# Make confident choices with AI prompts for decision making

> Get 40+ AI prompts for decision making: stress-test a plan, compare quotes, audit your numbers and get a second opinion. Every prompt is free to copy.

AI prompts for decision making turn ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini into a sharp second opinion that asks good questions, spots weak points and lays out your options. This collection has 40+ of them, from finding the biggest flaw in your plan to turning a stack of documents into a clear decision memo. Type your situation into the fill-in boxes, open your AI, and make the final call yourself.

Page: https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/decision-making/

## The 48 use cases

- [Find the biggest flaw in your plan before your clients do](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/turn-ai-into-your-most-honest-advisor.md): Add 'poke the biggest hole' to any plan and the cheerleader becomes the advisor who saves you weeks.
- [Discover careers your skills already fit, outside your field](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/careers-your-skills-already-fit.md): A bartender's knack for reading people maps to UX research. A teacher's maps to instructional design.
- [Know exactly what raise to ask for and why you've earned it](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/find-the-raise-number-to-ask-for.md): One worker thought AI's suggested number was too high, asked for it anyway, and the boss agreed on the spot.
- [Know what's making you money and what to do next week](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/weekly-owner-dashboard.md): It tells you, bluntly, what to stop doing, with your own numbers to back it up.
- [Compare vendor quotes in one sheet and negotiate a better deal](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/compare-vendor-quotes-and-negotiate.md): It spots the setup fee and rush charge on page three that made the cheapest quote the priciest.
- [Trust your numbers again with a plain-English spreadsheet audit](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/spreadsheet-audit.md): It explains every formula in plain English and spots the broken one you've trusted for years.
- [Bulletproof your next big plan before you commit to it](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/plan-pre-mortem.md): It names the assumption you'd never write down, before it costs you months.
- [Discover what your clients really want from your call notes](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/client-call-patterns.md): It finds the phrase five different clients used, so your marketing sounds like their own thoughts.
- [Turn a stack of documents into a clear decision memo](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/decision-memo-from-a-stack-of-documents.md): It tells you what's missing, like goals with no budget, and names the two documents that contradict each other.
- [Get next year's goals drafted from everything ChatGPT knows](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/next-years-goals-from-what-your-ai-knows.md): It connects themes from months of your chats that you'd never have linked on your own.
- [Get unstuck on any decision by letting AI ask the questions](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/five-questions-decision.md): The most useful thing it gives you is a question, and there's no fact for it to get wrong.
- [Untangle a messy client problem into a clear issue tree](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/client-problem-issue-tree.md): It names the assumption you didn't know you were making, before the client points it out.
- [Finish what you start with a coach that questions every pivot](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/coach-that-questions-every-pivot.md): Pitch it a shiny new idea and it makes you say what you'd drop from your current plan first.
- [Find a side income in a skill you already have](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/side-income-in-a-skill-you-have.md): It hunts for the tasks you're good at that most people avoid, which is where small, uncrowded offers live.
- [Find which items to push, reprice or drop from your sales export](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/which-items-to-push-reprice-or-drop.md): It sorts every product into keep, push, reprice or drop, from a file you'd normally never open.
- [Spend your week on the work that actually grows your business](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/calendar-vs-goals-check.md): It shows you, from your own calendar, exactly where your week is leaking.
- [Get the deeper version of any task, the way a top pro would](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/deeper-version-of-any-task.md): It points out the step an expert would never skip, then rewrites your request so the AI actually does it.
- [Find the great ideas buried in your old AI chats](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/find-great-ideas-in-old-ai-chats.md): Months of half-finished ideas come back as a ranked list, with the one most worth finishing at the top.
- [Get a stress-tested verdict from 7 AI advisors in one prompt](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/stress-tested-verdict-from-seven-advisors.md): Instead of a polite yes, you get the money person, the skeptic and your customer's voice arguing over your call.
- [Get alerted the moment something you care about changes](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/monitor-anything-scheduled-task.md): It stays quiet until something actually changes, then taps you on the shoulder.
- [Get a plain-English checkup on your ad spend in minutes](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/plain-english-checkup-on-your-ad-spend.md): It's the Monday briefing a dedicated media buyer would give you, from one spreadsheet.
- [Negotiate thousands off a home using your inspection report](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/home-inspection-negotiation.md): One first-time buyer says inspection reports plus ChatGPT saved them about $45,000 in negotiations.
- [Find out what customers really say in your reviews](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/find-what-customers-really-say-in-reviews.md): It hands you your customers' own phrases, which double as ready-made copy for your website.
- [Test-drive a new career before you quit your job](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/test-drive-a-career-before-you-switch.md): You read your own Tuesday as a corporate trainer, dull parts included, before spending a cent on a course.
- [Get more done by planning your day around your energy](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/plan-your-day-around-your-energy.md): Your hardest task lands at 9am when you're sharp, and the inbox waits for your 2pm slump.
- [See where your business went over budget, right in Google Sheets](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/budget-vs-actual-report-in-google-sheets.md): Claude adds the tabs, writes the formulas and draws the chart inside your own sheet while you watch.
- [Find out which free guide actually brings you paying clients](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/find-the-lead-magnet-that-brings-buyers.md): One creator turned an eight-hour quarterly review of 50 buyers into about 30 minutes this way.
- [Get a quarterly review that tells you what changed and why](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/quarterly-review-what-changed-and-why.md): It reads your messy exports and comes back with causes, not charts, plus the three calls you need to make.
- [See both sides of a big business decision before you commit](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/debate-a-big-decision.md): You can jump in by voice and ask the debaters a question mid-show.
- [Know your real profit on every handmade piece you sell](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/real-profit-on-every-handmade-piece.md): Before you list a piece, it shows what you'd really earn per hour at three different prices.
- [Map who really decides inside your client's organization](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/client-stakeholder-map.md): It points out the quiet person with high influence before they block your recommendation.
- [Understand your profit and loss and see where money's leaking](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/plain-english-profit-and-loss-check.md): It explains each big change, like supplies up 30 percent, in one plain sentence and says whether to worry.
- [Find grants and free programs your business can actually use](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/find-local-grants-and-free-programs.md): It finds options like free mentoring, small grants and training, each with who qualifies, the deadline and a link.
- [See which job offer really pays more, hidden costs included](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/compare-job-offers-side-by-side.md): The higher salary stops looking like the winner once health premiums and a longer commute are counted.
- [Plan for 10x your goal to find the moves that really matter](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/plan-for-ten-times-your-goal.md): Planning for 50 clients instead of 5 makes the busywork fall away and the two moves that matter stand out.
- [Turn a pile of trend predictions into your own game plan](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/turn-trend-predictions-into-your-plan.md): Instead of reading 20 hot takes, you get a plan with a backup for when the hype doesn't happen.
- [Pick the right option with a scorecard you fill in yourself](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/weighted-scorecard-for-a-decision.md): Because you do the scoring, the answer is yours, and the math shows exactly where your gut disagrees.
- [Turn past sales into next week's order, prep and staff plan](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/sales-into-next-weeks-order-and-staff-plan.md): A restaurant group uses this kind of forecast to cut waste, schedule better and negotiate supplier prices.
- [Raise prices on the right items with a local price check](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/check-your-prices-against-nearby-shops.md): It compares value, like price per ounce or portion, not just price, so you don't raise the wrong items.
- [Decide in minutes if a bid request is worth your time](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/decide-if-a-bid-is-worth-your-time.md): A consultant said this kind of checklist saves her 30 to 45 minutes on every proposal request she reads.
- [Spot duplicate payments and your biggest suppliers in one upload](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/find-duplicate-payments-and-top-suppliers.md): It flags two payments of the same amount to the same supplier a few days apart, the kind a busy owner misses.
- [Hire the right person with sharp questions and a fair scorecard](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/interview-questions-and-scorecard.md): It aims questions at your past hiring mistakes, like no-shows or poor phone manner, so you spot them early.
- [Learn the real lesson from a project that just ended](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/after-action-review-on-anything.md): Your event, launch or home move gets a proper debrief, with three lessons you'll actually reuse.
- [See the week your cash runs lowest, months before it arrives](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/cash-flow-low-point-forecast.md): It shows the exact week your balance would dip below your safety cushion, and which bill causes it.
- [Make sense of any news story from every angle in one click](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/comet-explain-any-news-story.md): It reads the page with you, then goes and checks what everyone else is saying.
- [Know in two minutes if a new inquiry is worth a call](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/screen-new-inquiries-against-ideal-client.md): It catches quiet warning signs, like 'we need it fast' sitting next to a huge wish list.
- [Pick the right software with real prices checked on each site](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/software-comparison-checked-on-vendor-sites.md): It catches that the cheap plan only covers one user, so your real cost is the next tier up.
- [Walk into your bank meeting with a business plan and deck](https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/business-plan-and-deck-for-your-bank.md): Canva reads your forecast spreadsheet and picks the right chart for each slide on its own.

## Questions people ask

**How can AI help me make better decisions?** It helps you see the whole picture before you commit. Bulletproof your next big plan with failure stories and warning signs, compare vendor quotes in one sheet, or trust your numbers again with a plain-English spreadsheet audit. The AI lays out the options and the risks. You make the call.

**Can I use AI as a second opinion?** Yes. Find the biggest flaw in your plan before your clients do, or get unstuck on any decision by letting AI ask the questions. That one asks five sharp coaching questions, then reflects back what you really want and one next step. Think of it as a calm, honest sounding board that's there whenever you need it.

**How do I get better answers from ChatGPT?** Give it your real details and let it question you. The fill-in boxes on each use case handle the first part. Prompts like the one that lets AI ask the questions handle the second. In the hidden AI features collection, you'll also learn to catch what the AI missed with two closing questions.

**Can AI help with career and money decisions?** Yes. Know exactly what raise to ask for and why you've earned it, with a market check and calm opening lines. Discover careers your skills already fit outside your field. For your business, know what's making you money and what to do next week. The AI lays out the facts. You decide.

**Are these decision-making prompts free?** Yes. Every prompt is free to copy. Most work in the free versions of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, and if a use case needs a paid plan, its page says so. New use cases are added regularly, and a free email brings you 3 of them every weekday.

From AI Use Cases and Prompts by The Solo Creators: https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/