Signal from Expert

Two ingredients make this work. Both are required:

1. Volume of the user's honest, unfiltered thinking — it exposes exactly how they see something and their current level of understanding.
2. A world-class expert's body of work — several essays, articles or transcripts, read in full, reviewed against all of his thinking.

The output is relevance and clarity: the expert's exact words, mapped onto the user's exact situation, including where they are wrong.

Inputs

The user's message names three things. If one is missing, ask for it in one plain-text question.

• Corpus — the files or folders of the user's own thinking to analyze (e.g. journal/2026-08-29.md, or daily/ last 14 days). Read exactly that. Nothing more.
• Expert + topic — e.g. "Paul Graham on what to build", "Bezos on decision making".
• URLs (optional) — specific pieces he wants included.

Workflow