AI prompts for business are ready-made instructions that help you plan, analyze, write, and decide — from business plans and SWOT analyses to pricing strategy, investor pitches, meeting agendas, and performance reports. They act as a tireless junior analyst: fast at structuring information, drafting documents, and playing devil's advocate, while you keep the judgment calls. The prompts in this library are written in plain business English, organized by the jobs business owners and managers actually do every week.
Planning prompts are the foundation. A business-plan prompt walks you through the sections that matter — problem, solution, market, business model, go-to-market, financials, risks — asking you questions when your input is thin and drafting the sections you answer well. Strategy prompts help you think in frameworks: run a SWOT on a new product line, do a premortem on a launch ("it is one year later and the launch failed — why?"), or compare two strategic options with explicit criteria and trade-offs spelled out.
Analysis prompts turn raw numbers into insight. Paste a month of sales data and get the trends, the anomalies, and the three questions worth investigating. Feed in customer feedback and get the themes clustered with representative quotes. The financial prompts help you sanity-check a pricing change, model a simple scenario (what if conversion drops 10% but average order value rises 15%?), or draft the narrative around your numbers for a board update. They are no substitute for an accountant, but they are excellent for the first pass of thinking.
Communication prompts handle the writing load of running a business: investor updates, project proposals, executive summaries, status reports, and difficult emails. The meeting prompts are quietly the most-used in any company — generate an agenda from a goal, turn messy meeting notes into decisions with owners and deadlines, and draft the follow-up email before you have forgotten what was agreed. The hiring prompts help you write job descriptions, design interview questions around the actual skills the role needs, and structure candidate evaluations so the process is fair.
Pitch and sales prompts help you tell the company's story: a one-page investor pitch, a 30-second elevator version, a competitive-battlecard summary, and objection-handling sheets for the sales team. The negotiation prompts are useful preparation tools — have the AI role-play the other side, surface the arguments you are weakest against, and suggest your walk-away points before the real conversation.
How to get business value out of these instead of busywork: first, always ground the prompt in your real numbers and real context — "we have 40 customers and $12k MRR" produces useful output, "a SaaS company" produces generic output. Second, use the AI for structure and drafts, not for decisions; it has no skin in the game and no knowledge of your market's unwritten rules. Third, verify anything numerical — AI arithmetic on financials is unreliable, so recompute key figures in a spreadsheet or a calculator before they go into a plan or a pitch.
On confidentiality: treat chatbots like a public whiteboard. Do not paste unreleased financials, customer lists, trade secrets, or anything under NDA into a consumer chatbot. If your company has an approved enterprise AI tool with data protections, use it; otherwise, anonymize the data (percentages and ratios instead of absolute figures, "Company A" instead of names). The prompts here are designed to work with anonymized inputs — the structure is what matters, not the specific numbers.
The business prompts below cover planning, analysis, finance, communication, hiring, sales, and strategy. Each includes the copy-paste prompt body, the variables to fill in, an example input, how to use it in a real workflow, and tips. Start with the job you are doing this week.