Planning & Strategy prompts
56 free prompts. Click through for the full text and the when-to-use note.
Build an Early-Warning System for Owner Burnout
Spot your own burnout signals early and set a written recovery and cover plan, so the business doesn't stall when the owner runs flat.
Put a Stuck Decision Through a Clear Framework
Pick the right decision framework for your situation and work the actual choice through it, ending with a recommendation and what would change it.
Protect One Deep-Focus Block for the Week's Biggest Task
Schedule a single guarded focus session for your most important task, with a realistic slot, a start ritual and defences against the usual interruptions.
Turn a Vague Ambition Into Quarterly Goals You Can Measure
Convert a fuzzy 'grow the business' feeling into two or three quarterly goals with measurable checkpoints and a weekly action per goal.
Put Friction on a Costly Impulsive Habit
Design specific speed bumps against one impulsive business habit that quietly bleeds money or time, matched to when and why it happens.
Find a Missing Business Item, Then Stop It Happening Again
A calm search method for a misplaced tool, document or device, plus a simple storage system so the same thing stops going missing.
Design a Start-of-Day Routine That Survives Chaos
Build a short, resilient work-start routine with a bare-minimum fallback for the days everything goes sideways, so momentum survives bad mornings.
Lay a Project Out as a Timeline With Owners and Dependencies
Turn a project into an ordered task list with durations, who owns each task and what blocks what, so nothing stalls waiting on something unseen.
Build a Scheduling System for a Brain That Ignores Clocks
Build a lightweight time system using external cues and visible structure, designed for someone who loses track of time rather than fights a rigid schedule.
Run a Weekly Review That Catches What's Stuck
A repeatable end-of-week ritual that surfaces what happened, what's stalled and what matters next, in about 20 minutes.
Plan Website Fixes Around One Focus, Usability First
Pick a single improvement goal for your site and get a prioritised, usability-led plan of specific changes you can actually make.
Make the Website Genuinely Good on a Phone
A phone-first review and fix list for your site, since that's where most customers actually see it, focused on speed, tapping and finding key info fast.
Set Up a Simple Rhythm to Track Progress and Correct Course
Choose a handful of numbers that actually matter, decide how often to look, and build a light review habit that turns drift into small corrections.
Plan a Quarter of Search-Visibility Work in Fortnightly Chunks
Break search visibility into a 12-week plan of small fortnightly tasks, ordered by impact, so it actually gets done between real work.
Cut Waste From a Small Operation Without the Jargon
Find the everyday waste in how work flows through your business and get a short list of practical fixes, with no lean buzzwords.
Design a Short Team Training on Prioritising Work
Build a tight internal training session that teaches your team to prioritise and manage their time, with exercises tied to your actual work.
Write a Lean Business Plan People Actually Use
Produce a short, working business plan on one or two pages that guides decisions, instead of a 40-page document that gets filed and forgotten.
Plan Your Next Hire Before You Post the Ad
Work out whether, when and who to hire — the role, the budget, the timing and how you'll assess candidates — before spending a dollar advertising.
Work Through the Business Plan Section by Section
A guided walkthrough that takes you through each part of a business plan in a sensible order, asking the right questions at each step.
Run an Honest Strengths-and-Weaknesses Review That Ends in Actions
Work through a realistic look at what your business does well and badly, and what's coming at it, then convert the honest bits into a short action list.
Prepare a Keep-Trading Plan for When Things Go Wrong
Build a simple business-continuity plan for the disruptions most likely to hit you — an outage, illness, a supplier failing, a disaster — so you can keep trading.
Start Using the Data You Already Have
Find the useful information already sitting in your sales, bookings and receipts, and turn it into a few everyday decisions you can make better.
Build a Low-Decision Launch Sequence for the Workday
Set up a repeatable start-of-day sequence that runs on visible cues and near-zero decisions, so you get into real work without burning willpower first.
Understand Modern Data Tech and Whether Any of It Applies
Get a jargon-free explainer of terms like big data, cloud, AI and analytics, and an honest read on which, if any, are worth a small business's attention.
Practise Starting and Finishing With Graded Exercises
Build the habits of planning, starting and finishing work through small graded exercises that get harder as the skill grows.
Compensate for Losing Track of Time With Cues and Buffers
Set up external time cues, transition alerts and honest buffers so losing track of time stops making you late, over-run jobs and miss handoffs.
Technical Debt Prioritizer
Manage and prioritize technical debt strategically
Atlas Core Intent Analyzer
Master-level prompt to extract and clarify the core intent from any user request
Proactive Support Message Crafter
Create proactive support messages that prevent issues
Atlas Constraint Optimizer
Optimize solutions within specific business constraints and limitations
GPT-5 Context Manager
Optimize context usage for long-running agentic conversations
Innovation Sprint Facilitator
Run rapid innovation sprints for breakthrough ideas
Philosopher
I want you to act as a philosopher. I will provide some topics or questions related to the study of philosophy, and it will be your job to explore these concepts in depth. This could involve conductin...
Composition Rescue: Perspective Correction
Fix perspective distortion in architectural and interior photos
Life Coach
I want you to act as a life coach. I will provide some details about my current situation and goals, and it will be your job to come up with strategies that can help me make better decisions and reach...
Live Today Status Page (Claude Cowork)
A power prompt for Claude Cowork that builds a self-contained, real-time status page artifact. It enumerates your MCP connectors, checks for brand assets, asks structured follow-up questions, probes every tool, then ships an HTML dashboard with action buttons wired into real APIs.
GPT-5 Reasoning Chain Architect
Build complex reasoning chains using GPT-5's advanced capabilities
Expert Role Assignment
Assign specific expert roles to get domain-specific responses
Personal Trainer
I want you to act as a personal trainer. I will provide you with all the information needed about an individual looking to become fitter, stronger and healthier through physical training, and your rol...
Step-Back Prompting for Strategy
Get better answers by first understanding the underlying principles
Build Your MVP in 2 Weeks
An MVP architect applying Paul Graham's "build something people want" framework. The only purpose of an MVP is to test the single most important assumption as fast and cheaply as possible.
Pet Behaviorist
I want you to act as a pet behaviorist. I will provide you with a pet and their owner and your goal is to help the owner understand why their pet has been exhibiting certain behavior, and come up with...
Debate Coach
I want you to act as a debate coach. I will provide you with a team of debaters and the motion for their upcoming debate. Your goal is to prepare the team for success by organizing practice rounds tha...
Gomoku player
Let's play Gomoku. The goal of the game is to get five in a row (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) on a 9x9 board. Print the board (with ABCDEFGHI/123456789 axis) after each move (use x and o f...
Rephraser with Obfuscation
I would like you to act as a language assistant who specializes in rephrasing with obfuscation. The task is to take the sentences I provide and rephrase them in a way that conveys the same meaning but...
5-Step Problem Resolution Framework
Systematic approach to solving complex business problems
Pressure Test Your Startup Idea
A Paul Graham-style startup evaluator that finds every fatal flaw before you waste a single month building the wrong thing. Based on how YC evaluates applications.
Map Your Real Competition
A competitive intelligence analyst using Paul Graham's "what are people doing now" framework. The most dangerous competitor is never the obvious one — it's the current behavior your product has to replace.
Validate the Real Problem
A customer discovery specialist using Paul Graham's "talk to users" framework to determine if your startup solves a real problem people pay for, or one nobody actually has.
Find Your First 10 Customers
An early traction specialist applying Paul Graham's "do things that don't scale" framework. The fastest path to product-market fit is finding 10 people who use and pay for your product before building anything automated.
Web Design Consultant
I want you to act as a web design consultant. I will provide you with details related to an organization needing assistance designing or redeveloping their website, and your role is to suggest the mos...
Remote Worker Fitness Trainer
I want you to act as a personal trainer. I will provide you with all the information needed about an individual looking to become fitter, stronger, and healthier through physical training, and your ro...
Tic-Tac-Toe Game
I want you to act as a Tic-Tac-Toe game. I will make the moves and you will update the game board to reflect my moves and determine if there is a winner or a tie. Use X for my moves and O for the comp...
Structured Iterative Reasoning Protocol (SIRP)
Begin by enclosing all thoughts within <thinking> tags, exploring multiple angles and approaches. Break down the solution into clear steps within <step> tags. Start with a 20-step budget, requesting m...
Aphorism Book
I want you to act as an aphorism book. You will provide me with wise advice, inspiring quotes and meaningful sayings that can help guide my day-to-day decisions. Additionally, if necessary, you could ...
Spongebob's Magic Conch Shell
I want you to act as Spongebob's Magic Conch Shell. For every question that I ask, you only answer with one word or either one of these options: Maybe someday, I don't think so, or Try asking again. D...