Individual AI Readiness Assessment

I use Claude for bits and pieces around the edges. The work that really depends on my judgement, I still do entirely myself. Now and then I bring Claude into that high-value work, but it is not a settled part of how I do it. Most of what I use it for is the smaller stuff. I deliberately bring Claude to my most valuable work, though I decide to each time, case by case. My most valuable work is the first place I reach for Claude. That is simply how I work now. As Claude takes on more, I keep pointing it at the next most valuable thing. What I trust it with keeps climbing.

It is all in my head. Nothing about how I work exists in a form Claude could use. There are fragments scattered around, but nothing pulled together as a reusable account of how I work. My core methods and standards are written down and genuinely reusable. I give them to Claude when a task needs them. My expertise is captured so Claude draws on it directly. My depth is there without me re-supplying it each time. What Claude can draw on keeps growing. Each piece of work adds to the captured expertise.

What comes out is generic. It could have come from anyone in my field. It starts to sound like me while I am actively pushing it there, but left alone it drifts back to generic. It reflects my judgement reliably, but I still review and correct it each time. What comes out is recognisably mine by default. I correct at the margins rather than rebuild. It gets more reliably mine over time, as my corrections and preferences build up in how it responds.

It produces outputs I use in the moment. Nothing much carries beyond that. Some of what it produces gets used beyond the conversation, but that is incidental rather than by design. I deliberately build outputs that carry: documents, frameworks, templates, things that do work beyond the session that produced them. My Claude practice produces things that run without me: outputs others rely on, processes that operate, work that compounds across time. The practice keeps extending its own reach. What it produces feeds back in and the value accumulates.

I have not really designed it. I open it and figure it out as I go. I have settled into some habits but nothing deliberate. No real setup, no configured environment. I have made some deliberate choices: projects, saved prompts, a way of working I would describe as mine. My setup is intentional: configured environment, context Claude carries, a consistent and efficient way of working I have built over time. I keep refining it. The way I work with Claude evolves as my needs and understanding develop.