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Small business owners don't have a spare afternoon to learn prompt engineering. They have a business to run.
The problem
Most AI advice aimed at small businesses is either too abstract to use or too technical to bother with. The owner wants to write the job advert, chase the invoice, draft the awkward customer email, and move on. What they need isn't a course. It's the words that work.
What it is
Over 80 prompts across the nine areas that genuinely eat a small business week: hiring, onboarding, operations, marketing, customer service, admin, finance, planning, and content. Each one is ready to paste and adjust. No jargon, no setup, no theory.
Who it's for
Owners and operators who want AI to hand them back an hour a day, starting today.
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 nine areas that eat a small business week rather than letting it invent the categories.
2. Refine, one area at a time. Drop in a real task from your own week and ask Claude to make each prompt fit how you run things. Keep the ones worth pasting. I ended up with over 80.
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. I pointed a custom domain at it (business-prompts.thehumanco.org); you can just use the address Vercel gives you.
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.