# How To Use StoryLens With AI

StoryLens is useful today even before a built-in AI report exists. The current loop is simple:

1. Complete the StoryLens story session.
2. Review the organized assessment packet.
3. Copy the AI handoff.
4. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or another AI assistant.
5. Ask for a careful reading that cites evidence from your stories.

This guide explains how to get a better AI reading without treating the result as a diagnosis, score, or fixed identity.

## What To Copy

After finishing StoryLens, copy the full AI handoff or assessment packet from the completion page.

The handoff should include:

- neutral prompt titles;
- your written story responses;
- skipped prompts, if any;
- timing and length context;
- instructions that tell AI to stay reflective and evidence-based.

Do not paste private details into AI unless you are comfortable sharing them with the tool you use.

## Best First Prompt

The simplest approach is to paste the StoryLens packet and add:

```text
Please read this as reflective self-understanding material, not as diagnosis or an official personality score.

Identify recurring patterns across my answers. Cite specific evidence from multiple prompts. Separate observations from hypotheses. Discuss motives, relationship patterns, pressure responses, self-image, and possible MBTI-style or Jungian-inspired clues only as tentative lenses.

End with follow-up questions I can answer to deepen the reading.
```

You can also use the public prompt:

https://storylens.me/prompts/storylens-ai-reading-prompt.md

## What A Good AI Reading Should Do

A useful reading should:

- cite evidence from more than one answer;
- name recurring patterns instead of jumping to a label;
- separate what is observed from what is inferred;
- include uncertainty and alternative interpretations;
- give you follow-up questions;
- avoid diagnosis, crisis assessment, hiring advice, or official psychometric scoring.

A weak reading usually:

- assigns a type too quickly;
- overuses vague praise;
- quotes only one answer;
- treats every story as literal autobiography;
- gives confident claims without evidence.

If the reading feels generic, ask:

```text
Which claims in your reading are supported by the strongest evidence, and which claims are weaker or more speculative?
```

## Useful Follow-Up Questions

After the first reading, try one of these:

- What are the strongest recurring motives across my stories?
- What relationship pattern appears more than once?
- How do I seem to respond to pressure or uncertainty?
- Where might this interpretation be overreaching?
- What would you ask me next if you wanted to understand me more deeply?
- Compare this with MBTI-style or Jungian-inspired patterns, but keep it tentative.
- Turn this into a one-page reflection plan for the next week.

## How To Compare With Personality Tests

You can ask AI to compare the reading with familiar lenses, but keep the language careful.

Good framing:

```text
Use MBTI-style, Jungian-inspired, motivation, and relationship lenses as reflection tools. Do not assign an official type. Tell me what evidence supports each possibility and what evidence complicates it.
```

Avoid:

```text
Tell me my exact MBTI type.
```

StoryLens is meant to give AI richer evidence than a multiple-choice test. It is not meant to produce an official type result.

## How To Share Feedback

For the first pilot, the most useful feedback is not praise. It is friction.

After trying the AI reading, note:

- Where did you get stuck?
- Did the reading feel specific?
- What felt generic or overconfident?
- Did the final handoff make sense?
- Would you send StoryLens to a friend?

Use the final feedback option in StoryLens, or email:

feedback@storylens.me

Please do not send private story text unless you explicitly want the team to review it.

## Boundaries

StoryLens is for self-understanding and reflection.

It is not:

- therapy;
- diagnosis;
- crisis support;
- an official MBTI, Jungian, Big Five, PSE, or TAT test;
- a hiring, eligibility, or risk assessment tool.

If your answers involve immediate danger, self-harm, abuse, or crisis, prioritize real-world safety and professional support over personality interpretation.