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Can one dropped prompt replace twenty onboarding questions?

Featuring From the Weekly Meeting. Published July 30, 2026.

Frank’s path to a sellable second-brain product: take the extraction prompt, flesh it out, and wire it into the interview process so the client does the work and the system maps it. Matthew’s version pulls a client’s tech specs through one dropped prompt, no 20 questions, nobody feels dumb.

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