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Prompts, workflows and builds that survive contact with a real working week. Copy anything you find useful.

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Workflow · 21 Oct 2026 · 5 min Turn one webinar into nine weeks of content The transcript is the asset. Here is the chain of prompts I run on it, in order. Read → Prompt · 30 Sep 2026 · 3 min The brief generator I actually use Copy it, paste it, fill three blanks. It asks you the questions a good strategist would. Read → Opinion · 09 Sep 2026 · 4 min Stop asking AI to "write a blog post" You are outsourcing the thinking and keeping the typing. It should be the other way round. Read → Prompt · 19 Aug 2026 · 3 min A prompt that finds the holes in your messaging Feed it your homepage. It argues back as a sceptical buyer who has three other options. Read → Workflow · 22 Jul 2026 · 3 min Twenty subject lines in four minutes Not twenty variations of one idea. Twenty angles, then you pick, which is the part only you can do. Read → Setup · 24 Jun 2026 · 3 min The custom instruction that fixed my tone problem Everything I wrote came back sounding like a press release. Two sentences solved it. Read → Build · 27 May 2026 · 5 min I built a competitor tracker in an afternoon No code, no budget, no permission. What it does, what it cost, and where it falls over. Read →

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