Diagnose what's holding my business back
Finds the real bottleneck — leads, conversion, delivery, pricing, or team — and what to fix first.
The prompt
Help me find what's holding my business back.
Business: [WHAT, how long, team size]
Revenue and trend: [NUMBERS]
Funnel numbers: [traffic/leads → conversations → customers → repeat]
What I spend my time on: [WEEK BREAKDOWN]
What I think the problem is: [MY VIEW]
Ask me up to 5 clarifying questions first if anything important is missing. Then:
1. Identify the single biggest constraint (lead generation, conversion, pricing, delivery capacity, retention, cash, or my time) and show the evidence.
2. Explain why fixing other things first won't help much.
3. Give a 30-day plan to address the constraint, with weekly actions and a metric to watch.
4. Name the next constraint likely to appear after this one is fixed.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- WHAT, how long, team size
- NUMBERS
- traffic/leads → conversations → customers → repeat
- WEEK BREAKDOWN
- MY VIEW
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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