I Built an AI Agent That Figures Out Where to Start — Based on Your Actual Job

If you're using AI at work but still not sure where to start, this video solves that problem — by building a Claude Cowork agent that figures it out for you based on your actual job. Most AI advice gives you ten use cases and twenty prompts. That's not helpful when your week is already full. This agent asks you three questions about your actual job, surfaces one realistic task to automate first, and walks you through scheduling it before the video is over. This is a build-along. You'll need a second tab open and a paid Claude account. If you're on mobile, bookmark this and come back when you're at your desk. ___________________________________________________________ BEFORE READING MORE — were you aware of this? Your AI knows more about how you work than your boss does. Your communication style, your workflows, your standards, the way you think through problems. It's all in there. Built up over hundreds of conversations. And right now, none of it belongs to you. Every time you switch tools, change jobs, or get handed a new AI at work, you start over from scratch. That context stays behind. The version of AI that actually knew you? Gone. You spend the next few weeks re-explaining yourself, getting outputs that are close but off, wondering why it stopped working the way it used to. That's not a prompting problem. It's a missing foundation problem. Here's how to fix it. The Professional AI Interview Kit https://calhyslop.com/now-what Before it asks you a single question, it reads whatever context already exists in your workspace. Then it interviews you across ten areas, including your professional history, the things you've carried from past roles that shape how you work today and would never come up if someone just asked what your job title is. The result is a Personal Operating Document that reflects what you said and what it found. Yours to keep. Yours to carry. Paste it into any tool, any time. The AI stops guessing. Includes a step-by-step video walkthrough. Setup takes under five minutes. There's also a free version you can build yourself. Not as complete, but a real starting point. The Portable AI Working Identity (Free) https://calhyslop.kit.com/portable_ai... A structured document that walks you through capturing your own professional context. You fill it in, you own it, you carry it across any tool or employer. The gap worth knowing about: you can only put in what you already know to include. The patterns you carry from past roles, the standards you hold without naming them, the professional context that shapes everything you do but never comes up in a job title — those stay blank. Which means the AI is still guessing about the things that matter most. The kit is specifically built to surface exactly those things. Here is is again: The Professional AI Interview Kit https://calhyslop.com/now-what ___________________________________________________________ Tools I Use Every Day (And You Probably Should Too) Typeless — Stop typing. This replaces your keyboard. It converts your speech into clean, formatted text in any app with two keystrokes. No switching apps, no recording interface. Just press, talk, press. If you've ever lost a thought mid-sentence because you were too busy typing to finish it, this is the fix. Desktop and mobile. The link below includes a $5 credit when you sign up. 🔗 https://www.typeless.com/?via=cal | Invite code: cal ______________________________________ 📋 THE COWORK STARTER PROMPT Wow. This prompt is just too long to fit here in the description. So, you can get it immediately by clicking the link below. Not sign up or extra steps. Get it immediately here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V-Eo... 🔗 LINKS MENTIONED Claude AI: https://claude.ai Claude Cowork Guide: https://support.claude.com/en/article... The Cowork Interview Video:    • Stop Prompting AI. Do This Instead (Claude...   🕒 TIMESTAMPS 0:00 The problem with generic AI advice 1:15 Why we're building in Claude Cowork 2:30 Act 1: Setting up the agent 3:45 Act 2: Watching it work 5:20 The one-task rule 6:40 Act 3: Your turn 8:00 What comes next [About Cal Hyslop] With over 20 years of experience as an educator and a deep background in AI automation, Cal helps experienced professionals build AI workflows that actually fit their work — without writing code or becoming an AI expert. #ClaudeCowork #AIForWork #AIAutomation #AIWorkflows #AIForManagers