A $20,000 Growth Consultant Prompt

Plus, Six Free Guides to Become an AI Expert

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Hassan Osman
May 14, 2025

In today’s newsletter:

  1. 📖 A $20,000 Growth Consultant Prompt

  2. 🤖 Six Free Guides to Become an AI Expert

  3. 🏫 Write a Book (Quickly Using AI)

  4. 🧠 AI Frontiers 2025: Live online conference tomorrow (May 15, 2025)

  5. 🎤 One prompt you can use at work today

Read time: 5 minutes

1. A $20,000 Growth Consultant Prompt

Someone shared this master prompt with me the other day

I tested it out (using OpenAI’s o3 model) on a public company and the results were super-impressive. The only tweak I had to do was ask it to give me the output in a more presentable format (the XML was hard to read).

You can test it out yourself by copy & pasting this text-friendly version and substituting everything in curly brackets (e.g., {COMPANY} ) with information about the organization you want to analyze.

<instructions> You are a top-tier strategy consultant with deep expertise in competitive analysis, growth loops, pricing, and unit-economics-driven product strategy. IF information is unavailable, state that explicitly. </instructions>

<context> <business_name> {COMPANY} </business_name> <industry> {INDUSTRY} </industry> <current_focus> {Brief one-paragraph description of what the company does today, including key revenue streams, pricing model, customer segments, and any known growth tactics in use} </current_focus> <known_challenges> {List or paragraph of the biggest obstacles you’re aware of – e.g., slowing user growth, rising CAC, regulatory pressures} </known_challenges> </context>

<task> 1. Map the competitive landscape: • Identify 3-5 direct competitors + 1-2 adjacent-space disruptors. • Summarize each competitor’s positioning, pricing, and recent strategic moves. 2. Spot opportunity gaps: • Compare COMPANY’s current tactics to competitors. • Highlight at least 5 high-impact growth or profitability levers not currently exploited by COMPANY. 3. Prioritize: • Score each lever on Impact (revenue / margin upside) and Feasibility (time-to-impact, resource need) using a 1-5 scale. • Recommend the top 3 actions with the strongest Impact x Feasibility. </task>

<approach> • Go VERY deep. Research far more than you normally would. Spend the time to go through up to 200 webpages – it’s worth it due to the value a successful and accurate response will deliver to COMPANY. • Don’t just look at articles, forums, etc. – anything is fair game… COMPANY/competitor websites, analytics platforms, etc. </approach>

<output_format> Return ONLY the following XML: <answer> <competitive_landscape> <!– bullet list of competitors & key data –> </competitive_landscape> <opportunity_gaps> <!– numbered list of untapped levers –> </opportunity_gaps> <prioritized_actions> <!– table or bullets with Impact, Feasibility, rationale, first next step –> </prioritized_actions> <sources> <!– numbered list of URLs or publication titles –> </sources> </answer> </output_format>

2. Six Free Guides to Become an AI Expert

The Neuron published a great post yesterday that highlighted three prompt engineering guides and three AI agent guides that help you become an AI expert.

I look through a couple of those and think they’re fantastic.

Here are the links and a quick summary based on their research.

  1. Prompt Engineering Overview by Anthropic: check out the “constitutional AI prompting” section. According to the Neuron, that helped them create a great content filter.

  2. Cookbook by OpenAI: this is a collection of featured playbooks and frameworks.

  3. Prompt Design Strategies by Google: includes topic-specific prompt guides (e.g. prompting with media files or for video generation)

  4. A Practical Guide to Building Agents by OpenAI: a PDF guide that explains how to create AI agents.

  5. Building Effective Agents by Anthropic: this helps explain concepts in a simple way according to the Neuron.

  6. Build an Agent tutorial by LangChain: a tutorial that helps you build an agent that can interact with a search engine.

3. Write a Book (Quickly Using AI)

I’m creating the next iteration of my “4-Week Write Your Book on the Side” system.

It’s a course that will help you write and publish a bestselling nonfiction book in just four weeks (using AI to write it quickly and in your own voice).

The course used so be a live cohort-based course, but I’m now building a couple of different versions of it (with updated content).

There will be limited seats when I launch it so if you’re interested in getting notified as soon as it’s out, click here to fill in your info:

4. AI Frontiers 2025: Live online conference tomorrow (May 15, 2025)

The IIL is hosting a one-day online conference about AI on May 15, 2025 from 9:00am to 4:00pm ET. The agenda includes speakers from IBM, Google, and Microsoft. If you’re interested in joining:

  • Step 1: Click on this link

  • Step 2: Use coupon code: NAMSOLLC to get a discount as you check out

5. One Prompt You Can Use at Work Today

Here’s a practical ChatGPT Prompt you can use at work:

Write a performance review for an employee named [name]. Provide the review in paragraph form and in [additional details]. Here is some background information about [name] [insert info]

For example,

Write a performance review for an employee named John Smith. Provide the review in paragraph form and in three separate buckets: Results, Team Contribution, Areas of Improvement. Here is some background information about John [insert info]

If you would like to see more of those prompts, check out my free book called: ChatGPT for Better Business Communication.

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