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Curated AI prompts for business, creative, and technical use cases.
The Database Migration Safety Checklist Builder: Turn a Schema Change Into a Rollout Plan That Won't Lock Your Database
Works best with Claude (Opus or Sonnet) for precise reasoning about database internals and lock behavior; GPT-5-class models handle it well too, but verify lock-type claims against your specific database version's documentation before running anything in production.Developer ToolsYour team is two days from a major product launch and needs to add a required boolean column to your 50-million-row users table to support a new feature — but the last time someone ran a similar migration, it locked the table for six minutes and paged the entire on-call rotation during peak traffic.

The Database Migration Safety Checklist Builder: Turn a Schema Change Into a Rollout Plan That Won't Lock Your Database

A structured prompt that analyzes a proposed schema change for locking behavior, backward compatibility, and rollback safety — then produces a step-by-step migration plan that won't take your production database down.

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The Prerequisite Mapper: Find Exactly What You're Missing Before Tackling a Hard Topic
Works well with GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 5, or Gemini 3 Pro — needs strong world knowledge of how technical fields build on each other, so more capable models produce more accurate prerequisite chains than smaller ones.learningYou're three chapters into a machine learning textbook and hit a section on backpropagation that assumes you're comfortable with the chain rule and Jacobian matrices — but it's been eight years since your last calculus class and you're not sure exactly what you're missing or where to start filling the gap.

The Prerequisite Mapper: Find Exactly What You're Missing Before Tackling a Hard Topic

A four-part diagnostic prompt that pinpoints the specific prerequisite gaps causing you to get stuck on a hard topic — ordered by dependency, each with a one-line self-test and a fastest-path shortcut.

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The Severance Package Negotiator: Turn a Layoff Offer Into Better Terms
Works well with GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 5, or Gemini 3 Pro — this task is mostly judgment and tone calibration rather than raw technical capability, so any frontier model handles it well.CareerYou're a mid-level employee who was just told in a short meeting that your role is being eliminated, and HR has handed you a severance agreement with a tight deadline to sign — and you have no idea which terms are fixed and which are actually negotiable.

The Severance Package Negotiator: Turn a Layoff Offer Into Better Terms

A five-part negotiation brief that turns a severance agreement into a structured strategy — leverage assessment, prioritized asks, a usable script, and red flags to check before you sign.

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The Survey Results Analyzer: Turn Raw Responses Into Themes, Sentiment, and Action Items
Works best with Claude (Sonnet or Opus) for consistent thematic grouping across large volumes of open-text data; GPT-5-class models handle it well too, though tend to over-fragment themes without the explicit six-theme cap.Data AnalysisYou just closed a customer satisfaction survey with 340 open-text responses to "What would make you more likely to renew?" and a board meeting in two days where you need to present findings, not raw data.

The Survey Results Analyzer: Turn Raw Responses Into Themes, Sentiment, and Action Items

A structured prompt that turns hundreds of open-text survey responses into a ranked list of themes with sentiment labels, real customer quotes, and prioritized fixes — not just a wall of raw comments.

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The Inbox Triage Builder: Turn a Pile of Unread Emails Into a Prioritized Action List
Works best with Claude (Opus or Sonnet) for nuanced prioritization judgment across ambiguous emails; GPT-5-class models and Gemini 2.5 Pro handle it well too, given a large enough context window to paste the full inbox dump.productivityYou return from a week-long conference to 340 unread emails and a 9am meeting in two hours. You need to know which handful of emails actually require action before that meeting — not spend an hour reading all 340 in order.

The Inbox Triage Builder: Turn a Pile of Unread Emails Into a Prioritized Action List

A structured prompt that sorts a flooded inbox into what needs a reply today, what can wait, what to delegate, and what to ignore — plus draft replies for the urgent ones.

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The Difficult Conversation Script Builder: Turn a Tense Workplace Situation Into a Conversation You Can Actually Have
Works well with any current-generation reasoning-capable model (Claude Sonnet/Opus, GPT-6, Gemini 3) — the value is in realistic pushback prediction and situation-specific phrasing, not model-specific capability.A manager needs to address a high-performing but sarcastic team member whose comments have visibly shut down a colleague, ahead of a 1:1 tomorrow, without triggering defensiveness that derails the conversation or escalating to a formal HR complaint.

The Difficult Conversation Script Builder: Turn a Tense Workplace Situation Into a Conversation You Can Actually Have

A prompt that takes a sensitive workplace situation and produces an opening line that won't trigger defensiveness, anticipated pushback with responses for each point, and a concrete next step — not generic conflict-resolution advice.

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The Refactoring Risk Assessor: Turn Messy Code Into a Prioritized Cleanup Plan
Works well with any current-generation coding-capable model (Claude Sonnet/Opus, GPT-6, Gemini 3) — the value is in the structured risk/effort framework, not model-specific code generation ability.A senior engineer inherits a payment webhook handler that has caused three production incidents in the last quarter and needs to convince a skeptical team lead to allocate cleanup time instead of just adding another patch.

The Refactoring Risk Assessor: Turn Messy Code Into a Prioritized Cleanup Plan

A prompt that takes code you know has problems and produces a risk-versus-effort breakdown, concrete before/after examples, and a phased plan — instead of a vague “we should rewrite this”.

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The Self-Review Builder: Turn Rough Accomplishment Notes Into Polished Performance Review Bullets
Works well with any current-generation model (Claude Sonnet/Opus, GPT-6 Sol/Astra, Gemini 3) — the task is structured rewriting and gap-flagging, not deep reasoning, so a mid-tier model is sufficient.It's the week before performance review season, and you have a scrappy list of six months of Slack standups and sprint notes but no idea how to turn “helped ship the new onboarding flow” into something that reads well in a formal review.

The Self-Review Builder: Turn Rough Accomplishment Notes Into Polished Performance Review Bullets

A prompt that applies the XYZ formula to messy work notes, producing both a conservative bullet you can use today and a stretch bullet that flags exactly which metric you're missing.

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The Customer Discovery Interviewer: Turn a Product Hypothesis Into Questions That Can Actually Kill It
Works well with Claude Opus 5.5 or GPT-6 Astra for nuanced follow-up question design; a lighter model like Claude Haiku or GPT-6 Luna handles the base question generation fine once you already have a validated hypothesis to start from.You're a solo founder or product manager about to run eight customer discovery calls this week to test a new B2B feature idea, and you need a question set that won't just produce polite, meaningless validation.

The Customer Discovery Interviewer: Turn a Product Hypothesis Into Questions That Can Actually Kill It

A structured prompt built on the Mom Test methodology that generates 20 discovery interview questions designed to surface real signal — not polite agreement — before you build anything.

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The Illustration Brief Builder: Turn a Vague Visual Idea Into a Precise, On-Brand AI Image Prompt
Works with any text-to-image model — Flux, Nano Banana Pro, Midjourney, DALL-E — since it outputs a structured natural-language prompt rather than model-specific syntax. For models with strict token limits, explicitly ask it to keep the final prompt under 50 words.creativeYou run a two-person fintech content team and need a hero image for tomorrow's blog post about AI-powered bookkeeping for small businesses. You have no designer, no stock-photo budget, and all you can articulate is 'something about AI helping small businesses' — not nearly specific enough to get a usable result from an image model on the first try.

The Illustration Brief Builder: Turn a Vague Visual Idea Into a Precise, On-Brand AI Image Prompt

A prompt that turns 'something about AI helping small businesses' into a fully structured, ready-to-paste image prompt — plus an explanation of every ambiguous decision it made for you.

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The AI Vendor Claims Auditor: Turn a Sales Pitch Into a List of Questions That Expose Overselling
Works well with Claude Opus or GPT-5-class models for the strongest critical reasoning on ambiguous claims; a lighter model (Claude Haiku, GPT-5-mini) is usually sufficient for a short pitch deck rather than a full RFP response.Artificial IntelligenceYour operations team is three weeks into evaluating an AI-powered customer support platform for a 200-person SaaS company. The vendor's deck claims '95% ticket resolution without human intervention,' 'seamless integration with your existing helpdesk in under a week,' and 'enterprise-grade accuracy.' Nobody on the five-person buying committee has an AI engineering background, so no one in the room can tell which claims are standard industry performance and which are marketing inflation designed to close the deal before technical due diligence catches up.

The AI Vendor Claims Auditor: Turn a Sales Pitch Into a List of Questions That Expose Overselling

A prompt that extracts every testable claim from an AI vendor's pitch and turns it into a verification question, so a non-technical buying committee can catch overselling before signing a 12-24 month contract.

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The A/B Test Interpreter: Turn Raw Experiment Results Into a Ship-or-Kill Decision
GPT-5.4 or Claude Opus 5 — requires strong statistical reasoning. Provide raw sample sizes and conversion counts, not just percentages; a model given only rounded percentages cannot compute a valid p-value or confidence interval.Data AnalysisA product manager runs a two-week A/B test on a new checkout flow, sees the treatment converting at 5.7% versus 5.0% for control — a promising-looking 14% relative lift — and needs to know before Monday's roadmap review whether that result is real or noise before recommending a full rollout.

The A/B Test Interpreter: Turn Raw Experiment Results Into a Ship-or-Kill Decision

A prompt that takes raw A/B test data and outputs a rigorous verdict — statistical significance, pitfall checks for peeking and sample ratio mismatch, and the exact additional sample size needed if the result is inconclusive.

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