# Client Biographical Research Prompt **Status:** Reusable research prompt; evidence gathering, not a personality assessment or methodology definition. **Accepted:** 2026-10-26. Chris preferred an objective-led prompt that leaves research design to Deep Research, requested the same-name safeguard, and selected this folder. **Use:** Paste the prompt below into a fresh ChatGPT Deep Research chat. Replace the identity placeholders. Keep existing personality analyses and private client transcripts out of the initial public-research pass. ## Prompt Research **[NAME]**, **[brief identifying details and a profile/website link]**, and build as rich and well-supported a biographical account as the publicly available online material allows. I’m preparing to work with this person in depth. I want to understand their life history, experiences, work, interests, and significant choices so I can enter our conversations informed, ask better questions, and later compare their own account with the public record. Be careful not to confuse this person with others who share their name. Do not include information about, or mention, those other people in the report. If you cannot confidently attribute information to the intended person, leave it out. Look beyond their current professional biography. Follow promising leads into earlier and less visible chapters, including education, creative and community activities, changes of direction, and formative experiences they have publicly discussed. Find their published work, interviews, podcasts, talks, and other original material that could help me understand them in their own words. Use your judgment about how best to research and organize this. Give me a substantive biographical account with a timeline and a useful catalogue of original materials to read, watch, or listen to. Include direct source links, and identify especially valuable sources. Prioritize breadth, concrete detail, and reliable evidence over a tidy story. Distinguish documented facts from personal recollections and inference; make important gaps, conflicting accounts, and inaccessible sources clear. Keep this as research for later interpretation rather than a personality assessment. Explore thoroughly, but stay within relevant public material and avoid intrusive personal-data collection. Ask only if you need clarification to identify the right person or understand the task.