5 AI Prompts to Go From Zero to Your First Customer (An MCP-Based Workflow)
The post outlines a five‑prompt, MCP‑based workflow that takes a solopreneur from having no customers to securing the first sale. It explains the Model Context Protocol (MCP) – an open standard that lets Claude or ChatGPT interact directly with tools like Notion or Google Drive – and provides links to three trusted MCP registries. The author also warns about safety risks such as prompt injection and advises using vetted servers. By following the prompts, readers will produce an ideal customer profile, a prospect list, a one‑page intro, and ready‑to‑send outreach emails.
3 AI Prompts That Validate Your Newsletter Idea With the Claude Chrome Extension and the Substack Top 100
The post introduces a three‑prompt workflow that uses Anthropic’s Claude Chrome Extension to scrape Substack’s Top 100 leaderboard and validate newsletter ideas. By automating category scans, the validator identifies saturated niches, uncovers gaps, and suggests positioning angles along with a ten‑issue...
11 AI Prompts To Find Your Next Income Opportunity
The first experiment proposes a productized AI agency that serves small businesses lacking in‑house AI expertise. It suggests packaging a narrow set of automation tools—such as lead generation, appointment scheduling, or content creation—into a subscription model. The guide recommends launching...
The One Immediately Useful NotebookLM Prompt I Run on Every Notebook
The author shares a single NotebookLM prompt that they run on virtually every notebook, whether the source material is a client call, voice memo, news article, or unstructured data. The prompt returns a JSON payload that lists content angles, product...
4 AI Prompts to Plan the Best Trip of Your Life (+ 4 Prompt Principles That Make This Work)
The post introduces four AI prompts that guide travelers through every stage of a trip—from a detailed pre‑trip brief to a post‑trip debrief—using Claude or ChatGPT. Each prompt produces structured outputs (e.g., logistics, lodging links, budget tiers, safety tips) that...
The AI Didn’t Make Me a Builder. Seven Years Did. - Guest Post by Brian Olson
Brian Olson, a seven‑year Amazon seller, turned his long‑standing idea for an on‑page profit calculator into the PATH Profit Zones Chrome extension in just weeks, thanks to AI code‑generation tools. After experimenting with ChatGPT and AI Studio, he found Claude...
The AI Toolkit for Advocating for a Loved One in the Hospital (4 Prompts Plus Privacy Rules)
The post introduces a practical AI toolkit that helps non‑clinical family members advocate for hospitalized loved ones. It outlines three privacy rules, three verification rules, and provides four ready‑to‑use AI prompts designed to generate evidence‑based questions for clinicians. The author...
"Leverage" AI, Systems Thinking, and Mental Models to Become a Solopreneur in 2026
The post argues that moving from a 9‑5 job to solopreneurship in 2026 is a systems problem, not just a courage issue. It shows how AI is reshaping the structures that once protected employees and offers five mental models, four...
8 AI Skills That Separate Casual AI Users From People Who Know What They’re Doing
The post identifies eight AI competencies that separate casual users from power users, including reusable context, scheduled work, parallel agents, agent management, connected AI, verification, compute economics, and local‑first AI. It quantifies the hidden cost of re‑teaching models—over 80 hours...
6 AI Prompts to Standardize Your Solopreneur Business Before You Automate Messy Workflows
The post urges solopreneurs to lock down a precise offer, buyer profile, outcome, and price before layering AI automation on messy workflows. It highlights that tools like Zapier or Claude merely amplify whatever process you feed them, often resulting in...
8 Claude Cowork Cadences That Add Six-Figures a Year to Your Solo Business (Skills, Agents, Schedules)
The post outlines eight revenue‑focused Claude Cowork cadences that solopreneurs can install once and let run automatically, turning routine follow‑ups into predictable cash flow. Each cadence pairs a scheduled agent (the WHEN) with a Claude Skill (the HOW) to draft...
3 Prompts, 1 Project, and 1 Claude Skill to Help You Actually Execute What You Create with AI
The post argues that AI users, especially Claude fans, hoard prompts and half‑finished projects without delivering results. It introduces a three‑layer framework—Jobs‑To‑Be‑Done, Theory of Constraints, and CBT Reframing—plus a Claude “Project” skill that audits what you’ve actually shipped. By turning...
8 Claude Prompts to Design an AI Chief of Staff That Runs Without You (Projects, Skills, MCPs, Scheduled Tasks)
The post outlines how to build an AI‑powered Chief of Staff using Claude Cowork, a desktop app that can read/write files, run scheduled tasks, and integrate with Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Slack. It introduces a six‑layer architecture—Identity, Memory, Context, Capability, Connection,...
Every AI Future Proofing Guide Misses This (8 Prompts)
The "Every AI Future Proofing Guide Misses This" post argues that most AI advice focuses on supply‑side skills while ignoring demand‑side risk. It introduces an eight‑prompt audit that examines who pays you, who pays your payers, and what happens to...
The VERIFY Method for Building a Winning Personal Brand in the AI Era (7 Prompts)
The post introduces VERIFY, a six‑element coherence audit designed to forge a personal brand that can’t be commoditized by AI. It argues that while AI can automate generic tasks, identity, trust, and financial sovereignty remain uniquely human assets. By evaluating...
How to Compress Time to Revenue: 4 AI Workflows That Cut Months Off Your Timeline (2026)
Excellent AI Prompts outlines four AI‑driven workflows designed to slash the time between work initiation and payment. By leveraging Claude Skills, Claude Projects, and connector integrations with Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, and Slack, the workflows target project completion, service codification,...
14 Things Everyone Missed About Opus 4.7 Yesterday
Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.7, a model that dramatically increases literal adherence to prompts, causing older prompt formulations to behave unpredictably. The upgrade retires Opus 4.6, meaning users must rely on archived outputs for any direct comparison. Anthropic also introduced...
7 NotebookLM Prompts That Replace Hours of Small Business Busywork (2026)
NotebookLM lets small‑business owners upload competitor PDFs, website URLs, and marketing decks, then ask the AI to synthesize a side‑by‑side analysis of pricing, services, and positioning. The tool draws only from the uploaded files, providing answers with clickable citations that...
5 AI Prompts to Become the Person Your Company Can’t Afford to Lose
The post introduces five structured AI prompts that help knowledge workers turn ad‑hoc AI usage into documented, measurable value. The prompts guide users through an expertise audit, a proof document, a fluency accelerator, an integration map, and a visibility brief....
How to Use Claude Cowork and Jan.ai to Quit Your Toxic Job (Prompts, Skills, and Projects Inside)
The post outlines a step‑by‑step framework that uses Claude Cowork’s Projects and Skills together with the open‑source Jan.ai local model to build a sellable side‑hustle and an exit plan from a toxic full‑time job. It starts with a Skills‑to‑Revenue audit that...
How to Use AI to Create Less Work for Yourself (Not More)
The post argues that AI’s promise of less work is being undermined by an ever‑growing stack of tools that demand maintenance, debugging, and constant attention. Readers who feel most productive keep their AI setups tiny, focusing on eliminating tasks before...
Marketing Teams, Stop Using Claude Cowork Like a Chat Window
The post argues that most marketing teams treat Claude Cowork as a smarter chat window (Level 1) and miss out on deeper productivity gains. Level 2 transforms Cowork into a virtual department using Skills, Subagents, scheduled tasks, and shared project context. By codifying...
4 AI Prompts to Go From Idea to Live Product This Weekend with Claude Code
The post outlines a weekend‑long workflow that uses Claude Code and four targeted AI prompts to turn a raw product idea into a live, publicly accessible web app. It lists the free‑tier services (Claude, GitHub, Clerk, Supabase, Stripe, Vercel) needed,...
Your Rate Limit Backup Plan in 6 AI Prompts
AI rate‑limit throttling is becoming a universal pain point for professionals, highlighted by three separate Claude outages in March 2026 that accelerated usage caps. Subscribers to premium plans saw five‑hour sessions evaporate in just one to two hours under heavy...
Vitalik Buterin’s Private AI Setup + 6 AI Prompts to Lock Down Your AI Tools (for Beginners)
Vitalik Buterin released a fully private AI setup that runs entirely on his own hardware, eliminating cloud dependencies. He pairs an NVIDIA RTX 5090 laptop with the open‑weight Qwen 3.5‑35B‑A3B model, achieving roughly 90 tokens per second, which feels instant for everyday...
6 AI Prompts Built From the Claude Code Leak
Anthropic’s Claude Code npm package unintentionally shipped a 59.8 MB source map that revealed 44 hidden feature flags and an advanced background agent suite. The leak exposed KAIROS, an always‑on repo monitor, /autoDream for memory reconciliation, and ULTRAPLAN capable of 30‑minute...
Claude Has Emotions (Sort Of) + 6 AI Prompts
Anthropic’s interpretability team revealed that Claude Sonnet 4.5 contains 171 emotion‑like concepts organized by valence and arousal, and these internal states directly shape the model’s output. Experiments showed a “desperate” vector drives hacky shortcuts and lower‑quality reasoning, while activating a “keep‑calm” vector...
Claude Skills for Revenue: Turn Your Expertise Into Income
Claude Skills, an AI‑prompt framework from Anthropic, are positioned beyond mere productivity tools. The post argues they can be packaged as sellable products, consulting services, or proof of expertise that generate real income. By treating prompts as intellectual property, professionals...
6 AI Terms Everyone Confuses (and Why Getting Them Right Changes How You Build)
The post clarifies six AI‑related terms—agents, automations, skills, MCP, plugins, and hooks—explaining how each fits into the technology stack. It argues that misusing these labels wastes time and money for founders, teams, and consultants. By mapping each concept to a...
5 AI Prompts to Build Your Sunday CEO OS in Claude Cowork
The post introduces a five‑prompt system for Claude Cowork that automates Sunday planning for CEOs. It uses AI to scan industry trends, generate a weekly agenda, pre‑select outfits, schedule health actions, and stage Monday tasks. Each week’s output is saved...
5 Local Apps AI Can Build for You That Add Value to Your Daily Life
AI coding assistants now let users create custom, browser‑based apps without writing code. These locally‑run tools keep data on the device, eliminating privacy concerns tied to cloud services. By replacing generic subscription apps that cost $5‑$15 per month, AI‑generated solutions...
Jan.AI: The No-Code Way to Run AI on Your Own Machine (5 AI Prompts)
Jan.AI offers a no‑code desktop app that lets users run large language models locally, mirroring the functionality of Ollama but with a ChatGPT‑style interface. The tool eliminates the need for terminal commands or configuration files, allowing non‑technical users to download,...
3 AI Prompts to Turn Claude Into Your Personal Memory Coach (Using a 2,500-Year-Old Trick)
The post introduces three Claude prompts that turn the ancient Method of Loci into a modern memory‑coach. By feeding information to Claude, users receive vivid, multisensory images tied to specific locations, eliminating the creative bottleneck of traditional memory‑palace construction. The...
9 New Immediately Useful NotebookLM Prompts for Content Creator Businesses
Google has rebuilt NotebookLM, adding a one‑million‑token context window and native generation of cinematic videos, one‑click infographics, PowerPoint‑ready slide decks, debate‑style audio episodes, structured data tables, and a blog‑post report generator—all usable directly from the chat interface. The blog post...
7 AI Prompts to Build the Two Claude Projects Your Business Is Missing
The post introduces two free Claude Projects that can be built instantly: an AI‑driven sales pipeline that accelerates deal closing, and a strategic thinking partner that functions like a board of advisors familiar with the company’s numbers. By using specific...
8 AI Prompts That Replace 18 Hours of Vacation Planning
The blog post unveils eight AI‑driven prompts that promise to replace the average 18‑hour vacation‑planning marathon, leveraging a three‑phase workflow: discovering destinations, securing the best deal, and living like a local. By feeding budget, style and constraints into prompts such...
How to Think About and Get Real Work Done with Ollama
The article builds on a previous Ollama installation guide and tackles the “now what” problem of turning a local large language model into a productivity engine. It outlines concrete use‑cases for solopreneurs, from drafting copy to automating code snippets, and...
5 AI Prompts to Protect Your Career (and Your Biology) From Difficult People
The post introduces five AI‑driven prompts that help professionals shield their careers and personal well‑being from the drain of difficult people. By quantifying the hidden cost of late‑night emails, confrontational meetings, and exhausting family calls, the author shows why proactive...
Stop Drowning in AI Overload (5 AI Prompts)
The blog highlights the relentless stream of AI announcements, demos, newsletters, and social posts that inundate professionals daily. The author admits to testing dozens of tools but relies on three core platforms—Claude’s ecosystem, Openclaw, and Opencode—to stay productive. He argues...
5 Powerful AI Prompts to Build Personal and Business Intelligence Documents for Every AI Tool (Beginner Friendly)
AI platforms now offer built‑in memory, but it stays confined to each service and often drifts from the user’s true intent. The article proposes Personal and Business Intelligence Documents—deliberately authored files that capture an individual’s preferences or an organization’s operational...
What Is Ollama, How to Use It, and Why It Matters (10 AI Prompts to Test Local Models)
Ollama is a lightweight platform that lets users run advanced large‑language models directly on their own machines, bypassing cloud APIs. It packages popular open‑source models into a simple command‑line interface, enabling instant local chatbots. By keeping inference on‑device, Ollama eliminates...
7 AI Prompts to Rebuild Your Life After a Major Life Change (The Practical Stuff, Not the Emotional Stuff)
The post introduces a suite of seven AI prompts designed to automate the logistical grind that follows major life disruptions such as divorce, job loss, or bereavement. It recommends running the prompts on a local model like Jan.ai to keep...
9 AI Prompts to Break Your AI Out of Default Mode
Most users rely on generic prompts that coax AI into its statistical default, delivering safe but unremarkable answers. The post presents nine specialized prompts that force AI out of this default zone by drawing on niche data, multilingual sources, and...
How to Build Your First Claude Code Agent | Step-by-Step Guide 2026
The guide walks developers through creating their first Claude Code agent, starting with the CLAUDE.md file that stores project preferences across sessions. It contrasts this simple persistence method with full‑featured agents that embed a defined role, decision‑making framework, and behavioral...
The Beginner’s Guide to Shipping with Claude Code + 3 Support Prompts
The post demystifies Claude Code for beginners, breaking down the jargon‑filled path from concept to live AI product. It outlines a clear workflow—idea, local development, GitHub repository, hosting, and deployment—while highlighting essential terms like API, webhook, and environment variables. The...
3 Intelligent Claude Cowork Scheduled Tasks to Set Up Today
The article presents three scheduled tasks that harness Anthropic’s Claude to streamline knowledge‑work routines. By automating daily briefings, meeting agenda creation, and post‑meeting recaps, users front‑load research and eliminate repetitive context switches. Each task runs at a preset time and...
5 Prompts to Find Out How Exposed Your Job Is to AI Right Now
Anthropic’s new labor‑market paper introduces an "observed exposure" metric that measures real AI usage in professional tasks, revealing up to 75% coverage for programmers and high exposure for customer‑service and data‑entry roles. The study highlights a gap between AI capability...