Free AI Guides · 135 and counting
Free AI guides, sorted by level.
Every prompt pack, AI skill, checklist, and template we give away. Free, copy-paste ready, and grouped from Basic to Advanced so you can start exactly where you are.
135 guides
Basic(44)
Start here. Simple, copy-paste assets for your first wins with AI.
Claude Sonnet 5 is here: what it is, how to use it
A plain-English explainer of Claude Sonnet 5, Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet-tier model. What changed, how to start today, real operator use cases, and when to reach for Opus 4.8 or Fable 5 instead.
The Tutor Block: Make Claude Teach Instead of Answer
Copy this instruction block and Claude stops giving answers you forget and starts teaching concepts you retain.
The Devil's Advocate Skill: Kill Bad Ideas Before They Cost You
Paste this prompt and Claude argues against your own plan, surfacing the holes before you commit time or money.
The Global Instructions Block: What to Tell Claude Before Every Session
Copy this global instructions block to set Claude's voice, behavior, and thinking mode so every session starts calibrated.
Interrogate Me: The Prompt That Stops Claude Assuming
Paste this prompt and Claude asks the five questions it needs before starting work, so it never runs off on the wrong assumption.
Claude vs. ChatGPT: The Founder's Honest Breakdown
Get a direct, task-by-task comparison of Claude and ChatGPT so you know which tool to reach for and when.
Claude Projects Setup: The Right Way to Isolate Context
Follow this step-by-step guide to set up Claude Projects so each one has isolated context, no bleed, no confusion.
Resume and Pitch Tailor: Two Prompts, One Submission
Run these two prompts and Claude rewrites your resume or pitch to match the job description or investor thesis in minutes.
Which Claude to Use: Model Selection Cheat Sheet
Get the one-page breakdown that tells you exactly which Claude model fits any task, so you stop overpaying or underpowering.
My Weekly Claude Skills: What Actually Gets Used
Get the curated list of Claude skills I run every week as a founder-operator, with why each one earns its place.
Zero-Dollar Brand Positioning: One Prompt
Run this prompt and extract your brand positioning, voice, and differentiation in one session without paying a consultant.
Claude Learning Mode: The Socratic System Prompt
Copy this system prompt and Claude stops handing you answers and starts asking the questions that make the concept stick.
Free AI Certs Worth Adding to Your Resume
Get the curated shortlist of free AI certifications that employers and clients actually recognize, skipping the noise.
AI Job Titles Breakdown: What Each Role Pays and Requires
Get a plain-English breakdown of the AI-native job titles exploding in 2026, what each role requires, and how to position for one.
AI Side Hustle Stack: Three Models That Actually Pay
Get a breakdown of the three Claude-powered service models generating real revenue right now, with what to charge and how to start.
Sunday Health Audit: Weekly Review Prompt
Paste this weekly health review prompt and Claude turns your raw data, sleep, weight, and workouts into a clear weekly picture with next steps.
AI Meal Planner: Full Week and Grocery List in One Prompt
Run this single Claude prompt and get a full week of meals matched to your goals, plus a ready-to-shop grocery list.
Automated Travel Setup: Preferences Brief and Cowork Prompt
Fill in this travel preferences brief and your AI handles flight research, hotel shortlisting, and itinerary drafts without manual back-and-forth.
AI Stylist: Style Brief Prompt and Closet Audit System
Run this style brief prompt once and Claude knows your aesthetic, then use the photo-based audit to clear dead weight from your wardrobe.
Monthly Money Audit: Claude Personal Finance Prompt
Paste your account statements into this prompt and get a clear picture of where money went, what changed, and what to fix.
Personal CLAUDE.md Template: Wire Your Life Into Claude
Fill in this ready-made CLAUDE.md and every Claude session starts with your actual context, preferences, and constraints already loaded.
Weekend Planner Skill File: From Brain Dump to Structured Plan
Drop in this Claude skill and your Friday brain dump becomes a structured weekend plan with priorities, blocks, and free time mapped out.
Bias-Proof Prompt Checklist: 12 Checks Before You Trust the Output
Run this 12-item checklist and catch the three most common ways Claude hallucinates or misleads before you act on the result.
AI Brand Visibility Checklist: Does Your Brand Show Up When AI Recommends?
Run this 15-item checklist and audit whether your brand surfaces when AI tools recommend solutions in your category.
Book to Action Plan: Extraction Prompt
Paste any book summary or chapter and get a prioritized action plan, sorted by impact, that you can start executing this week.
About Page Rewrite: 8-Question Prompt
Answer 8 questions and get an About page rewrite that converts skeptics into believers: specific, credible, and written for the reader, not the founder.
Meeting Summary Prompt: Decisions and Owners in 60 Seconds
Turn any transcript or rough notes into a structured summary with decisions, owners, and deadlines that people actually read and act on.
Cold DM That Gets Replies: 5-Field Prompt
Fill in 5 fields and get a personalized cold DM under 80 words, written to earn a reply, not politely ignored.
Podcast Guest Prep Kit: Ready in 10 Minutes
Paste the guest's LinkedIn or bio and get a complete research brief, 15 questions, and a strong cold-open hook before the call starts.
Invoice Follow-Up Sequence: Three Emails That Get Paid
Get three ready-to-send follow-up emails, progressively firm but never aggressive, that recover late payments without burning the client relationship.
X Thread Builder: Hook to CTA in Your Voice
Turn one core idea into a 10-tweet thread with a share-optimized hook, a narrative arc that holds attention, and a CTA that converts, written in your voice.
Testimonial to Case Study: One Prompt
Paste a raw testimonial or customer interview transcript and get the before/after story structured into a publishable case study with a pull quote.
Founder Story Interview Prompt: From Your Answers to Your Narrative
Answer five questions Claude asks you, then get your real founder story written as a narrative you can use on your About page, pitch deck, and podcast bio.
3 AI Systems to Build This Weekend
The three systems every business owner should build with Claude first: a follow-up assistant that revives old leads, a content engine that turns real reviews into a month of marketing, and a playbook that gets a job out of your head and onto paper. Word-for-word prompts included, about ten minutes each.
The One Move
The single first thing every business owner should do with Claude: a 10-minute Business Brain Dump. Answer six questions in one chat and walk away with your top 3 priorities ranked, your biggest bottleneck named, a this-week plan, and the first thing worth automating.
The Big Three: 3 AI Systems Every Business Should Run By Friday
Three copy-paste Claude prompts that turn your everyday work into reusable systems: a customer answer bank, an honest review-getter, and a plain-English Friday CEO report. About ten minutes each, no code and no tech team.
The Two-Move Combo
The two things every business owner should hand a new AI model on day one: one move finds revenue already sitting in your customer list, the other finds about 5 hours hiding in your week. Word-for-word prompts included; the whole combo takes about an hour.
Inbox Zero with Fable 5
Clean your inbox with Claude and the Gmail connector using three copy-paste prompts and one weekly ritual. Claude sorts, drafts, and builds your cleanup list; you stay the only one who sends or deletes anything.
Connect QuickBooks to Claude
Four copy-paste prompts that turn your live QuickBooks into plain-English answers about your money: what your profit did this month, who owes you, where cash gets tight, and where you are bleeding. No code, no accountant-speak, about five minutes to set up.
The Content X-Ray
Your last 20 posts already know what your audience wants. Paste them into Claude with these three word-for-word prompts and, in about ten minutes, see which topics, formats, and hooks actually pull, what to kill, and what to double down on. No dashboard, no guesswork.
The Life Maximizer
Run your life with the same systems you run your business. Three word-for-word Claude conversations that plan your week, pressure-test big decisions, and audit your energy. No app, no tracker, about 20 minutes on a Sunday.
The Meeting Money Machine
Turn every sales call into money with Claude. Paste one transcript and get back four things the same day: the follow-up email ready to send, the objections you missed, the deal temperature with one next step, and coaching on how you actually sounded.
The One-Page Dashboard
Know exactly how your business did last week, every Monday, in ten minutes. Paste your numbers into Claude and get back a one-page scorecard: every number vs last week, what's going right, what's slipping, and the one number to fix before Friday. No spreadsheet skills, and it works even if you track nothing today.
The Social Platform Playbook
Build your social platform with Claude in four moves: your real stories in your actual voice, with a month of posts planned in one evening. Four word-for-word prompts turn a single brain dump into a voice doc, a 30-day calendar, a hook bank, and repurposed formats across every channel.
Intermediate(66)
Applied playbooks for real work: sales, content, ops, and hiring.
The Founder Skills Stack: 10 Claude Skills Worth Stealing
Get 10 ready-to-install Claude skills with exact setup instructions so you can deploy a trained specialist in under 10 minutes.
The CLAUDE.md Blueprint: From 65% to 94% Accuracy
Copy this CLAUDE.md structure, fill in each section, and watch Claude's task accuracy jump from mediocre to near-precise.
The Verify Pack: 4 Prompts That Stop Claude Lying
Four ready-to-paste prompts that catch hallucinations, false confidence, and wrong assumptions before you act on them.
Your First Claude Agent: The No-Code Template
Get the exact agent template and setup steps that give Claude a persistent role with memory, deployed in 30 minutes.
3-Layer Claude Memory: CLAUDE.md Template
Copy this CLAUDE.md template to wire up persistent, project, and session-level memory so Claude never starts from scratch.
Founder Morning Brief: The Claude Skill File
Drop in this skill file and Claude runs a structured morning brief covering priorities, open loops, and decisions before you open your inbox.
Idea Stress-Test: Four Prompts Before You Spend a Dollar
Run this four-prompt sequence and put any business idea through a structured stress-test before you commit time or capital.
Claude Stock Analyst: The Research Prompt
Paste this prompt and Claude runs a structured analysis covering business model, moat, risks, and valuation in one pass.
Claude Cowork Setup: Automate the Founder Busywork
Get the exact Cowork workflow that delegates inbox triage, draft writing, and scheduling so you stop doing work Claude can do.
5 Claude Cheat Codes: Swipe File
Get five copy-paste techniques most users never find, each one changing how Claude responds to your most common requests.
Solo Founder AI Stack 2026: Full Breakdown
Get the exact AI tool stack for a solo founder in 2026, with what each tool does, what to cut, and how they connect.
AI Inbox Zero: Claude Email Triage System
Run this Claude prompt chain and your inbox gets triaged by priority, replied to in draft, and cleared without you touching every message.
Faceless AI Channel: Six Prompts to First Published Video
Run these six prompts in order and go from blank slate to a published faceless AI content video without showing your face.
Claude Prompting Playbook: What Actually Works Now
Get a single-page reference sheet of prompting techniques that work in Claude today, based on real use rather than forum theory.
Expert Knowledge File Template: Turn What You Know Into Claude Context
Fill in this structured template and your proprietary expertise becomes a knowledge file Claude draws on every session.
Last-30-Days Research Skill: Force Claude to Stay Current
Install this prompt skill and Claude is forced to reason only from the last 30 days of data, cutting out stale context automatically.
Token Audit Checklist: Find Where You're Wasting 50 Percent
Run this 10-item audit and identify exactly where you're burning 50 to 75 percent of your Claude token budget on waste.
The 4-Prompt Research Stack: Topic to Decision-Ready Intel
Paste these four prompts in sequence and turn any topic into structured, decision-ready intelligence in one sitting.
The 3-Prompt Ops Stack for Small Business
Run these three prompts and handle your weekly ops rundown, vendor escalations, and team updates without writing from scratch.
Plugin Audit Prompt: Find What Fits Your Actual Job
Paste this prompt and Claude recommends exactly which integrations and plugins fit your role, cutting the list of 500 down to what you need.
Claude Connector Map: 15 Integrations That Make Claude a Personal Assistant
Get the curated map of 15 integrations that transform Claude from a chat tool into an active assistant wired into your real workflow.
30-Day Email Sequence: One Prompt
Get 20 ready-to-send emails spanning welcome, nurture, offer, and re-engagement sequences, all in your voice, from a single Claude prompt.
Call Transcript to 5 Content Pieces
Turn any sales call, interview, or coaching session transcript into five platform-ready content pieces in under 5 minutes.
Claude Business Assistant: Exact System Prompt
Copy the exact system prompt structure that makes Claude remember your business context, voice, and constraints across every session.
Cold Outreach That Reads Human: 3-Prompt Chain
Run this 3-prompt chain to research the prospect, build a real hook, and write a cold message that bypasses AI detectors and gets replies.
Hiring Scorecard Builder: One Prompt
Build a role-specific scorecard with weighted criteria, red flags, and interview questions for any position in one Claude prompt.
Contract First Draft: Prompt and Review Checklist
Get the prompt that generates a solid contract first pass in Claude, plus the 10-point checklist to catch what matters before you sign.
10-Minute Competitor Teardown Prompt
Run this prompt on any competitor and get their positioning, gaps, weaknesses, and your specific win angles in one structured output.
Reviews to Roadmap: Product Prioritization Prompt
Paste your customer reviews and get a ranked product roadmap with feature requests, bug patterns, and churn signals sorted by frequency and revenue impact.
Pricing Model Builder: Claude Prompt Template
Build a defensible pricing model with tiers, anchors, and value metrics baked in, using this single Claude prompt template.
Weekly Investor Update: One Prompt
Paste this prompt once a week and get a crisp, credible investor update that shows traction without overselling or burying the lead.
Negotiation Sparring Prompt: Know Your Leverage First
Run this roleplay prompt before any negotiation to map your leverage, your BATNA, and the other side's likely moves before you walk in.
Second Brain Entry Builder: Two-Prompt Chain
Turn any article, meeting, or idea dump into a structured, Notion-ready knowledge entry you will actually find and use later.
Bookkeeping Categorization Prompt
Paste your transaction CSV and get every line categorized by expense type, ready to hand your accountant or drop into QuickBooks.
Complete Webinar Builder: One Prompt
Give Claude your topic and audience and get a full webinar outline, slide-by-slide talking points, and a replay email sequence in one shot.
Sales Call Prep Prompt: Script Before You Dial
Feed Claude the prospect context and get a tailored call script, objection responses, and a qualification checklist before you pick up the phone.
Lead Magnet Built in 20 Minutes
Answer 6 questions and get a complete lead magnet: title, promise, outline, and body copy ready to design and publish today.
PDF to Course Outline: Extraction Prompt
Feed Claude your PDF and get a structured course outline, module scripts, and quiz questions ready for any course platform.
Voice-Calibrated Support Reply Template
Set your brand voice once and get AI-generated support replies that sound like you, not a bot, for every ticket type.
30-Day Content Calendar: One Prompt
Paste one prompt into Claude and get a full month of content ideas, formats, and posting days ready to execute, no strategy meeting required.
One Video to 10 Posts: Repurposing Prompt
Drop your video transcript into Claude and get 10 ready-to-post pieces across 4 formats, no rewriting, no blank page.
SOP Generator: Brain Dump to Documented Process
Describe how you do anything in plain language and get back a clean, delegatable SOP formatted, numbered, and ready to hand off.
90-Day Cash Flow Forecast Prompt
Paste your revenue and expense data and get a 90-day forecast with gap alerts and scenario planning, no spreadsheet formula skills required.
User Research Synthesis Prompt Stack
Paste raw interview notes or survey responses and get themes, insights, and product recommendations structured and ready for a decision meeting.
Churn Prevention Playbook: Built With Claude
Build a churn early-warning system and intervention playbook for your product, using Claude to analyze patterns and draft the save sequences.
Expertise to Course Outline: Two-Minute Prompt
Paste your expertise and get a complete course outline with modules, learning outcomes, and a positioning angle in under 2 minutes.
Grant Intake Prompt: Qualify Before You Write a Word
Feed Claude a grant description and get a structured intake doc that tells you whether to pursue it and exactly how to position your application.
Investor Narrative Prompt: Story Before Slides
Draft the 7-beat investor narrative for your company in 15 minutes, the story that makes your slides coherent instead of a list of facts.
CRO Hypothesis Generator: A/B Tests Worth Running
Describe your page and goal and get 10 prioritized A/B test hypotheses with ICE scores and the exact copy or layout change to test.
Team Knowledge Base Builder: Docs That Get Used
Get the structure and the exact Claude prompt to convert your existing docs, SOPs, and Slack threads into a searchable team KB in a weekend.
Contract Triage Prompt: Five Clauses That Matter
Paste any contract and get a plain-English triage of the five highest-risk clauses before you sign or send it to a lawyer.
Customer Onboarding Flow: Map the First 30 Days
Describe your product and customer and get a complete 30-day onboarding flow with triggers, copy, and the one metric that tells you it works.
SEO Gap Research Prompt: Articles Worth Writing
Get a prioritized list of article opportunities your competitors rank for and you don't, with the exact angle to take on each one.
Content Localization Kit: Adapt for Any Market
Run this prompt chain to adapt any content piece for a new language and market: voice preserved, idioms adjusted, cultural landmines flagged, all in one Claude session.
Referral Program Builder: Mechanics to Launch Copy
Run this three-prompt chain to design your referral mechanics, write the invite email, and create the post-referral thank-you sequence ready to hand to your dev.
Raw Data to Board-Ready Narrative: Two-Prompt Sequence
Transform a table of raw numbers into a board-ready data story with a headline insight, the right chart type, and the three talking points that matter.
Passive Candidate Outreach Prompt: Books Calls
Write personalized cold outreach to passive candidates that leads with a relevant hook and ends with a low-friction ask that gets replies.
Pricing Page Audit Prompt: Find the Conversion Killers
Get a point-by-point audit of your pricing page covering unclear value, friction in tier structure, weak CTA copy, and unhandled objections, with specific rewrites for each.
FAQ Bot System Prompt Template
Copy this ready-to-paste system prompt to turn your existing docs into a scoped, on-brand FAQ bot that stays in scope, escalates edge cases, and matches your voice.
Company Values That Guide Decisions: Scenario Prompt
Surface your real company values by testing them against hard situations, so you end up with principles that actually guide calls, not words on a wall.
Sales Objection Handler: Reframes for Every Pushback
Paste your product and top objections and get a battle-tested reframe for each one, calibrated to your buyer's actual concern, not a generic script.
Webinar Promo Copy Kit: Full Stack From One Prompt
Generate your complete webinar promo stack from one prompt: email invite, social posts, registration page headline, and reminder SMS, all in your voice.
Vendor Contract Negotiation Prompt
Paste any vendor proposal and get the risky clauses flagged, the real leverage points identified, and a counter-proposal drafted in one Claude session.
Release Notes Generator: Dev Notes to Polished Copy
Paste your dev notes or changelog and get three polished versions: one for users, one for the changelog, one for a launch post.
Competitor Launch Intelligence Prompt
Run this repeatable prompt on any competitor announcement, press release, or product page and get a structured competitive brief you can act on the same day.
The IG + TikTok Launch Kit
A complete lead-generation system for business owners and creators: ten short-video guides, each with three hooks, a word-for-word script, and a caption, plus a 30-day posting calendar and comment playbook that turns viewers into leads through a single keyword comment.
Advanced(25)
Multi-step systems, agents, and technical setups for power users.
Claude Code Daily: 5 Commands That Do the Real Work
Get the exact Claude Code slash commands and flags used daily, with the real-world patterns that save hours per week.
Claude Self-Improvement Hooks: Two Scripts That Log and Learn
Install these two hook scripts and every Claude session logs itself, feeds forward, and sharpens future responses automatically.
The Claude Skill Malware Audit
Paste this audit prompt and scan any Claude skill file for hidden instructions, injected behavior, and security risks in seconds.
The LLM Council Prompt: Three Adversarial Voices, One Decision
Run this single prompt and get three distinct adversarial AI perspectives on any decision, stress-testing it before you commit.
Two-Agent Check System: Make Claude Audit Itself
Set up this two-agent configuration and a second Claude instance audits the first one's output before it reaches you.
Claude to Meta and Google Ads: MCP Setup Guide
Follow these step-by-step instructions to connect Claude Code to Meta Ads and Google Ads via MCP so you can query campaigns directly.
Day-One MCP Stack: Claude Desktop for Operators
Get the exact MCP server list to install on day one so Claude Desktop can read files, run queries, and control your tools from one prompt.
Loop Engineering: The Autonomous Claude Workflow Template
Fill in this loop template with a scoring rubric and Claude runs a task end-to-end, self-evaluates, and iterates without babysitting.
Karpathy Coding Rules: The CLAUDE.md Block
Copy this CLAUDE.md rules block distilled from Karpathy's core coding philosophy and Claude ships faster, cleaner, and with fewer rewrites.
Session Architecture Guide: Never Hit the Context Limit Again
Follow this guide to structure your Claude sessions so you never hit the context ceiling mid-task and lose work.
Live Dashboard Builder: One Prompt to Interactive HTML
Run this single prompt and Claude generates a fully interactive HTML dashboard as an artifact you can use immediately.
Vibe-Coder Security Audit: One Prompt to Find the Holes
Paste this prompt and Claude audits your app code for the security vulnerabilities that get vibe-coded projects breached.
Claude in VS Code: The Full Setup Guide
Follow these exact extension, settings, and workflow steps to turn VS Code into a Claude-powered coding environment today.
Parallel Agent Workflow Template: Fan Out, Converge, Ship
Deploy this Claude workflow template and fan tasks out to multiple agents in parallel, then converge results without manual coordination.
Claude Managed Agents: Plain-English Setup Guide
Read this plain-English walkthrough and understand what Claude Managed Agents are, when to use them, and how to set one up without guessing.
Social Growth Agent Blueprint: Architecture and Prompts
Get the exact agent architecture and prompts to build a Claude-powered social media growth system that runs without daily manual input.
Personal CRM Inside Claude: Full Setup Prompt
Build a living contact intelligence system in Claude that tracks relationships, conversation history, and next actions without paying for another SaaS tool.
Competitor Price Tracker: Prompt and 5-Tool Stack
Get the exact Claude prompt plus the 5-tool stack to build a working competitor price tracker this week without hiring a developer.
Weekly Metrics Dashboard Builder: Two Prompts
Define your dashboard structure and generate the weekly narrative summary so your team always knows what moved, why it matters, and what to do next.
Financial Model Stress-Tester Prompt
Break your financial model before investors do: this prompt challenges every major assumption and ranks which inputs drive the most variance in your outcomes.
Annual Business Review System: Prompt Sequence
Run your full annual review with this structured prompt sequence: what worked, what didn't, where you're going, and a one-page strategic brief at the end.
Second-Opinion Agent: System Prompt for a Permanent Devil's Advocate
Drop this system prompt into a Claude Project to create a permanent devil's advocate that stress-tests every major decision you bring it.
Customer Feedback to Action Plan: Three-Prompt System
Run three prompts on raw customer feedback from any source and get a prioritized product and messaging improvement plan ready for your next sprint.
The Fable 5 Playbook: Four Parts That Make Any Model Work Like Your Best Analyst
The four operating principles we run on every build, script, and report: how the model reasons, how work gets split across agents, how those agents are instructed, and how the final deliverable is shaped. Steal it and your AI output stops sounding like a chatbot.
The AI Playbook: Four Parts That Make Any Model Work Like Your Best Employee
The four parts that make any AI model work like your best employee: how it reasons, how the work flows, how you write the prompt, and what you demand back. Copy-paste prompts and a 60-second quality checklist included. Works on any model you pick.
Disclaimer
The guides, prompts, templates, and AI tools provided on this page are for educational and informational purposes only. Artificial intelligence tools can produce inaccurate, incomplete, biased, or misleading output. Do not rely on AI-generated content for legal, medical, financial, or other professional advice. Results vary based on how you use these resources. BrainVaultAI makes no warranties — express or implied — about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or fitness of any guide for a particular purpose. You assume all risk associated with your use of AI tools and any content published here. Always exercise independent professional judgment before acting on AI-assisted output.
Get new assets the moment they drop
We release new operator-grade AI assets here regularly. Drop your email and we'll send the next ones, plus a short series of our highest-leverage AI plays. No spam. Unsubscribe in one click.
Free. No spam. Unsubscribe in one click. By submitting you agree to receive emails from BrainVaultAI.