The 15 Claude Prompts I Use Every Single Week to Run My Business

People ask me what I actually do with Claude all week, and I think they expect something impressive. Some secret setup. A wall of custom instructions.

The truth is much more boring, and much more useful. I run roughly the same fifteen prompts every week. Same rhythm, same order, different inputs. Monday looks like Monday. Friday looks like Friday. The prompts do not change much because the job does not change much.

That is the part most people miss when they are starting out. They keep hunting for a better prompt when what they actually need is a repeatable one. A prompt you run once is a party trick. A prompt you run every Tuesday is a system.

So here is my real rotation. Not a greatest-hits list, not something I built for a blog post. These are the ones that were open in my window this week, grouped by where they land in the week. Copy them, swap in your own details, and delete the ones that do not fit your business. That is what they are for.

Monday: get your head straight

1. The Monday reset

This is the first thing I run every week, before email, before anything.

Here is everything on my plate this week: [dump it all, unsorted, however it comes out of your head]. Sort this into three lists: things that make money this week, things that make money later, and things that only feel urgent. Then tell me the one thing in list one I should do first and why.

The brain dump is the point. You are not asking for a plan, you are asking someone to look at the pile with you so it stops being a pile.

2. The one-thing filter

When the Monday reset gives me five priorities and I know I only have room for one.

Of these five things, which one, if I finished it this week, would make the other four easier or unnecessary? Argue for your pick. Then argue against it.

That last line matters. Making it argue both sides stops it from just agreeing with whatever I clearly already wanted.

3. The calendar honesty check

Here is my calendar for this week: [paste it]. Here is what I said I want to get done: [paste it]. Where am I lying to myself? Tell me exactly which commitment will not fit and what I would need to move.

Nobody enjoys this one. It is still the prompt that has saved me the most Friday-night panic.

Midweek: make the content

4. The one idea, five pieces pass

Here is one idea I want to talk about this week: [your idea, in a paragraph]. Turn it into five different pieces: a short video script, an Instagram caption, a LinkedIn post, an email to my list, and three story prompts. Same idea, genuinely different angles. Do not just reword the same thing five times.

The last sentence is doing the heavy lifting. Without it you get five near-identical drafts with the words shuffled.

5. The voice check

I run this on anything before it goes out with my name on it.

Here are three things I have written that sound exactly like me: [paste them]. Now here is a new draft: [paste it]. Rewrite the draft so it sounds like the first three. Point out the specific lines that sounded like AI and what gave them away.

Asking what gave it away is the good part. You learn your own tells, and after a few rounds you start catching them yourself.

6. The hook rewrite

Here is my first line: [paste it]. Give me ten alternatives. Two that ask a question, two that state a number, two that name a specific problem, two that admit something, and two that sound like the middle of a conversation. Keep them under twelve words.

Ten is deliberate. The first three will be obvious, and the good one is usually somewhere around seven.

7. The repurpose sweep

Here is a transcript of something I already made: [paste it]. Pull out every moment that could stand alone as its own post, and tell me why each one works. Rank them by which would land hardest with a business owner who is not technical.

Most people have a month of content sitting in things they have already recorded. This is the prompt that goes and finds it.

The money prompts

8. The follow-up sweep

This is the one I would fight to keep if I could only have one.

Here are the people who went quiet on me: [names, what we discussed, and roughly when we last spoke]. Write each one a short, warm, low-pressure message that references what we actually talked about. No "just checking in." No pressure. Two to four sentences each.

Warm leads go cold because nobody followed up, not because the offer was wrong. This turns a guilty feeling into eight sent messages in about ten minutes.

9. The proposal drafter

Here are my notes from a call with a potential client: [paste your notes or transcript]. Write a proposal in my voice that repeats their problem back in their own words first, then shows what I would do about it, then the price. Keep it under one page. Do not add anything they did not actually say.

That final instruction is the whole reason this works. Left alone it will invent needs, and inventing needs is how you lose a deal you already had.

10. The objection rehearsal

I have a sales call tomorrow with [describe them]. Play the part of that person and push back on my offer the way a skeptical but interested buyer really would. Do not be nice about it. Ask me the hard question first.

Being surprised by an objection in a live call costs you money. Being surprised by it the night before costs you nothing.

The keep-the-wheels-on prompts

11. The inbox triage

Here are the subject lines and senders from my unread email: [paste them]. Tell me which three actually need me today, which can wait until Friday, and which are noise. For the three, draft a two-sentence reply I can edit.

12. The meeting to actions pass

Here is a transcript from today's call: [paste it]. Give me only three things: what I committed to, what they committed to, and anything left genuinely undecided. Skip the summary. I was there.

Skip the summary is a small line that saves a lot of reading.

13. The write-it-down-once prompt

I just finished doing [describe the task you just did, step by step, out loud]. Turn that into a checklist someone else could follow without asking me questions. Flag anywhere I skipped a step because it lives in my head.

Capture the process the moment you finish it. That is how you eventually stop being the only person who can do it.

Friday: close the loop

14. The Friday week-in-review

Here is what I got done this week: [dump it]. Write me a short review with three sections: what actually moved the business, what I spent time on that did not, and one thing to change next week. Be honest, not encouraging.

Be honest, not encouraging. Otherwise you get a paragraph of praise, which feels lovely and teaches you nothing.

15. The next-week setup

Based on that review, draft next week for me. Three priorities maximum. For each one, the first small step and roughly how long it will take. If something from this week should be dropped entirely, say so.

Then it is waiting for you on Monday, and prompt one has something to chew on instead of a blank page.

How to actually start using these

Do not try to run all fifteen next week. You will do it once, feel efficient, and never do it again. I have trained more than 7,500 people at this point and that pattern is almost universal.

Pick two. I would take number one and number eight, the Monday reset and the follow-up sweep, because one gives you a clear head and the other gives you revenue. Run just those two for three weeks until they feel automatic. Then add a third.

The other thing worth doing is saving the ones that work. Every time a prompt gives you a genuinely good answer, paste it into a note or a Claude Project with a name you will recognize later. Within a month you will have your own rotation instead of mine, which is the actual goal here.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a paid Claude account to run these?

No. Every prompt on this list is a normal conversation, so a free account will run all fifteen. You will feel the ceiling once you start pasting long transcripts, uploading files, or keeping Projects you use daily. Start free and upgrade when the limits genuinely get in your way, not because someone said you should.

What if the answers come back sounding nothing like me?

Give it examples. Prompt five exists precisely for this. Paste three things you have actually written, even emails or text messages, and ask it to match that. One correction round usually fixes it. The real mistake is treating the first draft as the final answer instead of the starting point.

Should I run these in one long chat or start fresh each time?

Fresh chat for each type of work, but inside a Project that holds your business context. Long chats drift and start dragging old details into new answers. A Project keeps the useful background without the clutter of last Tuesday's half-finished email.

How long does the whole week's rotation actually take?

The Monday block is about twenty minutes. Content runs thirty to forty depending on how much you are making. The money prompts are quick, ten to fifteen minutes unless you are drafting a real proposal. Friday is fifteen. Under two hours across a week, and it replaces a lot more than two hours of staring.

Do these work if I am not in a business like yours?

Yes, because none of them are about my industry. They are about deciding, making, selling, and closing out, which every business does. A bookkeeper, a stylist, a realtor, and a consultant would all run the same fifteen with completely different inputs. Swap the details, keep the shape.

What if I miss a week?

Nothing happens. This is not a streak, and there is no penalty for skipping. Pick it back up on the next Monday you have twenty minutes. Systems that survive real life are the only ones worth building.

Start with two

The point was never the fifteen prompts. It is that you have a rhythm at all, so Monday is not a fresh emergency every single week.

Pick two, run them for three weeks, and let the rest come when you have room for them.

If you would rather build your rotation next to people doing the same thing, that is exactly what happens every day inside Club Jam on Skool. It is $47 a month with a 7-day free trial, 220+ on-demand modules, and a room full of everyday business owners who are not developers either. We swap the prompts that are working, fix the ones that are not, and nobody gets told to go read the documentation.

Come build your week with a little backup. 🧡