A practical walkthrough of turning instinctive review habits into a reusable AI-powered scoring tool. Learn a four-part prompting framework to define what you do, why you do it, and what success looks like. Hear a concrete example building a sales-proposal editor and how the model can interview you to pin down criteria. Learn how to save the setup as a repeatable custom tool for faster, more consistent reviews.
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Early Boat Drop Shows Proactive Advantage
Cary Weston's early-season boat story illustrates being proactive to avoid delays and competition.
He snowblowed a path, retrieved his pontoon amid 10–11 inches of snow, and dropped it at the marina well before others.
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Build A Reusable Review Editor
Create a reusable review editor by turning your instinctual checklist into explicit categories for consistent scoring.
Use Cary Weston's four-part framework: what you're doing, why, what success looks like, and permit the tool to ask questions to refine the rubric.
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Turn Instinct Into Explicit Checklists
Much of our review process lives in instinct rather than a documented checklist, which makes feedback inconsistent.
Translating that tacit knowledge into explicit prompts lets tools like ChatGPT or Claude apply your judgment consistently and scalably.
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In this solo episode, Cary introduces a practical way to use ChatGPT as a consistent review and scoring tool for work you produce or evaluate over and over again. The idea is simple: most of us review things on instinct and experience, but if you can articulate what you're actually looking for, you can build that into a reusable editor inside ChatGPT or Claude. Cary walks through his four-part framework for prompting and shows how to have the conversation that turns your review instincts into a structured scoring matrix. The big takeaway is that putting your review process into words, even for things you do on autopilot, makes your feedback faster, more consistent, and more objective.
3 Key Takeaways
If you review or produce the same type of document repeatedly, you already have a mental checklist. The goal is to get it out of your head and into ChatGPT so it can do the scoring for you.
Use Cary's four-part framework to build the tool: tell it what you're doing, why you're doing it, what success looks like, and then invite it to ask questions before it gets to work.
Once ChatGPT interviews you about what "good" looks like in each category, save that output as a project instruction, a custom GPT, or a Claude skill so you can use it over and over without starting from scratch.
Giveaway Winner: Congratulations to Heather Thorson of HT Artistry, who wona free ticket to AI Business World in Anaheim, California at the end of April. The ticket was generously provided by Michael Stelzner and Social Media Examiner.
Cary offers customized one-on-one ChatGPT training in 60 minute sessions. Find out more information on the sessions, answers to frequent questions, and how to register at www.ChatGPTExperiment.com
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