5 working prompts for business, marketing, sales, coding, and research. Copy and adapt to your context.
A Quick Market Scan
Research
Prepares a table of players in a segment with sources and dates.
Do a market scan for a segment.
Conditions:
- Use Perplexity / web search if available
- Under each item — a link to the source
- Mark estimated/unconfirmed numbers as [estimate]
- Don't make up ARR, revenue, headcount
- Mark the last-updated date of each source
Input:
- Segment: <…>
- Geography: <…>
- What we want to understand: <…>
Output: a markdown table with columns — Player | Description | Price | Strengths | Weaknesses | Source.
Example: A market map for a new segment in 1 hour.
Produces a structured summary of a paper / preprint.
Produce a summary of an academic paper. Not a retelling, but a summary for a busy reader.
Structure:
1. The research question (1 sentence)
2. What's new compared to prior work
3. Methodology (3-5 lines)
4. The main result
5. Limitations the authors acknowledge
6. How it's useful to a practitioner (if applicable)
7. What you'd want to verify further / what the authors don't insist on
Input: the text or a link to the paper.
Example: Quickly parse preprints on a topic of interest.
Model: Claude / Gemini·Difficulty: Intermediate
#research#academic
Clustering Customer Feedback
Research
Breaks customer feedback into clusters by topic and sentiment.
Break customer feedback into clusters.
Steps:
1. Read the input (an array of reviews)
2. Identify 5-8 topics
3. Under each topic: a short description, volume (how many reviews fell into it), sentiment (positive/negative/neutral)
4. 2-3 quotes in each cluster (verbatim)
5. At the end — the top 3 actions the product could take
Don't make up reviews. If there's little data, say so.
Example: Once a week, go through reviews and draw conclusions.
Model: Claude·Difficulty: Beginner
#product#research
Competitor Deep Dive
Research
Prepares a competitor profile: product, price, marketing, weak spots.
Do a deep dive on the company <name>.
Cover:
1. Business model and segments
2. Price and tiers (if public)
3. Key products and features
4. Positioning on the site / in marketing
5. Weak spots: what they do NOT do (from their own UX and materials)
6. What they lean on in sales (cases, integrations, brand)
7. A list of their clients / case studies — a list + links
8. Their public moves over the last 6 months
Sources: public only. Mark "[unverified]" if you didn't find confirmation.
Example: Prepare a competitor background before a strategy session.
Takes a regulatory text (a law, a guideline) and assembles a summary for the business.
Produce a practical summary of a regulatory document.
Structure:
1. What it regulates and whom it affects
2. Key requirements (5-10 points)
3. Deadlines and transitional provisions
4. Sanctions
5. What the company must do in the first 30/60/90 days
6. What to check with lawyers (explicit ambiguities)
Don't interpret disputed provisions as unambiguous. Use phrasing like "probably", "requires clarification with a lawyer".
Input:
<the document or a link>