New ChatGPT Prompts Worth Trying This Month: 30 Fresh Ideas

The short version: most "new" ChatGPT prompts aren't new at all, they're the same three structures reworded, but a handful of useful ones have emerged this year because of memory, projects, and better image handling, and I've tested 30 of them on my own business this month. Copy any of these in as they are, then tweak the details to match your business, your client, or your life. The ones that work best are boring on the surface and specific underneath, not clever.

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Why "new prompts" is the wrong way to think about this

Here's the uncomfortable bit nobody selling a prompt pack wants to say out loud: ChatGPT hasn't got smarter about reading your mind, you've just got lazier about explaining what you want. I see this every week with clients who forward me a one-line prompt and a screenshot of a rubbish answer, then ask what's wrong with the tool. Nothing's wrong with the tool. The prompt gave it nothing to work with. If you want the mechanics of why some prompts land first time and others need four rounds of "no, not like that," I wrote a full breakdown in ChatGPT prompt engineering basics, and it still holds up.

What's new this month is what the model can now hold onto: memory across chats, projects that keep context together, and image editing that doesn't mangle faces the way it did eighteen months ago. So the 30 prompts below aren't new because the words are clever, they're new because they use features that weren't reliable a year ago. I tested every single one on real work this month, not in a sandbox.

Business and marketing prompts I used this month

I run a small consultancy, so most of my testing happens on actual client deliverables. Here's what earned its place.

• "I'm writing a LinkedIn post about [topic]. Ask me five questions about my personal experience with this before you draft anything." This one stops the flat, generic output because it forces the model to pull real detail out of you first.
• "Take this client email thread and write a one-paragraph summary for my project notes, flagging anything that sounds like scope creep." I used this on a 14-email back-and-forth with a client last week and it caught two requests I'd have missed.
• "Act as a sceptical prospect reading this sales page. List every sentence that sounds like a claim without proof." Brutal, but it saved me from three unsupported claims on my own site.
• "Turn this transcript of my sales call into a one-page brief: pain points, objections raised, next step agreed." I record calls with permission and this turns 40 minutes of audio into something I can act on in five minutes.
• "Write three subject lines for this email, one curious, one direct, one slightly cheeky, and tell me which audience each suits." one of the few subject line prompts that gives you a reason for each option instead of just a list.
• "Here's my competitor's homepage copy. What are they promising that I'm not, and what am I promising that they're not?" Paste the text in, not the URL, ChatGPT can't reliably browse live pages.
• "I've got a project set up with all my brand voice documents. Draft this newsletter using only what's in this project, don't invent tone from scratch." This only works if you've built a project with your actual past writing loaded in, which takes ten minutes and pays off for months.
• "Rewrite this proposal so a busy CFO could skim it in 90 seconds and still know the price, the timeline, and the risk." I use this on every proposal now.
• "List ten questions a first-time buyer of [your product] would be too embarrassed to ask, then answer them plainly." This built the FAQ section on two client sites this month.
• "Here's my pricing page. Where does it create doubt instead of confidence?" Uncomfortable answers, but useful ones.

If you want the same idea in template form, ready to fill in your own details rather than adjust mine, my ChatGPT prompt templates for work post has 40 built the same way, blank fields and all.

Writing and content prompts worth stealing

These are the ones I've handed to junior writers on client teams because they force better first drafts.

• "Write this blog intro three ways: one starting with a statistic, one with a short story, one with a direct claim. I'll pick." Removes the temptation to accept the first draft just because it exists.
• "Read this paragraph back to me as if you're my most critical editor. What would you cut?" I ran my own final paragraph of this post through this exact prompt.
• "Turn these five bullet points into a LinkedIn post under 150 words, no hashtags, no emoji, sound like a person not a brand." Specifying what to avoid matters as much as what to include.
• "Here's a transcript of me talking about [topic] for ten minutes. Turn it into a blog post in my voice, keep my sentence rhythm, don't smooth it out." This is how half my "written" content starts, spoken then shaped.
• "Give me one metaphor for [concept] that a 12-year-old would understand and one a board of directors would respect." Useful when you need the same idea to work for two very different audiences.
• "Check this piece for any sentence longer than 25 words and suggest a shorter version." Not glamorous, but it catches the sprawl every writer produces on a deadline.
• "What would someone who disagrees with this argument say back?" I ran this on a LinkedIn opinion post before publishing and it changed one line that would have caused an unnecessary fight in the comments.

If you're newer to all this and want simpler starting points before you try the sharper ones above, the 40 beginner prompt examples are the gentlest on-ramp I've published.

Planning, admin and thinking-out-loud prompts

These are the ones that quietly saved me the most hours this month, not because they're exciting but because admin is where time leaks.

• "Here's my week: [paste calendar]. Where are the gaps big enough for deep work, and where am I kidding myself?" It flagged a Tuesday I'd blocked as "focus time" that was sandwiched between two calls with five minutes either side, not enough to focus on anything.
• "I need to decline this request without burning the relationship. Draft three tones: warm, neutral, firm." I used the firm version on a supplier chasing a discount I'd already said no to twice.
• "Turn this messy list of 40 tasks into three tiers: must do this week, should do this month, can wait." I do this every Monday morning now, it takes four minutes.
• "Play devil's advocate on this business decision for two minutes before I commit to it." Not therapy, just a cheap way to pressure-test a choice before you tell your accountant.
• "Summarise this 40-page PDF into the five decisions I need to make, ignore the background." Contracts, reports, government guidance documents, all fair game.
• "I'm dreading this conversation with [role]. Help me plan the opening line only, not the whole script." Scripting the whole thing sounds thorough and backfires the moment the other person says something you didn't predict.

Image and creative prompts that finally work

Image generation and editing inside ChatGPT has improved enough this year that prompts which used to produce nightmare hands and warped faces now hold up. This is the category with the most real change.

• "Take this photo and turn it into a warm, hand-drawn style illustration, keep the facial proportions accurate, don't exaggerate features." Good for a professional headshot you want to soften without losing likeness.
• "Generate a simple line-drawing style version of this logo for a black-and-white print use." Saved me a design invoice for a one-off flyer.
• "Take this old family photo, restore the faded colour, don't add anything that wasn't there." Be specific about "don't add anything," otherwise it invents detail that was never in the original.
• "Turn this photo into an exaggerated, affectionate cartoon version, the kind you'd give as a gift, not a mocking one." If you want the fuller breakdown on getting the tone right (flattering rather than unflattering), I wrote a whole guide on turning a photo into a cartoon after testing dozens of variations.
• "Create a simple, minimal graphic that summarises these three statistics for a slide, no clutter, one colour accent." usable for internal decks now, wasn't reliable a year ago.
• "Take this product photo and place it on a plain, neutral background suitable for an ecommerce listing." Cuts a real cost if you're a small seller without a photography budget.
• "Combine these two photos into one warm, natural-looking scene, keep the lighting consistent between them." This is the same technique behind a lot of the seasonal photo edit trends people share online, and if you want a themed example set, my Mother's Day photo prompts post walks through 20 gift-style versions step by step.

A quick real example, not a hypothetical one

Three weeks ago a client sent me a 90-minute recording of a strategy call with her team, no notes, no summary, just the raw audio file dropped in an email with "can you make sense of this." I transcribed it (ChatGPT can work from the text, not the audio file directly), then ran this exact prompt: "Here's a transcript of a 90-minute strategy meeting. Give me the three decisions that were made, the two that were left unresolved, and one action item per person mentioned by name." It took under two minutes to generate and it was more accurate than the notes her own team member had taken live in the room, because the team member had been distracted defending her own idea for twenty minutes and missed a decision that got made without her.

That's the actual value here, not novelty for its own sake. The prompt itself is nothing special. What made it work was feeding in a messy, real transcript rather than a tidy hypothetical, and being specific about what counted as a "decision" versus a "discussion." Vague input gets vague output every time, no matter how the prompt is phrased.

How to try these this month

Don't work through all 30 in one sitting, you'll forget which ones were useful. Instead:

• Pick three from the business list and run them on something you're working on this week, not a made-up example.
• Keep a running note (a simple document is fine) of which prompts you'd use again, most people never do this and re-invent the same prompt from scratch every time.
• Set up one project in ChatGPT with your brand voice, past writing, and key facts loaded in, this single step improved my output more than any clever wording ever has.
• If a prompt gives you a flat answer, don't rewrite the whole prompt, just add one specific detail (a name, a number, a real constraint) and run it again.

And if none of this is landing because the real block is time rather than ideas, that's a different problem and worth naming honestly. If you'd rather have someone build the prompts, the projects, and the workflow around your actual business instead of adapting a list like this yourself, that's exactly the kind of hands-on work I do through my AI implementation coaching.

For the full library this sits alongside, the 100 copy-paste prompts by task post is the one I point people to when they want more than 30 and want them sorted by exactly what they're trying to do.

Try my free ChatGPT prompt generator before you post.

For the rest of the series, see the ChatGPT Prompts and Limits: 30 Guides to Fun Prompts, Photo Edits and Daily Caps.

If you run a business, you can see whether AI tools recommend your business with my free checker.

Frequently asked questions

Are these prompts specific to a particular ChatGPT plan?

Most work on the free tier, but image editing, longer memory across chats, and project features are more reliable and less rate-limited on a paid plan, so if you're testing the image prompts heavily you'll hit limits faster on the free version.

Why did my prompt give a worse answer than the examples here?

Almost always because the input was thinner than mine. These prompts were run against real transcripts, real emails, and real drafts, not blank requests, so add your own specific detail (names, numbers, actual pasted text) rather than typing the prompt on its own.

Do I need to write prompts differently for images versus text?

Yes. Text prompts benefit from asking for options and reasoning, image prompts benefit from stating clearly what not to change (facial proportions, background, colour accuracy), since the model will otherwise "improve" things you wanted left alone.

How often should I look for new prompts?

Less often than the internet suggests. Once you've got 10 to 15 prompts that reliably solve your recurring tasks, saved somewhere you'll reuse them, chasing a new list every month is more procrastination than progress.

Further reading

• OpenAI's own platform documentation