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30 Free AI Prompts for Business (Copy, Paste, Use)

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Thirty prompts. No email required to read them, no upgrade prompt in the middle.

Each one is written the way a prompt should be: context you fill in, then a defined output shape. If you paste a bare sentence into ChatGPT and get generic output, it’s because the model had nothing to work with — not because the model is bad.

Six groups of five. Start with whichever group matches what’s on your desk right now.

Writing

1. The email that’s been sitting in your drafts

I need to send an email I've been avoiding for [days].

Who it's to: [relationship, what they expect]
What I need to say: [the thing]
Why I've been avoiding it: [honest reason]

Draft it in under 90 words. Open with the point, not a warm-up.
No apologies for the delay unless the delay caused a real problem.
End with what happens next.

2. Turn a rough note into something sendable

Here's a note I wrote to myself:
"""
[the note, messy is fine]
"""

Rewrite it as a message to [recipient], keeping every fact but removing
the shorthand. Under 80 words. My voice: [describe or paste a sample].

3. Cut a draft by a fifth

Cut this by 20% without losing any fact:
"""
[draft]
"""

Rules: remove sentences that restate the previous one. Kill every adverb
that isn't doing work. Do not replace phrases with shorter phrases that
mean less.
Show me the cut version, then list what you removed in one line each.

4. Write a headline that isn’t clever

What this page offers: [offer]
Who it's for: [specific person]
What they get: [outcome]

Give me 8 headlines, all under 12 words, none using wordplay.
Each must contain one concrete noun and one number or specific claim.
Then tell me which one a skeptical buyer would find hardest to dismiss.

5. Fix writing that sounds like AI

Rewrite this so it doesn't read as machine-written:
"""
[text]
"""

Specifically: no "delve," "landscape," "leverage," "seamless," "robust."
No sentence over 25 words. No three-item lists where two would do.
At least one sentence under 8 words.
Show the rewrite and list every change with the reason.

Selling

6. Answer “what do you do?” in one sentence

I do: [what you actually do, in your words]
For: [who specifically]
They get: [result]
They currently solve it by: [the alternative]

Give me 5 versions of one sentence, each under 20 words:
- 2 that name the outcome
- 2 that name the alternative you replace
- 1 that would make someone say "how?"

Then tell me which one works in a room of strangers and which in an email.

7. The follow-up that isn’t a nudge

I quoted [thing] at [price] to [who] on [date]. Silence since.

Write a follow-up under 70 words that adds one new piece of information
they don't have, asks one question answerable in a single line, and gives
them a graceful exit.
No "just following up." No "checking in." No "circling back."

8. Handle a price objection without discounting

Product: [name], price [number]
What it replaces: [alternative and its cost in time or money]
They said: "that's more than I expected"

Give me three responses:
1. Cost-of-alternative reframe, with the math
2. A smaller scope at a lower price, if that's honest
3. A direct question that surfaces whether price is the real objection

For each, note the risk. Do not suggest discounting.

9. Write a proposal from call notes

Call notes:
"""
[raw notes]
"""

Produce a one-page proposal:
- Their problem in their words
- Three deliverables, each with a definition of done
- Explicitly out of scope: [what you know they'll ask for]
- Price as [PLACEHOLDER]
- Two risks and the mitigation

Flag anything ambiguous enough to cause a scope argument later.

10. Ask for the sale without being weird

Context: [where the conversation is, what's been agreed]
What I want to ask for: [the commitment]
What might be holding them back: [your guess]

Write the ask in three sentences:
1. What we agreed
2. What happens next
3. The specific thing I need from them, with a date

No "let me know if you have any questions."

Content

11. Ten post ideas from one customer question

A customer asked: "[question]"
My answer was: [what you said]

Give me 10 content ideas from this, each with a different angle.
For each: the format (post, video, email, page), the one idea it delivers,
and the first line.
No two ideas may make the same point.

12. Outline an article that argues

Topic: [topic]
What most people believe about it: [the common view]
What I believe instead: [your position]
Evidence I actually have: [list it honestly]

Outline an article where section 1 states the common view and why it fails,
sections 2-4 build the case with one piece of evidence each, section 5
handles the strongest counter-argument, section 6 says what to do Monday.

Mark any section where I have no evidence.

13. Repurpose one post into three formats

Original:
"""
[paste post]
"""

Turn this into:
1. A 150-word LinkedIn post with a different opening
2. A 5-tweet thread where each tweet stands alone
3. A 60-second video script with a hook in the first 3 seconds

Each must lead with a different idea from the original, not the same one restated.

14. Write an intro people don’t skip

Article: [title]
Reader's situation: [what they're dealing with]

Write 5 opening paragraphs, max 50 words each:
1. A specific scene with a time and place
2. A number that reframes the problem
3. The reader's own mistake, stated plainly
4. A claim I'll spend the article defending
5. A short story that ends on the article's question

No definitions. No "in today's world." No rhetorical questions.

15. Build a week of content from one product

Product: [name, what it does, price]
Most interesting thing about it: [your answer]
Platform: [where you post]

Seven posts, one per day, seven different angles: problem, mistake,
behind-the-scenes, customer moment, contrarian take, how-to, offer.
Day 7 is the only one that mentions price.

Operations

16. Write a checklist you’ll follow

Process: [what it is]
How I do it now: [describe messily]

Turn it into under 12 steps. Every step starts with a verb.
Every step has a definition of done. Steps that can fail get an
"if this breaks, do X."
Then name the two steps I could delete.

17. Decide what to automate first

Tasks I repeat weekly:
"""
[list with rough minutes]
"""

Score each: frequency, whether it's identical every time, cost if it fails,
whether a customer would notice.
Rank by automation value.
For the top three, name the simplest tool and the one that would be
over-engineering.

18. Plan a week around one constraint

Business: [what you do]
Revenue last month: [number]
Hours available this week: [number]
Everything on my plate: [list, unsorted]

Identify the one activity that produces most revenue, everything that
could stop tomorrow without revenue dropping, and what I should say no to
this week - in exact words.

19. Write a brief for a contractor

Task: [what you're handing over]
Who: [experience level]
Deadline: [date]
Standard for "done": [your bar]

Write a brief under 350 words: outcome first, non-negotiable constraints
vs preferences, one example of good work and one of bad, who to ask when
stuck, what not to touch.
No background section unless it changes the work.

20. The weekly review that takes 20 minutes

Numbers: [revenue, traffic, whatever you track]
What I did: [list]
What went wrong: [honest]

Give me 5 questions that separate activity from outcome, identify the
decision that mattered most, surface what I avoided, and end with exactly
one change for next week.
Then answer them using what I gave you.

Support

21. Reply to an angry customer

They wrote:
"""
[message]
"""
What happened: [facts]
What I can offer: [options]

Reply under 110 words: name their frustration accurately in one sentence,
state facts without defensiveness, say what I'll do with a date, admit it
plainly if I was wrong.
Then tell me what to change so this doesn't recur.

22. The “I didn’t get my download” template

Product: [name]
How delivery works: [mechanism, expiry]
Where it commonly fails: [spam, wrong email, expired link]

Write a reply that solves it in one message for 80% of cases: three checks
in order, a re-issue path that doesn't require them to re-explain, under
20 seconds to read.
Then a one-line version for a chat widget.

23. Turn complaints into a fix list

Recent complaints:
"""
[paste 5-10]
"""

Group by root cause, not wording. For each: how many customers it affects,
whether the fix is copy / process / product, the cheapest fix that removes
80% of volume, and what I should stop promising on the sales page.
Rank by cost of doing nothing.

24. Prevent the ticket before it happens

The problem customers hit: [what]
When they hit it: [step, timing]
What I want them to do: [correct action]

Write a 90-word email for day [X] that assumes they read nothing before,
leads with the action, contains one link, and has a subject line that
doesn't look like marketing.

25. Close a refund without losing the customer

They asked for a refund because: [reason]
My policy: [terms]
Do I want them back: [yes / no / unsure]

Two versions:
A - approve immediately, no friction, no questions
B - approve but ask one question that helps me improve

For each: exact copy, and the goodwill cost of getting the tone wrong.

Numbers

26. Find break-even

Monthly fixed costs: [itemise]
Revenue per customer: [number]
Variable cost per sale: [number]
Customers per month now: [number]

Calculate break-even customers, break-even revenue, sales needed per week,
the gap in customers, and the two levers that close it fastest.
Show the arithmetic. Don't round away the difficulty.

27. Should you raise your price

Current price: [number], volume [units/month]
Proposed price: [number]
What buyers say about price now: [quotes]

Calculate: volume I can lose and still break even, whether that loss is
likely given what I told you, three things to improve before raising,
and the words to announce it to existing customers.
Give a yes/no with the reasoning exposed.

28. Build a cash forecast

Starting cash: [number]
Income next 3 months: [amount, and when it actually lands]
Outgoings next 3 months: [amount, and when they leave]
Platform payout terms: [when you get paid]

Build 13 weeks. Flag the lowest-balance week and the earliest week I could
hit zero. Tell me what to do today about it.

29. Price a bundle without cannibalising

Products and individual prices: [list]
Cost to deliver each: [time or money]
Monthly volume per product: [numbers]
Proposed bundle price: [number]

Calculate: bundle revenue vs. the same customers buying separately,
whether it cannibalises the best seller, the price that raises total
revenue, and which product should never be bundled.

30. What to stop selling

My products:
"""
[name, price, hours per month, support load, how much I like it]
"""

Calculate revenue per hour for each. Rank them.
Name the one that should go even if it sells well.
Write what I tell existing customers and what replaces the revenue.

The part that makes any of this work

Notice what every prompt above has in common: a place to put your context, and a specified output shape.

That’s it. That’s the entire technique. A prompt without your context produces the average of everything the model has read, which is exactly what generic output is. A prompt without an output shape makes the model decide the structure, and it will decide differently from you.

Fill in the brackets. Specify the shape. Reply with one correction instead of starting over.

If you want the 30 above as a single file you can keep open while you work — plus 30 more, covering the jobs this page didn’t get to — the Starter Pack is free and doesn’t ask for a card. It’s the same prompts, formatted to be pasted rather than read.

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