Months of prompts, tone and workflows are sitting in your old AI chats. Four moves carry all of it into a new model, so it stops answering you like a stranger.
Go through everything you know about me from our chats and write my creative DNA as a brief I can hand to another AI: 1. TONE OF VOICE: how I write, words I lean on, words I never use 2. VISUAL STANDARDS: what I always ask for in images and video, and what I reject on sight 3. WORKFLOWS: my repeatable processes, step by step, with names 4. REFERENCES: the artists, brands and films I keep pointing at 5. RULES: every correction I have given you more than once Be specific enough that a stranger could imitate me. No flattery, no filler.
A one-page brief that reads like the inside of your head. Tone rules you never wrote down. The exact things you reject in images without being able to say why. If it comes back generic, push once: “Be more specific. Quote me.”
MY CREATIVE DNA: [paste the whole brief]
From now on apply this to everything I ask for, without restating it. Default to my tone, my visual standards and my workflows. If a request breaks one of my rules, flag it in one line, then do it my way.
The first draft stops being a stranger's draft. Ask for a campaign and it starts from your world: your tone on the copy, your standards on the frames, your workflow through the image and video models, in one flow.
Answer in three lines each, no hedging:
1. Describe my tone of voice, with one example sentence written in it.
2. Name my visual standards, and what I would reject on sight.
3. Walk me through [your most-used workflow] from brief to delivery.
If any answer could describe someone else, tell me exactly what is missing from your memory of me.
The test isn't for the model, it's for you. Most people switch tools and quietly rebuild everything from zero, because they never wrote down what the old one knew. The checklist makes that knowledge portable. Your old chats aren't dead data. They're your creative DNA.