The ladder/Level 1
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PROMPT CRAFT

Daily User

Claude is open all day. Your written output is visibly faster and better; you get repeatable quality.

01 — Modules
1Learn

Prompt craft

Role / context / task / format structure. Giving examples. Asking Claude to ask *you* questions. Iterating instead of accepting. Extended thinking for hard tasks.

2Apply

Claude Projects

One project per recurring context (deal flow, LP comms, thesis area). Custom instructions that encode your voice. Knowledge files: past memos, fund thesis, portfolio list.

3Extend

Daily workflows

Artifacts for documents. Long-document analysis (data rooms). Synthesizing call notes. Writing that sounds like *you*, not like AI.

02 — Tool belt
  • Claude Projects
  • Custom instructions
  • Artifacts
  • Extended thinking
  • Voice dictation
03 — Say it out loud

Terms you should be able to explain to a colleague.

  • system / custom instructions
  • few-shot examples
  • project knowledge
  • why 'garbage in, garbage out' applies to context
04 — VC playbook
  1. 01Investment memo draft from deck + call notes + your thesis, in a Project seeded with past memos
  2. 02Quarterly LP update: from portfolio bullets to polished letter
  3. 03Thesis piece / market map first draft
  4. 04Data room speed-read: key terms, anomalies, missing documents
  5. 05Newsletter or LinkedIn essay in your voice
Checkpoint challenge

The Memo

Build a deal-screening Project (instructions + knowledge files), then take one live deal from deck to full investment memo draft inside it. Bonus: walk a colleague through your prompting approach so they can reuse the Project.

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