For any local business · The owner's desk
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.
The prompt
Pick your trade to fit the wording, then paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
I own a local business, [TEAM SIZE]. Nobody really decides what new tools we try. Things come up and drift away. Help me set up a simple way to decide. Ask me five short questions about what eats my time and who on my team would test something new. Then give me a one-line rule for who decides, a list of no more than three things to try this quarter, and a finish date for each. Write it so I can read it to the team in two minutes.
When to use it
New tools and ideas come up, nobody owns the decision, and they drift away. It is also the prompt the free quiz hands you when you score low on who decides what gets tried.
When not to
It does not pick vendors or sign anything. Any purchase stays your decision.
What to paste in
- [TEAM SIZE]: Just me, or a team of how many people.
Never paste
- Customer full names, phone numbers or card details
- Anything about a customer's health or treatment
- Passwords or account logins
What you should get back
- A one-line rule for who decides
- No more than three things to try, each with a finish date
- Wording you can read to the team
What stays with you
The prompt writes a draft. You decide what happens to it, and nothing should reach a customer until you have read it. Decisions about money stay with a person every time, and so do health questions and complaints. When KeenHand builds a routine like this, every message carries the same four decisions: Automate, Approve, Revise, Reject.
Related
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
More: the whole prompt library and the owner's desk.
Which three fit your business?
The free quiz scores your business on sixteen things and picks the three prompts aimed at your three lowest. It takes about three minutes.