Free AI Prompt Library for Business Owners
Every prompt from Chris Sund’s AI workshop, Take Back Your Time with AI, grouped by the six areas where AI saves business owners time. Copy a prompt, replace the bracketed text with your own details, and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude. Free, no email required.
Built with Tell AI Five Things
Every prompt here follows Chris’s five-part structure: Role, Task, Details, Format and Guardrails. The bracketed text is where your details go. Keep the guardrails in, review every result before it reaches a customer, and if the first result is weak, add the detail you left out. The full framework is on Tell AI Five Things: The Five-Part Prompt.
Find Revenue
Find opportunities and choose the next action. Full guide: How to Use AI to Find New Business
Find opportunities before the bid
When to use it: Use it when you want a sourced list of real, public opportunities in your area instead of waiting for work to find you.
The original workshop version (commercial mechanical insulation contractor)
This is the exact prompt from Chris’s session at the MICA Fall Business Meetings. It shows how specific the industry, the region and the sources can be.
First contact on a public lead
When to use it: Use it after the research prompt, when one result is worth pursuing and you need a short, specific first email.
Win Work
Turn a customer request into a useful response. Full guide: How to Use AI to Respond to Quote Requests
What do we need? Review a quote request
When to use it: Use it the moment a quote request arrives, to find the gaps and send a professional reply the same day.
Build the quote from approved information
When to use it: Use it once pricing and scope are approved, to turn them into a polished, branded quote document.
Strengthen Your Website
Help customers understand your business and take the next step. Full guide: How to Use AI to Improve Your Website
Review your website like a customer
When to use it: Use it to find the five website changes most likely to bring in more qualified inquiries.
Rewrite the first screen of your homepage
When to use it: Use it when a visitor cannot tell in ten seconds what you do, who you serve, why to trust you and what to do next.
Create Marketing
Turn one completed project into useful content. Full guide: How to Use AI for Small Business Marketing
Turn one project into five marketing pieces
When to use it: Use it after any finished job with photos and a clear result, so you stop starting marketing from zero.
Organize Operations
Turn scattered information into clear next steps. Full guide: How to Use AI to Organize Operations
Meeting notes to an action list
When to use it: Use it right after a meeting, so everyone leaves with the same next steps and the gaps are visible.
Field notes to an internal change-order draft
When to use it: Use it when a customer asks for a change on a project, to organize the record before details are forgotten. Written for contractors and other project-based businesses.
Build Repeatable Processes
Capture what your experienced people know. Full guide: How to Create SOPs with AI
Turn experience into an SOP
When to use it: Use it when only one person knows how a job is done. Have them talk through it for ten minutes, transcribe it, and paste the transcript in.
Questions About the Prompt Library
Are these AI prompts free to use?
Yes. Every prompt on this page is free to copy, edit and use in your business. No email address is required. The email signup is optional and only sends new prompts when they are published.
Do these prompts work in ChatGPT and Claude?
Yes. Each prompt was written for Chris Sund’s workshop to run in either ChatGPT or Claude. Replace the bracketed text with your own details before you run it.
Can I use them if I am not a contractor?
Yes. The workshop examples came from contractors, so the prompts here have been generalized with [your type of business] placeholders. The original contractor version of the research prompt is included so you can see how specific to make yours.
How do I keep AI from making things up?
Keep the guardrail lines in each prompt, such as “Do not invent prices” and “Mark missing information instead of guessing,” give it only approved information, and have a person review every result before it goes to a customer.
Can Chris teach these prompts to our team?
Yes. Take Back Your Time with AI runs as a keynote, a half-day workshop or a full-day hands-on workshop where teams build their own workflows. Attendees receive a field guide with the prompts, worksheets and a plan as a PDF after the session.
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