AAAry Aranguiz, CPTD, AIPMFounder & CEO, Future-Ready AI Group, LLC · I help SMB owners embed AI into everyday operations so work moves faster, more consistently, and more profitably | Google Cloud Generative AI Leader

NotebookLM Critiques Your Work 2

16 Apr 2026 · 2 min

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In this short tutorial, the presenter explains how to obtain an objective, actionable critique of professional content using NotebookLM's Studio feature. By uploading any source material—such as sales call recordings (MP3/MP4), slide decks, webinar links, or a PDF of a LinkedIn profile—users can select the "Audio Overview → Critique" option. Within minutes, NotebookLM generates a back‑and‑forth dialogue between two AI evaluators that highlights strengths, weaknesses, and improvement suggestions. The critique is positioned as a politics‑free, ego‑free feedback loop, akin to hearing honest colleagues review your work. The presenter emphasizes the shift from using AI merely to create content toward using it to refine and improve content, and notes that users can tailor the critique focus (e.g., professional persona, profile structure) based on the uploaded source type.

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Hey friends, quick question. What if you can get an objective critique of your work without having to chase down feedback from anyone? Here's a simple way that you could do that using NotebookLM. Let's say that you've had a few sales calls and you have those recordings, MP3s, or maybe you have some videos, some MP4s, or maybe it's a slide deck or a link to a webinar. What you're going to do is you're going to upload those sources to NotebookLM. In this case, what I'm doing is I'm actually using my— a PDF of my LinkedIn profile, and I am going to get an honest critique. All you have to do is go to Studio, select Audio Overview, select Critique, and within minutes it's going to generate a back and forth conversation between 2 AI evaluators. It's not a summary, it's an actual critique. They're gonna point out what worked, what didn't, and where you can improve. It's like listening to 2 very honest colleagues review your work without any politics, without any ego. The only ego to manage is yours because you may hear some things that maybe you didn't catch before, maybe you didn't realize. So here's the real value. You're using AI not just to create content, but you're using it to get better at creating content and to improve. Now that's the shift that most people are missing. And you can select what kind of critique you're looking for. It'll give you some suggestions on what the AI host should focus on. And if you're looking, for example, for, uh, your professional persona, your structure of your LinkedIn profile. These suggestions will be based on the type of source that you've uploaded. So this is an amazing hack, and I hope you'll try it and let me know.