business · 18 min
AI for Startups: Research, Copy, and Customer Conversations
How early-stage startups can use AI for research, positioning, copywriting, and customer emails.
Table of contents
- Overview
- Step-by-step workflow
- Example prompts
- Common mistakes
- Next steps
Overview
This guide is a longer, structured walkthrough. Instead of a single magic prompt, you'll build a small workflow you can reuse: how to frame the problem, what context to provide, which prompts to run in what order, and how to review the outputs.
Step-by-step workflow
- Define the outcome and constraints clearly.
- Collect raw inputs (notes, docs, links) you can paste in.
- Run a planning or outlining prompt.
- Draft with one prompt, then refine with another.
- Do a final editing pass focused on clarity and correctness.
Example prompts from the library
Common mistakes
- Asking for everything in a single prompt.
- Not giving any examples of good vs bad output.
- Skipping a final review step before using AI output.
Next steps
Pick one workflow from this guide and actually wire it into your day: a saved system message, a set of pinned prompts, or a small doc you keep open when you work. The value comes from repetition, not from reading once.
