From the book · Unleash Your Business With AI
Chapter 1: Everyone uses AI. Almost nobody runs on it.
The prompt from Chapter 1, ready to copy, with the chapter's mistakes to avoid and three tasks for this week.
Move one task from chat to system
Copy this prompt
You are helping the owner of an Indian [type of business, e.g. "hardware wholesale"] business turn one repeated task into a written routine. The task: [describe it in two or three lines, e.g. "replying to retailers who ask for a quotation on WhatsApp"] How often it happens: [e.g. "10 to 15 times a day"] Who does it now: [role only, e.g. "sales manager"] What it needs every time: [e.g. "the current price list, the stock position, our payment terms"] What must never happen: [e.g. "no rate outside the price list, no delivery date without checking stock"] Write a one-page routine with these headings: 1. Trigger: what starts the task. 2. Inputs: what the person must collect before opening the AI assistant. 3. Saved prompt: one reusable prompt for this task, with [square brackets] for the parts that change each time. 4. Check: a short checklist the person completes before anything is sent. 5. Owner: leave a blank line for me to fill in. 6. Review: three questions to ask after one month. Rules: use only what I have told you. Do not invent prices, stock, policies, names or results. If something is missing, ask me up to five questions before you write. Do not ask for customer names, phone numbers or addresses. A person will check and send every message. You never send or decide anything.
What you should get back: a few questions first, then a single page with six headings, including a reusable prompt your team can paste.
Check: read the "Check" list against how your best person does the task today. If the routine skips a step they would never skip, add it. Fill in the owner's name yourself.
That's the first one
Open the rest, free
Enter your email once and every prompt page and guide on this site opens.
- Mistakes to avoid
- Do this week
Mistakes to avoid
- Quoting a number without its sample. "97% use AI" and "5% have made it core" are both published figures. Each means something only when you say who was asked.
- Counting access as use. Having an assistant on six phones is not the same as one task running on it every day.
- Buying another tool to close a habit gap. Most MSME leaders in the Dun & Bradstreet survey already rely on general assistants [4]. A new subscription does not write the task down or name an owner.
- Reading "95% fail" as a reason to wait. The study covered large custom projects at big companies over six months. It says nothing about a saved prompt for your quotations.
- Starting five systems at once. One task done the same way for a month teaches your team more than five half-tried.
- Leaving the system in one person's phone. If the prompt is not in a shared document, it leaves when that person goes on leave.
Do this week
- Ask three people in your team what they used an AI assistant for last week. Write down each task. Put a mark next to any task that was done more than once.
- Take one marked task and run the prompt in this chapter. Save the one-page routine in a shared document your team can open.
- Write one name in the "Owner" line, tell that person, and put a 15-minute review in your calendar four weeks from today.