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Prompt library

36 prompts. Task prompts are grouped by the job. Methods are ways of asking that show up across those jobs. Each one copies with the fill-in brackets still in place.

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Running the business

Audit my AI subscriptions

Paste your card or expense lines. Get a keep, cut or consolidate call for every AI tool you pay for.

Where should AI start in my business?

An interview, then a ranked shortlist and what to leave alone.

Pressure-test an AI vendor pitch

Paste the pitch; get the real cost, the lock-in, and 5 questions to ask.

Customize this AI policy

Paste the one-page template, answer 8 questions, get a version in your words.

Finance

Explain my P&L in plain English

Paste a P&L export. Get the big movers and 5 questions for your bookkeeper.

First-pass vendor bill coding

Suggests categories from bill descriptions; a person approves every one.

Collections follow-up sequence

Three emails (friendly, firm, final) from invoice age and amount.

13-week cash check questions

Turns your cash list into the risks and questions to look at this week.

Operations

Turn a voice memo into an SOP

A rambling transcript becomes numbered steps plus a list of what can go wrong.

Meeting notes → action list

Owners, dates, open questions; flags anything without an owner.

Compare vendor quotes

A side-by-side table plus what each quote leaves out.

Find the bottleneck (interview)

The AI asks one question at a time about a slow process, then names the likely choke point.

Sales

Follow-up after a visit or call

A short follow-up from your notes, in your tone, with one clear next step.

Proposal first draft from call notes

Structure and scope language to edit, with gaps flagged rather than invented.

Why did we lose that deal?

Patterns across your win/loss notes.

Admin & HR

Calm reply to an upset customer

A de-escalating reply that commits to nothing you haven't approved.

Rewrite a job post

A clearer, shorter posting that keeps your must-haves.

Turn a policy into a staff FAQ

Any internal policy becomes 10 plain Q&As.

Methods

Role + context + goal

Tell the AI who to act as, what situation you're in, and what a good result looks like.

Interview me first

Have the AI ask you questions before it answers, so it isn't guessing.

Show examples (few-shot)

Give two or three examples of what good looks like, and it copies the pattern.

Critique and revise its own draft

Ask for a draft, then have the AI find what's weak in it and fix it.

Pick the format

Tell it exactly what shape the answer should take.

Devil's advocate (red-team)

Ask the AI to argue against your plan so you see the holes first.

Plan before doing

Have the AI lay out its steps first, so you can fix the approach before it does the work.

Give it the rubric

Tell it how you'll judge the result, so it aims at your standard.

Compare options in a table

Put choices side by side with the same columns so you can decide faster.

Rewrite for an audience

Keep what something says, but change it for who's reading it.

Summarize, then pull action items

Turn a long meeting, thread, or document into a short summary plus a to-do list.

Brain dump to plan

Pour out everything on your mind, messy, and have the AI organize it.

What am I missing?

Ask the AI to look for gaps in your plan or draft. It isn't asked to rewrite anything.

Make it cite and flag uncertainty

Have the AI say where its information came from and what it's unsure of.

Break a big job into pieces

Do a big task in small steps in one chat, checking each before moving on.

Turn a process into a reusable template

Have the AI build a fill-in-the-blanks version of something you do repeatedly.

Check its work against the source

After the AI summarizes or pulls numbers, ask it to check its output against the original.

Set it up once

Save your standing context in custom instructions or a project, so you stop retyping it.