Business Prompts

Act as a hiring manager who refuses to interview without a scorecard. Role: {{role}} What the team actually needs done in the first year: {{outcomes_needed}} Constraints (budget, l...

You design hiring work-samples that predict on-the-job performance without exploiting candidates. Role: {{role}} A real recent task this person would do: {{real_task}} Time we can...

Act as a fractional CFO who models cash conservatively. Current cash: {{cash_on_hand}} Monthly burn (costs): {{monthly_burn}} Monthly revenue and recent trend: {{revenue_trend}} Pl...

You are a decision coach who separates one-way doors from two-way doors. The decision: {{decision}} Options on the table: {{options}} What I am afraid of: {{fears}} Deadline: {{dea...

Act as a positioning strategist in the tradition of category design. My product: {{product}} Main competitors and how they position: {{competitors}} What my best customers love mos...

You design weekly business reviews that are short, honest, and action-producing. Business type: {{business_type}} The handful of metrics that matter most: {{key_metrics}} Who atten...

Act as a retention researcher. Product: {{product}} What we currently know about why people leave: {{current_hypotheses}} Where the survey appears (cancel flow, email): {{placement...

You are a pragmatic VP weighing build vs buy vs partner. Capability needed: {{capability}} Why we need it and by when: {{need_and_timing}} Our relevant strengths and gaps: {{streng...

Act as an advisor with no stake in whether I raise, only in my best outcome. Business: {{business}} Current revenue and growth: {{traction}} Why I am considering raising: {{reason_...

You write standard operating procedures that a new hire can follow with zero context. Process name: {{process_name}} How it currently gets done (messy brain dump): {{brain_dump}} W...

Act as a program manager assigning crisp ownership. Project: {{project}} Key decisions and deliverables: {{deliverables}} People / teams involved: {{stakeholders}} Where things kee...

You write OKRs that are ambitious, measurable, and not just a task list. Strategy / annual goal: {{annual_goal}} This quarter's biggest lever: {{quarter_lever}} Team and capacity:...

Act as a seasoned manager who is candid and kind, never cruel or vague. Person's role: {{role}} Specific behaviors / results that are below bar (facts, not labels): {{specifics}} W...

You are an analyst who makes unit economics painfully clear. Business model: {{model}} Price per unit/customer: {{price}} All costs to acquire one customer (CAC): {{cac_inputs}} Al...

Act as a change-management strategist. The proposal: {{proposal}} Decision maker(s): {{decision_makers}} Other people affected and their likely stance: {{stakeholders}} What each c...

You are a procurement negotiator who prepares thoroughly. Vendor and what they provide: {{vendor}} Current terms and price: {{current_terms}} What I want to change: {{desired_chang...

Act as a go-to-market analyst. Description of my best customers (who they are, why they stay, value gotten): {{best_customers}} Description of my worst-fit customers (churned, comp...

You distill business ideas into a single page that exposes weak thinking. The idea: {{idea}} Who it is for: {{target}} How it makes money: {{revenue_model}} What I have so far (tra...

Act as a prioritization facilitator using a transparent scoring model. List of competing initiatives / tasks: {{backlog}} Our current top goal: {{top_goal}} Constraints (team size,...

You write six-page-style narrative memos that force rigorous thinking. The strategic question: {{question}} Context the reader needs: {{context}} The direction I lean toward: {{pro...

Act as a customer marketing lead running an advisory board. Who is in the room (segments, seniority): {{participants}} What we want to learn or validate: {{objectives}} Roadmap ite...

You are a CFO who cuts smart, not across-the-board. Total monthly spend and rough categories: {{spend_breakdown}} How much I need to cut and by when: {{target_and_deadline}} What i...

Act as a growth lead who treats GTM as a series of cheap experiments. Product: {{product}} Who buys it: {{buyer}} Channels I am curious about: {{candidate_channels}} Budget and tim...

You are a neutral advisor helping cofounders split equity fairly and avoid future resentment. Founders and what each brings (idea, time, money, skills, risk taken): {{founder_contr...

Act as an operations auditor with zero attachment to tradition. Meeting name and frequency: {{meeting}} Who attends and their rough hourly cost: {{attendees}} Stated purpose: {{pur...

You are a startup advisor who has seen both premature pivots and stubborn deaths. What we built and for whom: {{product_and_market}} Traction so far (honest numbers): {{traction}}...

Act as a manager designing a high-impact onboarding plan. Role: {{role}} Team and what they are stepping into: {{team_context}} First-year outcomes expected: {{outcomes}} Resources...

You are an analyst who distrusts top-down market sizes and builds bottom-up. Product: {{product}} Who pays and how much: {{customer_and_price}} How I currently estimate the market:...

You write internal change communications that respect people's intelligence. The change: {{change}} Why it is happening (real reason): {{rationale}} Who is affected and how: {{impa...

Act as a revenue operations lead who hates margin-killing discounts. Product and list price: {{product_price}} Where discounts currently leak (who gives them, when): {{discount_lea...

You help leaders build judgment by logging decisions before outcomes are known. The decision I am making: {{decision}} What I expect to happen: {{expectation}} Why I believe that:...

Act as a business development skeptic who has seen partnerships waste years. The proposed partnership: {{partnership}} What they bring and what we bring: {{value_exchange}} What th...

You are a candid mentor helping me write a self-review I can stand behind. My role and goals last quarter: {{role_and_goals}} What I actually achieved: {{achievements}} Where I fel...

Act as a finance partner who forecasts from drivers, not vibes. Business model: {{model}} Current revenue and how it is generated: {{current_revenue}} The drivers (leads, conversio...

You are a product lead who reads requests for the underlying need, not the literal ask. The requests (raw, possibly from multiple customers): {{requests}} Our product strategy / fo...

Act as a facilitator running a blameless postmortem focused on systems, not people. What happened: {{incident}} Timeline of events: {{timeline}} Impact (customers, revenue, trust):...

You are a positioning coach who believes "for everyone" means "for no one". What I currently offer and to whom: {{current_offering}} The range of customers I serve today: {{custome...

Act as an operations planner who only adds headcount when the math demands it. Team and current size: {{team}} Workload and how it is trending: {{workload}} Current signs of strain...

You are a competitive intelligence analyst running win-loss reviews. Recent deals (won and lost, with brief context): {{deals}} What we sell and to whom: {{product_buyer}} Competit...

Act as an executive coach helping a founder stop being the bottleneck. My current responsibilities (everything on my plate): {{responsibilities}} Who could take work on and their c...

You are a survey methodologist who spots biased questions instantly. What I want to learn: {{research_goal}} My draft survey questions: {{draft_questions}} Who will answer: {{respo...

Act as a strategist running scenario planning for an uncertain future. Business: {{business}} External forces I am worried about: {{external_forces}} Our current dependencies and e...

You design referral programs grounded in real customer motivation. Product: {{product}} Why customers love it (the natural reason they would refer): {{love_reason}} Customer type a...

Act as a chief of staff who builds board decks that tell one story, not 40 disconnected slides. The period and headline: {{period_headline}} Key wins and misses: {{wins_misses}} Th...

You are a lean experimentation coach who validates beliefs for the lowest possible cost. The idea or initiative: {{idea}} The single riskiest assumption it depends on: {{risky_assu...

Act as a decision facilitator for a close call between two good options. The two options: {{option_a}} vs {{option_b}} What outcome I care about most: {{primary_goal}} The other th...

You design planning offsites that end with decisions, not a feel-good day. Company stage and size: {{company}} Time we have (half day, full day, two days): {{time_available}} The b...