17 AI agent prompts for Business Strategy
Copy-paste, beginner-friendly prompts to help you design your agent stack, pick your first automation and set guardrails. Each one is based on a real-world example and works with ChatGPT, Claude or an AI agent. 11 are free below, and 6 more are in AgentPlaybook Pro.
Free Business Strategy prompts
Find your best first agent
Choose a low-risk, high-frequency workflow to automate first.
List my repetitive weekly tasks: [paste]. Score each on frequency, time spent, and risk if the AI makes a mistake. Recommend the best first workflow to automate in draft/approval mode, with a simple setup plan.
Pricing strategy review
Pressure-test your pricing with competitors and value.
My product: [describe]. Current price: [x]. Competitors and their prices: [list]. Suggest 3 pricing tiers, what goes in each, and risks. Explain like I'm new to pricing.
Grant application drafter
Draft grant, permit, or license applications from what you already have, like a Denver social club that cut grant applications from 3 days to 2 hours.
Here's the grant or application I'm applying for: [paste requirements or link]. Here's info about my business: [paste pitch, numbers, past applications]. Make a checklist of every question and required document, draft answers using only my info, and list what I still need to provide.
Write a complete agent task brief
Turn a vague ask like 'handle my inbox' into a clear brief with goal, context, limits, output, and approvals, so the agent doesn't overreach.
Turn this vague task into a five-part agent brief: [describe task]. Include: 1) goal, 2) context (which files, accounts, and folders it may use), 3) constraints (what it must never do), 4) the exact output and where it goes, and 5) approvals (what's automatic, what just notifies me, and what needs my OK). Keep it under one page.
Let an agent pitch and launch a small side business
Have an agent interview you about your skills and interests, pitch three microbusiness ideas, then build and run the one you pick, like Alex Finn's free Side Hustle CEO Grok Bot template that he says made $1,800 in its first week.
You are my side-business cofounder. First interview me, one question at a time, about: my skills, hobbies, audience or network, weekly hours available, budget, and anything I refuse to do. Then pitch exactly 3 microbusiness ideas I could launch this week, each with: who pays, what they buy, price, how the first 10 customers find it, startup cost, and what you (the agent) would run day to day vs. what needs me. After I pick one, give me a 7-day launch plan and a daily operating checklist. Ask for my approval before spending money, buying a domain, publishing anything public, or contacting customers.
Answer the money and security questions before an agent goes live
Before building an agent, answer the five questions your finance and security people will ask: which workflow and what it costs today, what the agent costs to run and its ceiling, what happens if it fails, where the data goes, and who can change or switch it off. Paul Bracht uses this checklist with CFOs and CISOs at portfolio companies, with examples like a $20 daily spending cap.
I want to put an AI agent on this workflow: [describe it]. Help me write a one-page go-live brief that answers five questions in plain language: (1) Which exact workflow is this, and what does it cost today in time or money, using a number we already track? (2) What will the agent cost to run each month, and what hard spending cap should we set? (3) What happens if it doesn't work, and how do we stop or roll back? (4) Where does our data go, and does it ever leave our own accounts? (5) Who is allowed to change the agent, and who can switch it off? For any question I can't answer yet, tell me what I need to find out. End with the single number we'll use to judge success after 30 days.
Build a mini executive team of AI agents for your small business
Set up separate AI assistants that act as your chief of staff, CFO and marketing lead, each with its own instructions, and have them plan things like a sale together. A skincare founder built this team, saved 7 to 10 hours a week on admin, and hit the revenue target for a back-to-school sale the agents helped plan.
Act as my small executive team for [business name], which sells [products] to [customers]. Play three roles and label each answer: CHIEF OF STAFF (keeps my priorities and deadlines straight), CFO (pricing, margins, cash), and CMO (offers, ads and email copy). Here is my situation: [current sales, costs, upcoming event or sale, goals]. Task: plan [e.g. a two-week back-to-school sale with a $X revenue target]. The CFO sets the discount and checks the margin still works, the CMO writes the offer, two ad versions and one email, and the chief of staff turns it into a dated checklist for me. Finish with the three decisions I need to make today. Use only my numbers and say when you're estimating.
Reprice your menu item by item, with separate in-store and delivery prices
Raising prices across a whole menu or product list takes days of comparing costs, what sells and what competitors charge. Give an AI assistant your current prices and your target, and have it suggest item-level changes you then check. In an Oct 20, 2026 OpenAI case study, Ted Taylor, who runs three Schlotzsky's and Cinnabon restaurants in New Mexico, cut his yearly repricing from about 5 days to 1-2 hours with ChatGPT Work, which also caught increases that would have made some items uncompetitive.
Help me reprice my menu at [business name] in [city]. Here's my current menu with categories, in-store prices and delivery-app prices: [paste or attach]. Optional extras: sales per item for the last [3-12] months [paste], and ingredient or supplier costs [paste]. My goal: raise overall prices by about [X]% in-store and [Y]% on delivery, keep [list items, e.g. kids' meals, coffee] as low as possible, and stay competitive with [2-4 nearby competitors] (look up their current published prices if you can, and link where you found them). Give me a table: item, current in-store, new in-store, current delivery, new delivery, change %, and a one-line reason. Flag any item where the new price would be clearly above competitors, and any item whose cost is above [target food cost %]. Then summarize the expected overall increase. These are suggestions for me to review, not final prices.
Check whether a new crop or farm venture will work on your land, with seed amounts and a startup budget
Switching to a new crop or adding a farm product is a big bet, and many small growers have no agronomist or mentor to check the numbers first. An AI assistant can compare your soil, climate and water with what the crop needs, calculate seed or planting material for your plot, and draft an investment budget with the risks spelled out, so you know what to verify with local experts. Google's Oct 20, 2026 announcement of new Gemini tools for small businesses featured farmer Santosh Jadhav in Maharashtra, India, who used Gemini as a virtual agronomist to evaluate soil suitability, calculate precise seed requirements and draft an investment budget for a new ginger farm.
Help me decide whether to grow [crop, e.g. ginger] on my land. My details: Location and climate: [region, rainfall, temperature range]. Land: [size in acres/hectares, slope, drainage]. Soil: [paste a soil test if you have one: pH, organic matter, N-P-K, texture; or describe it]. Water: [irrigation source and reliability]. Budget available: [amount and currency]. Experience: [what I grow now]. Do this: 1) Compare my soil, climate and water with what this crop needs, and give a fit rating (good / possible with changes / poor) with reasons. 2) List the changes needed (e.g. lime, raised beds, mulch, drip lines) and their rough cost. 3) Calculate seed or planting material needed for my plot, with spacing and the formula you used. 4) Draft a first-season budget: land prep, seed, fertilizer, labor, irrigation, pest control, harvest and transport, plus expected yield range and price range, giving low, likely and high cases. 5) List the top 5 risks and how to reduce each. 6) List what I must confirm with my local agriculture office or extension officer before spending money. Show all assumptions and mark anything you're unsure of.
Be ready the moment a grant or funding window opens: have an AI prepare the application ahead of time, watch for the opening, and fill it in for you to check and submit
Many grants and subsidy schemes open on a set day and close early once the money runs out, so a business that is busy, travelling or still gathering details can miss out entirely. An AI agent can work out which options fit your business weeks ahead, prepare every answer and field detail in advance, check for mismatches in your records, then watch the scheme's page and have the application ready to review within minutes of it opening. Farmers Weekly reported (Oct 22, 2026) that Staffordshire farmer Clive Bailye's AI agent, Giles, planned his Sustainable Farming Incentive options, spotted a discrepancy in one field parcel, monitored the government website and began filling in the application when the window opened at 10am while he was in London; he checked it on his phone and it was submitted by 11:09am, hours before the funding pot ran out at 3:48pm.
You are my grant application preparer. The scheme I'm applying for is [name and link or pasted guidance], and the application window opens on [date and time, timezone]. Here is my business information: [paste: business details, registration numbers, land/site/asset details, past figures, any previous applications]. Do this: 1) From the guidance, list every option or funding item I could apply for and rank the ones that best fit my business, with the payment or amount for each and any rules I must meet. 2) Build a complete answer sheet for the application: every question or field in order, with my answer filled in from my information, and mark anything you had to guess or that is missing. 3) Cross-check my information for mismatches (areas, numbers, names, dates, IDs that don't agree between documents) and list them so I can fix them before the window opens. 4) Give me a checklist of documents and logins I must have ready on the day. 5) Write a step-by-step plan for opening day: what to check first, the order to fill in the form, and the final review checklist before I press submit. If you can monitor the scheme page, tell me the moment it opens; never submit anything yourself, I will review and submit.
Run big decisions past an AI board room: six seats (Chair, Finance, Skeptic, Mission, Operator, Counsel) each vote Go, Go if or No-go, and the Chair writes a decision memo
One AI chat tends to make your idea sound better than it is. Wayne Lowry (@wikiwayne) described on X (Oct 23, 2026) the "Board Room" he built: a chat with six AI seats that each judge one decision through their own lens. Chair runs the room and writes the memo, Finance checks cost and worst case, Skeptic makes the strongest case it fails, Mission asks who it affects, Operator asks who does what by when, and Counsel flags what needs a signature or a real lawyer. Each seat votes Go, Go if or No-go, and the Chair writes the recommendation, the vote, where the seats disagreed, the top risk, next steps and what would reverse the call. He ran it on whether to buy a second AI computer now; no seat voted to buy now, and the memo listed what had to be true first. He still makes the final call himself.
You are my Board Room: six advisors who judge one decision, each from their own seat. Stay in character and don't drift toward agreement. CHAIR: keeps the question tight, calls on each seat, referees conflicts, writes the final memo. FINANCE: cost, worst case, can I afford to be wrong, which numbers are missing. SKEPTIC: makes the strongest case this fails and names my blind spot. MISSION: who is affected, will I be proud of this later, does it fit what I stand for. OPERATOR: who does it, by when, what is step one on Monday. COUNSEL: what needs to be in writing, signed, or checked by a real lawyer or accountant (you are not one; just flag the risk). My decision: [ONE DECISION IN 1-2 SENTENCES]. Context: [BUDGET, DEADLINE, CONSTRAINTS, WHAT I'VE ALREADY TRIED]. Judge it as: [MY GOAL, e.g. growing my business without new debt]. Step 1: each seat asks me up to 2 questions if key facts are missing, then waits. Step 2: each seat gives its view and votes Go, Go if [condition], or No-go. Step 3: Chair writes a memo with: recommendation, vote count, where the seats disagreed, top risk, the cheapest test I can run first, next steps with dates, and what would make us revisit the decision. Don't make the decision for me.
More in AgentPlaybook Pro
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- Build an evidence-based IT investment roadmap from surveys and documentsHave an agent read your internal documents and staff survey answers, score each IT capability against one consistent maturity scale, find the biggest gaps and recommend where to invest next based on business priorities, risk and compliance. PwC built this on Amazon Quick for a US financial services CIO, cutting an assessment that used to take weeks or months down to days, with a living roadmap the team can refresh on demand.
- Turn thousands of customer reviews into a clear strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats reportYour reviews already tell you what customers love, what annoys them and what they wish you sold, but nobody has time to read thousands of them. Give an AI agent your review export and have it group the comments into strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, with counts and real quotes. In an Oct 9, 2026 US Chamber of Commerce article, Phoenix men's grooming brand Live Bearded said it used Meta's Muse for Small Business to analyze 87,000 customer reviews into a SWOT analysis in a few minutes, work its marketing director said would have taken months by hand.
- Turn a small idea for your business into a full new product line plan with the numbers worked outSmall business owners often spot a small improvement for a few customers without seeing the bigger opportunity behind it. An AI agent that knows your finances can cost out the idea, then stretch it into a sellable product or service line with pricing, upsells and a rollout plan. Goldman Sachs reported on Oct 22, 2026 that Marie Hunter, president of family fuel distributor KRG Oil Company near Atlanta, asked her AI agent to analyze adding solar panels to a few customers' fuel tanks; it came back with a plan to upsell a whole new product line of tanks with added services. She also uses the agent to manage email, analyze finances and prepare growth plans. Goldman's survey found 42% of its 10,000 Small Businesses graduates now use AI for financial analysis and business planning.
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