Lesson 4
What to type in the box
Your task today
Write a clear prompt for a real business task.
Use one example from your own business as you work through the lesson.
"Just prompt it better." That's the advice everyone gives once you complain that your AI tool (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot — whichever you use) gave you something generic, and it's useless, because nobody follows it up with what "better" means. You're not bad at this. You've just never been handed the three things that turn a mushy answer into a usable one.
Here they are. Every prompt that works is doing these three things, in some order:
- Who you are — the context it needs to not answer like a stranger.
- What you want — the actual thing, stated plainly, not hinted at.
- What it's for — who reads the result and what happens next, which is what decides the tone and the length.
That's the whole formula. Not a magic phrase, not a trick word, just three pieces of information a person would also need before writing something for you.
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Published August 19, 2026 by Courtney. AI tools change fast — if something on your screen doesn't match, tell us and we'll fix the lesson.