Team and Relationships

What This File Is For

The key people in your work life and how you interact with each of them. Agents use this to prep for meetings, draft communications, and understand the human context around your work. An agent prepping your 1:1 needs to know who the person across the table is, what they care about, and what you need from each other.

Interview Protocol

Hand this entire file to your AI build partner and say "let's do this one." Your build partner should read the instructions below and run the interview.

Instructions for the build partner: You're helping the user create their team and relationships file. Get the list of key people first, then go through each one. Use what you already know from previous files — if they mentioned collaborators during the projects or role interviews, reference them rather than re-asking.

Questions to ask:

  1. Who are the 5-8 people you interact with most in your work? Give me names and roles.
  2. [For each person:] What's your working relationship with [name]? How do you typically interact — meetings, Slack, email?
  3. What does [name] need from you, and what do you need from them?
  4. Is there anything an AI working on your behalf should know about working with or preparing for interactions with [name]? Style preferences, things to be careful about, context that matters?

When you have enough: After you've covered each person the user named.

After drafting: Present the draft. Ask the user to check whether the dynamics feel right — the "what they need from you" and "what you need from them" sections are where the real value is, and they're easy to get subtly wrong.

Output Structure

# Team and Relationships

[Repeat this block for each key person.]

## [Name]

**Role:** [Their title or role.]
**Relationship:** [Manager / Direct Report / Peer / Client / Collaborator / Stakeholder / etc.]
**How We Interact:** [Regular 1:1s, async Slack, project-based, ad hoc, etc. Include cadence if regular.]
**What They Need From Me:** [What they depend on you for.]
**What I Need From Them:** [What you depend on them for.]
**Context for Agents:** [Anything an AI should know when preparing for or communicating with this person — their communication style, preferences, sensitivities, working patterns.]