Business Prompts

Business Prompts for Strategy

Strategy is where most businesses get stuck — not because they don't know what to do, but because thinking through options, priorities, and tradeoffs takes focused time that most operators don't have. AI can accelerate strategic thinking significantly when you give it your real context, specific constraints, and a clear output format to work toward.

Who these prompts are for

Business owners, founders, and operators planning their next 90 days. Agency leaders making positioning decisions. Teams that need to prioritize between competing initiatives. These prompts work best when you bring real business context — revenue stage, team size, specific challenge, and constraints — rather than asking for generic strategy advice.

Best use cases

Ready-to-use business strategy prompts

90-day growth plan

Act as a business growth strategist. I run a [business type] at [revenue/stage]. My top challenge is [specific problem]. My constraints are [list: time, budget, team size]. Create a prioritized 90-day action plan organized by month. For each month: 3 specific goals, the key actions to achieve each, and one metric to track. Tell me what to deprioritize.

Strategic options analysis

I am deciding between these 3 options for my business: [list options]. For each option: (a) the strongest argument for it, (b) the strongest argument against it, (c) the key assumption it requires to succeed, (d) the biggest risk. Then make a recommendation with your reasoning. My context: [business situation].

SWOT with strategic output

Run a specific, honest SWOT analysis for my [business type] at this stage: [describe]. Avoid generic observations — if it wouldn't be true of a completely different business, don't include it. After the SWOT: (a) identify the top 2 strategic opportunities (strengths + opportunities), (b) identify the top 1 threat requiring immediate mitigation, (c) suggest one thing I should stop doing.

Competitive positioning strategy

Act as a brand and positioning strategist. Analyze these competitors: [list 3]. For each: their core positioning claim and apparent target customer. Then: (a) identify the most defensible gap none of them is clearly owning, (b) suggest how my [business type] could claim that positioning, (c) write a one-sentence positioning statement I could test.

Market entry analysis

I am considering expanding my [business type] into [new market/city/segment]. Help me think through: (a) the key factors that would determine success, (b) the biggest risks and how to validate them cheaply, (c) a low-cost first experiment I could run before full commitment, (d) what success would look like at 90 days.

Priority matrix

I have these 8 initiatives for the next quarter: [list]. For each, rate impact (1–3) and effort (1–3). Then organize into a 2x2 priority matrix: (a) high impact, low effort — do first, (b) high impact, high effort — plan carefully, (c) low impact, low effort — do quickly or delegate, (d) low impact, high effort — eliminate. Make a final recommendation on where to focus.

How to get better strategic output from AI

The critical input for any business strategy prompt is your real constraint. AI will generate generic strategies if you don't tell it your actual limitations. A prompt that says "create a growth plan with a $500 monthly marketing budget, 2 employees, and a 6-month runway" produces something fundamentally different — and more useful — than one that just says "help me grow my business."

Ask AI to challenge your assumptions, not just validate them. Add to any strategy prompt: "What assumption in this plan is most likely to be wrong? What would you need to know to be confident this approach will work?" This self-critique step consistently surfaces issues that improve the plan before you execute it.

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