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Get the most from an hour with an expert — the do-your-homework floor (never ask what's googleable), the question arc from calibration to the frontier, the follow-up discipline that goes deep instead of wide, and the capture that survives the call. Use when asked prep me for the expert call, what should I ask this advisor/analyst/practitioner, we get an hour with X, or our expert calls are pleasant but shallow. Produces the homework brief, the question arc, the follow-up toolkit, and the capture plan.

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# Expert Interview Prep Skill

An hour with a real expert is expensive and perishable — and most of it gets spent badly: fifteen minutes of questions the expert's own writing already answers, a list marched through on schedule while the expert's best tangent dies unfollowed, and notes that resolve to "great conversation." The prep flips the economics: homework raises the starting altitude (the call begins where public knowledge ends), the question arc is designed (calibration → the core unknowns → the frontier questions only this person can answer), and the discipline in the room is *follow-up over coverage* — the fifth "why" beats the ninth topic.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The homework brief** — what the expert has already said publicly (writing, talks, the searchable record), so no question re-asks it
- **The question arc** — calibration openers → the core unknowns (ranked, since time will run out) → the only-this-person frontier questions
- **The follow-up toolkit** — the probes that go deep: "what's an example?", "who disagrees with that and why?", "what would change your mind?"
- **The capture plan** — recording/notes division, the same-day synthesis, and the repo deposit ([research-repo-setup](../research-repo-setup/SKILL.md))

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