The 30-second fix for "could've Googled that" AI outputs

Mar 18 (edited) • Resources

You typed a perfectly good prompt. AI gave you something a high schooler could've found on page one of Google.

Sound familiar?

Here's the fix. Before your next prompt, add one sentence about WHO you are and one sentence about WHO the output is for.

That's it. Two sentences. Thirty seconds.

Instead of: "Write a follow-up email after a consulting call"

Try: "I'm an operations consultant who just had a discovery call with a small business owner exploring AI for the first time. Write a follow-up email that references our conversation about their team's workflow bottlenecks and proposes a next step."

Same task.

Completely different output.

Why this works:

AI defaults to the most generic version of any task unless you tell it otherwise. Those two sentences — who you are and who the audience is — immediately narrow the possibilities from "any email ever written" to "a specific email for a specific situation."

It's not a hack. It's just context.

And context is the single biggest lever you have.

(This is the simplest version of what I teach in Connected Intelligence — context before content.)

What's one prompt you've been getting generic results from?

Drop it below and I'll show you what two sentences of context could do.

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