AI prompts for founders

Business Strategy & Startups prompts

• Write a business case for an investment or initiativeCosts, benefits, NPV/payback, risks, and a recommendation for any initiative or purchase.
• Diagnose what's holding my business backFinds the real bottleneck — leads, conversion, delivery, pricing, or team — and what to fix first.
• Validate a business idea before building itStress-tests an idea's demand, competition, and economics and designs cheap experiments.
• Write a grant proposalA compelling, funder-aligned grant proposal or case for support.
• Write a business planA complete, realistic business plan: market, model, operations, financials, and risks.
• Write a strategic planVision, priorities, goals, initiatives, and measures for a company, team, or nonprofit.
• Write a one-page business planTurns your idea into a one-page business plan covering problem, customer, offer, channels, costs, revenue and the key risks.
• Build the market analysis for my business planStructures the market analysis section: target segments, market size with a clear method, trends and customer needs, with sources flagged.
• Build a three-year financial projection for my business planBuilds a simple three-year projection of revenue, costs, profit and cash with every assumption listed so you can change it.
• Write the marketing and sales section of my business planDrafts the go-to-market section of a business plan: positioning, channels, budget, sales process and the numbers behind them.
• Write a business plan for a local small businessWrites a practical business plan for a café, salon, shop or local service, focused on location, costs and getting customers.
• Plan a minimum viable product (MVP)Scopes the smallest product that tests your core assumption, and how to build and launch it.

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Finance & Accounting prompts

• Build a business budget with driver assumptionsAn annual or project budget built from clear drivers and assumptions.
• Explain budget vs. actual variancesAnalyzes variances and writes the commentary management needs.
• Forecast cash flow and review working capitalA cash flow forecast, runway, and working-capital levers.
• Analyze financial statementsReads a P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement and summarizes performance, health, and risks.
• Find cost savings and improve profitabilityCost and profitability analysis with practical, prioritized savings options.
• Plan an audit or internal control reviewAudit scope, risks, controls to test, PBC list, and working-paper checklist.
• Review transactions for anomalies and fraud indicatorsFlags suspicious patterns in transactions and how to investigate them.
• Write a month-end close reportThe month-end narrative and management report: performance, variances, and issues.
• Prepare a board financial pack and talking pointsA board-ready financial summary with key messages and anticipated questions.
• Investigate reconciliation exceptionsWorks through unmatched items in bank or ledger reconciliations.
• Build financial projections for a business3–5 year revenue, cost, profit, and cash projections from clear assumptions.
• Write ALCO commentary on interest rate risk and net interest marginClear asset-liability committee commentary explaining NIM drivers, rate sensitivity, deposit behavior, and recommended actions.

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Sales prompts

• Write personalized cold outreach that gets repliesA short, relevant multi-touch outreach sequence — email and LinkedIn.
• Research a prospect before a sales conversationAn account brief: business context, priorities, likely pains, stakeholders, and conversation angles.
• Define my ideal customer profile (ICP)Defines the accounts and buyers most likely to buy, succeed, and stay.
• Draft a sales proposal or business case for a buyerA proposal built around the buyer's problem, solution, value, pricing, and next steps.
• Review pipeline health and forecastAssesses deal quality, risks, and forecast confidence, with actions per deal.
• Create a competitive battlecardHow to win against a specific competitor: positioning, traps, objections, and proof.
• Write a sales playbook section and coaching guideDocuments a repeatable sales motion and how managers coach it.
• Assess renewal risk and plan expansionRenewal risk signals, a save plan, and expansion opportunities for an account.
• Qualify and prioritize leadsScores and prioritizes leads against clear criteria and recommends next steps.
• Plan a discovery callCall objectives, an agenda, and a question bank to uncover needs, impact, and buying process.
• Prepare for objections and negotiationLikely objections, the real concern behind each, and honest responses.
• Build an ROI case and calculator outlineA transparent, defensible ROI narrative and calculator structure for a buyer.

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Product & UX Design prompts

• Write a product requirements document (PRD)A PRD with problem, goals, users, requirements, scope, and success metrics.
• Write user stories and acceptance criteriaTurns a feature into well-formed user stories with testable acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize a product roadmap or backlogScores and orders features with a transparent model (RICE, value vs. effort) and builds a roadmap.
• Map an opportunity solution treeConnects an outcome to customer opportunities, solutions, and experiments.
• Plan user interviews or usability testsA research plan with goals, participants, discussion guide, and tasks.
• Write a design brief and user-flow specificationDefines the user goal, flow, states, and edge cases for a feature.
• Assess technical feasibility and dependenciesEvaluates whether and how a feature can be built, plus its risks and dependencies.
• Set product vision, strategy, and OKRsVision, strategy, and outcome-based OKRs for a product or team.
• Synthesize customer or user researchTurns interviews, notes, and observations into themes, insights, and opportunities.
• Write release notes and stakeholder updatesClear release notes for users and internal teams.
• Analyze product adoption, retention, and churnReads product usage data to explain adoption, retention, and churn drivers.
• Check my iOS app for App Store rejection risksPre-submission compliance check against Apple's App Store Review Guidelines.

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Marketing & Brand prompts

• Analyze my competitorsCompetitor positioning, offers, strengths, weaknesses, and the gaps you can win.
• Write an effectiveness or creative awards entry for a campaignA structured awards case (challenge, insight, idea, execution, results) that meets entry rules and proves impact without overclaiming.
• Set up social listening to track my brand and competitor mentionsA listening plan with keyword queries, tools, a co-mention analysis method, and a monthly report format for your brand and competitors.

Content & Social Media prompts

• Build a content strategyAudience, goals, content pillars, formats, channels, and how you'll measure success.
• Create a social media strategyPlatform choice, content mix, posting rhythm, community, and growth plan for a brand or creator.
• Analyze a competitor's content and find angles they missA teardown of a competitor's blog, social, or newsletter content with gaps and angles you can own.

Leadership & Management prompts

• Write OKRs from my team's strategic prioritiesTurns strategic priorities into 3-5 well-formed objectives with measurable key results, owners, and a check that they align with company goals.
• Write the CEO letter that opens my board pre-readA concise CEO report for directors covering performance, key issues, and the decisions you need from the board.
• Build a board skills matrix and recruit new board membersA board composition analysis that shows skill, network, and lived-experience gaps, plus a recruitment and orientation plan.

Learning & Teaching prompts

• Build a pacing strategy for full-length admissions practice testsTime checkpoints per section, skip-and-guess rules, a stamina plan, and a method for reviewing each full test.
• Plan a response to a recurring behavior problem in my classroomA function-based plan for persistent disruptive behavior, with prevention, response steps, tracking, and family communication.
• Master one admissions test question type with a strategy and drillsHow a tricky question type works, a step-by-step method, its common traps, and graded practice items with explanations.

Projects & Operations prompts

• Prioritize projects in a portfolioA scoring model to choose which projects to fund, pause, or stop.
• Write a procurement category strategyA sourcing plan for a spend category: market, needs, options, and roadmap.

Productivity & Planning prompts

• Sort my task list into deep work, shallow work, and async workTags every task by focus needed, sync vs. async, strategic vs. admin, and reactive vs. proactive so you know how to schedule each.
• Score my task list and turn it into a prioritized action planScores every task on impact, urgency, effort, and strategic fit, then turns the ranking into a dated action plan.

Data & Analysis prompts

• Estimate how a price change will affect my salesScenario estimates of how a price change or promotion moves units, revenue, and margin, with an adjusted forecast and a test plan.
• Analyze why we win and lose dealsA win/loss analysis that finds patterns across closed deals and turns them into changes to targeting, process, and messaging.

HR & Hiring prompts

• Build an inclusion and diversity strategyPractical, evidence-based actions to make hiring, promotion, and culture fairer.

Career & Job Search prompts

• Redesign my role around more strategic, higher-value workShifts your time from operational tasks to strategic work, with what to drop, delegate, or automate and how to agree it with your manager.

Fun & Games prompts

• Get better at a strategy game I already playA personal improvement plan for chess, a card game, or a board game, with practice drills and common mistakes to fix.

Legal & Compliance prompts

• Draft a risk appetite statement leadership can useWrites a risk appetite statement with a qualitative stance and measurable limits for each risk category, ready for leadership review.

Software Development prompts

• Design a caching strategy with safe invalidationDecides what to cache, where, and for how long, with invalidation rules and failure modes so the cache doesn't serve wrong data.

Email & Workplace Communication prompts

• Explain a strategy pivot to employees, customers, and investorsA coordinated communication plan and drafts for each audience when the company changes direction.

Meetings prompts

• Run a prioritization workshop with stakeholdersA facilitation plan that gets competing stakeholders to agree on priorities using shared criteria.

Research & Summaries prompts

• Build a systematic review search strategyCreates database-ready Boolean search strings with synonyms, controlled vocabulary, and documentation for a systematic or scoping review.