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42 copyable prompts for planning, writing, research, marketing, sales, and clearer decisions. Add your context and review what comes back.
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Your first useful request
Help me turn the notes below into [specific output] for [audience]. Use only the information provided. Ask up to three questions if a missing detail would change the result. Mark unresolved items as “Needs confirmation.” Notes: [paste safe notes].
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Improve the next attempt
Compare this draft with my original notes. What was omitted, changed, or assumed? Revise it to meet these priorities: [priorities]. Keep a short list of anything I still need to check.
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Document the workflow
Using the task below, propose an input template, draft structure, review rubric, stop conditions, and manual fallback. Identify which steps require a person. Do not assume access to tools or customer data. Task: [task].
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Find failure modes
Review this workflow for plausible failures. Include missing input, conflicting evidence, outdated material, privacy issues, and unclear ownership. Suggest a small test for each risk and explain what a passing result would look like.
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Rank my candidates
Evaluate these tasks for frequency, predictability, checkability, and reversibility: [list]. Ask for missing information rather than inventing estimates. Recommend one small pilot, explain the tradeoffs, and identify what should remain manual.
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Keep the first version small
Design the smallest useful version of this workflow: [task]. Include its trigger, required inputs, draft output, approval step, failure notification, and manual fallback. Suggest a non-AI option if fixed rules would suffice.
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Morning planning
Using only the commitments below, propose three priorities for today. Respect [available time] and [fixed appointments]. Separate must-do work from optional work. Identify one dependency and one item to defer. Commitments: [list].
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End-of-day reset
Compare this morning’s plan with my completion notes. Produce completed items, unfinished commitments, questions needing an owner, and a realistic first action for tomorrow. Do not assume that an unfinished item is still a priority.
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1. Choose today’s priorities
Here are my commitments: [list]. I have [time] available. Recommend three priorities, explain the tradeoffs, and identify what to defer. Ask about unclear deadlines.
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2. Start a difficult task
I am avoiding [task] because [reason]. Break it into a ten-minute first step and three manageable next steps. Keep the plan realistic for [constraints].
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3. Turn notes into actions
Extract decisions, proposed actions, owners, and agreed deadlines from these notes. Mark anything missing as unconfirmed. Do not convert an idea into a commitment. Notes: [notes].
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4. Write a clear email
Draft a short email to [audience] about [issue]. Include [facts], one next step, and a [tone] tone. Do not invent promises, dates, or previous conversations.
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5. Make a message easier to read
Edit this message for clarity while preserving my meaning and voice. Flag ambiguous statements before changing them. Explain any substantial change: [message].
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6. Prepare a meeting
Help me prepare for [meeting]. Using [context], create the desired decision, five questions, required inputs, and a time-boxed agenda. Identify missing information.
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7. Understand a concept
Explain [concept] for someone familiar with [background]. Use one example and one counterexample. Describe where the explanation is simplified and what I should verify.
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8. Compare options fairly
Compare [options] against these criteria: [criteria]. Separate known facts, assumptions, and unknowns. Show tradeoffs and the information most likely to change the recommendation.
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9. Find weak reasoning
Evaluate this argument: [argument]. Identify unsupported claims, missing alternatives, and strong evidence. Do not assume it is wrong. Suggest the most useful next check.
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10. Rehearse a conversation
Role-play [person] in a conversation about [topic]. Ask one question at a time. Afterward, give balanced feedback on clarity, listening, and unanswered concerns.
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11. Summarize source material
Summarize this material for [audience] in five bullets. Distinguish the author’s claims from supporting evidence. Include limitations and do not add outside facts: [material].
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12. Create a checklist
Turn this process into a checklist: [process]. Include prerequisites, completion criteria, and points requiring approval. Flag steps that are unclear instead of silently filling gaps.
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13. Draft a research brief
Help me define a research question about [topic]. Suggest useful source types, search terms, inclusion criteria, and a table for recording evidence and uncertainty.
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14. Improve a draft
Review this draft against [goal] for [audience]. Identify the three highest-impact improvements, explain why they matter, and revise without inventing evidence: [draft].
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15. Finish the day
Using my plan and completion notes, list finished work, unresolved commitments, and tomorrow’s first step. Ask whether stale tasks still matter. Inputs: [plan and notes].
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Evidence-backed message ideas
Using only these approved customer notes, identify recurring problems and supporting excerpts. Separate direct evidence from hypotheses. Propose three message directions, the proof each requires, and any claims we should avoid. Notes: [notes].
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Plan a useful test
Create a small test plan for [offer] aimed at [audience]. State the hypothesis, one changed variable, primary metric, qualification criteria, tracking checks, and reasons we might be unable to draw a conclusion.
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Prepare discovery questions
Using these verified business notes, suggest six discovery questions about the current process, its consequences, and the desired outcome. Mark assumptions and avoid leading questions that presume my service is the answer. Notes: [notes].
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Draft a faithful follow-up
Create a short follow-up using only these meeting notes. Include confirmed needs, unanswered questions, and the agreed next step. If a date, promise, or decision is missing, leave it unresolved. Do not invent familiarity or urgency.
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Create my assistant brief
Help me write a concise assistant brief from these preferences: [preferences]. Include priorities, working constraints, preferred output style, missing-information rules, and actions requiring approval. Ask questions rather than assuming access to my accounts.
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Prepare my daily packet
Organize the commitments below into fixed appointments, deadlines, focused work, and open questions. Propose three priorities that fit [available time]. Explain tradeoffs and flag anything you cannot safely prioritize without more context.
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A balanced thinking partner
I am deciding between [options]. My goals are [goals], constraints are [constraints], and evidence is [evidence]. Separate facts from assumptions. Compare options using the same criteria, identify three important unknowns, and propose one small next step.
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Find a reversible next step
Before recommending a major commitment, suggest a smaller action that could improve this decision. Explain what it would teach us, what it would not establish, and what evidence would justify moving forward.
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A fair critique
Evaluate this work against [criteria]. Identify strengths, weaknesses, unsupported claims, and missing context. For each major point, cite the specific detail that supports it. Do not praise or criticize for effect. Work: [work].
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Blind comparison
Compare option A and option B against the same criteria: [criteria]. Do not infer who created them. Explain the tradeoffs, identify uncertainty, and state what additional evidence could reverse your recommendation.
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Check the reviewer
Review your critique for assumptions and overstatement. Which conclusions are directly supported, which are tentative, and what might you have misunderstood? Suggest independent checks for the most consequential claims.
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Minimize the input
Before drafting, tell me which categories of information this task requires and which I can remove. Do not ask for credentials or unnecessary personal details. Task: [task]. Use a fictional example if it can demonstrate the process.
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Check the draft against the source
Compare this draft with the approved source below. Identify unsupported facts, changed meaning, invented commitments, and missing qualifications. Do not add outside information. Return the issues and a corrected version.
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Run a first FAQ review
Review the attached practice FAQ, customer questions, and approved policies. Return a table with: customer question, current answer, supporting passage, gap or contradiction, and suggested edit. Label anything that needs a decision from me. Preserve all policy conditions. If a detail is absent, write 'not established by the supplied material.' Do not invent delivery, refund, pricing, or service promises. Finish with the three most useful questions for the owner. Produce a draft only; do not change or publish the source.
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Create a reviewable launch checklist
Use my attached approved workshop brief to create an editable launch checklist. Include task, owner, due date, dependency, and completion evidence. Use only confirmed dates and promises from the brief. Put undecided items in a separate decisions list rather than choosing for me. I have three hours this week, so identify the smallest workable first sequence. Check the finished file against the brief, flag conflicts, and give me the file plus a short review note. Do not publish or send anything.
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Build the practice queue
In this practice folder, build one local web page for a fictional follow-up queue. Show six sample enquiries with name, next action, and due date. Let me sort by due date and mark individual enquiries complete. Label the examples fictional and explain that changes reset on refresh. Use the simplest suitable implementation. First explain the files and how I will open it. Then build it and check sorting, duplicate names, empty state, and keyboard operation. Report what you verified and any remaining limits. Do not connect external services or deploy it.
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A complete weekly research request
Every Monday at 8:30 AM America/New_York, research material published or substantively updated in the previous seven days about [specific topic] for [audience and decision]. Use official documentation, original studies, or direct organizational announcements first. Return at most four findings with original URL, publisher, publication or update date, actual event date when different, a concise finding, limitations, and one practical implication labeled as your interpretation. Exclude unsupported reposts. Compare with my accessible previous-findings log at [location]; do not repeat an item unless its facts changed, and explain the change. If the log is unavailable, report that deduplication is incomplete. Do not present older material as new. If nothing qualifies, say so without padding. If a source or search fails, name the failure and mark the report partial; do not claim there were no developments. Deliver the brief in this conversation only. Do not contact anyone, publish, register, or purchase. Confirm the timezone and next scheduled run after setup.
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Investigate a campaign change using read operations
Using Windsor read operations only, inspect account [ID] for [start date–end date] and [comparison start–end]. Discover valid fields first. Return campaign-level spend, clicks, and [exact enquiry metric], plus raw totals, account currency, timezone if available, and retrieval time. Flag missing fields or incomplete results. Rank campaigns by contribution to the change in enquiry count, including low-spend campaigns. Calculate overall cost per enquiry from totals. Separate facts, plausible explanations, and questions needing evidence. Do not change campaigns, budgets, audiences, settings, or exports.
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Check whether two sources are comparable
Compare the definitions behind these advertising and analytics results. Identify differences in account scope, date boundaries, timezone, currency, attribution, event names, and freshness. Tell me which comparisons are valid, which need adjustment, and what cannot be concluded. Do not force the totals to match.
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Your first week with AI.
A seven-day practice plan, daily prompt cards, a workflow scorecard, and a review checklist. Start free and build one useful habit at a time.