Question 1

Can't I just prompt this myself?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You absolutely can. A technically competent prompter can ask Claude to 'think like Warren Buffett' and get something usable. Our pitch isn't that it's impossible to replicate — it's that you probably won't. What we sell is the 60 hours of prompt engineering compressed into a $4.99 file, plus a curated library of 200 frameworks ready to browse when you don't know exactly who you want to think like. If you're a prompt engineer who lives on X, you're not our customer. If you use AI daily and want better outputs without rebuilding the prompt every time, we saved you a weekend.

Question 2

What's actually inside a framework file?

Accepted Answer

Every .md file contains: YAML frontmatter (name, description, focus, category), core philosophy (2–3 sentences grounded in the person's documented worldview), five named mental models with concrete examples, decision heuristics, five signature questions in their voice, what they explicitly wouldn't do, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example. Roughly 1,800–2,500 words, tightly structured so your AI can actually execute against it.

Question 3

Will this work with Claude? ChatGPT? Gemini?

Accepted Answer

All of them. The .md format is readable by any LLM. In Claude, drop the file into a Project or as a Skill. In ChatGPT, paste the contents into Custom Instructions or a Project. For Gemini, Grok, or any agent framework — paste into the system prompt. Every file ends with an Activation Prompt you can copy-paste into a single chat message if you don't want to set it up as a persistent skill.

Question 4

How is this different from a prompt template?

Accepted Answer

A prompt template says 'act as X'. A framework .md gives the AI specific mental models, decision rules, anti-patterns (what the person would NOT do), and signature questions — structured so the model reasons through them rather than just adopts a voice. It's the difference between impersonation and methodology.

Question 5

Are these actually based on what these people said, or made up?

Accepted Answer

Based on documented public work — books, interviews, letters, decisions, public statements. Every file ends with an attribution naming the primary sources. We frame these as 'inspired by the documented thinking of X' rather than 'be X', because (a) it's accurate and (b) it's the legally-sound position. This isn't channelling — it's distilling a mental-model toolkit from their visible body of work.

Question 6

How fast is delivery?

Accepted Answer

Under 60 seconds for flagship frameworks (we pre-generate them). For less-popular personas it's up to 20 seconds while our system writes the file fresh via Claude Sonnet 4. Either way, email with .md attachment arrives before you've finished making coffee.

Question 7

What if it's not useful?

Accepted Answer

Reply to the delivery email asking for a refund, no questions. We refund within 24 hours. The cost to us is trivial (~$0.05 in API credits); the cost to you of a dud download is $4.99 and we'd rather not have you feel burnt.

Question 8

Why these specific 200 people?

Accepted Answer

We picked for distinctive thinking patterns — people whose documented approach is specific enough that you can actually distil five named mental models from their work without making things up. That excludes a lot of famous people who are famous without having left a clear methodology. We're adding new personas based on demand — if there's someone you'd buy a framework for, tell us.

Question 9

Can I share the file with my team?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You bought the file; treat it like any other digital asset you've purchased. Team-scale usage (10+ seats) — email hello@authority.md and we'll sort bulk pricing.

Question 10

Do you have an API?

Accepted Answer

Not yet. We're launching with the marketplace first. If you need programmatic access for a product you're building, email hello@authority.md — early API partners will get preferential terms.

Yes, you could prompt this yourself.

What "think like Warren Buffett" actually gives your AI vs. what we ship.

Every file. The same structure.

Three steps. Sixty seconds.

Pick a framework

Pay $4.99 & get the .md

Drop into your AI

Start with the greats.

Warren Buffett

Charlie Munger

Ray Dalio

Naval Ravikant

Elon Musk

Steve Jobs

Jeff Bezos

Michael Jordan

Simple & fair.

Questions worth asking.