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Plan It First

A free planning skill for Claude and ChatGPT.

On your phone?

Send yourself this link. Setup takes 2 minutes on a laptop.

plan.myzenithconsulting.com

Download plan-it-first.zip

How it works

Five stages. One weekend.

  1. Questions

    It asks you good questions

    Bigger idea, more questions. A typo gets none.

  2. What I heard

    It says back what it heard

    Then shows you what it will look like, before it builds.

  3. Plan

    It writes a plan, then attacks it

    It finds the holes before you ever see the plan.

    The secret
  4. Build

    It builds it, step by step

    Build means a working tool your team can click, not just text.

  5. Review

    You review and finalize

    You sign off.

My 15 · 80 · 5 rule of thumb

Set it up

Two minutes on a laptop.

Claude

Free works
  1. Turn on Settings › Capabilities › Code execution and file creation.
  2. Drop the zip into a new chat and say: Set this up
  3. Then start any chat with: Plan it first: and your idea.

ChatGPT

Any plan
  1. Drop the zip into a chat and say: Set this up
  2. It walks you through a free Project.

Mac with Safari?

If you got a folder instead of a zip: right-click the folder › Compress, then drop the zip.

Other AIs

Unzip it and paste SKILL.md into a chat.