Your quick-start field guide

The robot can render. Auntie's Creative Department can direct.

Bring the visual soup: a half-formed idea, a chaotic reference board, a pretty-but-unemployed image. She'll help you find the idea, direct the world, and turn one good thing into a system.

GET AUNTIE SET UPYour first useful output: about 15 minutes
  • Reference + moodboard reads
  • Visual territories + art direction
  • Prompts, critique + image systems
A vibrant 1990s creative director desk filled with reference images, color swatches, acetate, and chrome tools
01

Bring the mess.
Leave with direction.

01 / Give her a desk

Install Auntie.

Pick your platform. Install Auntie once, then bring her into a new conversation or the project you already have going.

CHATGPT · PLUGIN V1.0.1

First, install Auntie.

This plugin lets you bring Auntie into regular ChatGPT, including existing conversations. Download the ZIP below and keep it zipped.

  1. Open Plugins in ChatGPT's sidebar. Click Add → Upload plugin archive.
  2. Choose Aunties-Creative-Department-ChatGPT-Plugin-v1.0.1.zip. Keep the file zipped.
  3. Click Add plugin and wait for the upload and checks to finish.
  4. Open Auntie's plugin details and click Install plugin if prompted. Then choose a new or existing conversation.
YOU'RE SET

You do not need Plugin Creator or a public plugin listing. The ZIP is imported into your own account.

If Upload plugin archive is missing, the options available to your account or workspace may differ. Send me a screenshot of what you see so I can help.

Already using the old Work skill?

You can keep using that skill in Work. To use the plugin in regular Chat and existing conversations, install the plugin ZIP using the steps above. The two ZIPs have different installation paths.

Original Work skill ZIP

02 / Your first session

Do not prepare a perfect brief.

Bring one real thing and name what you want to leave with. A sentence is enough. A folder full of chaos is also enough.

THE FOUR-LINE STARTERGET IT DONE

Please use Auntie's Creative Department for this. Use Get It Done mode.

01 / WHAT I'M WORKING ONTell her about the brand, campaign, image, product, or project.
02 / WHAT ALREADY EXISTSAdd strategy, references, rough work, approved assets, or previous outputs.
03 / THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTWhat do I need to leave with?

Name the decision, direction, or finished thing you want Auntie to help you make.

04 / WHERE IT FEELS STUCKSay what feels muddy, generic, wrong, or unresolved.

Before you make anything, read what I shared, tell me what you notice, and recommend the strongest next move.

Useful things to bring

  • 01

    The context — audience, offer, campaign, channel, goal, deadline.

  • 02

    The evidence — references, moodboards, screenshots, current work, failed generations.

  • 03

    The truth — approved logos, packaging, people, products, patterns, exact copy.

  • 04

    Your reaction — what you love, reject, cannot explain, or keep getting wrong.

Anything you do not tell the model still gets decided. The model just makes the decision for you using its defaults.

CONTEXT BOOST

The more Auntie knows, the sharper the call.

If memory is turned on, she may be able to pull useful context from work you have done in other chats. If you use Projects, start inside the Project that already holds your strategy, references, and approved work. You can still paste or upload anything she absolutely must see.

DEFAULT GEAR

Get It Done

Auntie infers the obvious, makes the strongest recommendation, and gives you clean, usable direction.

STARTER PROMPTUse Get It Done mode.
TEACH ME GEAR

Learn As We Go

She completes the same work while naming what she notices, why it matters, and what will train your eye.

STARTER PROMPTTeach me while we art-direct this.

03 / The prompt library

Twenty-four ways to call her in.

You do not need to learn Auntie's internal Plays. Pick the kind of help you need, grab the starter closest to your problem, and she'll handle the creative routing behind the scenes.

DRAWER 01 / STARTER PROMPTS

Find the idea

Turn a half-formed instinct, flat brief, or category cliché into a creative premise with somewhere to go.

  1. Find the idea01
    STARTER 01

    Find the useful tension

    The brief is technically clear but creatively flat.

    Read the prompt

    Use Auntie's Creative Department in Learn As We Go mode. Read this brief and identify the most useful tension, contradiction, or emotional truth hiding inside it. Turn that tension into three possible creative premises, explain how each would change the visual work, and recommend the one with the most room to grow.

  2. Find the idea02
    STARTER 02

    Turn a vibe into a premise

    You have adjectives, fragments, and feelings—but no governing idea.

    Read the prompt

    Use Auntie's Creative Department. I have a loose collection of words, feelings, and references but no clear visual premise. Separate the symptoms from the underlying idea, then propose two meaningfully different creative territories. Name the human truth each territory expresses and what it would let us make.

  3. Find the idea03
    STARTER 03

    Escape the category cliché

    Everything is starting to look like every competitor.

    Read the prompt

    Use Auntie's Creative Department in Get It Done mode. Review this category and my current direction. Name the visual clichés, default codes, and overused metaphors we are drifting toward. Then propose three ways to stay legible in the category without borrowing its most predictable visual language.

  4. Find the idea04
    STARTER 04

    Choose between two concepts

    Both ideas are good and the team keeps trying to merge them.

    Read the prompt

    Use Auntie's Creative Department. Compare these two concepts as distinct creative territories. For each one, assess strategic fit, emotional promise, visual range, production potential, and likely failure mode. Recommend one direction, explain the tradeoff, and tell me what should not be carried over from the losing concept.

You bring the problem. Auntie chooses the Plays.The prompt is your front door—not homework and not a magic spell. Replace anything in brackets, add the context you have, and let her decide what the work needs next.
PICK A DRAWER→COPY A STARTER→ADD YOUR REAL STUFF

04 / How to get better work

Process, not prompt.

01

Give it context.

A moodboard without a brand, audience, or job is just attractive evidence with no court date.

02

Name what matters.

Tell her what must stay exact, what can move, and what should be left out. Your “no” is useful direction, too.

03

Generate choices.

Run the direction more than once. Compare interpretations. Use the outputs to discover what you mean.

04

Keep the human in charge.

Auntie can find patterns and propose the call. Your taste, expertise, and judgment decide what deserves to continue.

A retro-futurist robot photographer holding a camera

05 / Know her department

She gives the idea a visual life.

Bring her approved strategy, a written idea, or enough context to make a useful assumption. She owns art direction, reference interpretation, image systems, prompts, critique, and production handoff.

Her foundation is the creative-direction knowledge, judgment, and process I trained into her. When the ChatGPT or Claude surface you are using has web access, she can also look up current information and fold it into that foundation instead of pretending her built-in knowledge is the whole internet.

You are still the creative decision-maker. She is a robot, not magic. If what she gives you is generic, wrong, or simply not good enough, use your taste and context to reject it, correct it, and push her somewhere better.

Before you go

A few useful truths.

How do I bring Auntie into a ChatGPT conversation?

After installing the plugin, type @ in the message box and select Auntie's Creative Department. Then describe what you need. You can do this in a new or existing regular ChatGPT conversation.

Do I need Work mode or Plugin Creator?

The ChatGPT plugin uses the archive upload steps above, then you can select Auntie in regular Chat. Plugin Creator is not needed for this setup. The original standalone skill ZIP remains available for people who prefer their existing Work setup.

Can she organize a Pinterest board for me?

Yes—if the ChatGPT or Claude surface you are using can open Pinterest and you grant it access. The skill supplies the creative judgment; your account and connected tools supply the hands.

Will she make the images too?

She has been instructed to make images only when you ask. Sometimes the robot still goes rogue and starts generating anyway. If you do not want that, stop her in her tracks and tell her to stay with analysis, direction, or copy-ready prompts. I can tell her what to do; she is still a robot and occasionally ignores the memo.

Is she always going to give me a perfect output?

No. Definitely not. She is going to get you closer than you would be without her, but you still have to use your discernment, nuance, context, and taste. Decide what deserves to move forward, what needs another pass, and what you need to push back on.

Do I need a perfect strategy first?

No. She can state a reasonable assumption and begin. If one missing brand decision would make the creative work arbitrary, she will tell you what needs resolving.