Title: Your talking points already exist. AI just pulls them together faster. Author: Natalie Lambert Published: 2026-06-23 Type: Newsletter — Prompt, Tinker, Innovate URL: https://genedge.co/newsletter/your-talking-points-already-exist Excerpt: AI will happily put words in your mouth—words you can't defend when someone follows up. This prompt builds talking points using only what you've actually said, written, or presented, and cites every one. --- Welcome to Prompt, Tinker, Innovate—my AI playground. Each edition gives you a hands-on experiment that shows how AI can sharpen your thinking, streamline your process, and power up your creative work. ## This week's playground: Build talking points that come straight from your own work This use case is very real and one I used last week. While you are reading this, I'm at Cannes Lions and will be speaking on a panel called Agentic AI: Intelligent Collaboration in Action (https://events.thefemalequotient.com/canneslions26?stage=9612869). This topic is right in my wheelhouse. I've built more content on it than I can remember across decks, proposals, blog posts, and client work. The hard part isn't knowing what I think. It's pulling all of it into a coherent story for a live room. The lazy version of solving this: drop the questions into AI and ask for talking points. It works. You'll get answers. The problem is you'll get generic answers—thought-leadership slop any of the four panelists could have said. A couple of points might even make you sound smart. But then you have to reconcile that with the fact that those aren't things you actually believe or have ever argued. That's the trap. AI will happily put words in your mouth. On a live panel or press interview, you can't walk back a take you can't defend. Someone follows up, asks you to go a layer deeper, and you're either bluffing or backpedaling in front of the room. This is where AI with memory and access to your emails, documents, and files changes the job. Instead of asking for points that may or may not make me sound smart, I told it: only use what I've actually said, written, or presented. Cite where each point came from. And if I haven't taken a position somewhere, don't fake one. Ask me. The results blew me away, and I work with this stuff every day. Every talking point traced back to a real deck, proposal, call transcript, or blog post, including presentations I had forgotten about. When it didn't have an answer, it said so instead of inventing one. And those gaps were gifts. When AI flags a question your work doesn't answer, that's not a failure. That's your prep list, handed to you before the room finds it. ## Your AI experiment: Try this prompt 👉 Time to tinker: Gather the materials that represent your real thinking—decks you've presented, proposals you've sent, blog posts, reports, working docs. The stuff you created. If your AI tool connects to Google Drive, Notion, or OneDrive, even better—it can search those directly without you uploading anything. Then pull together the panel inputs: the questions (most organizers send them in advance), the other panelists' bios, and any context on the event or audience. One limitation worth knowing: "use all my files" when referring to connected apps doesn't guarantee the tool reads all your files. They vary in how much they pull and how deep they go. If specific background documents matter, point your tool to those 8–12 files directly rather than hoping it crawls your whole drive. 📝 Prompt: I'm [speaking on a panel, giving a presentation, talking to a reporter, etc.] entitled "[title]". I've attached the panel questions and the other panelists' bios below. [OPTION 1: I have also attached background materials—slides, proposals, blog posts, decks, and docs I personally created. OR OPTION 2: Use everything you know about me, my thinking, and relevant documents that I created in Google Drive.] Your job: draft talking points for each question, using only ideas, data, and positions that appear in MY materials. Do not invent talking points. Do not pull from general knowledge or from the other panelists' work. Rules: 1. For every talking point, cite the specific source it came from—the file name, and the section or slide if you can find it. 2. If a question has no support in my materials, do NOT make something up. Flag it, and either ask me what I think or tell me I need to develop a point of view there. 3. Group talking points by question. Keep each one tight enough to say out loud—a sentence or two, not a paragraph. 4. Where my materials show a strong or contrarian position, surface it. Those are the points that make a panel worth watching. [PASTE/UPLOAD THE PANEL QUESTIONS, PANELIST BIOS, AND EVENT CONTEXT] 💡 Pro tips: Find the gaps, own the room - Find the holes before the audience does. Run a follow-up: "Now be the most skeptical person in the room. For each talking point, what's the sharpest pushback I'll get—and do my materials have an answer?" Better to meet that question at your desk than on stage. - Turn the gaps into a to-do. Ask: "List every question where my materials gave you nothing." That short list is your real prep work—the positions you need to develop before you show up. - Same prompt, different room. Swap out "panel" for a board update, investor Q&A, hard 1:1, or sales call. The rule travels: only my work, cite it, flag what's missing. ## What did you discover? Did the citations surprise you? Sometimes you've made a sharper argument in an old deck than you remembered. And which gaps did it flag? Were they the questions you were quietly dreading? Challenge: Reply with the one talking point AI surfaced that you'd completely forgotten you wrote. The buried ones are usually the best ones. Until next time—keep tinkering, keep prompting, keep innovating. 📩 Not subscribed yet? Hit the button at the top. You won't want to miss what's next.