15 AI For Work Prompts To Improve Your Productivity

As a start-up founder, I had to wear many hats. I had to be the team’s marketer, salesperson, product manager, and bug tester simultaneously!

The amount of work I had to put in to make all of this resulted in me not spending enough time on higher-value tasks.

This is when I started using generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity to improve my productivity and save me some time (the other alternative was hiring a virtual assistant).

In this article, I’ll review 15 AI-for-work prompts that I still use to research topics, generate text, and build out campaigns.

I’ll also walk you through 5 generative AI tools you can use, which are cheaper than hiring a VA.

How Can You Use AI To Improve Your Work Productivity?

When I didn’t have a team to back me up for tasks, I was using AI for tasks, such as:

• Automating repetitive tasks, such as data entry and scheduling.
• Drafting emails, writing content, and producing presentations from scratch.
• Researching and summarizing topics.

As AI tools can now generate text and analyze data faster than humans, both start-ups and corporations have been using AI to increase productivity.

For example, I used to research topics and draft emails with ChatGPT and Perplexity, instead of hiring a copywriter.

That allowed our team to save money and also save us time from having to go back and forth with a writer, instead of prompting an AI engine.

As for corporations, I’ve seen some large enterprises use sales tools like Einstein to make predictions about deal value and spot opportunities in your pipeline.

💡 Later in this guide, I’ll explore some of the best AI tools to help you increase your productivity alongside your team.

AI For Work Prompts To Increase Yours & Your Team’s Productivity

Here are 15 of my favourite use cases of AI for work productivity alongside prompts and follow-up prompts that you can use:

#1: Researching topics

My favourite use case of AI for work has been researching topics.

You can ask generative tools like Perplexity to explain a complicated concept like you are an 11-year-old and argue why it’s important.

Prompt: Explain to me in 3 sentences with an example of what hreflang is in SEO and why it’s important.

My favourite part about this is that I can specify the amount of sentences in the explanation.

It could explain it to me with a 1-liner, or with an in-depth guide of 1,000+ words.

#2: Writing

As organizations that use AI for content creation see a 60% increase in productivity and a 30% improvement in content quality, I’ve seen more and more brands adopt AI tools for content creation.

From generating email marketing campaigns to producing SEO-optimized content, generative AI can help you with all writing tasks.

Prompt: Generate a 1,000-word article on the topic of ‘’ChatGPT for enterprise’’. It should be a comprehensive guide covering what is ChatGPT enterprise and its different use cases.

💡 Tools like Team-GPT (that’s us) let you further improve your content quality by creating custom instructions for your preferred AI model, such as ChatGPT.

For example, I used to add instructions for brand voice and writing style to make sure that I could scale my content production without having to heavily edit it.

Alternatively, tools like Jasper AI let you access pre-made writing prompts to write optimized SEO content 

#3: Analyzing data

In our guide on how organizations are using AI for data analysis, I went over how AI can be used for analyzing data, such as identifying patterns in large data sets and generating unique insights.

Here’s an example prompt for analyzing and summarizing data sets.

Prompt: Analyze quarterly performance data of my SaaS product, focusing on customer acquisition cost (CAC), lifetime value (LTV), and monthly recurring revenue (MRR). Provide insights and recommendations to help me improve these metrics for the next quarter.

[Insert your data here – you can use Google Sheets as well].

#4: Summarizing

Generative AI tools can help you summarize content on the internet or summarize your content to send out to leads.

For example, tools like Einstein AI can help you summarize deals for your sales development representatives.

I used AI to help me with summarizing articles to help me learn topics faster.

Prompt: I want you to read this article and then summarize the top 3 findings in 3 sentences: 

[Insert URL]

#5: Idea generation

AI tools can help you with idea generation in the workplace. 

You might assume that the advice these platforms will give you would be generic, but that all depends on your prompt (i.e., what information you are feeding the tool).

Prompt: Generate 5 ideas of how I can increase the number of sign-ups for my SaaS platform which is an AI collaboration tool with generative AI capabilities.

#6: Market research

AI can assist product managers and marketers by helping them conduct market research in a category.

Market research prompts were important to me when I was a start-up founder because they helped me understand competitor strategies and spot threats early on.

Prompt: I want you to browse the web and perform market research in the AI marketing tool niche. I want you to give me the global market size and growth projections, key players and their market share, industry trends and technologies, SWOT analysis, customer needs and pain points, competitive advantages and USPs.

There’s a follow-up prompt that I like to do to evaluate the different markets.

Follow-up prompt: Perform the same market research, but this time only for the European market.

#7: Conceptualization of product ideas

A 2nd productivity prompt for start-up founders is the support of these AI tools with product conceptualization.

You can get to know more about a potential product’s possible target audience to go after, required features, unique selling points, and technical requirements.

Prompt: I’m planning to develop an AI marketing tool aimed at producing quality content and saving them time on tasks. The tool will cater to marketing managers who do not have the budget to hire copywriters. Help me conceptualize this project.

For that prompt to work, you’ll need to insert:

• The product category you are planning on developing (e.g., project management software).
• The customer pain points the platform aims to solve.
• The target audience you will be going after.

#8: Preparing for customer interviews

AI can help you prepare for different kinds of interviews – from job interviews to customer interviews.

I used artificial intelligence to suggest interview questions for my ideal target audience to

• Validate my product ideas.
• Build a list of priority features.
• Identify their pain points.

Prompt: I’m developing a SaaS product for team collaboration while using ChatGPT. We are planning a customer interviews sprint where we’ll aim to interview 10-15 power users of our product to understand how they use it, why they like it, their needs, use cases, and success stories. I want you to help me structure the interview and formulate the interview questions.

➡️ Context is quite important for these types of prompts. Make sure to include as much relevant information about your product and target audience as possible.

#9: Generating pitch decks

One more use case of generative AI tools is their ability to help you structure and generate pitch decks.

The software can assist you with generating the text for the market analysis, competitive landscape, and product features section in your decks.

This can help you pitch to investors or get internal buy-in from your development team for product ideas.

Prompt: Create a pitch deck for my new software product [describe what your product idea or suggested feature does].

I’m looking for sections on market analysis, competitive landscape, product features, and key performance indicators. Here are the details for you to refer to: 

[Suggested product or feature with information about target audience, KPIs and main competitors]

#10: Bug testing

Debugging used to be one of the most tedious yet important tasks that I did when I was developing Team-GPT.

Product managers and start-up founders can use generative AI tools to test code for bugs if your code does not run properly.

Prompt: I want you to perform a bug test on the code below: 

[Insert problematic code].

#11: Optimizing blog posts for SEO

Generative AI tools can help you optimize your blog posts for SEO.

Here’s an example prompt of how marketers can gain insights into how to optimize article content without being experts in SEO:

Prompt: I need to optimize this URL: [Insert target URL]. I want you to access it and tell me how I can optimize for these keywords: [Insert long-tail keywords].

#12: Sentence validation & rewriting

If you are unsure about a statement you are making or an action you’re recommending to your clients/customers, you can use generative AI tools to validate and/or rewrite your claims.

Prompt: In this statement correct? If it’s not, I want you to re-write it to make logical sense: [Statement]

#13: Generating keyword ideas

AI tools can be used to brainstorm seed keywords and help you generate long-tail and LSI keywords to further optimize your target pages.

Here are a few prompts that I used to prompt:

Prompt: Give me 25 semantically relevant but unique topics under the main category of [main category]. I want you to give me the result in a table with 5 columns.

Here’s a second prompt that you can use to generate long-tail keywords after generating your short-tail keywords:

Prompt: Using ‘[seed keyword]’ as the central seed keyword, identify 15 long-tail keywords that potential customers might use when they look for [industry and the industry’s unique selling proposition].

Tools like Team-GPT provide you with not only keyword ideas but also give you title ideas to get started.

#14: Build out a social media campaign

If you are a marketer and you need to create a social media marketing strategy to engage your community, this one is for you.

AI-powered social media post generators like Team-GPT are capable of using frameworks, such as the 5-3-2 rule in social media marketing to build out weekly content plans.

Prompt: I want you to generate a 1-month social media content plan using the 5-3-2 rule for my [product category] targeting [target audience] on [social media platform]. Every week have at least 5 original post ideas.

#15: Generate scripts for video content

Last but not least, you can use AI tools to help you generate scripts for video content, such as podcasts, YouTube videos, and product demos.

Prompt: Generate a video script demonstrating the step-by-step process of using our product, highlighting its ease of use and efficiency.

Similar to the other prompts, the more information you insert about your product (i.e., the more data you can feed the engine), the better output you will receive.

What Are The Best Generative AI Tools To Improve Your Work Productivity?

We went over some of the prompts I was using when building and marketing my start-up, now it’s time to go over a few AI tools to help you improve your team’s productivity at work.

#1: Team-GPT

Team-GPT (that’s us) is an AI productivity tool for small and large enterprises that lets you collaborate with different AI models alongside your team.

Our platform lets you collaborate securely with your team members using platforms like Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity.

You can boost your team’s collaboration with our real-time generative AI collaboration and organizational features.

Team-GPT provides your organization with an interactive workspace in which you can collaborate in chats, prompts, and threads in real-time.

Your team can master AI with our shared learning path feature, allowing you to share insights and support each other.

💡 Within the team chats, you can organize your information in folders and sub-folders to find the information you need at any time.

You can see the interactions that their teams are having with the AI and be able to join them.

Customize a Better Version of ChatGPT

You can use ChatGPT with your team on Team-GPT’s platform and customize it to your needs.

After that, you can use your version of ChatGPT for writing and productivity tasks, such as:

• Drafting SEO-optimized article briefs.
• Writing social media posts and email campaigns.
• Editing and finalizing articles with Pages and Edit with AI.
• Generating ad copy for advertising campaigns.

Here’s why enterprises love our collaborative AI software:

• A shared workspace: Collaborate in chats and documents in real-time from a single platform with your team.
• Smart AI-powered editing for improved writing, fixed grammar, and refined text.
• Organized and shared content, ensuring easy access to chats and pages for all your team members.
• Managing your content by turning any chat into a document or starting a new conversation from a Page.

#2: Perplexity

Perplexity is an AI model that is ideal for research and content creation, as the platform has above-average content output and is good at researching topics.

The platform helps you improve productivity in the workspace by generating content, imagery, and research topics to enable your team to be more productive and efficient.

The AI content creation tool can be used for:

• Researching topics in-depth to upskill your employees or to assist when generating article content.
• Generating article content that is optimized for SEO. You can also use the platform to generate keyword ideas and then use them to create articles.
• Analysing PDFs, CSV files, images, and text documents to analyze data and create summaries.

#3: Claude

Claude is an advanced AI model that can help your team with analyzing data, generating SEO-optimized content, and writing copy for advertising campaigns and emails.

The tool gives you access to 3 AI models depending on how fast, accurate, and in-depth you want your generated content to be.

Here are the 3 models that Claude offers:

• Haiku Model: Execute lightweight actions (e.g., generating meta titles and email campaigns) with a quick response speed in comparison to the other models.
• Sonnet: An AI model with higher performance and accuracy of responses while also maintaining quick speed to respond (e.g., optimizing an article for SEO).
• Opus: Ideal for complex analysis, longer tasks with many steps and coding tasks (e.g., analyzing large data sets).

#4: Einstein AI

Einstein AI is a product of Salesforce built for sales teams that helps them prompt the tool to get deal overviews and assist them with setting up automations.

The work productivity tool lets you scale your sales processes to save your sales team time and money, such as setting up automatic Slack notifications when a new lead lands.

Einstein AI can be used for:

• Boosting your customer support agent productivity by surfacing relevant information during customer support interactions.
• Building customer journeys with its predictive and generative AI capabilities to help you drive personalization and increase efficiency.
• Asking the platform to produce content, such as writing emails enriched with customer data or generating concise summaries of sales calls.

#5: Copy.ai

Copy AI is an AI platform that helps you generate copy across different marketing channels – and is especially useful for generating advertising and email marketing copy.

Here are some of Copy AI’s top features that stood out to me:

• A prompt template library: Your team can access different pre-made prompts for different marketing needs, such as generating cold email copy.
• You can add your brand voice to the software to generate on-brand imagery and copy.
• Plagiarism checks for all content that is being generated by the tool to ensure that you are creating original content across email, advertising, and article content.

Next Steps: Improve Workplace Productivity Alongside Your Team on Team-GPT

Save time, analyze data, and generate quality output (be it article content or social media campaigns) with Team-GPT alongside your team.

Our enterprise collaborative AI platform lets your team generate text, and images, and analyze data by utilizing various AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.

You can also build a custom version of ChatGPT and bring it on Team-GPT to generate content that adheres to your writing style and brand guidelines.

Apart from that, you can access:

• A comprehensive pre-made prompt library to create efficient workflows.
• Detailed usage analytics to track employee engagement.
• Enterprise-grade security ensures data privacy and the ability to host the platform on your servers.

Sign up for a demo of the platform today!