarifying questions before drafting
- Refine drafts through structured back-and-forth instead of starting over
- Build a personal playbook of reusable prompts for the work you do most

**This Course Is For You If…**
- You use Claude (or want to) but the output feels hit-or-miss
- You're a busy operator, founder, consultant, or knowledge worker — not a developer
- You've tried prompt "tips and tricks" and want a real method that sticks

**This Course Is NOT For You If…**
- You're looking for code, API tutorials, or automation pipelines
- You want a comparison of Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Gemini — this course is Claude-specific

**Prerequisites:** None. You don't need a coding background, prompt-engineering experience, or a paid Claude account. A free claude.ai login is everything you need.

**Instructor Bio Hook:** I've spent the last two years helping non-technical operators turn Claude into the smartest teammate in their org — without writing a single line of code. This course is the exact system I teach my clients on day one.

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## 2. Course Outline

1. **The Vending Machine Problem** — Why most people get mediocre output from Claude, and the mindset shift that fixes it. *Runtime: 8 min. Micro-skill: Reframe Claude as collaborator, not tool.*
2. **The Brief: Setting Claude Up for Success** — How to give Claude the context that turns generic output into sharp work. *Runtime: 10 min. Micro-skill: Setting context.*
3. **Flipping the Interview: Letting Claude Ask You** — The most underused technique in prompting — and the one that changes everything. *Runtime: 10 min. Micro-skill: Clarifying-question flip.*
4. **The Draft & Refine Loop** — How to iterate with Claude without starting over every time. *Runtime: 10 min. Micro-skill: Iterative refinement.*
5. **Building Your Personal Prompt Playbook** — Turn one good prompt into a reusable system you'll use every week. *Runtime: 8 min. Micro-skill: Saving and reusing patterns.*

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## 3. Full Lessons

## Lesson 1: The Vending Machine Problem

**Runtime:** ~8 minutes
**Learning objective:** By the end of this lesson, you will be able to identify the "vending machine" mistake in your current prompts and reframe Claude as a collaborator instead of a command line.

### Lesson Script

Let me start with a question. When was the last time you typed something into Claude — or ChatGPT, or any AI tool — and got back something that was technically correct but completely forgettable? Generic. Bland. The kind of thing you ended up rewriting yourself anyway.

If you're nodding, you're not alone. And you're not doing it wrong, exactly. You're doing what most people do. You're treating Claude like a vending machine.

Here's what I mean. A vending machine works one way. You drop in a request — "B7" — and you get exactly what's behind that slot. Coin in, snack out. Transaction over.

That's how most people prompt Claude. "Write me a marketing email." "Summarize this document." "Give me five social posts." Coin in, snack out, walk away. And the snack is fine. It's just not the meal you actually wanted.

Here's the key idea for this whole course: **Claude isn't a vending machine. Claude is a collaborator.**

Think about how you'd brief a smart new colleague on the same task. You wouldn't just say, "write me a marketing email." You'd say: "Here's the customer we're going after. Here's what we sell. Here's the campaign we ran last month — it bombed. Here's the tone we use. Here's what good looks like. Now let's talk through the angle before we draft anything."

That's collaboration. And that's what changes Claude's output from forgettable to genuinely useful.

So in this course, we're going to learn one pattern. Just one. I call it the **Brief → Ask → Draft → Refine** pattern. Every lesson will reinforce a different piece of it.

- **Brief.** You set the stage with context.
- **Ask.** You let Claude ask *you* clarifying questions before it drafts.
- **Draft.** You produce the first version together.
- **Refine.** You iterate through structured feedback, not by starting over.

Let's see the difference in action. Here's a vending-machine prompt: