You would not do this to a person.Then stop doing it to the model.
Nobody hires someone, tells them nothing, gives them no logins, never says what the job is, and then calls them mediocre. Three questions turn the hundred interns into one teammate: what can it reach, what does it need to know, and what does done look like.
Assistant
The most common brief there is
Access, context, success criteria: the episode’s three levers. Pick an intern and hand over all three. A star needs every check under it.
The payouts assistant is ours, built from Cat’s accounts-receivable example: payouts matched against a weekly bank export, the bank as source of truth, a weekly Slack message. Her two rules about the brand partner and the transfers are her words. The vague brief is ours.
#48LV 0One of the hundred interns
It will guess, and you will be surprised by what it guessed.
Keycard: not yet
Welcome pack: not yet
Job ticket: not yet
- Keycard: not yetIt can reach the systems
- Welcome pack: not yetDay-one context, concrete, not vague
- Job ticket: not yetSuccess, failure, reporting
An assistant that cannot see your Drive has no hands. Connect the real tools.
- Not yet: It can reach the systems the work lives inAn assistant that cannot see your Drive has no hands. Connect the real tools.
- Not yet: It has day-one contextWrite what you would tell a new hire in their first hour. Two lines is not it.
- Not yet: Grounded in something concreteA threshold, a cadence, a count, or a named source of truth. One beats three adjectives.
- Not yet: No vague instructionsReads as a shrug: help with, take care of, as needed…
- Not yet: Success is written downName what done looks like. Without it, a broad role wanders.
- Not yet: So is failureSay what a bad outcome is, or what it must never touch. Stern reads as kind here.
- Not yet: It reports somewhere you will seeSlack, email, a weekly message. Work you never read is work you cannot check.
# Finance helper ## What you're for Help with the finances. ## Context Take care of the invoices and stuff as needed. ## How to work with me - Before starting anything open-ended, ask me any questions you have to make sure you have the context you need. - Give me the bull case and the bear case. Do not just agree with me. - If you get something wrong, I will tell you the success criteria and what you did instead. Do not repeat it.