# The Solo Founder's AI Prompt Pack: 30 Copy-Paste Prompts That Do Real Work

A curated pack of 30 structured, fill-in-the-blank AI prompts that turn ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini into a marketing team, support desk, and business advisor for a one-person company.

## Why generic prompts fail (and what fixes them)

Most solo founders type "write me a marketing email" and get robotic filler. In 2026, the difference between useless and excellent AI output is structure. Every prompt in this pack follows a five-part skeleton:

- **Role** - who the AI should act as ("senior lifecycle marketer")
- **Context** - your business, niche, and audience in one or two lines
- **Task** - the single, specific thing you want done
- **Constraints** - length, tone, platform, words to avoid
- **Format** - table, list, subject-line set, script, etc.

Fill the {curly brackets}, paste, and iterate once or twice on the output. Never ship the first draft.

## Marketing & content (8 prompts)

- **Customer persona builder**: "Act as a market researcher. My product is {product} for {audience}. Build 3 buyer personas with pain points, objections, buying triggers, and the exact phrases they would type into Google."
- **Positioning sharpener**: "Act as a positioning strategist. Here is my one-line pitch: {pitch}. Rewrite it 5 ways, each leading with a different value angle (time saved, money saved, risk removed, status, simplicity)."
- **Blog idea engine**: "Generate 10 blog post ideas for {niche} targeting {audience} at three funnel stages (problem-aware, solution-aware, product-aware). For each: working title, angle, target keyword."
- **Landing page skeleton**: "Act as a conversion copywriter. Draft a landing page for {product}: hero headline, subhead, 3 benefit blocks, objection-handling FAQ (5 questions), and a CTA. Tone: {tone}. Under 450 words."
- **Subject line splitter**: "Write 10 email subject lines announcing {offer}. Mix curiosity, urgency, specificity, and social proof. Max 50 characters each. Mark which psychological hook each one uses."
- **Content repurposer**: "Turn the following article into 8 LinkedIn posts with different formats: story, data point, contrarian take, how-to, checklist, question, mistake list, mini case study. Article: {paste}."
- **Two-week calendar**: "Build a 14-day social calendar for {platform} around these pillars: {pillars}. One post idea per day with format and first-line hook."
- **Competitor teardown**: "Here are 2 competitor landing pages: {paste}. List what each does well, where each is weak, and one positioning gap I can claim this quarter."

## Sales & follow-up (6 prompts)

- **Cold outreach opener**: "Act as a B2B sales writer. Write a 4-sentence cold email to {role} at {company type} about {product}. Lead with their pain, not my product. No buzzwords, one clear CTA, under 90 words."
- **Follow-up ladder**: "Write a 4-touch follow-up sequence (day 3, 7, 14, 30) for a prospect who went silent after a demo of {product}. Each message under 70 words, each with a different reason to reply."
- **Objection bank**: "List the 10 most likely objections a {audience} will raise about {product} at {price}. For each, give a one-sentence reframe and one proof element I should prepare."
- **Proposal condenser**: "Turn these rough notes into a one-page proposal with scope, timeline, price, and terms: {notes}."
- **Testimonial extractor**: "Draft 5 short questions I can send a happy customer that will produce quotable, specific testimonials (numbers, before/after, hesitation overcome)."
- **Price-raise letter**: "Write a respectful email announcing a price increase from {old} to {new} effective {date}, explaining value added this year, offering existing customers a grandfathered window."

## Operations & support (6 prompts)

- **FAQ generator**: "Generate 15 FAQ pairs a customer of {business type} would actually ask, each answer 2-3 sentences, plain language."
- **Complaint responder**: "A customer wrote this complaint: {paste}. Write a reply that acknowledges the issue, explains the fix ({resolution}), and preserves the relationship. Warm, professional, no legalese."
- **Refund policy drafter**: "Draft a plain-English refund policy for {product} that sounds fair, protects me from abuse, and fits on half a page."
- **SOP writer**: "I describe a task I do weekly: {description}. Turn it into a numbered SOP a new virtual assistant could follow without asking questions."
- **Meeting-to-action**: "Here are raw meeting notes: {paste}. Extract decisions, owners, deadlines, and open questions as a table."
- **Vendor evaluator**: "I am choosing between {vendor A} and {vendor B} for {job}. Build a comparison table across cost, lock-in, support, and scaling risk, then recommend one with reasoning."

## Strategy & finance (6 prompts)

- **Cashflow narrator**: "Here are 3 months of revenue and expenses: {paste}. Explain in plain language what is growing, what is leaking, and the one category to cut first."
- **Pricing modeler**: "Suggest 3 pricing models for {product} in {market} (e.g., flat, tiered, usage). For each: tradeoffs, best-fit customer, and a launch price to test."
- **Pre-mortem**: "I plan to {decision}. Run a pre-mortem: 5 realistic ways this fails within 12 months, early warning signs for each, and the cheapest mitigation."
- **SWOT with teeth**: "Do a SWOT for {business}, but every point must be specific and actionable - no generic entries like 'competition'. End with the 3 moves the SWOT implies."
- **Weekly CEO review**: "Act as my board. Here is what happened this week: {notes}. Ask me the 5 hardest questions a good advisor would ask, then summarize my top priority for next week."
- **Idea filter**: "I have these 3 ideas: {list}. Score each 1-5 on effort, revenue potential, distribution advantage, and energy cost to me. Recommend one and say why the others wait."

## Bonus: 4 meta-prompts

- **Prompt improver**: "Rewrite this prompt to be more specific and structured, then explain what you changed: {prompt}."
- **Voice cloner**: "Here are 3 samples of my writing: {paste}. Describe my voice in 6 rules, then keep those rules for the rest of this chat."
- **Clarify-first switch**: "Before answering, ask me the 3 clarifying questions whose answers would most improve your output."
- **Uncertainty flagger**: "In every answer, mark any factual claim you cannot verify with [CHECK] so I know what to confirm."

## How to use

1. Save this file where you write (notes app, Notion, or a pinned doc).
2. Pick one prompt per day for two weeks - do not try all 30 at once.
3. Always replace every {curly bracket} with your real context; specificity is the whole trick.
4. Iterate: reply "tighter", "warmer", or "more specific" at least once before using any output.
5. Paste the Voice cloner prompt at the start of a session so everything sounds like you.
6. Works with free tiers of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini - no paid tools required.