The Founder Prompting Playbook & templates

Copy-paste prompt templates for product, growth, fundraising, hiring, and ops

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Every week, we break down what’s actually working in the startup trenches—tools, tactics, and playbooks founders are using right now to reach product-market fit and scale beyond it.

Today’s issue is about one of the most underused founder skills of 2025:
Prompting.

If you're still using AI tools like a glorified chatbot, you're missing the entire point.

This guide will show you how to turn ChatGPT (or any AI) into your co-founder—complete with field-tested prompt structures, reusable templates, and advanced techniques to 100x your output across product, growth, ops, and fundraising.

🧠 In this issue of Product Market Fit:

1. The 5-part structure every high-performing prompt should follow

2. Reusable prompt skeletons for any LLM (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini…)

3. Field-tested prompt templates for:

• ✅ Product prioritization (RICE scoring)

• 📈 Cold email & GTM copy

• 💸 Investor outreach + fundraising one-liners

• 🧑‍💻 Hiring job descriptions

• 🧾 Internal ops (updates, task handoffs, onboarding)

4. Advanced prompting techniques:

• Chain-of-thought reasoning

• Self-critique loops

• Few-shot prompting

• Dynamic variable scaling for outreach

The Anatomy of a High-Performance Prompt

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