# Your first day with the agent

If today is your first day, do not try to do everything. Here is the order that actually works.

### Step 1: Have a conversation with it about your business

Before you give the agent its first task, give it context. Open the chat and say something like: I want you to learn about my business so you can help me run it. I'll give you the basics, then ask me clarifying questions until you understand. Remember everything we discuss. The business is [X]. I do [Y]. My main bottlenecks right now are [Z].

You are not trying to write a perfect briefing. You are inviting the agent to interview you. Say everything you want and then have it ask clarifying questions. It will have better ideas to make it even better. If it's something complicated, start with "let's plan this out — what's the best way to do this?" Build the plan first, then tell it to go. You can also tell the agent to interview you about your voice, your clients, your tools, your pricing, your favorite phrases. Answer the questions, then say "remember all of that so you have it forever." Now it has context that no prompt could have given it.

### Step 2: Pick three small tasks and run them

Do not start with the most complicated workflow you have. Start with three small things. Examples that work for almost anyone: Summarize a long email thread. Forward it to the agent and ask "what is this thread about and what is being asked of me?" Find my next free hour tomorrow. It checks your calendar. Read this PDF and tell me the three things I should care about. Doing three small things in your first hour does two things: it teaches you how the chat actually feels, and it shows the agent what you actually care about.

### Step 3: Keep it open while you work

Most people open the chat, send a message, close the tab, come back tomorrow. That is the slowest possible learning curve. Keep the chat open in the background while you do other things. Use it the way you would use a colleague at the next desk. Got a meeting in 20 minutes? "Pull up everything we have

on this person and remind me of our last call." Just got off a call? "Here are the notes from a call with X — write me a follow-up email and a summary for my CRM." The only people who get fast at this are the ones who use it as a habit, not as a tool. No one gets it till they talk to it for a long time.

### Step 4: When you correct it, correct it permanently

Here is the single most important habit to build on day one. When the agent does something almost-right, do not just fix the output. Tell it to fix the rule. Bad: "actually I wanted bullet points, not paragraphs." (One-off. It will do paragraphs again tomorrow.) Good: "going forward, always use bullet points when you summarize a meeting. Save that as a permanent rule." (Sticks.) The phrase "going forward" is the magic. We come back to it in Chapter 5.

### What good looks like at the end of week one

You should not have built anything fancy. You should have: An agent that knows real things about you and your business. A handful of conversations where you got something useful done. One or two corrections that stuck because you said "going forward." A vague feeling that you are starting to know what to ask for. That is it. The compounding starts in week two. The first day with the agent: three small tasks, one conversation about your business, and the one correction habit that makes everything else compound.