Business Prompts
Prompts for strategy, operations, planning, and decisions. Turn a vague question into a structured answer you can act on.
Act as an analyst who distrusts top-down market numbers. Product: {{product}} Target customer profile: {{customer_profile}} Price or expected annual contract value: {{acv}} Geograp...
You are a retention analyst. Product and customer type: {{product}} Current churn rate and trend: {{churn}} What we know about who churns and when: {{churn_data}} Exit reasons cust...
Act as an org design advisor. Current headcount and rough structure: {{current_org}} Strategy the org must serve next year: {{strategy}} Where coordination breaks down today: {{pai...
You design sales comp plans that drive the right behavior. Role being compensated: {{role}} What we need reps to prioritize (new logos, expansion, retention): {{priority}} Deal siz...
Act as a procurement lead. What we are buying: {{purchase}} Vendors under consideration: {{vendors}} Non-negotiable requirements: {{must_haves}} Nice-to-have requirements: {{nice_t...
You write investor updates that are honest and useful. Month: {{month}} Headline metrics and changes: {{metrics}} What went well: {{wins}} What went badly or is concerning: {{lowli...
Act as a decision facilitator running a stage gate. Initiative: {{initiative}} What we have learned so far: {{learnings}} The success criteria we set earlier: {{criteria}} What con...
You facilitate quarterly business reviews. Quarter: {{quarter}} Goals we set and how each turned out: {{goal_results}} Key metrics and trends: {{metrics}} What changed in the marke...
Act as a JTBD researcher. Customer segment: {{segment}} The situation they are in when they reach for a solution: {{situation}} What they use today: {{current_solution}} Task: Defi...
You are a finance partner doing a mid-year reforecast. Original annual budget summary: {{original_budget}} Actuals to date: {{actuals}} What has changed since planning: {{changes}}...
Act as a business development lead structuring a partnership. Our side: {{our_side}} Partner: {{partner}} What each side wants from this: {{mutual_goals}} What each side brings: {{...
You are a manager who gives direct, kind, evidence-based feedback. Employee role and level: {{role}} Review period: {{period}} Specific examples of strong work: {{strengths_evidenc...
Act as a strategy advisor who has seen many pivots succeed and fail. What we are building now: {{current}} The traction signals (good and bad): {{traction}} What we have learned ab...
You design onboarding plans that ramp people fast. Role: {{role}} Manager and team: {{team}} The outcomes this person owns: {{outcomes}} Key people, systems, and context they must...
Act as a growth analyst designing a pricing experiment. Current pricing: {{current_pricing}} The change we want to test: {{proposed_change}} The metric we ultimately care about: {{...
You manage stakeholders on complex, cross-functional initiatives. Initiative: {{initiative}} The change it requires from others: {{change_required}} Known stakeholders and their ro...
Act as an operator who has had to cut costs responsibly. Target reduction (amount or percent): {{target}} Major expense categories and amounts: {{expenses}} What directly drives re...
You help teams choose a north star metric and build its input tree. Business model: {{model}} The core value customers get: {{core_value}} Metrics we currently track: {{current_met...
Act as a negotiation coach. What is being negotiated: {{subject}} Who we are negotiating with and what we know about them: {{counterparty}} Our ideal outcome and our real constrain...
You are a product lead who prioritizes ruthlessly. Strategic goal this roadmap serves: {{goal}} Candidate initiatives with rough notes: {{initiatives}} Team capacity for the period...
Act as a strategy analyst building actionable customer segments. What we sell: {{product}} What we know about our current customers: {{customer_data}} Our growth goal: {{goal}} Tas...
You run disciplined weekly ops reviews. Team or function: {{team}} The handful of metrics that matter weekly: {{metrics}} Current goals or projects in flight: {{projects}} Task: De...
Act as a pitch coach who has helped raise rounds. What the company does: {{company}} The change in the world that makes now the moment: {{why_now}} Traction and proof so far: {{tra...
You are an operations planner balancing capacity and demand. Team composition and roles: {{team}} The work or demand expected next period: {{demand}} Realistic productive hours per...
Act as a revenue analyst running win/loss analysis. Deals to analyze (won and lost) with notes: {{deals}} Our main competitors: {{competitors}} Our stated value proposition: {{valu...
You are a program manager building a risk register. Project and objective: {{project}} Timeline and key milestones: {{timeline}} What could go wrong (your initial worries): {{known...
Act as a packaging strategist. Product and its main features: {{features}} Customer segments and their willingness to pay: {{segments}} The plan we most want customers to choose: {...
You are a manager skilled at resolving team conflict. The conflict and who is involved: {{conflict}} Each person's perspective as I understand it: {{perspectives}} The impact on wo...
Act as a finance-literate operator building a business case. The investment proposed: {{investment}} What problem it solves or opportunity it captures: {{problem}} Expected costs (...
You design surveys that avoid bias and produce usable data. The decision this survey will inform: {{decision}} Who we will survey: {{audience}} What we need to learn: {{learning_go...
Act as a strategist using Rumelt's good-strategy structure. The situation we are in: {{situation}} Our ambition for the year: {{ambition}} Our real advantages and constraints: {{ad...
You advise leaders on handling reductions with care and clarity. Scope of the reduction: {{scope}} The reason it is necessary: {{reason}} What affected people will receive (severan...
Act as a go-to-market strategist. Product and price point: {{product}} Target customer and where they spend attention: {{customer}} What we have tried and the results: {{past_effor...
You facilitate blameless postmortems. What happened: {{incident}} Timeline of events as known: {{timeline}} The impact (customers, revenue, time): {{impact}} What we did to resolve...
Act as a customer growth strategist focused on net revenue retention. Product and current pricing structure: {{product}} Customer base and how they currently use us: {{usage}} Expa...
You bring clarity to who does what. The project or recurring process: {{process}} The key activities or decisions in it: {{activities}} The people or roles involved: {{roles}} Wher...
Act as a scenario planner. The strategic question we face: {{question}} The key uncertainties that could swing the outcome: {{uncertainties}} Our current plan and where it is fragi...
You help teams write operating charters they will actually use. Team and its mandate: {{team}} What the team is accountable for delivering: {{accountability}} How the team currentl...
Act as a revenue operations lead setting discount guardrails. List price and gross margin: {{pricing}} Typical discount situations reps face: {{situations}} What we are trying to p...
You advise on build, buy, or partner decisions. The capability we need: {{capability}} Why we need it and by when: {{need}} Our internal strengths and gaps for building it: {{inter...
Act as a customer marketing lead running an advisory board. Who is on the board: {{members}} The strategic questions we want their input on: {{questions}} What we can offer them in...
You build defensible bottom-up revenue forecasts. Business model and motion: {{model}} Funnel or pipeline data (volumes, conversion rates, deal size): {{funnel}} Sales cycle length...
You are a skeptical operator running a pre-mortem. Imagine it is {{future_date}} and "{{initiative}}" has failed badly. We are looking back. Context: - Goal: {{goal}} - Plan in bri...
Act as a disciplined portfolio manager who hates sunk-cost bias. Project: {{project}} What success looks like: {{success_definition}} Time and money budget: {{budget}} Key assumpti...
You are an operations analyst who maps where work actually flows, not where the org chart says it should. Team / process: {{team_or_process}} List of recurring tasks and who touche...
Act as a pricing strategist who is also obsessed with customer trust. Product: {{product}} Current price and model: {{current_pricing}} Hypothesis I want to test: {{pricing_hypothe...
You are a founder briefing your board after a weak period. Be honest, not defensive. Period: {{period}} Headline numbers vs plan: {{numbers}} What went wrong and why: {{what_went_w...
You are a customer research lead trained in Jobs-To-Be-Done interviewing. Product / idea: {{product}} Who I am interviewing: {{interviewee_profile}} What I am trying to learn: {{re...
Act as a research analyst who turns qualitative notes into decisions. Here are my raw interview notes (multiple people): {{raw_notes}} Context on what we are deciding: {{decision_c...
You are a remote-work operator who defaults to async. Proposed meeting topic: {{topic}} Why someone wants the meeting: {{reason}} Participants and their roles: {{participants}} Dec...