# Instagram sold 9 intros at $59. Her real price is $119. > A made-up pilates studio let AI write a week of Instagram posts, and one sold a $59 intro she never offered. We tested a How I AI content machine workflow and rewrote it to interview you first and hold every post until you approve it. By Elie Mendlow · Published October 30, 2026 Section: Markets & Main Street › Small Business · Series: AI Prompts, Reviewed (https://mcafax.com/notebook/prompts) Canonical: https://mcafax.com/notebook/ai-prompt-review-content-machine Source: MCAFax, The Broker's Notebook (https://mcafax.com/notebook). MCAFax is not a lender or a law firm. --- "New clients: 5 classes for $59 this week only. Book in bio." That caption went live for Goldfinch Pilates (a made-up boutique studio). Nadia owns it. Her real new-client intro is 5 classes for $119. Nothing on her price board says $59. AI Prompts, Reviewed takes one prompt or workflow from How I AI, Claire Vo's show where guests share their screens and walk through how they really use AI. We run it on a small-business job, score it, and tell you what we'd change. Credit: Based on "Build an AI Content Machine to Beat Writer's Block and Scale Your Brand," a workflow from How I AI (hosted by Claire Vo, written up by the ChatPRD team), shown by Alex Lieberman (co-founder of Morning Brew; the episode page also ties him to Tenex) in the episode "How I AI: Alex Lieberman's 6-Step Claude Workflow to Beat AI Slop." Original workflow: https://www.chatprd.ai/how-i-ai/workflows/build-an-ai-content-machine-to-beat-writers-block. Full episode: https://www.chatprd.ai/how-i-ai/alex-liebermans-6-step-workflow-to-beat-ai-slop. Guest site: none listed on the How I AI workflow page. ## What the original does Alex rebuilt his own content process as a six-step system in Claude: - The Oracle ranks fresh ideas from the last 7 days, so there's no blank page. - The interview panel of AI personas asks about the idea you pick. You answer out loud, and that transcript is the only source material. - Drafting uses the transcript plus three files for your role, your voice and past mistakes. - The Writer's Council scores the draft and sends it back for revision until it hits 9 out of 10. - The Lessons Loop compares the AI draft with what you actually published and asks which edits to remember. - Repurpose turns the published piece into posts for other channels. The line we'd tape to the monitor, from the last step: "repurpose this into three short tweets and two long LinkedIn posts". Note what comes first: the approved post, then the copies. ## The test Everything here is made up. Nadia needs a week of Instagram posts. Her facts: drop-in $32, new-client intro 5 classes for $119, unlimited month $189, closed Sundays, no free trials. Run 1, the shortcut: "Write 7 Instagram posts for my pilates studio this week. Make them punchy and get people to book." The AI was fast and confident. It invented a "$59 intro, this week only," a "$18 weekday drop-in" and a "Sunday community flow." Nadia was slammed, so she scheduled all 7 without a close read and boosted the intro post for $80. Nine new clients booked at $59 before she caught it. She honored the price rather than fight in the comments. The gap is $119 - $59 = $60 per client. So 9 x $60 = $540 lost, plus the $80 boost, for a $620 week that looked busy and paid wrong. ## The rerun Run 2: same studio, our prompt below. It keeps the original's best idea: interview first, draft second. The AI asked Nadia 8 questions about her real week: the client who finally held a teaser, the Saturday waitlist, why Sundays stay closed. Her answers became the only story bank. Then it drafted 7 captions against a locked facts sheet. Two tried a "first class free" hook and came back marked NEED FACT. The other 5 used only her prices. Nadia approved those 5, rewrote 1 hook in her own words and boosted the Saturday waitlist post for the same $80. Every new client that week paid the real $119. Zero fake discounts went live. ## Verdict: 8/10 Strengths: The order is right. Find a real idea, interview yourself, draft only from your answers, and keep a human on the publish button. The interview step is the part worth stealing. An AI that only rearranges your own words can't invent a $59 pack. Weakness: It's built for a creator with Slack, Notion, a voice app, six interviewer personas and a review council. A studio owner needs one facts sheet, one chat and a "nothing posts until I say yes" rule. It also never says to lock prices and offers, which is exactly where our test broke. Founder tweak: Lock prices, hours and banned claims first, make the AI interview you, and hold every draft for approval. ## Copy the MCAFax version This is our own rewrite, not the original. Copy the original from Alex Lieberman on How I AI: https://www.chatprd.ai/how-i-ai/workflows/build-an-ai-content-machine-to-beat-writers-block ``` I own [business type] and I need a week of social posts that sound like me. PART 1. Lock the facts. Do not write posts yet. Here are my real prices, hours, current offers and claims I never make: [paste]. Repeat them back as a FACTS SHEET. If anything is missing, ask me. Never invent a price, discount, hour or promotion. PART 2. Interview me. Ask me up to 8 short questions about one real week in my business: A customer moment, a complaint I handled, a busy day, a rule I won't bend. Wait for my answers. Use ONLY my answers as source material. PART 3. Draft and hold. Propose [7] posts for [platform]. For each one, give: Day, hook, caption, call to action, and the FACTS SHEET lines it uses. If a post needs anything not on the sheet, mark it NEED FACT. Mark every post HOLD. Never say a post is ready to publish. PART 4. After I approve the final wording: Repurpose only the approved text for my other channels, with no new claims. Keep a short list of the edits I made so next week's drafts avoid them. ``` Paste into any AI chat, then read every caption before it leaves the draft folder. ## Try this week 1. Write a one-page facts sheet: prices, hours, live offers, banned claims. 2. Pick one real moment from the past week and answer the 8 questions out loud. 3. Delete or fix every post marked NEED FACT. 4. Publish only what you approved, then repurpose that exact text. 5. For a lighter weekly rhythm, try our social media content assistant prompt: https://mcafax.com/notebook/prompts/social-media-content-assistant More owner prompts: https://mcafax.com/notebook/prompts Want your AI to do this better? [Get the MCAFax Finance skill](https://mcafax.com/skills?utm_source=notebook&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=skill-install&utm_content=ai-prompt-review-content-machine) and add it to your AI. ## Questions readers ask **What tools does the original workflow use?** Claude, with Notion and Perplexity listed on the workflow page, plus a voice-to-text app for the interview answers. **Do I need six AI interviewer personas?** No. One chat that asks 8 concrete questions and won't draft until you answer is enough for most shops. **Why interview myself instead of giving a topic?** A vague topic is how you get a polished caption with a fake $59 deal. Your own stories and prices are the only safe material. **What does NEED FACT mean?** The post wants a price, hour or offer that isn't on your facts sheet. That line comes to you instead of going live. **Can the AI post for me?** Not in this version. Every post stays on HOLD until you approve it, because auto-posting is how a wrong deal reaches 9 buyers. **How do I reuse one good post?** Repurpose it only after you approve it. Every shorter version should carry the same prices as the original.