Communitech × Momentum · Waterloo · June 1, 2026

Build Your Reusable AI Assistant.

Most people are writing better prompts. The faster move is giving the AI the context it's been missing. Sixty minutes of hands-on work to build three layers of context — role, ecosystem, voice — save them once, and reuse them forever. The platform isn't the asset. Your context is.

Instructor Heather Gawel · Momentum Product Co.
Sponsor Communitech
You build One assistant · three stacked layers
Format 60-minute working session

The 5-step build.

Three layers of context, one real test, one save. Roughly 40 minutes of actual work — the rest is reading what came back and pushing on it.

  1. 01

    Layer 1 — Role & Business.

    Teach Claude who you are and what your business actually does. Three pieces in one prompt: your role, what you do in 3–5 sentences, what makes you different. Ask Claude to restate it back. If it sounds like any SaaS company, push back — generic at Layer 1 means generic forever.

  2. 02

    Layer 2 — Ecosystem.

    Show Claude where you sit in the world. Three to five competitors with one-line positioning each, your value prop in a single sentence, and three verbatim customer quotes — not paraphrased. Bonus if one is a complaint. Tension produces sharper output.

  3. 03

    Layer 3 — Voice & Style.

    One or two paste-in writing samples beat any amount of describing your voice in adjectives. "Direct, warm, no fluff" produces nothing useful. A paragraph you actually wrote produces a model of your voice. Add the words you never use.

  4. 04

    The Test — feel the difference.

    Same task, two outputs: a plain Claude chat vs your three-layer assistant. Read them side by side, silently. The difference isn't the prompt — it's the context you loaded before the prompt. That's the whole game.

  5. 05

    The Save — make it permanent.

    Claude Project, ChatGPT Custom GPT, or Gemini Gem — same idea, three paths. Paste the three-layer summary into the instructions field, save, done. Free-tier fallback: a Google Doc you paste as message one of every new chat. The platform isn't the asset. Your context is.

Take it with you.

The slides, the prompt guide, the recording — everything you need to rebuild your assistant from scratch, or build a second one for a different hat you wear. Drop your email to unlock the downloads.

Get the resources.

Slides, the full prompt guide, the recording highlights, and the feedback link — all in one place. Plus the occasional note from Momentum on what we're building next.

We use your email to send you the resources and the occasional Momentum update. No spam, ever.

Slides

Workshop deck.

The full Gamma deck — every layer, every prompt, every before/after comparison.

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Prompt Guide

Participant guide.

The 3-layer prompt pack with copy-paste prompts, fill-in examples, and the two prompts that compound over time.

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Recording

19-minute highlights.

The session compressed to the moments that matter — the failure mode, each layer, the side-by-side test.

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What attendees said.

Heather and Babajide are so friendly and welcoming. A must for a learning environment.
— Reusable Assistant attendee, June 2026
4.4 / 5
Overall experience
4.5 / 5
Content quality
8.7 / 10
Would recommend

Based on 15 post-workshop survey responses.

Keep building. Together.

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