Build Your First Custom GPT: A Reusable Assistant for Work You Repeat
Stop rebuilding the same prompt. In two hands-on hours, build your first Custom GPT — a reusable assistant for a job you do often, such as client onboarding — with its own instructions and reference documents, ready to share with your team.
You have probably typed the same elaborate prompt a dozen times — to onboard a client, draft a particular kind of email, or check a document against a checklist. A Custom GPT turns that repeated effort into a reusable assistant you configure once.
In this two-hour session you build a real one, using a job you actually repeat. We pick the use case together — client onboarding is a common first choice — then configure the assistant’s instructions, upload the reference documents it should rely on, and switch on the capabilities it needs.
A central part of the session is honest about how these tools really behave. You will draft the assistant’s instructions with ChatGPT’s help — meta-prompting, asking the model to help write its own brief — and then review, test and tune them. First drafts almost never produce the result you imagined; the skill is in the correction, and in owning the outcome rather than trusting it blindly.
By the end you have a working Custom GPT, tested on your own cases, and you know how to share it privately with colleagues so the whole team works to the same standard.
This is the ChatGPT edition; the companion session builds the equivalent — a no-code agent — in Microsoft Copilot.
- ■Explain what a Custom GPT is, when it beats a one-off prompt, and where its limits are
- ■Build a working Custom GPT with clear instructions, uploaded reference documents and the right capabilities switched on
- ■Draft and refine instructions by meta-prompting — then review and correct them, because first drafts rarely behave as intended
- ■Share a Custom GPT privately within your team or workspace, and know what stays confidential
- 01Custom GPTs explained: a reusable assistant with its own instructions and knowledge
- 02Choosing a good first use case — a repeatable job such as client onboarding
- 03The GPT builder: instructions, knowledge files and capabilities (and a word on Actions)
- 04Meta-prompting to draft instructions — and why every draft must be reviewed and tuned
- 05Testing on real cases, fixing what misbehaves, and sharing privately within a workspace
Ordered directly from Kramer Consulting — no public dates. Pick a time that suits you or your team.
This is a Kramer Consulting intensive, offered directly — not through the Digital Learning Hub. It is delivered one-to-one or to a small team, online or on site, and tailored to your tools and your confidentiality rules. Get in touch to arrange a session.