THE AI ADVANTAGE Issue No. 14
THIS WEEK IN AI
Within about ninety seconds of our Group Coaching call last week one of the women brought up the thing that seems to come up basically every single time someone mentions Claude.
She's ready to move over from ChatGPT. But she's got months (maybe even years) of work living inside her ChatGPT projects, all her coaching material, the scripts for the course she's rebuilding, the workbooks, all the bits and pieces she's been pulling together for ages, and the way she said it sort of stuck with me, because she goes, "all of my brain is in the different projects." And the thought of picking all of that up and moving it into some brand new place felt so big and so daunting that she just... hadn't. She'd been circling it for weeks.
And listen, we have sat in that exact spot, staring at a fresh new platform like, okay cool, so where on earth do I even start. So if that's you too, no judgment over here, pour your coffee (or in my case, a mushroom chai, because apparently I'm that person now) and let's talk about it.
The Real Reason Switching Feels So Scary
What actually trips people up, I think, has nothing to do with being behind or bad at tech or any of the stories we tell ourselves at 11pm, it's that moving everything over feels like you'd be tossing your actual brain in the trash, and who on earth would want to do that. Or that moving things over will take as long as it did to create it all from scratch in the beginning. (But it won't becuase so much of that time was fleshing things out.)
Another woman on the call said it so well, that she feels like she's missing a chapter of a book, like everybody else got the part that explains why this isn't supposed to be so hard and she somehow didn't. And I'll tell you what we told her, which is that you are not missing a chapter. It really does just come down to sitting down and taking the time to poke around. To ask AI itself how the heck do I use you.
And you do not actually have to move all of it over. Or start over. You really, truly don't. You need to just give it the uptodate brief just like you would a new employee.
How We Actually Did It (Spoiler: One Thing At a Time)
When I made the move, I did not sit down one rainy afternoon and heroically migrate everything I'd ever done, because that sounds exhausting and also I would simply never. What I did was way lazier and honestly way smarter, I just grabbed whatever project I happened to be actively working on at the time, like a client thing or something for our own business, and I made that the first one to come over, and that was the whole strategy.
And in order to figure out what to do, I used AI to help me! Asking it what a project is, what is a skill, what should go where. You can do that too or you can read this blog to help you understand what the comparisons are from ChatGPT to Claude. (And also, just to be clear, I am still using ChatGPT for SOME things.) Does it feel like I am paying double? Yes. But it’s like investing in different kinds of support. ChatGPT for some image-based support or personal life support. And Claude for business, client work, research, and tasks.
The migration of all my “work” stuff happened over time. Each time I sat down to work on something, I'd bring that project over, so my Claude kind of built itself up over time, one project at a time, instead of in one big overwhelming dump. Claire will tell you she pretty much started from scratch, and that sounds terrifying until you realize "from scratch" didn't mean recreating years of work, it just meant starting clean and only carrying over the stuff that was actually still useful.
Because sometimes what's sitting in your old projects can honestly just... stay there. Half of it was you thinking out loud at midnight. You don't need to drag every single brainstorm into your shiny new space, or the evolution of your ideas. You need the good stuff, the decisions you landed on, your brand, your offers, the way you talk. The rest can rest in peace over in ChatGPT. And heck. If you love ChatGPT, keep it! No one is saying you HAVE to move.
REAL TALK: ChatGPT Gets a Little Clingy When You Try to Leave
While I mentioned you CAN use AI to help you move, I would ask the NEW platform to help you. Not the one you are moving from.
One of the women had been trying to get ChatGPT to help her pack up her own projects so she could take them somewhere else, just asking it straight up how do I move this, and it was being weirdly unhelpful about the whole thing, and she finally just goes, "ChatGPT doesn't want me to move." And she's not wrong! When you flat-out tell an AI "hey, I'm leaving you for another platform," you can almost feel it cross its little arms.
So we found a way around it that works so much better, maybe a tiny bit sneaky, but just try it. You don't tell it you're leaving. You tell it you're bringing on a brand new team member who needs to get up to speed.
Instead of "summarize this project so I can move it" (which, by the way, she tried, and it spit out this vague little blurb about her and almost nothing about the actual project), you ask it to write a full debrief for a brand new person joining your team who knows nothing. That one little reframe can change everything, because now its feelings aren’t hurt (I can’t believe I am saying that about AI), it's just helpfully catching the new kid up, and it'll pour out way more detail than it would've otherwise.
YOU CAN TRY THIS TOO
Try this prompt:
"Write me a thorough debrief of everything in this project. Pretend you're handing it off to a brand new team member who knows nothing about me or my business. Include what this project is for, the decisions we've made, my offers, my brand voice, and anything they'd need in order to pick up right where I left off."
Then, read what it gives you. Fix the spots where it missed something or got you a little wrong. And then save that whole thing as a document, because now you've got a clean little brain-dump you can hand to Claude, or to an actual human you hire down the road, or to whatever new tool you're playing with six months from now.
Do that for the two or three projects that are still relevant, not all twenty of them.
Build a Brain That Travels With You
This whole conversation got me thinking even more. The real goal was never "switch from ChatGPT to Claude." The real goal is to stop keeping your entire business locked inside one app where it can't follow you anywhere.
Because you're probably going to end up using more than one tool anyway, that's just where all of this is heading. We use ChatGPT for image stuff because it's honestly better at it, and Claude for writing and the actual business brain, and when I'm working in Claude Cowork it's reaching into the files on my own computer to get things done for me. None of that works if your whole brain is trapped inside one platform's projects.
So whatever you build, build it to travel. Keep the important stuff (your philosophy, your offers, your avatar, the way you sound) saved somewhere you own, so any tool you ever use can read it and instantly get you.
That "instantly get you" feeling is the whole reason we built the AI Brand Brain in the first place. It's the set of Claude skill files that taught my Claude who we are and how we talk, and it's the reason moving over felt less like starting from zero and more like, oh good, you already know me. (More on how to grab it in a second.)
I know this isn’t some new profound skill that will manage your entire business. Take time this week to just work on fine-tuning the things you have been working on or to finally take the time to do something you have been putting off.
And as you build out yur files for your business to inform AI, think about where you can store them. Store them on a cloud so you can use them for different AI tools to access them without having to put versions inside every tool.
GRAB THE SHORTCUT!
Here's the not-so-secret behind why moving to Claude felt easy for us instead of awful: we never made our Claude start from a blank page. It already knew our brand, our voice, our offers, all of it, because we handed it the AI Brand Brain - Copy Edition.
It's five Claude skill files that teach Claude how your business actually sounds and works, so you stop re-explaining yourself every single time you open a new chat. And it's the welcome gift when you join the AI CLUB for $5.55 a month, which also gets you a fresh bonus prompt or mini-training every week (more on this week's down below).
If there is a new skill you want to learn or something in your business you wish AI could help you with, let me know in the comments and I will do some research and help you through it!
See you back next week!
Krissy
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