360 AI PROMPTS ── A Consultant's Playbook (Decision-Grade AI)

Note: this edition has been replaced. The second edition is 360 AI Prompts: A Consultant's Playbook, in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover. It keeps all 360 prompts and the twelve loops, and adds a worked example and a note on reading the output in every chapter, an expanded glossary, and the companion file of all 360 prompts free with the paperback and hardcover. Search that title to find it.

Ask better questions. Get boardroom-ready answers. Then verify them.

This is the revised first edition of a prompt library for AI-assisted consulting work, by Geeta Padbidri, a pharmaceutical commercial strategy and analytics executive with thirty years in the industry.

Twelve chapters, 30 prompts each: problem structuring, strategy and frameworks, financial analysis, slide writing and storytelling, client communication, operations, data and analytics, leadership, change management, innovation, risk and governance, and career development. Each chapter opens with a short introduction drawn from her own work, then gives you the prompts, with bracketed variables you fill with your own situation.

This revised edition also includes:

Looping. Twelve review cycles, one for each discipline: draft, critique, revise, verify. They take a one-screen prompt past a plausible first draft.

Context and verification. How to ground the model in your business and check every number before it reaches a decision-maker.

Before and After AI notes in every prompt chapter, and a Takeaways appendix with every chapter in a paragraph.

It is written for consultants, strategists, analysts, and commercial leaders who need rigorous output under time pressure. It is not a book about how AI works, and the prompts are short on purpose: one screen, bracketed variables, ready to paste. Each one is a starting point. Your judgment does the rest.

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