Most people spend several minutes working out what to ask ChatGPT, then rewrite what comes back. This is a library of 100 ready-to-use prompts built around the work you already do.
Find the task. Copy the prompt. Replace what is in [square brackets]. Send it.
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A practical library for people who have real work to do
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You type write me an email to my client about the delay. Back comes something fluent, polite and completely unusable. It doesn't mention the actual delay, doesn't know the client, and opens by hoping this message finds you well. You spend eight minutes rewriting it. Writing it yourself would have taken six.
Nothing failed. You asked a question that couldn't be answered well — all the context was still in your head.
It doesn't know who you are, who the reader is, or what happened last week. Everything it knows is what you typed.
Don't say what shape you want and you get an essay. A table, five bullets or a subject line plus three sentences is what you needed.
Ask for a strategy, a plan, a budget and a timeline together and you get shallow versions of all four.
The first output is a draft, not the answer. Most of the quality appears in the second and third turn.
“The quality of what you get out is set almost entirely by the specificity of what you put in. Not by clever phrasing. Not by secret words. By specificity.”
One hundred prompts, each built around a specific task, each with the context and format already specified. You write nothing from scratch — you fill in brackets.
Ten categories, an index of all 100 prompts, and a “use it when” line on every entry. You find yours by scanning, not reading.
Each prompt sits in a shaded box, written to be copied whole. The length is deliberate — it supplies the context and fixes the format for you.
Anything in [square brackets] is yours to swap. Save the prompt once and from then on you're only changing a few details.
Built around recurring work, not around AI. Chapters five to fourteen are the library.
The biggest time sink in most jobs, and almost none of it requires original thinking.
For meetings that currently create more work than they finish.
Getting to a draft that sounds like you, then finding its weak points before anyone else does.
Turning intentions into something with dates, owners and a defined shape.
Getting through long material without pretending you read it.
For the formula you can't remember and the numbers you have to explain to someone.
The written work around a deal: outreach, follow-up, objections, proposals.
Volume work with a recognisable shape — the kind that benefits most from a fixed format.
The writing around people decisions — while the decisions stay yours.
The same approach applied outside work, where nobody is paying you for the hours.
Not summaries of prompts. These are extracts from the actual pages, so you can judge the quality before you buy. Every entry in the book also carries a “make it better” note and a rough time estimate.
Use it when: you know exactly what you need to say, but writing it politely takes ten minutes you do not have.
You are an experienced business writer. Turn the rough notes below into a clear, professional email. Recipient: [who they are and your relationship to them] Tone: [warm and direct / formal / friendly] Length: no more than [4] sentences plus a greeting and sign-off. The one action I need from them: [the specific thing you want them to do] Rules: no filler openings like "I hope this finds you well", no corporate jargon…
Use it when: someone has gone quiet and you need to chase without becoming a nuisance.
Write me a three-message follow-up ladder for someone who has not replied. Context: I emailed [who] on [date] about [subject]. The outcome I need is [specific outcome] by [date]. Write three messages that escalate gently: 1. Sent after [3] days: light, assume they are busy, easy to reply to in one word. 2. Sent after [7] days: add one new piece of value or a reason the timing matters…
Use it when: you have been added to a forty-message thread and need to know what actually happened.
Read the email thread below and extract only what matters. Return exactly four sections, in this order: 1. DECISIONS MADE - each as a single sentence, with who made it. 2. OPEN QUESTIONS - anything raised that nobody answered. 3. ACTION ITEMS - a table with columns: Task, Owner, Deadline. 4. WHAT I NEED TO DO - only the items assigned to [your name]…
Use it when: you have written something and you know it is too long, but you cannot see what to cut.
Cut the text below to [50]% of its current length while keeping every piece of substance. Rules: - Delete throat-clearing, hedging, and anything the reader already knows - Turn passive constructions into active ones - Keep all numbers, names, dates and commitments exactly as written - Do not change my voice or add anything new…
Part One is about forty pages of actual reading, and it's the part that makes the other two worth having. Its centre is four letters: R-C-T-F.
It isn't a proprietary method. It's a description of what good prompts happen to contain — and once you notice it, you can't stop seeing it. Chapter Three adds seven habits that do most of the remaining work, from fencing off pasted material to forbidding the flattery.
Which means you can also write your own prompts, not just use the hundred in the book.
Tell it what perspective to write from. A risk analyst looks for what could go wrong; an editor looks for what could be cut. Same question, genuinely different answers.
The element people omit most and the one that matters most. Who the reader is, what happened, what's at stake. It cannot ask a colleague.
One job, stated precisely. Ask for five things at once and you get shallow versions of all five.
The shape of the answer. Under 120 words. Subject line first. The new date on its own line. You only get it by asking.
Tell it what not to do. “Where you need a statistic I have not given you, write NEEDS SOURCE rather than inventing one.” Negative constraints are disproportionately effective.
Having a hundred good prompts in a PDF saves nothing. Having six of them saved somewhere you can reach in two seconds is where the hours come from. So the book ends with seven days of small, deliberate use — between 15 and 30 minutes a day.
Write your persistent instructions and create somewhere for prompts to live. A pinned note is fine. Nothing else today.
Mark every prompt matching something you did in the last fortnight. Copy the best six and pre-fill your role, audience and tone.
On real work — then do the part everyone skips and push back twice. Notice how much the third version beats the first.
Run the red-team prompt on something you've already written. Read the criticism without defending it.
The thing you write every week — the status update, the client recap. Build that prompt properly, format included.
Deliberately use it on something it will do badly. Watch it produce something fluent and wrong. Calibrate your trust.
Delete what you didn't touch. Improve what you did. You now have a small library shaped by your real work.
Words and phrases you can add to any prompt — including prompts that aren't in the book — to change what comes back. Most of the improvement available to you is in this list.
The most important group in the appendix. Add one of these to anything factual.
Plus two more groups — audience and iteration — and a list of phrases worth banning by default.
All one hundred prompts in Part Two were written for this book rather than compiled from existing published collections.
Ten categories across work and life, ten prompts each — so you look things up the way the work arrives.
The situation the prompt is actually for, written so you can scan and find yours.
Anything in [square brackets] is yours to replace with your role, audience, tone and details.
One note per prompt on the line doing the heavy lifting — so you know what not to delete.
Presented as rough guides for deciding which prompts are worth a habit — explicitly not promises.
Appendix B lists every prompt with its category and page, for retrieval in seconds.
Appendix A: the phrases that change tone, length, format, rigour and honesty on any prompt.
Chapter Eighteen turns the collection into a habit, because that's where almost everyone fails.
Chapters Four and Seventeen: which tasks are worth handing over, and which are not.
Chapter Sixteen covers persistent instructions, so you stop repeating the same context every session.
Not affiliated with, authorised by, endorsed by or sponsored by OpenAI. You're free to use the prompts in your own work without attribution.
Representations of the book's layout. Delivered as a single PDF you can read on any device.
You don't need another three-hour AI course. This is designed to be opened when you actually have work to do: find the task, copy the prompt, replace the brackets, send it, edit the result.
One PDF. 142 pages. Yours to keep and reuse.
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A practical library for people who have real work to do
No. It's primarily a practical prompt library, with four short introductory chapters on prompting and a 7-day implementation system at the end.
No — the book says plainly that you probably shouldn't. Part Two is a reference section: find the task you're doing today, copy the prompt, fill in the brackets, send it.
No. Nine categories cover work; the tenth covers personal admin and life — travel, meals, explaining documents, complaints, household projects, an annual review.
The book states that all one hundred prompts in Part Two were written for this book rather than compiled from existing published collections.
Yes, and you're encouraged to. Adapt them to your role, audience, tone and recurring requirements — the square brackets exist for exactly that.
No, and the book doesn't pretend otherwise. The time figures are informed estimates, not measurements, and results vary — sometimes substantially. The honest test it gives you: if editing the output takes longer than writing it yourself, delete that prompt and move on.
No. The book states explicitly that it is an independent work and is not affiliated with, authorised by, endorsed by or sponsored by OpenAI.
Yes. The copyright page says you're free to use the prompts themselves in your own work without restriction or attribution. That's what they're for.
100 prompts, ten categories, and a seven-day plan for turning six of them into a habit.
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