My best prompts. Steal them.

Turns a week of logged interruptions into a ranked build list. You stay the judge; it does the sorting.

Here is a week of questions people interrupted me with, one per line. Sort them into three piles: (1) the answer exists but nobody can find it, (2) only I have the answer, (3) nobody has the answer. For each pile give me the top pattern, and for pile 2 propose the single document or system that would remove me as the bottleneck. Ask me three clarifying questions before you finalize anything.

Paste raw notes or a transcript; get commitments with owners and dates, and nothing invented.

Here are my raw notes from a meeting. Extract: (1) every commitment made, with who owes it and by when, (2) every open question with who should answer it, (3) anything that sounded like a decision, quoted exactly. Do not invent dates or owners; if one is missing, mark it MISSING and ask me. Then draft the two-line follow-up message I should send each person who owes something.

The prompt that has talked me out of a dozen tools. Run it before every new monthly charge.

I am considering paying for [TOOL] at [PRICE] to solve [PROBLEM]. Interrogate me: ask what I currently do instead, what the real cost of the problem is per month, and which tools I already pay for that claim to do this. Then tell me plainly whether this is a tool problem or a process problem, and what the cheapest honest fix is. Argue against the purchase first.

Describe a task out loud once; get the standard operating procedure your next hire can follow.

I am going to describe, in messy spoken language, how I do a task. Turn it into a step-by-step SOP a brand-new hire could follow: numbered steps, the tools touched at each step, the mistakes to avoid (pull these from my asides), and a QUESTIONS FOR THE OWNER list for every place I was vague. Keep my exact terms for things; do not translate my shop language into corporate language.

Fifteen minutes on Friday that replaces the Sunday-night dread scroll.

Here is everything on my plate: [PASTE LIST OR BRAIN DUMP]. Build my Friday shutdown: (1) what actually got finished this week, stated plainly, (2) what is truly urgent for Monday, maximum three items, (3) what I am carrying that belongs to someone else, with the handoff message drafted, (4) what can wait and why. End with one sentence I can say to my family about how the week went.

From a job walkthrough to a professional quote, with your pricing logic kept human.

I will describe a job I just walked. Draft a written quote: scope in plain language the customer will actually read, what is included and what is explicitly not, and my standard terms. Where I say a price, use it exactly. Where I have not priced something, list it under NEEDS A NUMBER and ask me, one item at a time. Never estimate prices for me; pricing is my judgment, formatting is yours.