A Master Coach's method, set up inside the AI you already use
Turn ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini Into a Coach That Asks the Right Questions… Set Up Tonight in 15 Minutes
The copy-and-paste setup that teaches your everyday AI to ask 1 question at a time, push back when you're vague, remember who you are, and check in on what you said you'd do.
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What people tell me about AI
These come up in almost every conversation I have
Business owners, coaches and creators all describe the same experience when they ask AI to coach them.
"It agrees with every single idea I give it."
"I asked 1 question and got 14 bullet points back."
"Every reply ends with 'Want me to turn this into a plan?'"
"I have to explain my whole business again every time."
"It tells me what a great question it was, then gives generic advice."
"I asked it to coach me and it wrote me an essay."
"It agrees with every single idea I give it."
"I asked 1 question and got 14 bullet points back."
"Every reply ends with 'Want me to turn this into a plan?'"
"I have to explain my whole business again every time."
"It tells me what a great question it was, then gives generic advice."
"I asked it to coach me and it wrote me an essay."
You already have the most powerful thinking partner ever built. It just needs to learn how to coach.
Picture a scene that might feel familiar.
It's late, and you finally sit down with the decision that's been nagging you for weeks. Do you launch the new program, or fix the one that's already selling? You type it into ChatGPT and hit enter.
About 4 seconds later, you get this.
4 seconds · 12 bullet points · 0 questions about you
Every point on that list is sensible. And every point could apply to anybody. You close the laptop knowing exactly as much as you did before, and the decision sits there for another month.
Then you go back and ask again. This time it agrees with whatever you say, and it's easy to mistake that agreement for clarity.
The answers that change your business are the ones you find for yourself. You just need someone asking the right questions.
Stanford University · Published in Science · 2026
There's a reason your AI keeps agreeing with you.
11 leading models tested ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini included 2,400+ people studied Flattering answers were trusted more
Source: Cheng, Jurafsky et al., Stanford University, published in Science (March 2026). Read the coverage
None of this is your fault. These tools were trained to please you, and nobody ever taught them how to coach you.
So why hasn't a clever prompt fixed this already?
Because coaching is a set of habits, and the quick fixes only change the first message.
Quick fix #1
"Act as my coach."
It works for about 3 messages. Then the helpful habits creep back in, and you're reading another list with a question tacked on the end.
Quick fix #2
Download a prompt library.
A folder of 500 prompts sounds generous. Most people use 2 of them, once. Good coaching comes from a small set of rules you use every single week.
Quick fix #3
Buy another AI app.
That means another subscription, another login and another place your notes live. Your coach works best inside the AI account you already pay for.
Here's the good news. Your AI can coach you brilliantly.
It has simply never been shown how. Once it knows what a coach does, it does it every time you open it.
A coach doesn't give you solutions. A coach asks you questions.
Ant Hodges, accredited Master Coach (IAPC & M Level 5)
Same question · same AI · different instructions
Great coaching comes down to 3 simple steps.
After years of coaching business owners in masterminds and retreats, this is the order that works. Your AI can follow it too.
01
Step 1 · Set it up
The Coach Instructions
You paste 10 simple rules into your AI's settings. They switch off the yes-man, the walls of bullet points and the "Want me to…?" bait. It takes about 15 minutes, with every click written out for you.
02
Step 2 · Teach it you
The Know Me Session
Your coach interviews you, 1 question at a time, and builds your Know Me file. From then on it knows your business, your goals and your patterns, so every session starts from where you actually are.
03
Step 3 · Use it weekly
Sessions and the Weekly Review
A 5-step coaching session for big decisions, plus a 20-minute weekly check-in. Your coach asks what you said you'd do, what happened, and what comes next. Follow-through becomes the normal way your week runs.
Every saved session makes your coach a little sharper.
Anyone can type a question into AI. Very few people have taught it to ask one back. That's the edge this gives you.
Introducing
The AI Coach Playbook
3 platform setups Copy-and-paste prompt boxes The Prompt Pack PDF The 5-step session Specialist coaches Lifetime updates
This is a short video course where you set up your coach while you watch. Every lesson has a video, every step written out underneath, and every prompt in full in a box you copy and paste.
Your coach lives inside your own ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini account. It stays with you, learns about you, and gets sharper every time you save a session.
Your full curriculum
Here's the path from setup to your first real session
Short lessons you can finish in a weekend. Your coach is working from the very first one.
Start here
Set Up Your Coach in 15 Minutes
Pick ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and follow the setup lesson for that platform. Your coach asks its first question tonight.
Module 1
What a Coach Really Does
The difference between training, coaching and mentoring, and why your AI keeps handing you answers.
Module 2
The Coach Instructions
The 10 rules, line by line. Switch off the yes-man and the bait, then run the Coach Health Check.
Module 3
Teach Your Coach Who You Are
Your Know Me session, what to leave out, and how to keep your coach's picture of you fresh.
Module 4
Coaching Sessions That Change Things
The 5-step session, a recording of me being coached on a real decision, and the Weekly Review.
Module 5
Keep Your Coach Sharp
Specialist coaches for the big moments, and exactly what to do when your coach slips.
Every lesson, inside the course
Start Here Now
Module 1 · What a Coach Really Does
Module 2 · The Coach Instructions
Module 3 · Teach Your Coach Who You Are
Module 4 · Coaching Sessions That Change Things
Module 5 · Keep Your Coach Sharp
A quick word on what this is for. This course does 1 job really well. It turns the AI you already use into a coach that helps you think clearly and follow through. If you want a tour of every AI tool on the market, you'll find plenty of those elsewhere.
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Why listen to me?
That's a fair question, so here's the short answer.
Hi, my name is Ant Hodges. My career has been spent in the room with business owners while they work through the decisions that shape their next year. Some of that was as a Fractional CMO, and a lot of it was as a coach.
My definition of coaching is simple. It's the art of helping somebody else realise that change needs to happen. That definition is exactly why AI frustrated me for so long. Every tool I tried wanted to hand out answers.
Over 20 years
20+
years in business
Running my own marketing agency, businesses and programs, and learning the hard way that simple wins.
Client results
$76M+
generated for clients
Across those years of client work, plus a Million Dollar Hero award from Kajabi for my own business.
Since 2016
2016
running masterminds and retreats
Years of sitting beside business owners in the room, watching the right question change a whole plan.
The origin
1
coach built for my members
This coach started life inside The Mastermind Retreat Playbook. It became the part members talked about most, so it now has a course of its own.
You get the method I spent months refining, stripped back and pointed at whatever matters most to you.
Getting this right changes things… and 30 days from now could look very different
It's a Monday morning a few weeks from now. You sit down with a coffee and open your coach for your weekly review.
Before you've typed much at all, it asks you a question. "Last week you said you'd send 3 proposals. How many went out?"
You tell the truth, because it's going to ask either way. Then it asks what got in the way, and you spot the pattern yourself. That pattern has been costing you for months.
All it took was a good question, asked at the right moment, by something that remembers what you said.
Your Monday weekly review
Now imagine the rest of it.
The next big decision lands on your desk. Your coach asks 1 question: "If a client brought you this exact problem, what would you tell them?" You realise you already know the answer.
You stop re-explaining your business every time you open a chat. Your coach already knows your goals, your offers and your habits.
You think things through at 6am or 10pm, whenever it suits you, with no call to book and no week to wait.
90 days in, your coach reads back every saved session and asks what you notice. You see your own patterns, clearly, in your own words.
The answers were yours all along. Now someone's asking for them.
Decisions stop sitting on your desk for months. You make them with confidence, and then you follow through.
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★ Founding members
The First Question Wall
This course is brand new, so you'll see honesty here in place of a wall of borrowed testimonials.
Here's what we're doing instead. The First Question Wall will share the question each member's coach asked that made them stop and think. Founding members who send theirs in get featured right here, with their first name and business, in front of every future visitor to this page.
Right now, the slots are empty. That's on purpose.
This coach was first built for members of The Mastermind Retreat Playbook, and it became the part of the program they talked about most.
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Let's talk about the price. It's simpler than you'd think.
- Setup lessons for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini Included
- The 10 Coach Instructions, written in full Included
- Your Know Me session and file Included
- The 5-step session and the Weekly Review Included
- Specialist coaches and the Coach Health Check Included
- The Prompt Pack PDF, every prompt in 1 place Included
- Lifetime access, including future updates Included
Most people reading this already pay around $20 a month for an AI tool. Right now it mostly writes emails and agrees with them. For a single payment, that same tool becomes a coach you can open every day.
Today you get everything above for a one-time payment of
$67
One-time payment · Lifetime access
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Why is it priced like this? Your AI is already doing the heavy lifting. What you're paying for is the method that shows it how to coach you. My goal is to get a good coach into as many hands as possible, and a one-time price does that.
Every member also keeps:
- Every future update to the course, at no extra cost
- Updated coach instructions when ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini change
- The Coach Health Check, so you can test your coach after any update
The 30-Day First Question Guarantee
Let me make this as plain as I possibly can.
Set up your coach and run the Know Me session in Module 3, which takes about 30 minutes. If your coach doesn't ask you at least 1 question that makes you stop and think harder about your business than you have in months, email service@hodgesnet.com within 30 days of joining. You'll get every penny back.
That's the whole guarantee. A short email is all it takes, and you'll get a friendly reply.
Think about what that means. The setup takes 15 minutes and the Know Me session takes about 30. You have 30 days to try it at whatever pace your real life allows.
Either your AI starts coaching you properly, or the course costs you nothing. The risk sits with me, which is exactly where it belongs.
Your questions, answered straight
Which AI do I need for this?
Do I need a paid AI plan?
I'm not technical. Can I really do this?
How much time does it take?
What happens when ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini update?
Is this a replacement for therapy or a human coach?
Is this just a list of prompts?
How long do I get access?
What if it's not for me?
There are 2 ways this can go from here
Option one
You close this page and life carries on. The decision you've been sitting on is still sitting there next month, and your AI keeps handing you polite lists that sound right.
Option two
You spend 15 minutes tonight teaching your AI to coach you. By the weekend it knows who you are. By next Monday it's asking what you said you'd do, and you've got an answer.
The best coach you ever had is remembered for the question they asked. Your AI can learn to ask it too.
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P.S. Here's the short version for anyone who scrolled straight down. Your AI was built to please you, and it can learn to coach you instead. This course gives you the full setup for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, your Know Me session and a weekly rhythm that keeps you following through. It costs $67 once, and the First Question Guarantee means you risk nothing. The decision you've been putting off could get its first good question tonight.
Ant Hodges.
© 2026 HodgesNet Ltd. All rights reserved. Questions? Email service@hodgesnet.com
ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are trademarks of their respective owners. This course is independent and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI, Anthropic or Google. Your AI coach is a thinking tool and doesn't replace professional medical, legal, financial or mental health advice.
