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title: "Brief your AI with TOUCH instead of a SuperPrompt"
description: "The current models guess your intention themselves. What they still need from you fits into five letters: task, outcome, open questions, context and handover."
language: en
source: https://coachsteff.live/en/touch-briefing
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# Brief your AI with TOUCH instead of a SuperPrompt

In a workshop last week, I built an onboarding assistant for an HR department live. No half-page prompt, no role, no list of tone instructions. Five short steps, and without uploading a single document.

## Why the SuperPrompt has done its job

I have worked long and often with an extensive prompt framework myself, CRAFTER. With the older models you had to write everything out, because they did exactly what it said and filled in the rest themselves, often incorrectly.

Today's models are reasoning models. They first try to figure out what you actually mean, and do that bit of prompt engineering in the background themselves. A long list of roles and tone instructions adds little then. What they do still need is something they can never guess themselves: what you want, why, and where the information is located.

That is why I now work with TOUCH. Five letters, and each of them answers a question that only you can answer.