Mind Readings: How to Do a Content Audit With Generative AI, Part 4 of 4

In today’s episode, you’ll see the culmination of the content audit process, transforming qualitative insights into a strategic action plan. You’ll learn how to create a pre-flight checklist and a detailed scoring rubric using generative AI, enabling you to evaluate and enhance your newsletters effectively. By turning these insights into system instructions for AI tools like Google Gemini, you’ll build a powerful app that provides concrete recommendations for improvement. This process unlocks the real value of AI, making your content better and more engaging for your audience.

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All right, we are back talking about content audit. In part one, we gathered the data painfully. In part two, we analyzed the data using quantitative metrics. In part three, we did a qualitative analysis of what separates the top, the middle, and the bottom from each other and came up with some really strong recommendations.

In this part, we need to develop a plan. We need to develop a plan of what to do. So I’m going to pick up where we left off, which was having this really nice list of the things that separate the top and the bottom. What we want to do is continue our prompting and say, look, we know now, based on your analysis, what separates the top from the bottom.

Let’s build some best practices. Let’s build a checklist, maybe even build a scorecard so that we can evaluate potential newsletter. So let’s do that. Let’s start by saying, got it. So for planning highly effective content, take all the learnings from the top, five, bottom, five, and middle five.

And create for me a checklist, a pre-flight evaluation I can use for any newsletter to understand what I should be doing to maximize value for the reader, especially based on what gets people to enjoy a newsletter and put it in the top five.

Make the checklist. So we’ve got our checklist now. We have part one, core value and relevance. Is there a clear value proposition? Identified pain points of opportunities. Timeliness and urgency. Actionability and practicality. Content delivery, call to action, overall assessment and feedback.

This is good. This is a nice checklist. Let’s say, great. Next, build a scoring rubric that uses the checklist you just created so I can evaluate and score an issue of the newsletter.

The scoring rubric should use variable integer scores, such as 1 to 5, 1 to 7, etc., to score each component in the checklist. The rubric should total 100 points and be expressed as a score like X out of 100.

Build the scoring rubric now. So scoring rubric is one of those terms. It’s kind of a, I hesitate to say magic words, but it’s factually accurate. It’s one of those terms that has a very specific meaning in language models.

When you use it, they know exactly what you’re talking about, which is to build a methodology for scoring. That methodology is super powerful because it allows, it does two things. Number one, it helps you understand what you could be doing better in your content. It’s people who use generative AI with naive problems like, tell me what you like about this content, that doesn’t let a model think aloud nearly as much as a good scoring rubric does, where it’s walking through the evaluation points step by step.

So that’s part one of why these things are important. And two, because it’s formatted like this, it can do some analysis on an individual item basis in a much more granular way. When you ask gender of AI for its opinion without specifying exactly what you want it to evaluate, very often it’s going to gloss over things.

And that means it’s very difficult to replicate. So if you were to hand it different pieces of content, you might get a totally different analysis in a different format, and it wouldn’t be consistent. A scoring rubric kind of sets up guardrails so that a model has to do what it’s being told.

So what do we’ve got here? We’ve got here’s a scoring rubric based on the pre-flight checklist, almost timely news of a scoring rubric. And it’s got points available for, this is section one.

So this is what we want and see it’s, it’s got points and how to, how to award those points for each section. While it’s typing that, we’re going to get started on the next thing.

And the next thing is going to be turning this into system instructions. Great. Based on the scoring rubric, which I will include, create some system instructions for a large language model like Google Gemini to evaluate an issue of my newsletter.

I’ll give you. Give the LLM a copy of the newsletter, and it will score the newsletter using the rubric. After the scoring, it will deliver an assessment and concrete recommendations I can take to improve the score of the newsletter.

In the system instructions, leave a placeholder to paste the rubric. Build the system instructions using all the prompt engineering techniques you know that are relevant to the task to maximize its effectiveness.

such as chain of thought, tree of thought, reflection, reward functions, and other techniques. Right. As relevant, right? The system instructions in second person imperative.

All right. So the rubric we have here is it came up with it really nicely. We’re going to take that. Let’s copy that as markdown and store it in a text file.

And let’s just trim off the introductory stuff because we’re going to need that fairly shortly. System instructions for a newsletter evaluation. All right.

So the system instructions are done. We’re going to copy that. And there’s a placeholder at the very end, which is nice for putting our scoring rubric.

And there we have our instructions for evaluating an issue of my newsletter. So let’s put this into action. I’m going to go into Google Gemini.

To start a new gem. I’m going to call this almost timely news evaluator. And that huge big wap and junk of text goes straight in here.

Hit save, start a chat. Choose, I’ll start with Flash here. And now let’s give this a test run.

Let’s take it for a spin. Let’s put in yesterday’s newsletter. Here’s the newsletter to evaluate. Oh, you refuse to let me do that.

That would explain. All right. It’s going through the rubric.

Scored an 88 out of 100. Highly informative overall takeaway. Strengthen primary call to action. Condense lengthy sections. Enhanced actionable steps.

Diversify call to action. So now we’ve gone from doing the content audit and understanding what we could be doing better to an application.

We’ve turned those learnings into an app. And that is where you get to real value of AI, to unlock the real value of AI, because it’s not, it’s fine to look back and say, here’s what we did, it could have done better.

But now I can even use those same system instructions as that rubric to say, here’s an idea I have evaluated. Or here’s the first draft of my newsletter.

Evaluate. How do I make this better? So this is the fourth and final part of this series.

I would know it was really said five parts. I think we’re going to just do a four. In this process, we’ve gone from get the data, quantitatively analyze the data, qualitatively assess the data to understand what separates the good from the bad, and then extract those learnings into checklists, into scorecards, into apps, apps that we can use to improve performance going forward.

And that’s the real key here. That is the big money unlock is that you can now make everything better going forwards by having something I just copy and paste into with a one line prompt because we did all the work to build this thing.

Now we just have to, to use the app. And if you recall in parts two and three, I said, yeah, there’s a lot of writing code here to do this and it’s kind of a pain in the butt.

However, by having that code, now I can take future issues. rerun it through the exact same process and then rebuild the instructions, rebuild the scorecards based on new newsletters to continually improve.

So I could repeat this monthly or quarterly or maybe every year, but in doing so, it’s no longer a static thing. It will become a living document, a living methodology that can make for better newsletters.

So that’s the process from soup to nuts of doing a content audit with generative AI. You will note most of the use of generative AI was creating stuff, namely code.

We’re not having, we’re never letting generative AI do math on its own. It’s just a bad idea. And there’s sort of an ecosystem, if you will, that pipeline of get the data, process the data, then do the assessment and then come up with learnings.

That’s a good workflow that if you’re going to do this, you should incorporate into your own stuff. That way you’re taking advantage of generative AI for the things it does best.

To be clear, we’re not going to have generative AI write my newsletter for me, even though I’ve got a really good set of rules. We’re not going to have it do it for me for two reasons.

One, the advice is giving is very hard to implement because it’s a lot of style too. And two, I enjoy writing my newsletter. And when I stop enjoying it, then yeah, maybe I’ll have AI write it.

But I still enjoy it. It’s still something that’s fun to me. And as a result, this is advice that I give to people all the time on stage.

Give AI the things you don’t want to do and keep the things you do want to do, the things you enjoy doing. That’s the best use of the technology.

I hope you found this process helpful and useful. If you don’t want to do this for yourself, my company, Trust Insights, does this. We like this is literally the process.

It’s a little bit more advanced on some things, depending on how on, I use two data sources. We could have used more, we could have taken data out of the CRM.

We could have taken and survey data. I just used two simple data sources because I had them and they were convenient. And obviously the prompting and stuff, this was tailored for me, for my personal newsletter.

You should not use this for your newsletter because it’s based on my data. And so if you don’t feel like following all these steps and doing it yourself, we’re available for hire.

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