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

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Sources and references

  1. Prompt engineering guide — OpenAI
  2. Prompt engineering overview — Anthropic