The Intent Amplifier Handbook
A living field guide to what the Intent Amplifier is, how it thinks, and the many ways you can put it to work.
Written for the community, meant to be argued with, borrowed from, and added to. You do not need any of the technical parts to use the product, but understanding how it thinks tends to spark the best ideas for using it well. Each chapter below stands on its own, so start anywhere.
Start here
You know the feeling. You open Claude, ChatGPT, or Manus, the cursor blinks in an empty box, and you type something like "help me write a sales page for my course." You hit send. What comes back is fine. Generic, a little hollow, missing the one thing that would have made it land. So you follow up. And follow up again. Ten messages later you have coaxed the model most of the way to what a good prompt would have gotten you on the first try.
The Intent Amplifier exists to close that gap. It is a small button that floats on the AI chat sites you already use. You write your rough idea, tap Amplify, answer a sharp question or two if it asks, and it hands back the prompt you meant to write. Then you send that. The difference is not magic and it is not a bigger model. It is that everything you already knew got stated up front, in the order that makes it usable, and nothing about you got invented along the way.
The whole experience is four moves: write your rough idea, tap Amplify, answer a quick question or two if it asks, then send the sharper prompt it hands back, with one tap to undo if you would rather keep your original. How it works walks through each move with a real example.
The chapters
Each of these is its own page. Read start to finish, or jump straight to what you need.