10 Best AI Prompts for Work, Research & Marketing
A practical collection of high-quality prompts for daily work, research tasks, and marketing.
Key takeaways
- Always add context (your goal, audience, or constraints).
- Replace the text in [brackets] with your specific details.
- Ask follow-up questions to refine the best outputs.
- Use the prompts as starting points and adapt them to your style of work.
AI is most useful when you give it clear, focused instructions. The prompts below are designed to help you get better results in three essential areas: daily work, research, and marketing.
Each set contains 10 practical prompts you can copy and adapt immediately.
10 Best AI Prompts for Work
1. Daily Prioritisation
Help me prioritise my tasks for today.
Here’s my list: [paste tasks]
Consider deadlines, impact, and energy required. Suggest the top 3 tasks I should focus on and why.
2. Meeting Preparation
Help me prepare for an upcoming meeting about [topic].
Create a clear agenda, key points I should cover, questions to ask, and a desired outcome.
3. Email Drafting
Write a clear and professional email about [situation].
Tone: [professional / friendly / direct]
Goal of the email: [what you want the recipient to do]
4. Decision Making
Help me make a decision about [decision].
List the main options, pros and cons of each, key risks, and a recommended choice with reasoning.
5. Problem Solving
I’m facing this work problem: [describe the problem]
Help me break it down, identify root causes, and suggest practical solutions ranked by impact and ease.
6. Progress Update
Help me write a clear progress update on [project].
Include what was done, current status, blockers, and next steps.
7. Feedback Request
Help me write a message requesting constructive feedback on [work/project].
Make it specific, open, and easy for the other person to respond.
8. Task Delegation
Help me delegate this task effectively: [describe task]
Write a clear briefing that includes context, expected outcome, deadline, and what success looks like.
9. Weekly Review
Help me run a weekly work review.
Ask me the right questions about progress, priorities, energy, and what to improve next week.
10. Process Improvement
Review this work process: [describe it]
Suggest ways to make it faster, clearer, or less stressful while maintaining quality.
10 Best AI Prompts for Research
1. Topic Exploration
I want to research [topic].
Give me a clear overview, the most important sub-topics, key questions worth exploring, and suggested starting points.
2. Research Plan
Create a structured research plan for [topic or question].
Include goals, key questions, recommended sources, and a logical order of investigation.
3. Source Evaluation
Help me evaluate the credibility of this source/information:
[paste source or summary]
Assess reliability, potential bias, and how I should use it.
4. Summarise Complex Information
Summarise the key points from this content in clear and simple language:
[paste text]
Highlight the most important insights and any limitations.
5. Compare Perspectives
Compare the main perspectives on [topic].
Present the strongest arguments on each side and where experts tend to agree or disagree.
6. Find Research Gaps
Based on the current knowledge about [topic], what questions are still unanswered or underexplored?
Suggest interesting angles for further research.
7. Extract Key Insights
Extract the most important insights from this material:
[paste content]
Organise them clearly and note any surprising or high-value points.
8. Turn Research into Questions
Turn this topic into a list of strong research questions:
[topic]
Make the questions specific, useful, and researchable.
9. Knowledge Overview
Give me a structured overview of the current knowledge on [topic].
Cover main theories, key findings, common debates, and practical implications.
10. Research Synthesis
Help me synthesise these findings into a clear summary:
[paste notes or findings]
Organise the information by theme and highlight the overall conclusions.
10 Best AI Prompts for Marketing
1. Marketing Strategy Outline
Help me create a clear marketing strategy outline for [product/service] targeting [audience].
Include goals, positioning, key channels, and main messages.
2. Customer Avatar
Create a detailed customer avatar for [product/service].
Include goals, frustrations, objections, desires, and buying triggers.
3. Value Proposition
Write 5 strong value proposition options for [product/service].
Focus on clarity, benefits, and differentiation.
4. Content Ideas
Generate 15 content ideas for [brand/topic] that attract and engage [target audience].
Mix educational, engaging, and conversion-focused ideas.
5. Ad Copy
Write 5 ad copy variations for [product/offer].
Include headline, main text, and call-to-action. Match this tone: [tone].
6. Email Marketing Sequence
Create a simple email sequence for [goal – e.g. welcome, nurture, launch].
Outline the purpose of each email and write the key message.
7. Landing Page Structure
Design a high-converting landing page structure for [offer].
Include recommended sections and the goal of each section.
8. Social Media Post Ideas
Create 10 social media post ideas for [platform] promoting [product/topic].
Include different angles: educational, storytelling, social proof, and direct offer.
9. Competitor Messaging Review
Analyse the marketing messaging of [competitor or type of competitor].
Identify what they emphasise, what they miss, and how I could differentiate.
10. Campaign Brainstorm
Help me brainstorm a marketing campaign for [product/goal].
Suggest a central idea, key messages, channels, and a simple execution plan.
Final Tips
- Always add context (your goal, audience, or constraints).
- Replace the text in [brackets] with your specific details.
- Ask follow-up questions to refine the best outputs.
- Use the prompts as starting points and adapt them to your style of work.
Use these prompts to work faster, research smarter, and market more effectively.
Prompts that put this into practice
Research
Desk Market Research Brief Prompt
Produces a desk-research brief on a market, with segments, a range-based size estimate, competitors and pricing, and every figure labeled as sourced, provided or estimated.
- Perplexity
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
Research
Research Paper and Report Summary Prompt
Summarizes a paper or report for a named reader: bottom line, method, key findings with exact figures, limits of the evidence, and what it means for them.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
Marketing
Marketing Strategy Prompt
Turns your business facts into a focused strategy: a diagnosis, one priority segment, positioning, three channels at most, and a phased plan sized to your budget.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
Productivity
Meeting Notes to Decisions and Actions Prompt
Converts a transcript or rough notes into decisions, owned action items and open questions, without assigning anything the meeting did not.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
Keep reading
Guide
How to Write a Good AI Prompt
The five parts of a complete prompt (goal, context, task, constraints, output format), with a worked rewrite and a pre-send checklist.
Guide
What Is Prompt Engineering? Core Techniques Explained
What prompt engineering is, the techniques the major model vendors agree on, the working loop behind them, and what prompting cannot fix.
Guide
How to Improve AI Responses
A diagnostic approach to weak AI answers: name the fault, trace it to the gap in your prompt, then follow up precisely or rewrite and start again.
Sources and references
- Prompt engineering guide — OpenAI
- Prompt engineering overview — Anthropic