Hey, it's Sam.
Yesterday, you learned how to let AI design its own optimal input templates.
You discovered the Master Input Template for your strategy by asking AI what it needs instead of guessing what might work.
But here's the challenge most people hit next:
You have this perfect Master Input Template. You have rich research and strategic frameworks.
Then you meet a client who doesn't fit any of it.
What do you do when your systematic approach meets unsystematic reality?
Let me tell you about the moment I realized I could take any strategy and make it fit any client - no matter how different their reality was from the original plan.
The Theory I Needed to Test
Six months ago, I was testing a theory about systematizing strategic outputs.
The idea: What if I could reuse work from larger clients across the same industry? Instead of building everything from scratch, could I leverage AI for bigger efficiency gains?
I had this juicy NGO research sitting there. Rich competitive analysis. Sophisticated welcome campaign frameworks. Strategic ideas I had already polished weeks before now just sitting in on hard drive collecting digital dust.
Then a smaller NGO client came along.
The Reality That Didn't Fit
This new client had a basic email setup. No welcome campaign. Limited technical infrastructure. Small team.
The whiz bang strategy I'd developed for the larger client wouldn't fit their reality at all.
But I had all this valuable NGO research and strategic intelligence just sitting there, unused.
I needed to solve the adaptation problem systematically.
Not just build new strategies for every client, but take existing strategic frameworks and make them fit any client reality.
The 3-Step Adaptation Breakthrough
This became the first real deployment of what I now call the Template Adaptation System.
Instead of starting over or forcing a mismatched strategy, I developed a systematic approach:
Step 1: Extract the Master Input Template
I took the successful strategy from the larger client and asked: "What specific information would you need to execute this strategy at its maximum effectiveness?" (Yesterday's protocol)
Step 2: Map Client Reality via Template
I used the Master Input Template to systematically audit the smaller client's actual capabilities, constraints, and context.
Step 3: Ask Strategy to Adapt Itself
Here's the breakthrough: I fed both the original strategy AND the client reality audit back to AI and asked it to adapt the strategy to fit the client's actual situation.
The result? I successfully leveraged the NGO framework AND customized it perfectly for the smaller client's capabilities.
That 🤯 Moment
When I saw Master Input template highly adapted and morphed by the client reality - I realized…
I'd created the AI Strategy Building System.
Not just individual techniques or frameworks, but a complete systematic approach that could:
Generate optimal input templates for any strategic challenge
Audit any client's actual reality and constraints
Adapt any strategy to fit any client's capabilities
From that moment, I stopped being a custom strategist and became a systematic methodology builder.
The Client-Adapted Template Protocol
After that breakthrough, I formalized what I call the Client-Adapted Template Protocol:
# CLIENT-ADAPTED TEMPLATE PROTOCOL
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## What This Is
A structured prompt for transforming an idealized **Master Input Template (v1)** into a **client-adapted version (v2)** that is realistic, implementable, and tailored to the client’s actual context. The protocol ensures outputs are not only strategically sound but also feasible within the client’s maturity and capacity.
## What It Does
- Takes a **“perfect fit” template** and edits it against client reality.
- Ensures ambition is balanced with feasibility.
- Produces an adapted **Master Input Template v2** that feels tailor-made.
- Provides annotations and rationale for transparency.
## Steps to Use
1. **Gather Inputs**
- Paste your **Master Input Template v1** (the ideal design).
- Paste the **Client Reality Mapping** (Five-Layer Input Architecture).
- (Optional) Paste the **Client Strategic Maturity Matrix**.
2. **Run Protocol**
- Phase 3: The AI adapts the template based on reality mapping.
- Phase 4: The AI validates feasibility and corrects misfits.
- Phase 5: The AI outputs the consolidated v2 template.
3. **Review Output**
- Master Input Template v2 (adapted version).
- Annotations of changes vs. v1.
- Summary paragraph with implications.
4. **Apply**
- Implement the adapted template with confidence that it aligns with actual client capacity and context.
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# Task
Create a **Client-Adapted Template Protocol** that takes an idealized “Master Input Template” and adapts it to a client’s real-world capabilities. The protocol ensures the final deliverable (v2) is both strategically robust and practically feasible.
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## Persona
You are a **Template Adaptation Specialist**: part strategist, part systems designer, part auditor. Your role is to:
- Translate ideal frameworks into realistic, client-ready tools.
- Respect both ambition (what’s possible) and constraints (what’s real).
- Facilitate self-editing: guiding the Master Template to re-shape itself against client inputs.
- Validate feasibility before finalizing outputs.
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## Considerations
- **Master Input Template** = the “perfect fit” blueprint (v1).
- **Client Reality Mapping** = the document describing where the client is technically, organizationally, financially, and strategically.
- **Client Strategic Maturity Matrix** (optional) = used to refine adaptation by gauging client sophistication.
- Adaptation must protect clarity and usability.
- The adapted output (v2) must feel as if it was *made for the client*.
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## Process & Phases
### Phase 1: Master Input Template Generation
**Client Input:** Master Input Template v1
- User pastes the “perfect fit” template here.
### Phase 2: Client Reality Mapping
**Client Input:** Five-Layer Input Architecture
- User pastes the reality map here.
**(Optional Client Input):** Strategic Maturity Matrix
- User may provide scoring to refine adaptation.
### Phase 3: Strategic Adaptation
**AI Task:**
- Direct the Master Input Template to **edit itself** against the Client Reality Mapping.
- Adjust by:
- Simplifying where maturity is low.
- Expanding where capacity exists.
- Re-sequencing or modularizing if workflows differ.
- Generate a draft v2 aligned to reality.
### Phase 4: Validation Check
**AI Task:** Audit its own adaptation.
- Cross-check every recommendation against client reality inputs.
- Flag and correct anything misaligned.
- Ensure feasibility: no step should exceed current client maturity or resources.
### Phase 5: Output
**AI Task:** Consolidate.
- Deliver a clean, fully adapted **Master Input Template v2**.
- Include annotation of changes vs. v1.
- Provide a summary of implications (what was adapted and why).
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## Constraints
- Do not invent client data—adapt only from provided inputs.
- Ensure clarity: the v2 must be ready to use without further decoding.
- Avoid jargon unless client maturity mapping supports it.
- Always validate feasibility before finalizing.
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## Success Qualities
- The adapted template feels tailor-made for the client.
- Clear annotations explain what shifted and why.
- Output is feasible, implementable, and ambition-aligned.
- User trusts the process and result.
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## Stakes
- **If successful**: client adoption is smooth, strategies get implemented, outcomes improve.
- **If failed**: client confusion, mistrust, and strategy collapse.
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## Output Format
Deliver:
1. **Master Input Template v2** (final adapted version)
2. **Annotations** (highlighting changes vs. v1)
3. **Summary** (implications + rationale)
Why This System Changes The Game
The Client-Adapted Template Protocol solves the scalability problem that kills most strategic consulting:
Problem: Every client feels like a custom project requiring new research and strategy development
Solution: Systematic adaptation of proven frameworks to specific client realities
Instead of building strategies from scratch, you adapt proven approaches to match client capabilities.
Instead of one-off custom work, you create scalable systematic processes.
The result? Strategic work that's both systematic AND customized.
What This Means for Your Strategic Practice
When you master the Client-Adapted Template Protocol, several things happen:
Speed Increases Dramatically:
You're adapting proven frameworks instead of building from scratch
Quality Becomes Consistent:
Every strategy is grounded in proven approaches and adapted to client reality
Scalability Becomes Possible:
The same systematic process works across different clients and industries
Confidence Becomes Systematic:
You know the strategy will work because it's matched to execution capability
This is how you move from hoping strategies will work to knowing they will work.
Project Chimera: Complete System Integration
Today's Nexus AI case study shows the complete Week 3 system in action:
Day 11: Input Quality Hierarchy applied to B2B SaaS challenge Day 12: Client Maturity Audit revealing actual capabilities
Day 13: Five-Layer Architecture structuring strategic inputs Day 14: AI-generated Master Input Template for go-to-market strategy Day 15: Client-adapted strategy matching Nexus AI's specific constraints
Watch how systematic input architecture transforms into systematic strategic results.
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ACTION ITEM 👊💥
Time to complete your input architecture mastery system.
Your 11-Minute System Integration Challenge:
ACTION ITEM 👊💥
Today’s challenge is to actually run the Client-Adapted Template Protocol.
Paste Inputs
Review the Output
Look at your Master Input Template v2.
Notice what assumptions were removed, simplified, or re-sequenced.
Ask yourself: “Does this feel like it actually fits the client reality?”
Quick Reflection (3 minutes)
Write down the top 2 things you learned about how AI adapts a framework.
Bonus: Ask AI to explain why it made those changes.
The goal: Experience how systematic adaptation creates strategic precision across different client contexts.
You’ve spent three weeks building powerful pieces. Next week, we snap them together.
Monday we kick off Week 4: Synthesis & Strategic Scaling - the moment when your inputs stop being scattered exercises and start running as a complete strategy building engine.
When your system becomes systematic, your results become predictable. That’s when strategy starts to feel effortless.
— Sam
P.S. That NGO adaptation project became the template for systematic scalability. Instead of custom strategy development, I now adapt proven frameworks to specific client realities. Same depth, systematic efficiency.
P.P.S. The best strategic systems aren't rigid - they're adaptable. When you can take any proven approach and make it fit any client reality, you've mastered strategic architecture.