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Prompts

Curated AI prompts for business, creative, and technical use cases.

The Recurring Meeting Auditor: Decide Which Standing Meetings Still Earn Their Slot on the Calendar
Claude Opus 4.7 (works equally well with GPT-5.1 or Gemini 3 Pro — any model that can hold a multi-item list and apply consistent scoring criteria across every item handles this well)productivityYour 12-person engineering team has 6 standing meetings on the calendar, several inherited from a reorg 18 months ago. Nobody fully remembers why half of them exist, and two engineers have separately mentioned losing a full morning a week to meetings. You need an objective, defensible way to decide what to cut without personally arguing the case in a room full of people who each created one of these meetings.

The Recurring Meeting Auditor: Decide Which Standing Meetings Still Earn Their Slot on the Calendar

A scoring framework that turns a list of standing meetings into keep, shorten, make-async, or kill verdicts — with the exact replacement format named for each cut, not just a vague "do this async" suggestion.

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The Vendor Renewal Renegotiator: Turn a SaaS Contract Auto-Renewal Into a Price Reset
Claude Opus 4.7 (works equally well with GPT-5.1 or Gemini 3 Pro — any model with strong structured, multi-branch reasoning handles the tiered negotiation logic)finance-negotiationYour project-management SaaS tool is up for renewal in three weeks. Usage data shows you're paying for 40 seats but only 22 are active, and the vendor's proposed renewal is 18% above last year's price with no new features added to your tier. You need a structured way to push back before the auto-renewal clause locks you in at the higher rate.

The Vendor Renewal Renegotiator: Turn a SaaS Contract Auto-Renewal Into a Price Reset

A three-tier negotiation script that uses your own usage data to push back on an auto-renewal price hike — with a fallback and a walk-away point built in.

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The Pricing Page Objection Pre-Empter: Turn Pricing-Tier Copy Into Pre-Answered Buyer Doubts
Claude Opus 4.7 (also strong with GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro — any model good at commercial reasoning works; weaker models tend to skip the copy-vs-packaging classification and just rewrite everything as copy)marketingYou just shipped a new pricing page, or haven't touched the current one in eight months, and you suspect buyers are bouncing at the pricing step — but your analytics only show that they left, never why. You run this before the next pricing review meeting, pasting in the live tier copy and whatever competitor pricing your sales team has gathered from call notes.

The Pricing Page Objection Pre-Empter: Turn Pricing-Tier Copy Into Pre-Answered Buyer Doubts

A per-tier framework that separates objections a copy edit can fix from objections that are actually a packaging problem — so you stop rewriting headlines around a feature gap.

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The Promotion Case Builder: Turn Scattered Wins Into a Quantified Case for Your Next Level
Works best with a model that has a large context window and a plain, specificity-over-flattery style — Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.4, or Gemini 3 Pro. Smaller or distilled models tend to round vague claims up into confident-sounding prose instead of flagging them as weak, which defeats the entire point of this prompt.CareerYou are six weeks out from a promotion calibration cycle. You have a folder of self-review notes, a handful of Slack messages where a teammate said something nice, and a vague sense that this was a good year — but no structured case, and no idea which of it actually proves you are ready for the next level.

The Promotion Case Builder: Turn Scattered Wins Into a Quantified Case for Your Next Level

A prompt that forces every accomplishment into Action → Scope → Measurable Result before a promotion committee ever sees it — and tells you upfront if the case is not strong enough yet, instead of letting you find out after rejection.

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The Email Thread Untangler: Turn a Chaotic Reply-All Thread Into Decisions, Owners, and a Draft Reply
Works with any strong conversational model — Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5.4, or Gemini 3 Pro. Needs a large enough context window to hold a long thread in full, and strong enough reasoning to track who said what across many replies without losing the thread or merging two people's statements together.Writing & CommunicationYou return from two days offline to a 34-message reply-all thread about a vendor contract renewal, where three different people proposed three different numbers, someone asked a question on Tuesday that never got answered, and two people appear to have agreed to something in a side thread you weren't copied on. You need to know what was actually decided, what's still open, and who owns what, in the next five minutes — not by rereading all 34 messages.

The Email Thread Untangler: Turn a Chaotic Reply-All Thread Into Decisions, Owners, and a Draft Reply

A prompt that pulls apart a messy email thread into what was actually decided, what's still open, who owns what, and a ready-to-send reply — catching the contradictions a simple summary would smooth over.

The Feynman Teach-Back Simulator: Expose Gaps in Your Understanding by Explaining It to a Curious Novice
Works with any strong conversational model — Claude Sonnet 5 or Opus 4.5, GPT-5.4, or Gemini 3 Pro. The role depends on genuinely curious, specific follow-up questions rather than generic ones, so a weaker-reasoning model will default to shallow, templated questions instead of probing the real gaps in your explanation.learningYou just spent three days learning how OAuth 2.0's PKCE flow works before implementing it for your team's new mobile app, and you think you understand it — but you won't find out if you actually do until you're debugging it live in production. You need to stress-test your own understanding before that happens, not after.

The Feynman Teach-Back Simulator: Expose Gaps in Your Understanding by Explaining It to a Curious Novice

A role-play prompt that turns explaining a concept out loud into a diagnostic tool, catching the difference between what you actually understand and what you only think you do.

The Skeptical VC Pitch Stress-Test: Turn Your Deck Into the Ten Toughest Questions You'll Actually Face
Claude Opus 4.5 (also works well with GPT-5.1 or Gemini 3 Pro — the adversarial-reasoning style benefits from a strong-reasoning model, but isn’t vendor-specific)Business & StrategyYou have a seed-round pitch meeting with a VC partner in three days. Your advisors and friends have only given you encouraging, surface-level feedback, and you need to know exactly which questions will actually come up in the room — and whether you can answer them — before you're standing in front of someone deciding whether to write a check.

The Skeptical VC Pitch Stress-Test: Turn Your Deck Into the Ten Toughest Questions You'll Actually Face

A prompt that role-plays a skeptical VC partner to surface the specific, deal-threatening questions your pitch will actually get — not a generic investor-question template.

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The Edge Case Test Generator: Turn a Feature Description Into a Complete Test Matrix Before You Write Code
Claude Opus 4.7 (also works well with GPT-5.4 and other strong reasoning models — the task is systematic analysis, not creative generation, so most frontier models handle it competently)Developer ToolsA backend engineer is about to implement a new bulk order cancellation endpoint for an e-commerce API — one function call that touches payment refunds, inventory restocking, and customer notifications at once. The ticket describes the happy path in two sentences. Before writing a single line of code, the engineer runs this prompt against the feature description to surface every edge case, race condition, and integration failure the implementation needs to handle.

The Edge Case Test Generator: Turn a Feature Description Into a Complete Test Matrix Before You Write Code

A structured prompt that turns a one-paragraph feature ticket into a six-category test matrix — covering boundaries, concurrency, and integration failures — before a single line of code gets written.

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The Creative Constraint Generator: Turn a Stuck Project Into Rules That Force New Ideas
Works well with any strong creative-reasoning model (Claude, GPT-5-class, Gemini 2.5 Pro). Needs a model willing to generate genuinely restrictive rules rather than safe, decorative ones — weaker models tend to invent constraints that don't actually rule anything out.creativeYour team ran two open brainstorming sessions for a cold brew coffee brand's launch campaign, generated 40 concepts, and a blind test showed people couldn't distinguish any of them from three competitor brands already on the shelf.

The Creative Constraint Generator: Turn a Stuck Project Into Rules That Force New Ideas

A structured prompt that diagnoses why a brainstorm converged on generic ideas, then invents five deliberately restrictive rules designed to break that specific default — turning creative block into a ranked set of concepts worth prototyping.

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The Correlation vs Causation Stress-Tester: Pressure-Test a Data-Driven Claim Before You Act On It
Works best with strong-reasoning models (Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, GPT-5-class, Gemini 2.5 Pro). Weaker models tend to list generic caveats instead of scenario-specific alternative explanations.Data AnalysisYour marketing team just told leadership that a new onboarding email sequence increased 30-day retention by 12%, based on a before/after comparison, and the company is about to reallocate a team's entire budget on the strength of that one chart.

The Correlation vs Causation Stress-Tester: Pressure-Test a Data-Driven Claim Before You Act On It

A structured prompt that forces an AI to list every alternative explanation for a data pattern, rank what evidence would distinguish them, and recommend the cheapest next diagnostic — before you commit budget to a causal story that might be wrong.

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The Weekly Slippage Reconciler: Turn Last Week's Plan vs Actual Into This Week's Realistic Priorities
Works best with Claude Sonnet 5.5 or GPT-5.4 — the three-step diagnose/reconcile/replan structure needs strong instruction-following to stay sequential rather than collapsing into a single pass. Gemini 3 Pro also handles it well; smaller/faster models tend to skip the diagnosis step and jump straight to replanning.productivityYou are a product manager (or any individual contributor juggling multiple workstreams) who ends most Fridays with 2-3 planned priorities still undone, and every Monday you face the same choice: silently carry everything forward, or sit down and actually figure out what happened before deciding what is realistic this week.

The Weekly Slippage Reconciler: Turn Last Week's Plan vs Actual Into This Week's Realistic Priorities

A diagnose-reconcile-replan prompt that figures out why last week's plan slipped before it lets you build this week's — so you stop recreating the same unrealistic list.

The Term Sheet Red-Flag Scanner: Find the Founder-Unfriendly Clauses Before You Sign
Works best with Claude Sonnet 5.5 or GPT-5.4 — both have strong grounding in venture financing conventions and can reliably distinguish market-standard terms from genuine outliers. Treat the output as preparation for a conversation with actual counsel, not a substitute for one — no model should be the only check on a legal document before you sign it.finance-negotiationYou're a first-time founder who just received a term sheet from a lead investor for your seed round, with a Tuesday deadline to respond, and you've never negotiated a priced round before — your lawyer is available but billing by the hour, and you want to walk into that call already knowing where the real fights are.

The Term Sheet Red-Flag Scanner: Find the Founder-Unfriendly Clauses Before You Sign

A structured AI prompt that turns a confusing term sheet into a clause-by-clause scorecard and a ranked list of what to actually push back on.

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