Core Questions: Give the AI Context That Carries Forward

A core question is an ordinary step question that you've marked as core. Its answer becomes permanent context: OBIE feeds it to the AI in every step the member completes afterward, whether or not those steps are required. Use core questions for the handful of facts that should shape everything — who the member is, what they're selling, what they're working toward — so they never have to repeat themselves and the AI never contradicts what it was already told.

Mark a question as core

Core questions are set on the question itself, not in hub settings.

1. Open the step that contains the question, then open its Questions.

2. Add or edit a question and select the Core Question checkbox. It sits next to Required Question — the two are independent.

3. Save the question.

That's it. From then on, every step the member completes after answering it receives that answer as context.

See every core question in your hub

Open your hub, select Hub Settings, then Core Questions. The page lists every core question in the hub, grouped by journey, then milestone, then step, each tagged Core and — where it applies — Required. Select any question to jump straight to that step's question editor.

This page is read-only on purpose: it's your map of what the AI already knows. If the list is empty, you'll see a prompt explaining where to mark questions instead.

How to choose them

Core and Required do different jobs. Required means the member can't move past the step without answering. Core means the answer travels forward. A question can be either, both, or neither. In practice you usually want your core questions to be required too, because a core question that gets skipped contributes nothing.

Keep the set small. Every core question is added to the AI's context on every later step, so ten of them crowd out the actual work of the step you're on. Aim for the three to six facts that genuinely change the AI's output, and let ordinary questions carry the rest.

Good candidates: the member's business or role, their audience, their offer, their goal, hard constraints they're working within. Poor candidates: anything that changes week to week, and anything only one later step needs — that step can just ask.

Check it

Use Preview as User, answer your core questions, then move to a later step and see whether the AI's response reflects those answers. If it doesn't, confirm the question is actually marked Core on the Core Questions page, and check that your step's own prompt isn't overriding the context with conflicting instructions.