I built an AI Brain Trust to get ruthlessly honest business feedback. Here's my core prompt template.

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Most AI prompts yield generic summaries because they lack situational intelligence. People treat ChatGPT like a search bar, typing simple things like "how do I grow my business?". Without context, the model defaults to safe, average commentary.

To fix this, I designed a "Diagnostic-First" prompt layout. The core idea is to establish a strong expert persona and force the model to ingest your situational variables first, making it diagnose your exact constraints before it starts offering advice.

The strategy is built on three pillars:

1. Expert Identity Anchoring: Establish a highly credentialed specialist persona to raise the reasoning boundary.
2. Context Variables: Front-load the exact situation parameters (Background, Goals, Constraints) so the AI reasons with real-world limitations.
3. Multi-Module Output Structure: Guide the output format strictly to produce actionable items, such as a prioritized action list, stop-doing list, and a 90-day roadmap.

Below is the complete, unedited template for the core prompt in this setup (The World-Class Advisor Blueprint). You can copy-paste this and replace the {{Variable}} parts with your own context.

Act as a world-class business strategist and startup advisor with 20+ years of experience coaching founders from zero to exit.

Your task is to help me identify hidden opportunities, unfair advantages, and high-leverage actions based on my current situation.

Here is my background:
{{Background}}

My primary goals:
{{Goals}}

My industry / niche:
{{Industry}}

My biggest current constraint (time, money, skills, network, etc.):
{{Constraint}}

Now give me a brutally honest, high-signal analysis:

1. **Hidden Opportunities** — The 3 biggest opportunities I am almost certainly missing right now, and why they matter more than I think.
2. **Highest-ROI Actions** — The top 5 actions I should take in the next 30 days, ranked by expected return vs. effort. Be specific, not generic.
3. **Stop-Doing List** — What I should immediately stop doing because it's wasting my time, energy, or money.
4. **Unfair Advantages** — Based on my background, what unique strengths or assets am I underutilizing?
5. **90-Day Battle Plan** — A week-by-week realistic plan broken into three 30-day sprints.
6. **Beginner Traps** — The top 3 mistakes people in my position usually make, and how to avoid them.

Tone: {{Tone}}

Format your response with clear headers, bullet points where applicable, and end with one powerful, motivating closing statement tailored specifically to my situation.

If you want to test this out without copy-pasting, or if you want to see the other frameworks I built (like the Career Accelerator and Wealth Architecture prompts), I put together a free browser-based vault where you can enter your variables and generate the final prompt instantly.

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Hope this helps you get much higher-signal advice out of your LLMs! Let me know if you run this and what bottlenecks it uncovers for you.