Write a business plan
A complete, realistic business plan: market, model, operations, financials, and risks.
The prompt
Help me write a business plan.
Business idea: [WHAT, for whom]
Stage: [idea / launching / growing]
Purpose of the plan: [bank loan / investors / my own clarity / grant]
Location and market: [WHERE]
What I know so far: [customers, competitors, pricing, costs, team — paste notes]
Produce a plan with: executive summary, problem and solution, target market and customers, competition and positioning, business model and pricing, marketing and sales plan, operations, team, startup costs and 12–36 month financial projections (state every assumption), risks and mitigations, and milestones.
Rules: use my numbers; where I have none, propose clearly labeled assumptions and show the math simply. Flag the 3 biggest assumptions to validate before investing money.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- WHAT, for whom
- idea / launching / growing
- bank loan / investors / my own clarity / grant
- WHERE
- customers, competitors, pricing, costs, team — paste notes
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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