Transcript Alchemy

The most valuable thing you said all month, you already threw away. It was on a call you recorded and never touched again.

Transcript Alchemy is a field guide to one skill: capture any conversation, then mine the transcript with AI to pull out money, insight, content, or legacy. Most books about AI tour what is possible and leave you on the diving board. This one hands you the prompt. Every play is something you can run on a real conversation this afternoon and see a result from by tonight.

What is inside

• The Stress Test, the signature move that grades your own meetings out of ten and tells you the truth your memory edited out
• 101 plays in all, each with a copy-paste prompt, a current tool stack, and a fix for when it stalls
• One skill pointed in four directions: your work, your self, your craft, and your legacy
• An industry index so you open straight to the plays built for your field
• Conversational Capital, the asset that compounds every time you open your mouth

See one of the 101: the Stress Test

This is the play that turns skeptics into believers, and it is the one to run first. You hand the AI a transcript of a meeting you led and ask it to grade you. Here is the exact prompt:

You are an elite, brutally honest performance coach. Below is a transcript of a meeting I led. Do not flatter me. Give me a score out of ten with the reason, my talk-to-listen ratio and whether I dominated, the moment I had an opening to close or make a clear ask and softened or stalled with the line quoted, my verbal crutches with counts, and the single highest-leverage thing to change next time in one sentence.

The first time I ran it on my own meetings, my own system gave me a six and told me exactly why. That is the point. It works, and the first place it works is on you. There are a hundred more plays where that came from.

Who this is for

Business owners, consultants, coaches, and creators who record their conversations and do nothing with them. If you have ever finished a great call and lost the one line that mattered, this book is the practice that catches it.

Questions

Is this just meeting summaries? No. A summary is the least valuable thing you can do with a transcript. This book treats the transcript as a database you question, and gives you 101 different questions to ask.

Do I need to be technical? No. If you can paste text into a chat box, you can run every play. The book shows you how to get a transcript in about sixty seconds, free.

What formats? Ebook and paperback, with the narrated audiobook in production.

Written by Dr. Jeff Bullock, a pharmacist turned AI consultant who built the method by running it on his own work first, one transcript at a time, and has the six-out-of-ten to prove it.