Here's the highest-leverage AI habit I teach, and it requires no skill at all: stop typing. When you type a request, you compress everything you know into two tidy sentences, and lose half the point in the compression. When you switch to voice and just talk for five minutes, everything comes out: the context, the exceptions, the thing you'd forgotten you cared about. The voice method gets details out of you that typing never will.
“You can build the dashboard of your freaking dreams.”
Where rambling wins
- Complex builds: I rebuilt a sales page by rambling about what I actually offer, who it's for, and what bothered me about the old page. The result versus my typed attempt was night and day.
- Task briefs: describing a workflow out loud naturally includes the steps, the exceptions, and the "oh and also", exactly what a typed prompt forgets.
- Standing instructions: my rule that the AI keep asking clarifying questions exists precisely so I can answer them in voice mode, walking, driving, thinking.
- The tell: when someone thinks hard, their eyes go up and away and the words flow. That state produces your best briefing, and it never happens over a keyboard.
There's a deeper reason this works: speech is where your expertise actually lives. You've explained your business out loud ten thousand times; you've typed it rarely. Voice mode taps the practiced version of you. Five minutes of rambling, then let the AI organize the transcript into the brief. Talking was never the lazy option, it was the richer one.
Claire's own numbers
The framework, step by step
- 1
Complex builds
I rebuilt a sales page by rambling about what I actually offer, who it's for, and what bothered me about the old page. The result versus my typed atte
- 2
Task briefs
describing a workflow out loud naturally includes the steps, the exceptions, and the "oh and also" — exactly what a typed prompt forgets.
- 3
Standing instructions
my rule that the AI keep asking clarifying questions exists precisely so I can answer them in voice mode, walking, driving, thinking.
- 4
The tell
when someone thinks hard, their eyes go up and away and the words flow. That state produces your best briefing — and it never happens over a keyboard.
Claire's own framework from this essay, in the order she teaches it.
Source: Claire B. Soares, from her own travel business and live trainings.
Common Questions
How do you get more from AI without learning prompting?
Use voice. Typing compresses what you know into two tidy sentences, while five minutes of talking surfaces the context, exceptions, and details a typed prompt forgets.
When is voice mode most useful with AI?
Complex builds, workflow briefs, and standing instructions, where the exceptions and edge cases matter as much as the request itself.
Why does speaking produce better AI briefs?
Because your expertise lives in speech. You have explained your business out loud thousands of times and typed it rarely.
Written By
Claire B. Soares
6× Condé Nast Top Travel Specialist, Certified AI Consultant, and founder of Travel AI University. $3.4B+ in enterprise travel software sold to Google, IBM, Boeing, the federal government, and the DoD; $16M+ in luxury travel sales with Up in the Air Life.
About Claire
