Best AI Prompts for Business
Prompts for founders and operators: planning, analysis, hiring, goals and the decisions in between.
Running a small business means doing a dozen jobs you were never trained for: writing the plan, sizing up competitors, drafting the job post, turning a messy meeting into actions. These prompts cover those jobs.
They share one rule that matters more here than anywhere else: the model must work from what you give it and say when it is guessing. A business plan or competitor analysis built on invented figures is worse than none, so each prompt asks for your facts and marks its assumptions.
Start with the business plan prompt if you are at the beginning, or the SWOT and competitor prompts if the business exists and you are deciding what to do next. The productivity prompts at the end are for the weekly reality of meetings and decisions.
The prompts
Business Plan Draft Prompt
Drafts a plan section by section from your inputs and lists the assumptions an investor or lender would question.
Evidence-Based SWOT Analysis Prompt
Produces a SWOT that ends in priorities and actions rather than four lists.
Competitor Analysis Prompt (From Your Own Research)
Compares you with named competitors using only the information you provide, and shows where evidence is missing.
Pitch Deck Outline Prompt
Outlines a deck slide by slide with the claim each slide must make and the evidence it needs.
OKR Drafting and Review Prompt
Turns goals into objectives and measurable key results, and rejects key results that are really tasks.
Job Description Prompt
Writes a job description from outcomes and real requirements, with inclusive, specific language.
Marketing Strategy Prompt
The marketing counterpart to the business plan: audience, positioning and channel priorities.
Desk Market Research Brief Prompt
Structures a market research plan and synthesis; pair it with a tool that can cite live sources.
Meeting Notes to Decisions and Actions Prompt
Turns a transcript or rough notes into decisions, owners and deadlines.
Structured Decision-Making Prompt
Lays out options, criteria and trade-offs for a decision you are stuck on.