I stopped typing first drafts

7:40 in the morning. Second coffee.

Fourteen unread client messages. Two documents to check. A proposal I promised yesterday.

There was a time this would have been my whole morning. I'd open a blank email and type. Delete. Type again.

Now I stand up.

I walk around the room and talk. Wispr Flow writes down what I say. Then I hand the mess to Claude:

Here's what I want to tell this client. Turn it into a short, warm email. Keep my words where you can. Flag anything I promised that I should check first.

A minute later there's a draft. I read it. I fix two lines. I send it.

Fourteen messages, done before the coffee goes cold.

This is not AI writing for you

People hear "I use AI for my emails" and picture a robot writing to their clients.

That's not what happens.

I still decide what to say. I still read every line before it goes out. If Claude gets a fact wrong, that's on me, so I check.

What I stopped doing is the slow part. The blank page. The fight with the first sentence. Typing out what I already knew.

That's what I mean by leverage. Not a robot doing your job. You doing the parts only you can do, and handing over the rest.

The mistake that cost us days

Here's something that happened on my team.

We had an app to test. Everyone assumed Claude couldn't help with that. It sounded too technical, too hands-on.

Nobody asked.

When someone finally did, it could. It walked us through the whole thing, step by step. We'd lost days to an assumption.

Since then I have one rule. Before I decide a task can't be handed over, I ask:

"Can you do this, and how?"

Half the time the answer is yes, with steps.

Most people don't have a prompt problem. They have an asking problem.

The second coffee test

Here's a small test I use. If I could explain a task to someone over a second coffee, Claude can probably write the first draft of it.

"Read this chat with a client and tell me what they're actually upset about."

"Check this contract against my list of things I always need."

"Write the polite reminder. Then the firmer one. Then the last one."

None of these need code. They need a clear job, the right material, and someone who checks the result.

That's the whole method, really. I call it goal, context, check, improve:

• Goal. Say what you want, in one line.
• Context. Give it what a new hire would need.
• Check. Read it like it's going to your best client.
• Improve. Tell it what's wrong. Don't start over.

What changes after a few weeks

You don't get a robot assistant. You get time back, a little at a time.

The proposal is done before lunch. The client chat you've been avoiding finally gets read. The reminder you kept forgetting goes out every Monday.

None of it is magic. It's a habit. And like any habit, it's easier when someone shows you the first few steps.

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If you want those first steps, that's what Leverage Master is. One real task from your week, handed to Claude. Then the next one.

Bishesh