Prompt library
Free ChatGPT prompts for local business owners
Prompts written for the moments that eat an owner's week: the inquiry that waits, the appointment nobody confirmed, the invoice nobody chased. Pick your trade or start with the general set. Paste one into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, fill in the brackets, and read what comes back before anything goes to a customer.
How to use them
- Pick the prompt for the moment in front of you, in your trade if it is listed.
- Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and replace each part in [BRACKETS] with your own words.
- Read what comes back. Every prompt asks for a draft, and nothing should go to a customer until you have checked it.
Never paste customer full names, card details, passwords, or anything about a customer's health.
By trade
- Free ChatGPT prompts for med spa owners. Copy-ready AI prompts for med spa owners: price questions, consultations, no-shows, reviews and the desk, each written as a draft you approve.
- Free ChatGPT prompts for salon owners. Copy-ready AI prompts for salon owners: inquiries, rebooking, no-shows, reviews and the back office, each written as a draft you approve.
- Free ChatGPT prompts for home services owners. Copy-ready AI prompts for plumbing, HVAC, electrical, cleaning and lawn crews: calls, quotes, the schedule, invoices and reviews, each a draft you approve.
- Free ChatGPT prompts for gym and studio owners. Copy-ready AI prompts for gyms and studios: trial inquiries, quiet members, failed payments, freezes, subs and reviews, each a draft you approve.
- Free ChatGPT prompts for dental practices. Copy-ready AI prompts for dental practices: new patient inquiries, recall, confirmations, balances and reviews, each one a draft you read first.
- Free ChatGPT prompts for restaurant owners. Copy-ready AI prompts for restaurant owners: event inquiries, large parties, no-shows, reviews, invoices and the schedule, each one a draft you approve.
For any local business
The same prompts the free quiz picks from, one for each of the sixteen things it scores. Each page has a switch that fits the wording to your trade.
- A one-week test, no new tools. A one-week plan to test AI on three typing-heavy jobs you already do, with a way to tell by Friday whether it saved you time.
- Who decides, and what we try next. A one-line rule for who decides what your business tries next, and a short list of things to try with a finish date each.
- What a tools budget should buy back. A plain worked example of what an hour saved each day is worth to your business, and what a fair monthly tools budget would be.
- What's already built into what I pay for. Find the assistant features already built into the tools you pay for, and set up the one that saves the most time at the front desk.
- Connect one thing, safely. Pick the one system to connect to an AI tool first, what it lets you ask, and the privacy checks to run before you turn it on.
- The first routine that runs on its own. Choose the first routine to run without a person pressing the button, and get its messages, timing and stop rules in your voice.
- What may go out alone, on one page. A one-page playbook that splits routine messages into what may go out alone, what gets a quick look, and what waits for you.
- One routine, written the way I say it. Turn the way you handle a new inquiry, said out loud, into a one-page routine your team can follow and tape up by the front desk.
- A map of where customer details live. A map of every place customer details sit, who can see them, what to close first, and a plain answer for a customer who asks.
- Four numbers, counted for one week. The simplest honest way to count reply time, missed bookings, days to get paid and admin hours for one week, plus a tally sheet.
- One person, one job, one week. Pick one low-risk daily job for one person to try with AI for a week, with a one-page guide and the questions to ask on Friday.
- The job of owning the tools. A short job description for whoever owns your tools and routines, even if that is you for now, and how you will know it is working.
- Teach it my business once. Answer one question at a time and get a one-page brief about your business to paste at the start of every future AI chat.
- Move one job to the front desk. Move one repeated job to the front desk so the people doing the work use the tool, with steps and a note to the team.
- One change, finished this week. Pick the smallest change you have been meaning to make, break it into short steps with dates, and see what usually stalls it.
- One thing customers would notice. Get one thing live that customers would notice: a same-day reply, a reminder or a follow-up, with messages written in your voice.
Which three fit you?
The free quiz scores your business on sixteen things and picks the three prompts aimed at your three lowest, with the first thing to fix. It takes about three minutes.