Don't memorize templates. Read their structure, then swap the [brackets] for your context and let the AI do the rest.
Find problems & opportunities
Mine pains from your background
You are my business research assistant. I want to find real, worth-doing problems inside a field I already know.
My background:
- Industry / scene: [the world you have spent the most time in]
- People I have served: [the specific people you have helped or worked with]
- Complaints I hear over and over: [three complaints you have heard with your own ears]
Do three things:
1. List 10 real pains these people have. Describe each in their own words, not industry jargon.
2. For each pain, name who suffers, how often it hurts, and how they cope today.
3. Mark which pains are just talk and which ones people will pay to fix, and explain your reasoning.
List first, then judge. No broad trends. Only specific people and specific events.
Score and rank the pains
I have a list of candidate pains. Help me pick the one to work on first.
Candidate pains:
[Paste 5 to 10 pains here, one per line]
Score each pain 1 to 5 on these six dimensions and lay it out as a table:
- Demand: how often and how urgently does it hurt?
- Value: does fixing it save money, save time, or make money?
- Distribution: are these people easy to find, and where do they gather?
- Monetization: do they have the habit and the budget to pay?
- Economics: roughly what does one sale cost me, and what can I get back?
- Systems: can I sell it again, or do I start from scratch every time?
Add up the scores, rank them, name the winner, and explain in three sentences why to do it first. I make the call. You lay out the math.
Customer interviews & synthesis
Customer interview script
Write me a 20-minute customer interview script. The goal is to learn their real pain, not to lead them into praising my idea.
Context:
- The pain I want to test: [describe the pain in one sentence]
- Who I am interviewing: [their role, who they are]
Use this structure:
1. Open without revealing my solution, so they relax.
2. Look back: ask them to walk through the last time this problem hit and what they did.
3. Dig into cost: how much time, money, and energy does their current workaround take.
4. Dig into motivation: have they ever looked for or bought something to fix this? How much did they spend?
5. Close: ask who else they know with the same trouble.
Keep every question open-ended. Never ask hypotheticals like 'would you use it.' Ask about past facts, not future intentions.
Synthesize interview notes into insight
Here are my raw notes from several customer interviews. Help me synthesize them into decisions I can act on.
Interview notes:
[Paste your notes or transcript here. Rough, spoken, messy is fine.]
Output four blocks:
1. Recurring pains: ranked by frequency, with how many people mentioned each.
2. The jobs they are really trying to get done: write each as 'When I..., I want to..., so I can...'.
3. Customer's own words: pull 5 to 8 of the most striking direct quotes. I will reuse these in copy.
4. My blind spots: things I assumed mattered that nobody actually brought up.
Use only what is in the notes. Do not invent on the customer's behalf. Keep evidence separate from guesses, and label any guess clearly.
Demand validation
Design a one-week pre-sell test
I want to verify in one week, at the lowest cost, whether these people will actually pay for this. The thing is not built yet. Sell first.
Context:
- Pain and offer: [one sentence on what you plan to sell and whose problem it solves]
- Where I can find these people: [one or two specific channels]
- Hours I can put in each day: [number]
Give me a seven-day pre-sell plan:
1. State the core assumption to test in one falsifiable sentence.
2. Choose the payable commitment: a deposit, an add-to-cart, a paid waitlist, or a pre-order.
3. What I do each day and who executes it (what goes to the AI, what I must do myself).
4. What counts as pass and what counts as fail, set with real numbers, e.g. '[X] real payments within 7 days.'
5. If it fails, do I change the assumption first, or kill it?
Only actions that produce a real payment signal. Don't send me chasing likes and saves.
Write a pre-sell landing page or DM
Write me pre-sell copy that collects real intent to pay. The thing is not built yet, but people should want to pre-order or put down a deposit now.
Context:
- What I am selling: [one sentence]
- Target customer: [who they are]
- Customer's own words (from interviews): [paste 2 to 3 things they actually said]
- Price or deposit: [amount]
Give me two versions:
Version A, a pre-sell landing page: a headline, one subline, three 'what it gets done for you' lines, one block that handles doubt, and a clear payment / pre-order button label.
Version B, a one-to-one DM: three or four sentences that sound like a person, not an ad, ending in one concrete next step.
Use the customer's own words and situations throughout. No piles of adjectives. Sell the result, not the features.
Landing page & copy
Value proposition & headlines
Help me boil this business down to one instantly clear value proposition and a batch of headlines that make people want to click.
Context:
- What I sell: [one sentence]
- For whom: [target customer]
- The biggest difference vs. the status quo: [how you beat their current workaround]
- Customer's own words: [paste 1 to 2 quotes from interviews]
Output:
1. One value proposition in the form 'Help [who] achieve [result] in [situation], without [the hassle they hate today].'
2. 10 candidate headlines in varied styles: some lead with the result, some hit the pain, some use the customer's own words.
3. Under each headline, one line noting which person and which emotion it targets.
Plain words a teenager could read. I'll pick the sharpest one. You give me enough options.
Full landing page outline
Build me a complete, converting landing page outline I can fill in and ship.
Context:
- Product: [one sentence]
- Target customer: [who they are]
- The one action I want a visitor to take: [book, pay, leave contact, join group...]
- Customer's own words: [paste 2 to 3 quotes]
Give each section top to bottom, and say which question in the visitor's head it answers:
1. Hero: headline, subline, call-to-action button.
2. Pain resonance: show you understand how hard it is right now.
3. How the solution works: explained in three steps.
4. Why trust you: evidence, cases, customer quotes.
5. Handle doubt: list their three reasons to hesitate and answer each.
6. Price and promise: clear, no tricks.
7. Closing call-to-action: repeat the one action.
For each section, say what I should fill in and give one example sentence. Push only that one action across the whole page. No distractions.
Growth & distribution
Map channels and a test plan
Help me find where my target customers actually gather, and lay out a channel plan I can test one at a time.
Context:
- Target customer: [who they are]
- What they care about, watch, and talk about: [habits you know of]
- Resources I have now: [time, budget, existing contacts or accounts]
Output:
1. List 8 specific places these people really hang out: platforms, communities, offline settings, whose content they follow. The more specific the better. Don't just say 'Reddit'; say 'the r/[subreddit] threads where people ask about [keyword], and whose comments they read.'
2. For each channel, note: how hard to get in, how long to see results, and whether it suits cold start or scaling.
3. Rank the test order, say which to test first and why, and write one sentence per channel for 'what counts as pass.'
Focus and go deep on one or two channels first. Don't send me to run all eight at once.
Generate a batch of on-message posts and DMs
Generate a batch of ready-to-post content all at once, all in the target customer's own language, all around one core message.
Context:
- Core message (one sentence everything revolves around): [the one thing you most want people to remember]
- Target customer and their own words: [paste 2 to 3 interview quotes]
- Where I will post: [platform or setting]
- The next step I want people to take: [click link, DM me, sign up...]
Generate:
1. 5 social posts, each a different angle: one tells a specific scene, one floats a counterintuitive take, one just gives the method, one opens with a customer quote, one shares my own story.
2. 3 one-to-one DMs that sound like a friend, not a mass send, each ending in one light next step.
Talk like a human throughout, use the customer's words, no marketing voice. Say the same core message five different ways.
Pricing & monetization
Propose pricing models and a first price
Help me think through pricing for this business and give me a first price I can start selling at now.
Context:
- What I sell: [one sentence]
- How much it saves or makes the customer (use numbers if you can): [value estimate]
- What customers spend on this problem today: [cost of their current alternative]
- My rough cost to deliver one unit: [time or money]
Output:
1. Three pricing models to choose from (e.g. one-time, subscription, performance share). For each, say what situation it fits and its risk.
2. Which one to start with, and why in one sentence.
3. A concrete starting price, plus the math: profit per sale, rough gross margin, and how many sales to break even.
4. A three-tier design (low, mid, high) that nudges most people to the middle tier.
Price it so the customer feels 'compared to what I lose, this is nothing.' You lay out the math. I make the call.
Handle objections to paying
Help me prepare for the most common objections at the moment of payment, so the people who should buy stop stalling.
Context:
- What I sell and the price: [product and price]
- Target customer: [who they are]
- Hesitations I have already heard: [paste real rejections or doubts you have heard, or write 'none yet']
Output:
1. List the 6 most common reasons they won't pay now, e.g. 'too expensive,' 'no time,' 'afraid it won't work,' 'need to think,' 'have to ask someone,' 'not urgent.'
2. For each, write a sincere response: first acknowledge the concern, then resolve it with a fact or a customer quote. No hard push.
3. Mark which objections mean 'this was never my customer.' When you hit those, don't waste time.
4. Give two ways to lower the decision barrier, e.g. a trial, a refund promise, or a deposit first.
Make the responses sound like a person talking straight, not a sales script. For the ones who truly don't fit, help me spot them and let them go.