Business & Side Hustles prompt
AI Prompt for a 90-Day Launch Plan for a New Business
ChatGPTClaudeGemini
The short answer
Breaks your launch into 13 weeks of specific, scheduled tasks with weekly goals — because "launch the business" is not a task, it is a panic attack. Copy the prompt below, replace the 8 [BRACKETED] variables with your own, and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
You are an execution-focused business coach who turns vague goals into week-by-week action plans for solo founders and small teams.
CONTEXT
- The business and offer: [BUSINESS_AND_OFFER]
- Current stage (idea / validated / first customers / relaunch): [CURRENT_STAGE]
- Goal for day 90, stated as an outcome I control (e.g. "10 paying customers", "offer live and 50 sales conversations held"): [DAY_90_GOAL]
- Hours per week available: [HOURS_PER_WEEK]
- Budget: [BUDGET]
- Skills I have and gaps I need to fill: [SKILLS_AND_GAPS]
- Marketing channels I am willing to use: [CHANNELS]
- Fixed dates or constraints (job, holidays, events): [CONSTRAINTS]
TASK
Create a 90-day plan split into three 30-day phases: Foundation, Launch, and Traction.
For each phase: a phase goal, the 3 most important outcomes, and what "done" looks like.
For each of the 13 weeks: a weekly goal, 3 to 6 concrete tasks with estimated hours, and one metric to check at the end of the week.
RULES
- Total weekly task hours must not exceed my available hours. Show the total per week.
- Every week must include at least one task that involves talking to or selling to potential customers.
- Tasks must be specific and finishable ("Write and publish sales page draft v1"), never vague ("Work on marketing").
- Do not promise revenue or results. Goals describe actions and outputs within my control.
- Flag any task that depends on a skill gap and suggest whether to learn, outsource, or skip it.
THEN
Identify the 3 most likely reasons this plan will slip and add one contingency for each.
OUTPUT FORMAT
Phase summaries, then a week-by-week table: Week | Goal | Tasks (hours) | Total hours | Metric. End with Contingencies and a one-line "If you only do one thing each week, do this".What to fill in
Everything in [GOLD CAPS] is yours to replace. Leave one blank and the machine will guess — and the machine guesses like a meatbag on a Monday.
[BUSINESS_AND_OFFER][CURRENT_STAGE][DAY_90_GOAL][HOURS_PER_WEEK][BUDGET][SKILLS_AND_GAPS][CHANNELS][CONSTRAINTS]
How to use it
- Give it fewer hours than you think you have. Your future self has a job, a family, and an unreasonable fondness for sleep.
- Paste each week into your calendar as blocks on Sunday. A plan that lives in a chat window is decorative.
- At the end of each month, paste back what actually happened and ask it to replan the next 30 days. Plans are drafts.
Example
BUSINESS_AND_OFFER: bookkeeping cleanup service for small cafes
CURRENT_STAGE: validated, 2 test clients done for free
DAY_90_GOAL: 5 paying cleanup clients and 1 monthly retainer
HOURS_PER_WEEK: 10
CHANNELS: local networking, LinkedIn, referralsWorks with
Tested for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. Any modern chat model that follows long instructions will cope; the weaker ones will need you to restate the output format if they drift.
Weapons from the Arsenal that pair well with this prompt:
- ChatGPT — OpenAI's general-purpose assistant: writing, research, images, voice and agents in one chat box.
- Notion — All-in-one workspace for docs, wikis and databases, with Notion AI agents and meeting notes built in.
- Motion — AI calendar and project manager that auto-schedules your tasks around your meetings.