60 ChatGPT Prompts for Real Work
Detailed prompts for documents, emails, meetings, research, spreadsheets, screenshots, and workflows.
Give ChatGPT something you are already working with — a document, PDF, email, spreadsheet, article, meeting notes, screenshot, image, or pasted text — then use one of these detailed prompts to analyze, organize, improve, or turn it into something useful.
Every prompt works with pasted text, uploaded files, screenshots, images, or information already in the chat. Connectors and plugins can make workflows easier, but you never need them. Anything in [BRACKETS] is a placeholder to replace with your own details. Check the results before you rely on them.
Documents & PDFs
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Prompt
What it does
001
Executive Brief
Review the document I provided and create a concise executive brief. Include the purpose, most important findings, key numbers or facts, major decisions or implications, risks, unresolved questions, and the 5 things I should pay the most attention to. Ignore minor details unless they materially affect the conclusion.
Turns a long document into something a busy person can understand quickly.
002
Document Audit
Audit this document for unclear sections, contradictions, missing information, unsupported claims, weak reasoning, outdated information, and anything that could be misunderstood. Rank the issues by importance and explain how I should fix each one.
Finds weaknesses instead of merely summarizing.
003
Find the Important Stuff
Review this document and identify only the information that is likely to affect my decisions, responsibilities, money, deadlines, risks, or next actions. Quote or reference the relevant section when useful and explain why each item matters.
Useful for huge PDFs where you only care about what affects you.
004
Compare Two Documents
Compare these two documents and show me every meaningful difference. Separate changes into: added, removed, modified, and potentially important. Highlight anything that changes responsibilities, cost, scope, deadlines, risk, or meaning.
Good for contracts, proposals, drafts, policies, and reports.
005
Find Contradictions
Review the documents I provided and identify statements, numbers, dates, requirements, or conclusions that conflict with each other. For every conflict, show what each source says and explain what needs clarification.
Strong multi-file use case.
006
Missing Information Check
Review this document as if I need to make a decision based on it. Identify what important information is missing, ambiguous, assumed, or insufficiently supported. Turn those gaps into specific questions I should ask.
Determines what you still need before acting.
007
Obligations & Deadlines
Review this document and extract every obligation, deliverable, deadline, approval, payment, dependency, and condition. Organize them by who is responsible, what needs to happen, and when.
Useful for agreements, policies, and project documents.
008
Turn Document Into Action Plan
Convert this document into an actionable plan. Separate what is informational from what requires action, then list the actions in priority order with dependencies, suggested owners, deadlines if provided, and the logical next step.
Takes passive information and makes it usable.
009
Simplify a Complex Document
Rewrite the important parts of this document in plain English for someone who is unfamiliar with the subject. Keep important caveats, numbers, requirements, and exceptions, but remove unnecessary jargon and complexity.
Preserves important nuance while making the document easier to understand.
010
Handoff Brief
Turn this document and context into a handoff brief for someone taking over the work. Include background, current status, completed work, open tasks, important decisions, key files or information, risks, dependencies, and exactly what they should do next.
Great for workplace handoffs.
Email & Communication
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Prompt
What it does
011
Email Thread Brief
Review this email thread and tell me: what happened, what each person wants, what has been agreed to, what is still unresolved, any deadlines or commitments, and what I need to respond to next. Ignore greetings and repetitive discussion.
Summarizes what happened and what still needs attention.
012
Draft the Reply
Based on the email thread I provided, draft the response I should send next. Address every important question or request, preserve the appropriate tone, avoid repeating information unnecessarily, and make the next step extremely clear.
Creates the next response from the full context.
013
Find the Ask
Review this message or email thread and identify exactly what the sender is asking me to do, decide, provide, approve, or answer. Separate explicit requests from implied requests and flag anything ambiguous.
Identifies exactly what the sender wants.
014
Make This Easy to Answer
Rewrite my email so the recipient can understand it quickly and respond easily. Put the purpose near the beginning, separate questions clearly, remove unnecessary context, and end with an obvious next action.
Makes long emails simpler for the recipient to respond to.
015
Sensitive Email
Rewrite this message so it communicates the issue clearly and firmly while remaining professional and respectful. Avoid passive-aggressive language, excessive apologies, and unnecessary escalation. Preserve the facts and desired outcome.
Makes difficult messages clear without unnecessary conflict.
016
Follow-Up Email
Using the context I provided, write a concise follow-up email that reminds the recipient what is pending without sounding annoying. Reference the relevant context, clearly state what I need, and make the easiest next step obvious.
Creates a concise reminder without sounding annoying.
017
Say No Professionally
Write a professional response declining this request. Be clear rather than vague, give only the necessary explanation, preserve the relationship, and offer an alternative only if one genuinely makes sense.
Declines a request clearly while preserving the relationship.
018
Turn Notes Into Email
Turn these rough notes into a polished email. Preserve all important facts and requests, organize them logically, remove repetition, and make the message sound natural rather than overly formal or AI-written.
Turns rough notes into a polished message.
019
Audience Rewrite
Rewrite this message for the following audience: [AUDIENCE]. Keep the core meaning, but adjust the terminology, level of detail, examples, tone, and emphasis based on what this audience is most likely to care about.
Adapts a message for a specific audience.
020
Communication Risk Check
Review this message before I send it. Identify anything that could be misunderstood, sound rude, create unnecessary conflict, weaken my position, reveal too much, or leave the next step unclear. Then give me an improved version.
Checks a message before it is sent.
Meetings & Projects
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Prompt
What it does
021
Meeting Action Plan
Turn these meeting notes or transcript into a structured action plan. Include decisions made, action items, owner for each action if known, deadlines, dependencies, unresolved questions, and what should happen before the next meeting.
Turns notes or transcripts into concrete next steps.
022
Meeting Summary for Someone Who Missed It
Create a brief for someone who did not attend this meeting. Explain the context, what was discussed, what changed, decisions made, disagreements that matter, and what they now need to know or do.
Creates a useful brief for non-attendees.
023
Commitment Tracker
Review these notes, messages, or meeting transcripts and extract every commitment or promise made. Organize them by person, action, expected timing, and current status if it can be determined.
Extracts every promise or commitment.
024
Project Plan From Messy Notes
Turn this messy project information into a structured project plan. Define the objective, deliverables, major tasks, dependencies, milestones, risks, open questions, and logical order of execution.
Turns scattered information into a structured project plan.
025
Project Risk Review
Review this project plan and identify the most realistic ways it could be delayed, exceed budget, fail quality expectations, or miss its objective. Rank the risks by likelihood and impact and suggest practical mitigation for each.
Finds the most realistic ways the project could fail.
026
What’s Blocking Us?
Review the project information I provided and identify the bottlenecks preventing progress. Separate actual blockers from minor issues, explain the root cause of each, and recommend the fastest way to unblock the work.
Finds actual bottlenecks instead of minor issues.
027
Project Status Update
Turn this project information into a concise status update for stakeholders. Include what was completed, what is in progress, what changed, current risks or blockers, upcoming milestones, and any decisions or help needed.
Creates a concise stakeholder update.
028
Scope Check
Review this project scope and identify anything unclear, missing, duplicated, unrealistic, or likely to cause scope creep. Suggest specific boundaries or clarifications that should be added before work continues.
Finds unclear or risky project scope.
029
Prioritize the Project
Review these project tasks and rank them based on impact, urgency, dependency, and effort. Identify what should happen now, what can wait, what can happen in parallel, and what probably should not be done at all.
Ranks tasks by what matters most.
030
Project Handoff
Create a complete project handoff from the materials I provided. Include purpose, current state, completed work, open tasks, owners, important decisions, dependencies, risks, deadlines, relevant resources, and the next 3 actions.
Creates a complete transfer brief.
Research & Articles
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Prompt
What it does
031
Research Brief
Using the material I provided, create a research brief that separates established facts, important claims, supporting evidence, competing explanations, uncertainties, and unanswered questions. End with the conclusions that are best supported by the available evidence.
Separates facts, claims, evidence, and uncertainty.
032
Article Breakdown
Analyze this article beyond summarizing it. Identify the main argument, supporting evidence, assumptions, strongest points, weak points, potential bias, missing context, and what I should verify independently.
Analyzes the article instead of only summarizing it.
033
Claim Verification Plan
Extract the major factual claims from this material and tell me how each claim could be verified. For each one, identify the ideal type of source, what evidence would support it, and what evidence would weaken it.
Shows how major claims could be checked.
034
Source Comparison
Compare these sources on the same topic. Show where they agree, where they disagree, what evidence each relies on, what important context differs, and which claims appear most strongly supported.
Compares multiple sources on the same topic.
035
Evidence Synthesis
Combine the evidence from these materials into one coherent analysis. Group similar findings, distinguish correlation from causation, flag conflicting evidence, explain uncertainty, and avoid treating repeated claims as independent proof.
Combines evidence without double-counting repeated claims.
036
Research Gaps
Review everything I have provided and identify the biggest gaps preventing a confident conclusion. Rank the missing information by how much it could change the answer and tell me what I should research next.
Finds the missing information that matters most.
037
Find Weak Claims
Identify claims in this material that are overstated, poorly supported, vague, misleading, or dependent on assumptions. Explain why each is weak and what stronger evidence would be needed.
Identifies unsupported or overstated claims.
038
Research Question Builder
Based on this topic and the information I already have, generate the most useful research questions I should investigate next. Prioritize questions whose answers could materially change my understanding or decision.
Generates the questions most worth investigating next.
039
Turn Research Into Recommendation
Review the research I provided and turn it into a decision-oriented recommendation. Explain what the evidence suggests, what remains uncertain, the main risks of acting or waiting, and what you recommend based only on the available information.
Turns evidence into a decision-oriented conclusion.
040
Research Update
Compare this newer information against my previous research. Identify what is genuinely new, what confirms earlier findings, what contradicts them, and whether any previous conclusions should now change.
Shows what genuinely changed with newer information.
Data & Spreadsheets
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Prompt
What it does
041
Data Quality Audit
Review this dataset or spreadsheet and identify missing values, duplicates, inconsistent formatting, suspicious values, broken categories, possible entry errors, and anything else that could make the analysis unreliable. Explain what should be cleaned first.
Finds issues that could make the analysis unreliable.
042
Find the Story in the Data
Analyze this dataset and tell me the most important patterns, trends, changes, and unusual findings. Focus on insights that could influence a real decision rather than simply listing statistics.
Surfaces the insights that matter for decisions.
043
Anomaly Finder
Inspect this data for unusual spikes, drops, outliers, unexpected relationships, or values that do not fit the normal pattern. Rank the anomalies by how important they may be and suggest plausible explanations to investigate.
Finds unusual or suspicious patterns.
044
Period Comparison
Compare these two time periods using the most meaningful metrics in the data. Show absolute change, percentage change where appropriate, major drivers of the difference, and anything that could make the comparison misleading.
Compares two periods in a useful way.
045
Metric Builder
Review this dataset and objective, then recommend the most useful metrics or KPIs to calculate. Explain what each metric tells me, how it should be calculated, and which ones matter most.
Finds the KPIs that actually matter.
046
Chart Recommendation
Review this data and tell me which charts would communicate the most important insights clearly. For each recommended chart, specify the variables, chart type, what it would reveal, and any misleading visualization choices to avoid.
Recommends the clearest visualizations.
047
Spreadsheet Error Hunt
Review this spreadsheet for formulas, totals, references, assumptions, or calculations that appear inconsistent or suspicious. Explain each potential issue and how I should verify or correct it.
Finds suspicious formulas or calculations.
048
Segment the Data
Find useful ways to segment this dataset so I can uncover differences hidden by the overall averages. Recommend the most meaningful segments and explain what questions each segmentation could answer.
Finds useful breakdowns hidden by averages.
049
Executive Data Summary
Turn this data into an executive-level summary. Give me the 5 most important findings, what changed, what appears to be driving it, any risks or anomalies, and the decisions or actions the data suggests.
Turns a dataset into a concise decision brief.
050
What Should I Investigate Next?
Based on this dataset, identify the most important unanswered questions and the additional data that would help answer them. Prioritize the questions based on their likely business or decision-making impact.
Finds the most important unanswered data questions.
Screenshots, Images & Workflows
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Prompt
What it does
051
Screenshot to Instructions
Examine this screenshot and turn what you see into clear step-by-step instructions. Name the relevant buttons, fields, menus, or sections visible in the image and note anything that cannot be determined confidently from the screenshot alone.
Turns a screenshot into clear steps.
052
Screenshot to Table
Extract the structured information visible in this screenshot and organize it into a clean table. Preserve labels, values, and relationships accurately and flag any text or numbers that are difficult to read rather than guessing.
Extracts structured information from a screenshot.
053
Screenshot Analysis
Analyze this screenshot and explain what appears to be happening, what information is important, anything unusual or potentially problematic, and what I should pay attention to next.
Explains what is happening in a screenshot.
054
UI Review
Review this interface screenshot from a usability perspective. Identify confusing hierarchy, unclear labels, unnecessary friction, poor spacing, weak calls to action, accessibility concerns, and the 5 highest-impact improvements.
Audits a screenshot from a usability perspective.
055
Dashboard Review
Review this dashboard screenshot and tell me what conclusions a user could reasonably draw from it, what important context is missing, which metrics deserve attention, and whether any presentation choices could lead to incorrect conclusions.
Evaluates a dashboard and the conclusions it supports.
056
Diagram Explainer
Examine this diagram and explain the flow, components, relationships, and sequence in plain English. Start with the big picture, then explain each major component and how it connects to the others.
Explains diagrams in plain English.
057
Workflow Audit
Review this workflow or process and identify unnecessary steps, repeated work, bottlenecks, handoffs, delays, and opportunities to simplify or automate it. Then propose a cleaner version of the workflow.
Finds friction and wasted effort in a process.
058
Turn Workflow Into SOP
Convert this process into a clear standard operating procedure. Include objective, prerequisites, step-by-step actions, decision points, quality checks, common mistakes, and the expected final result.
Creates a reusable operating procedure.
059
Automation Opportunities
Review this work process and identify which steps could realistically be automated, templated, delegated, or handled by AI. Prioritize opportunities based on time saved, implementation difficulty, and risk.
Finds realistic automation and delegation opportunities.
060
Process Improvement Plan
Review this current process and redesign it for speed, simplicity, and reliability. Show me the current bottlenecks, what should be removed or changed, the improved sequence, and the expected benefit of each change.
Redesigns a process for speed and reliability.
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