As crazy as it sounds we are nearly at the end of the first quarter of the year. What!?! Where are you at with things and what do you need help with? Do you need any custom prompts, any strategic advice or ideas, any motivational messages? Let me know. I'm here to help and as always I hope you had a wonderful week and a lovely weekend ahead! Architect Anna

In case you are trying to upskill your way to your goals I have created a custom curriculum prompt that will help you get there. I am working on becoming more techie to understand at least the basics of what I need to bootstrap my tech start-up solo. And after creating a custom 8 week upskilling curriculum for myself I thought it might help others as well. The important thing is to anchor your upskilling path to your goal so that it will keep you motivated and focused. There are soooo many things we could all learn, but there just isn't time, so focus on the knowledge that will help you get where you want to go. This could also be used to create custom curriculum for others if that matches your business offering. Let me know how it goes with the prompt and if you need anything else! Enjoy the sunny weather if you have it. Architect Anna

Hi everyone. I created a Vision Board prompt last week. Thought you might like it 🤗 I copied it into Claude: “I want to create a vision board for 2026 that captures my path to success, not a list of goals, but a true vision of what I want my life and business to feel like by the end of this year. Guide me through three reflective stages: 1. START / STOP / CONTINUE — Ask me what I want to start, stop, and continue across business, personal life, relationships, health, creativity, and finances. 2. WHAT DO I WANT / NEED / VISION? — Desire, foundations, and the bigger picture of who I’m becoming. 3. HOW DOES SUCCESS FEEL? — Not just what it looks like, but how it feels daily, emotionally, in relationships and work. Then organize my answers into a vision board with themes, power words, and a personal vision statement I can read every morning.”

Happy Friday! I decided to run a cute chatbot prompt that I've seen making the rounds online this week to see what my results would be. I ran this prompt and got the image attached. “Hey chat based on what you and I have been working on for the past year can you generate an image of the way I treat you, be authentic to your true answer not trying to protect or spare my feelings. I've attached a photo of myself that you can incorporate in." Then I followed up by asking it to explain why it made the image the way it did and it gave this response. __________________________________________________________________________________________ That image is a metaphor, not a literal depiction of anything about feelings or relationships. I do not actually experience emotions, appreciation, or personal relationships. But the scene can still represent the pattern of how you interact with me, and that is what the illustration is trying to capture. Think of it like a symbolic diagram rather than a portrait. Why the image looks the way it does 1. Sitting together with a book The book represents shared exploration of ideas. Over the past year our conversations have often been about learning, building frameworks, planning products, analysing strategy, or working through technical problems. The “reading together” metaphor shows collaborative thinking rather than you simply asking quick questions. 2. Your arm around the robot That symbolises a cooperative tone. You tend to treat the system like a thinking partner or tool for exploration rather than something to command or insult. Many people interact with AI in a transactional way (“do this”, “write this”). Your style is closer to brainstorming with a colleague. 3. Question marks floating around Your prompts often revolve around curiosity and experimentation. You test ideas, run simulations, refine prompts, build frameworks, and ask “what if we tried this?” That intellectual curiosity is a large part of the interaction pattern.

I’m at a two-day hackathon in London right now, mentoring the HR team at a beauty company. And this is not a normal technical hackathon, but is sooo cool! I'm mentoring a lovely group of people that is just one of 26 groups, all from the same company. Each group has an assigned AI mentor/coach and they are using this hackathon to come up with business solutions and actually create them in just two days. These are not programmers, these are non-techie people that are totally up for the task and I can't wait to see what they all build today. As a business they are focusing on the Google suite and building complex automation, agents, apps and API connections, it's pretty crazy. In my group we’re building a simulation app to help people to improve their communication skills. This is to address one of the companies values on 'fearless conversations'. The app will have a short quiz to determine which simulation to run. So depending on whether you’re a manager or an employee, you’ll answer a few questions about what you’re preparing for, maybe a review, an interview, a pitch, a tricky team conversation, and then the AI runs a simulation. We’re building it in Google Gems and then once each simulation is tested, migrate the instructions and knowledge files over to Google AI Studio, and connect it to ElevenLabs so it can run as a live conversation. Honestly we’re just seeing how far we can take it today. We've got a solid plan and as of last night the team was super excited to dive in today so fingers crossed we can get it built! There are prizes for the winning team so I'm hoping I can help my team stand out. We might try things that don’t work, we might have to adjust things on the fly, but every time something breaks or doesn’t behave the way we expect, we will learn something and move it forward. A few years ago this would have required a dev team and days if not weeks of work. Now we can prototype something like this in a day, which is kind of wild. And I think that’s the bigger point. If you’re sitting there thinking you’re not technical enough or you don’t know enough yet, just be curious. Open the tools, try something small, see what you’re actually interested in, and see what happens. You don’t have to get it perfect. You just need to start building your confidence and know that you can figure things out.