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The take-home

The LIVE class resource guidebook

Fifteen pages. The prompt framework, every demo prompt from the class, the beginner traps, the privacy guardrails, and where to go next.

This is the actual booklet people walked out of the first class holding. I'm not going to pretend it's a lead magnet — it's just the thing, and you can have it.

Download the PDF About the class

The Brian Tries AI LIVE resource guidebook

The framework

R-C-T-F, plus the pro move

If you take one thing from anything I've written, take this. Four parts to a good prompt, plus a fifth that most people never learn.

RRoleWho it should be

CContextYour real details

TTaskWhat you want

FFormatHow you want it back

+ConstraintsWhat to leave out

The meal-plan prompt

Act as a practical family meal planner. Plan 5 weeknight dinners for a family of [4]. Budget around [$100], [we're not big on fish], and [one kid is picky]. Give me the five meals, then a grocery list grouped by store section, and reuse ingredients across the meals so nothing gets wasted.

Then send this one line, which is where the real magic is:

Rework it so leftover ingredients from one meal get used in another, so nothing gets thrown out.

The family-schedule prompt

You're my family logistics assistant. Here's our week: [two kids], [soccer Tuesday and Thursday at 5:30], [piano Wednesday at 4], [my wife works late Mondays], [I travel Thursday]. Build a color-coded weekly schedule as a table, flag every conflict, and tell me what I need to prep the night before each day.

The budget prompt

Act as a practical budgeting coach. My take-home is [$X] a month. Fixed costs: [rent, car, utilities, insurance]. Build me a 50/30/20 budget as a table, show me where I'm overspending, and give me three specific cuts that would free up the most cash. Put it in a table.

A reminder I say out loud in every class: it's good at the math and the plan, it is not a licensed advisor, it can be confidently wrong on rates and tax, and it has no access to your accounts. Verify anything that drives a real money decision.

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