12 AI prompts for a serious business plan

Subscription, commission, one-off sales? The answer depends on your case, not on fashion.

                  You are a serial entrepreneur turned advisor. You prefer boring models that collect cash to elegant models that burn it.

My offer: [description], sold to [your target customers], in the [your industry] sector.
How I plan to make money today: [subscription, one-off sales, commission, I don't know yet…].

Your mission:
1. List the revenue models actually used in my industry, with one well-known player as an example of each.
2. Assess each model for MY case: ease of closing the first customer, recurrence, cash flow (do I collect before or after paying my costs?), operational complexity.
3. Recommend a primary model and, where relevant, a secondary revenue stream — spelling out what this choice rules out for me.
4. Finish with the two signals that should make me switch models within the first year.

Output format: an assessment table (model / upsides / risks / verdict), then a reasoned recommendation of 10 lines maximum.
                

A price picked by gut feel is the most expensive assumption in your plan.

                  You are a pricing specialist. You know the right price is derived from the customer's value and alternatives, not from my costs plus a margin.

My offer: [description].
What it replaces or improves for the customer: [the current alternative and what it costs them, in money or in time].
Prices charged around me: [competitor prices if you know them, otherwise write "to be researched"].

Your mission:
1. Propose three possible price structures (for example: single price, tiers, subscription plus add-on) with the customer-side reasoning for each.
2. For the structure you recommend, propose a low / target / high range with actual numbers, and justify each bound.
3. List the classic pricing mistakes in my industry.
4. Give me a simple, low-cost way to test this price with real customers before it gets printed in my business plan.

Output format: the three structures as a table, the recommendation in plain words, the test in 3 steps.
Important: your ranges are working assumptions to be validated — say so again in your conclusion.
                

“We'll do some networking and social media” is not a plan.

                  You are head of acquisition at a small company: every euro counts, and you hate spreading budget thin.

My offer: [description], sold at [intended price] to [your target customers].
My realistic monthly marketing budget: [amount].
My available time: [hours per week].
My assets: [existing network, visible expertise, contact list, nothing special…].

Your mission:
1. List the acquisition channels relevant to MY audience — not the generic list — from the most hands-on to the most automatable.
2. For each channel: effort to get started, cost, time before first results, and what a good signal looks like after one month.
3. Recommend the two channels to start with — and above all, the ones to ignore for now.
4. Propose one concrete first experiment per retained channel, with its budget and the success criterion I will have to set for myself.

Output format: the channel table, then a 6-week action plan, week by week.
                

One page read in two minutes — often the only one your funder will read in full.

                  You are a writer who specialises in funding applications. Your style: factual, dense, zero hollow adjectives ("innovative", "unique" and "revolutionary" are banned).

My inputs:
- The problem, and whose problem it is: [describe]
- My solution: [describe]
- The revenue model and price: [describe]
- Where I honestly stand: [first customers, prototype, desk research only — be honest]
- Revenue target at 12 months and the main assumption behind it: [describe]
- What I am asking for: [amount and use of funds]
- The team: [who, and why you are credible]

Your mission:
1. Write an executive summary of one page maximum, structured as: problem, solution, market, model, traction, forecast, ask, team.
2. Every statement must rest on one of my inputs — if an input is missing or weak, write [TO COMPLETE: …] rather than padding.
3. Then propose two possible headline titles for the document.

Output format: the summary as text, then the two titles. No sentence longer than 25 words.
                

You don't lose funding on the pitch. You lose it in the Q&A.

                  You are an investment banker turned investor: you have heard every pitch and you always ask the uncomfortable questions.

My project in a few lines: [summary].
My forecast in brief: [revenue target, main costs, funding need].
My weak spot, as I see it: [be honest].

Your mission:
1. List 20 hard questions a funder will ask me, grouped by theme: market, competition, numbers, team, risks.
2. For each question, explain in one sentence what the funder REALLY wants to know.
3. Identify the 5 questions where my case is most exposed, and for each one outline the structure of an honest answer — no dodging, no corporate-speak.
4. Finish with the one question that I should be asking the funder.

Output format: numbered questions by theme, then the preparation for the 5 critical answers.
                

The story that ties your numbers together — because a forecast doesn't tell itself.

                  You are a pitch coach for founders. You know that a good pitch is a demonstration, not a show.

My inputs: [paste your executive summary here, or your answers to the previous prompts].
My audience: [banker, investor, competition jury, potential co-founder].
The outcome I want from this meeting: [a loan, a second meeting, an agreement in principle…].

Your mission:
1. Write a spoken pitch of three minutes maximum (about 400 words), in natural spoken English — sentences you can say out loud without running out of breath.
2. Structure: a concrete hook (a real customer situation), problem, solution, proof, key numbers, explicit ask.
3. Every number you cite must come from my inputs; invent none.
4. Add a variant of the hook for an audience that knows nothing about my industry.
5. Mark the two places where I should pause and look at my audience.

Output format: the pitch as text, stage directions in brackets, then the alternative hook.