AI prompts for sales teams
Prompts for every stage of the sales cycle: account research, cold outreach, discovery call preparation, objection handling, proposals and follow-ups, plus customer conversations after the deal closes.
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279 prompts across 20 topics. Each works in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any AI chat: open it, fill in the blanks and copy.
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.
Customer Support prompts
- Write troubleshooting steps for a customer issueStep-by-step troubleshooting guides for agents or customers, from simple fixes to escalation.
- Analyze customer feedback, reviews, or survey commentsFinds themes, sentiment, and priorities in customer feedback, and what to do about them.
- Write an empathetic reply to a customerClear, warm, accurate responses to customer emails and chats.
- Turn resolved tickets into a knowledge-base articleHelp-center articles customers and agents can follow, built from real tickets.
- Build a QA scorecard for support conversationsA rubric to review and coach customer interactions consistently.
- Write community responses and moderation guidelinesHow to respond to and moderate an online community consistently and fairly.
- Create or rewrite support macros and templatesConsistent, on-tone response templates for common issues across channels.
- Design a chatbot or AI assistant conversation flowConversation flows, intents, responses, and handoff rules for a support, sales, or booking bot.
- Design ticket categories and routing rulesA ticket taxonomy and routing rules that get issues to the right team fast.
- Create an escalation and human-handoff guideWhen and how to escalate issues, or hand off from a bot to a human.
- Write an FAQ pageFAQs built from real customer questions, with clear answers and logical grouping.
- Recommend the next best action for a customerUses a customer's history to suggest the most helpful next step for the agent.
Marketing & Brand prompts
- Plan a product launch and go-to-marketLaunch messaging, audiences, channels, timeline, and success metrics.
- Write a press release and media pitchA newsworthy press release plus a short pitch email for journalists.
- Analyze campaign performance and ROITurns ad, email, PR, or campaign data into results, insights, and next steps.
- Build a customer persona and buyer journeyEvidence-based personas with goals, pains, objections, and the journey to purchase.
- Write long-form sales copy or a VSL scriptLong-form sales letters and video sales letter scripts with a clear persuasive structure.
- Create a lead magnet people wantIdeas and an outline for a checklist, guide, template, or tool that attracts the right leads.
- Review my launch results and plan the next 30 days of momentumA clear read on what worked in the launch and a 30-day plan to keep signups coming after the spike.
- Defend my marketing budget to the CFO with a revenue caseA finance-ready case that connects marketing spend to pipeline and revenue, with honest caveats and asks.
- Plan a trade show presence that pays back its costA booth, staffing, lead capture, and follow-up plan with cost-based targets, so the event produces pipeline, not just badge scans.
- Mine customer reviews for the words to use in my copyA voice-of-customer swipe file of real phrases, pains, desires, and objections mapped to headlines and copy.
- Build a 12-month nurture plan for my past clients and sphereA database touch plan with segments, monthly value-add touches, and referral asks that keep me top of mind.
- Plan the first 30 days of sales for my new online storeA day-by-day launch plan to get the first orders, reviews, and repeat buyers without a big ad budget.
Data & Analysis prompts
- Test that a migrated report or pipeline matches the old oneA parity-testing plan for migrations that compares old and new outputs at the right level, with tolerances and sign-off criteria.
- Calculate landed cost to compare domestic and overseas suppliersA side-by-side landed cost model covering freight, duty, inventory carrying, and risk so the cheapest unit price isn't mistaken for cheapest.
- Find the root cause of repeated stockoutsWorks through demand, parameters, lead time, and execution data to pinpoint why items keep running out, with specific fixes.
- Plan a category assortment with a clear good-better-best rangeKeep, add, drop, or online-only decisions for every SKU, a price ladder, and store clustering, based on sales, margin, and space.
- Set the right list price for my home from comparable salesA price range based on comparable sales and market speed, with a pricing strategy and a plan for when to adjust.
- 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.
- Engineer my menu using item sales and contribution marginSorts every menu item into stars, plowhorses, puzzles, and dogs, with specific actions for each and the next menu.
- Calculate how much pipeline I need to hit my numberReverse-funnel math that turns your target into required pipeline, opportunities, meetings, and activities by month.
- Find what drove my store's weekly sales resultBreaks a store's sales variance into traffic, conversion, ATV, and UPT, then gives specific actions for next week.
- Build a simple spreadsheet to track ticket sales for an eventStep-by-step setup for a ticket sales tracker with a data entry form, search, totals, and payment status for fundraisers and community events.
- Design automated data quality tests for a pipelineA prioritized set of data tests covering freshness, volume, schema, uniqueness, and business rules, with thresholds and owners.
- Explain what drives a model's predictions to non-technical stakeholdersTranslates feature importance, SHAP values, and model behavior into a plain-English explanation leaders can trust and act on.
Projects & Operations prompts
- Find a bottleneck and improve a processLean-style analysis of a process: waste, bottlenecks, root causes, and an improvement plan.
- Write a closed-won handoff from sales to customer successA complete handoff document so the customer success or implementation team starts with everything the buyer was told and expects.
- Check supply readiness for a new product launchA launch readiness plan that confirms parts, suppliers, capacity, inventory build, and logistics are ready before the launch date.
- Organize a community cleanup of a river, beach, or parkA plan for a volunteer cleanup: assessment, partners, permissions, safety, the event run sheet, and how to keep it going.
- Turn sales handoff notes into a customer onboarding briefConverts messy deal notes into a clear brief so customer success starts onboarding knowing what was promised and why the customer bought.
- Build a plan to reduce patient no-showsA targeted no-show reduction plan based on your appointment data, with reminder cadence, scheduling rules, and a fair missed-appointment policy.
- Build a weekly staff schedule that hits my labor cost targetA forecast-driven front- and back-of-house schedule that controls labor cost and follows break and scheduling rules.
- Source products from an overseas supplier and order samples safelyFind and vet suppliers on B2B marketplaces like Alibaba, request samples, and judge them before placing a bulk order.
- Connect my online store's payments, accounting, and inventoryA plan for integrating your payment gateway with accounting and inventory systems, with tool options, data flows, and reconciliation checks.
- Write a sales and marketing handoff agreement (SLA)A written service level agreement between sales and marketing defining lead stages, volumes, follow-up times, and how disputes get resolved.
- Create an escalation plan for my project with clear triggers and pathsSets out when and how project issues get escalated, to whom, how fast, and what information goes with them.
- Audit my CRM data quality and fix the biggest gapsA CRM hygiene audit that finds the data problems hurting forecasting and reporting, with fixes, owners, and rules to prevent them.
Business Strategy & Startups prompts
- 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.
- Do a SWOT analysis that leads to actionStrengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats — plus the strategies that follow from them.
- Plan, pitch, or review a business partnershipFind and pitch partners, structure the deal, and measure whether it works.
- Write an elevator pitch from my business planDistils your business plan into 30-second, 60-second and one-line pitches for investors, customers and networking.
- Review the health of my consulting or agency businessA quarterly review of revenue, client concentration, rates, utilization, and pipeline, with the few changes that matter most.
- Price and sell my handmade art or craftsA fair pricing formula, sales channel options, and a simple plan for selling your art or crafts as a hobby business.
- Work out how many sales reps I need next yearA sales capacity model that shows how many reps to hire, when, and what the plan looks like after ramp and attrition.
- Build my annual sales planA one-year sales plan linking the revenue target to segments, motions, headcount, enablement, and quarterly milestones.
- Identify where my business's next revenue growth can come fromMaps every realistic source of revenue growth for your business or product line and ranks them by size, speed, and effort.
HR & Hiring prompts
- Review succession and bench strengthIdentifies successors for key roles, readiness, and development actions.
- Design a bonus or sales compensation planBonus, commission, and incentive structures that drive the right behavior.
- Plan peak-season store staffing within my labor budgetSeasonal hiring numbers, a day-part coverage model, labor as a percentage of sales, and scheduling-law checks for the holiday rush.
- Pitch my brokerage to an agent I'm recruitingA recruiting pitch and comparison that shows an agent their real net income at my brokerage versus their current one.
- Plan a hiring event or job fair that produces hiresA complete plan for a hiring event or job fair, from promotion and on-the-spot screening to follow-up within 48 hours.
- Plan credentialing and payer enrollment for a new providerA timeline and checklist for licensing, hospital privileges, CAQH, and payer enrollment so a new clinician can see and bill patients from day one.
- Create a sales role-play to assess account executive candidatesA realistic role-play exercise for sales interviews with a buyer script, scoring rubric, and consistent instructions for every candidate.
Leadership & Management prompts
- Coach a sales rep using a call recording or transcriptScored feedback on a real call against your sales method, with timestamped moments and one focused skill to practice.
- Diagnose why a sales rep is missing quotaA metrics-based diagnosis of a struggling rep's performance that separates activity, skill, pipeline, and territory causes, with a support plan.
- Communicate an unpopular decision and handle the objectionsExplain a decision someone will disagree with: the message, the reasoning, and prepared answers to their likely objections.
- Lead the executive response in the first 72 hours of a crisisA structured crisis response plan covering facts, decisions, stakeholders, and communications for a CEO in the first three days.
- Set marketing OKRs tied to pipeline and revenueQuarterly marketing objectives and measurable key results that connect team work to business outcomes.
- Design a sales contest or SPIFF that doesn't backfireA short-term sales incentive tied to one behavior, with rules, budget, and guardrails against sandbagging and gaming.
- Build a ramp plan that gets a new sales rep productive fasterA week-by-week ramp plan for a new rep with certifications, ramp quota, leading indicators, and manager checkpoints.
Presentations & Public Speaking prompts
- Create an investor pitch deckA fundraising deck outline that tells a compelling, evidence-based story to investors.
- Build a sales or pitch deck that wins the roomA persuasive deck structure built around the buyer's problem, proof, and a clear next step.
- Prepare for tough investor questions in pitch meetingsA question bank with sharp, honest answers and the weak spots to fix before your investor meetings.
- Present my design work and defend key decisionsBuilds a short design review walkthrough that leads with the problem, explains decisions with evidence, and prepares answers to pushback.
- Prepare my quarterly sales business review for leadershipA quarterly sales review deck outline with results, drivers, pipeline outlook, and specific asks for the executive team.
- Build a quarterly business review deck that proves value to a customerAn outline and talking points for a QBR that shows results against the customer's goals and agrees next-quarter priorities.
Content & Social Media prompts
- Pitch and write a guest postFinds the right angle for a target publication, writes the pitch, and outlines the article.
- Outline and draft a B2B whitepaper or ebookA structured, evidence-led whitepaper or ebook outline plus a first draft of key sections.
- Write a hyperlocal market update for my farm areaA monthly neighborhood market report for email, social, and mailers that explains the numbers and what they mean.
- Review a month of content and decide what to double down onA monthly review that separates what drove results from noise, with clear keep, change, and stop decisions.
- Find sponsors by analyzing podcast or video transcriptsPulls confirmed and likely sponsors out of transcripts from shows in your niche, so you can build a realistic sponsor prospect list.
Meetings prompts
- Build a meeting agenda that leads to decisionsDesigns a timed agenda around the outcomes the meeting must produce.
- Run a deal-by-deal pipeline review with a sales repA focused pipeline review agenda with the right questions per stage, so the meeting coaches deals instead of just reading CRM.
- Plan a sales kickoff that changes how the team sellsA sales kickoff agenda built around a few behavior changes, with sessions, practice, and follow-through after the event.
Legal & Compliance prompts
- Audit my law firm's marketing for attorney advertising rule risksReviews ads, web pages, emails, and social posts against lawyer advertising and solicitation rules and gives compliant rewrites.
- Screen where my business may owe sales taxMaps sales by state against economic and physical nexus factors and lists the questions to resolve with a tax advisor.
- Write a non-engagement letter declining a prospective clientA courteous letter that clearly declines representation, warns about deadlines without giving advice, and protects the firm from implied-relationship claims.
Finance & Accounting prompts
- Stress-test the cost of a sales commission planA finance review of a proposed commission plan that models payouts, cost of sales, and gaming risks before launch.
- Build an open-to-buy plan for next seasonA month-by-month open-to-buy plan at retail and cost that shows how much I can still buy and where I'm overbought.
- Resolve a sales commission dispute fairlyA clear analysis of a commission disagreement against the written plan, plus a decision and a respectful response to the rep.
Email & Workplace Communication prompts
- Write investor intro requests and cold emailsA forwardable blurb, intro request, and short cold email that get investors to take a first meeting.
- Tell my board about a missed target or serious problemA prompt, candid board update on bad news with cause, impact, plan, and what you need from directors.
- Write a weekly sales team update that drives actionA short weekly update for your sales team with the number, wins, priorities, and asks, written so reps actually read it.
Productivity & Planning prompts
- Balance my workload across several clients without overbookingA capacity view of my client commitments for the coming weeks, with conflicts, what to move, and how to tell clients.
- 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.
Thinking & Decisions prompts
- Evaluate a freelance pitch and decide whether to commission itA quick editorial assessment of a pitch: news value, fit, feasibility, and risks, plus a commission or decline reply to send.
- Evaluate a feature request that sales says will close a dealA clear-eyed assessment of a deal-driven request, plus a reply to sales that protects the roadmap and the relationship.
Creative Writing prompts
- Write a query letter and synopsis to pitch my novel to agentsA tight query letter and a one-page synopsis that follow agent conventions and show your book's hook.
- Turn my novel idea into a strong premise and one-line pitchA sharpened premise with protagonist, goal, stakes, and conflict, plus several one-line pitches and a check on what makes the idea fresh.
SEO & Website prompts
- Track form drop-off and find why visitors don't submitSets up form analytics, pinpoints where visitors abandon your contact, signup, or quote form, and ranks fixes by evidence.
- Plan website personalization for different visitor segmentsA segment-by-segment plan of what each visitor group sees on your site, how to detect them, and how to test whether it works.
Product & UX Design prompts
- Assess technical feasibility and dependenciesEvaluates whether and how a feature can be built, plus its risks and dependencies.
Software Development prompts
- Set up CI/CD and infrastructure as codeCI/CD pipelines and IaC templates with environments, checks, and rollback.
Prompts for other roles and tasks
- Marketers
- Founders
- Managers
- HR professionals
- Developers
- Analysts & consultants
- Product managers
- Legal & compliance teams
- Finance professionals
- Teachers & students
- Recruiters
- Project managers
- Customer service teams
- Content writers & copywriters
- Small business owners
- Executives & senior leaders
- Researchers & academics
- Fiction writers & poets
- Real estate & renting
- Resumes & cover letters
- Business plans
- SEO
- Product descriptions & online stores
- Writing emails
- Job interviews
- Summarizing documents & meetings
- Excel & spreadsheets
- Making decisions
- Social media posts
- Travel planning
- Parents & families