The conversation, the questions and the big talk. We all know AI works better with context, and having all your business context is the key to the future.

But it doesn’t mean you need ot take months off to write it.

Alexandra Buys is co-founder and COO of The Delta, a venture ecosystem that started in Cape Town and now runs an 80-person operation across a Berlin startup campus. And she has a cool method for getting started without you having to write a word.

Here’s how to build your first AI context doc, hands-free.

Instead of asking someone to write up how their area works, interview them about it, record the conversation, and hand the transcript to AI to pull out the context worth keeping. Talking is easy; writing is what stalls.

“We fed that transcript to Claude and said, ‘Pull out the context you think would be important for us to store in our repo.’ That became our starting point.”

Context lives with whoever runs the area day to day — not necessarily whoever owns it on the org chart. For finance, the person doing the invoicing and expense claims. For sales, it’s the person who actually works the deals.

They’ve never had time to write any of it down, which is exactly why the knowledge only exists in their head. The interview is how you get it out without asking them to do homework.

Sit down for an hour or an hour and a half, and just ask how things actually work. How do we do an expense claim? What happens when we invoice in this area? What are the biggest struggles? Record the whole thing.

Keep it conversational. You’re not trying to produce a polished document in the room — you’re trying to get the person to say out loud everything they know, including the messy edge cases that never make it into formal process docs.

Get the recording transcribed, then hand the transcript to your AI with a simple instruction: pull out the context worth storing about how this area works.

The AI does the part everyone dreads: Turning a rambling hour of conversation into structured, usable notes. What comes back isn’t perfect, but it’s a real first draft, built in minutes from a conversation that would have taken days to write up by hand.

Send the v1 to the team and let them build on it. It’s far easier to react to a draft than to face a blank page, so corrections and additions come quickly once there’s something on the table.

That shared edit does double duty: it improves the doc, and it gets the team bought into the context layer instead of treating it as something imposed on them. From there, connect it to your AI and feel the jump in output quality.

You get a real, usable context doc out of a single conversation. No blank page or documentation project that never ships. The knowledge trapped in one person’s head becomes something your whole team and your AI can use.

It takes an hour to record and minutes for AI to draft. It replaces the documentation marathon that was never going to happen anyway.

This shortcut is one piece of Building Your Business’s AI Context Layer, Alex’s full masterclass inside the Founder Collab. The full session shows you the complete context-layer architecture that the Delta runs on:

You’ll also get access to 40+ other masterclasses from SA founders and operators on sales, fundraising, UX, paid media and more inside The Founder Collab.

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