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Managers are told to do more with AI, but rarely told what to actually ask it.
The problem
A manager's week is performance conversations, planning, team comms, decisions, project updates, stakeholder management. AI can help with all of it. But faced with a blank box and no time, most managers either type something vague or skip it. The barrier was never the tool. It was knowing the right prompt for the job in front of you.
What it is
60 ready-to-use prompts across the six things managers actually spend their time on: performance management, strategic planning, team communication, decision-making, project management, and stakeholder engagement. Copy, paste, adjust to your situation. No prompt-writing skill required.
Who it's for
Managers and team leads who want AI working for them on the real management tasks, not just the easy ones.
How I made this
This is an afternoon's work in the regular Claude chat, plus a little Claude Code if you want to put it online. Same run-through as the other packs.
1. Generate the prompts. Open Claude at claude.ai (in a browser, or the Claude desktop app), start a chat, and paste this:
You are helping me build a prompt pack for [your role or field].
First, list the 10 to 15 core jobs someone in this role does day to day.
Concrete and practical, not a textbook taxonomy.
Then, for each job, write 8 to 10 prompts I could paste into an AI assistant
to get genuinely useful work back. Each prompt should:
- be written to be copied, pasted and adapted, not admired
- assume the messy reality of the role, not an idealised version
- ask for a specific, usable output, not a generic essay
- leave [bracketed placeholders] for the details I'd fill in
Group the prompts under their job. Plain language. No preamble.
I started from the six things that fill a manager's week rather than letting it invent the categories.
2. Refine, one category at a time. Paste in a real situation from your week and ask Claude to sharpen each prompt to how you actually work. Keep the ones that pull their weight. I ended up with 60.
3. Save it. Ask Claude to output the finished set as one Markdown file. That's a usable pack on its own.
4. (Optional) Make it a web page. I handed that Markdown to Claude Code (Anthropic's coding assistant, which you run from your terminal or the desktop app) and asked for a single self-contained HTML page that lists the prompts in categories with a copy button. It comes back as one index.html, no backend.
5. Put it online. I deployed that file to Vercel (vercel.com, free at this size): connect a folder or a GitHub repo, or drag the file in, and it's live on a URL in under a minute. This one runs on the address Vercel gave it; you can point a custom domain at it if you want.
Stop at step 3 if you only need the prompts. Steps 4 and 5 are for when you want to hand it to other people.