Curated AI prompts for business, creative, and technical use cases.
Claude Opus 5 (also works well with GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3 Pro)Writing & CommunicationYou have a 47-page customer research report due to the CEO before Monday's board meeting, and you know from experience that a report this long simply won't get read before the meeting starts. You need the actual findings — the numbers, the causal story, the recommendation — condensed into something a time-pressed executive will read in the elevator on the way to the boardroom.
A structured prompt that compresses long reports into a single-page executive brief with traceable findings, clear implications, and specific recommended actions — built to survive a five-minute skim from someone who won't read past page two.
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Claude Opus 5 (also works well with GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3 Pro)finance-negotiationYou've received a written job offer with a base salary $8,000 below what levels.fyi and three Glassdoor data points show is market rate for the role. You have one week before you need to confirm your start date, and your current employer hasn't offered to match. You know you should negotiate, but you're not sure what number to counter with, how to justify it without sounding entitled, or what to say if the recruiter pushes back with "this is our best offer."
A structured prompt that transforms your compensation research and competing offers into a complete negotiation script, with anchor numbers, objection responses, and a walk-away threshold you actually calculated instead of guessed.
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Nano Banana Pro (also works with Midjourney v7 and DALL-E 3)creativeA homeowner is getting renovation quotes and wants to visualize a specific style direction before committing to a contractor, without paying a designer for a mood board.
A structured image-generation prompt that renders a realistic after-photo of a room renovation while preserving fixed architectural elements and matching a real budget tier.
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Claude Opus 5 (also works well with GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3 Pro)Startups & BusinessA product marketing lead is refreshing messaging ahead of a Q3 rebrand and needs to know, with evidence, which competitive claims actually hold up before locking in a new tagline.
A prompt that pressure-tests your product positioning against real competitors and flags any claim you cannot actually defend.
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Works well with GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 5, or Gemini 3 Pro — this is primarily a pattern-recognition and arithmetic task, so mid-tier reasoning models handle it reliably. Larger models add value mainly in phrasing the bias explanation clearly.productivityA freelance web developer has blown three consecutive project deadlines, each time because "one more round of client revisions" ran long, and has a new project proposal due tomorrow where the client is specifically asking for a firm time-and-cost estimate broken down by task.
An AI prompt that mines your own history of estimated-versus-actual task times to calculate a category-specific bias correction, so your next quote is calibrated instead of guessed.
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Works best with Claude Opus or GPT-5 for nuanced persona consistency across multiple rounds. Gemini 3 Pro is a solid alternative; smaller models tend to let personas agree too easily instead of staying skeptical.marketingA B2B SaaS marketing lead has a positioning statement drafted for next month's product launch and an exec review meeting in two days, but has a nagging feeling the current wording is generic enough that it would not survive a real skeptical buyer conversation — and there is no time to run a proper customer discovery session before the deadline.
A three-round AI role-play that puts your positioning statement in front of a skeptical champion, economic buyer, and CFO — before a real prospect ever sees it.
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Works best with Claude Sonnet 5 or GPT-5.4 — both reliably apply named statistical concepts (Simpson's paradox, survivorship bias) to a specific dataset rather than listing them generically. Gemini 3 Pro is a solid alternative when the pasted dashboard data is very long.Data AnalysisYou're a growth PM about to tell the exec team that a redesigned onboarding flow increased 30-day retention by 12%, based on a dashboard comparing users who completed the new flow against users who went through the old one last quarter — and you have a strategy meeting in an hour where this number will justify rolling the flow out to 100% of new signups.
A prompt that reviews any metric or dashboard for the statistical illusions that make bad decisions look data-driven — survivorship bias, Simpson's paradox, cherry-picked date ranges — before you walk into the room and stake your credibility on the number.
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Works best with Claude Sonnet 5 or GPT-5.4 — both handle long structured study material and multi-step scheduling reasoning reliably. Gemini 3 Pro is a strong alternative for very long source documents (100+ pages) thanks to its larger context window.learningYou have 6 weeks before the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam, a 40-page official study guide, and 5 hours a week to study around a full-time job. You've read the guide once already but you're not confident it stuck, and you don't know how to turn a static document into a day-by-day plan that actually uses spaced repetition instead of a second read-through.
A prompt that decomposes any syllabus, study guide, or certification material into atomic testable units, then builds a spaced-repetition calendar with active-recall questions instead of leaving you to re-read the same document three times.
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Works best with Claude Sonnet 5 or GPT-5 for sustained, coherent multi-turn Socratic questioning. Gemini 2.5 Pro also works well but occasionally breaks character to give the answer directly — remind it of the constraint if that happens.Artificial IntelligenceYou have an exam, a stakeholder meeting, or a documentation deadline in two days on a topic you 'sort of' know, and you need to find the specific parts of your understanding that will collapse under a hard question — before someone else finds them for you.
An iterative prompt that plays a relentlessly curious student, forcing you to explain a complex topic in plain language until every hidden gap in your understanding surfaces.
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GPT-5.6 (works well with Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini 3 Pro)Developer ToolsYour team has a scattered list of known technical debt items sitting in a backlog nobody has prioritized, and you need a defensible remediation plan before the next quarterly planning meeting with product and finance stakeholders.
Paste your team's raw list of known technical debt items into this prompt and get each one scored by actual business impact — revenue risk, delivery slowdown, incident frequency — not just how annoying it is to the engineer who has to look at it, plus a sequenced remediation plan you can defend to non-technical stakeholders.
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GPT-5.6 (works well with Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini 3 Pro)CareerYou found a promising job posting for a 'Senior Marketing Manager' role at a startup and want to check for scope/salary mismatches and interview-process red flags before spending your evening writing a cover letter.
Paste a job posting into this prompt and get a structured breakdown of scope creep, vague compensation signals, and unrealistic requirements — plus the exact interview questions to probe each one before you invest hours in a process for a role that isn't what it looks like on paper.
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Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) or Midjourney — the prompt structure also works with DALL-E 3 and Flux; any model capable of following a multi-quadrant compositional instruction in one image will work, though quality of material/texture rendering varies by modelcreativeYou're a solo founder launching a DTC coffee brand. Your only creative brief from your co-founder was 'modern but warm, sustainable but premium' — vague enough that you, your designer, and your co-founder could each be picturing something completely different. You need four concrete visual directions to react to before the first design meeting, not another round of 'send me some inspo links.'
Stop collecting inspiration links. This prompt turns two vague adjectives into a single mood board image with four genuinely different, reactable visual directions.