Prompt Playbook: Blueprint Prompts PART 1

Let me tell you about one of my client who runs a digital marketing agency.

Last month, she noticed something that made her want to bang her head against the wall: her team of 12 was spending hours every week writing and rewriting AI prompts for the same basic tasks.

Manually. Each and every time.

Content briefs, social media posts, client reports - everyone had their own way of asking AI to do these things. Some worked brilliantly, others... not so much. Eek.

Sound familiar? Whether you're a solopreneur dreaming of your first hire or managing a team of 100+, I bet you're seeing the same thing.

Everyone's reinventing the wheel, over and over again. Doesn’t matter if it’s just you or your whole team - it’s wasteful!

This week we attack the problem head on with Blueprint Prompts.

Let’s get started

Blueprint Prompts

The True Cost of Prompt Chaos

Let's do some quick math that might make you uncomfortable. Don't worry, I'll keep it simple:

• Average time spent writing/tweaking prompts per task: 10 minutes

• Tasks per day that could use a template: 5

• Working days per month: 20

That's 1,000 minutes (16.7 hours) per person per month spent just figuring out how to talk to AI.

Now multiply that by your team size

• Just you? 16.7 hours.

• Just you and a VA? That's 33.4 hours

• Team of 5? 83.5 hours

• Team of 20? 334 hours

Oh oh. Adding up isn’t it? Let’s add a cost to it.

At even a modest $30/hour, that's costing you

• Small team (2): $1,002/month

• Medium team (5): $2,505/month

• Larger team (20): $10,020/month

Ah. We have a problem!

And we haven't even talked about the cost of inconsistent outputs, training new team members, or the opportunities lost while everyone's faffing about with prompts. Yes, faffing - that’s the technical term, promise. I have an MBA!

The Blueprint Solution

What if instead of everyone writing their own prompts, you had a library of tested, proven templates that:

• Capture your company's voice

• Work consistently

• Can be used by anyone on your team

• Get better with each use

This is what we call blueprint prompts. They're like your company's own AI playbook.

If we look at the level of AI they are a step above just using ad hoc, type in when you need them prompts:

Blueprint prompts are reusable and can be saved into a library, reused by your whole team and built into workflows. It’s a step up from basic amateur usage and moves us towards automating and streamlining our business.

Here's a real example from my own business. We used to spend hours crafting social media posts. Each one needed:

• Engaging hook

• Value-packed content

• Call to action

• Right tone of voice

• Hashtag research

Now we have a Blueprint prompt that turns a basic idea into a fully-formed post in seconds. Not sometimes. Every time.

Here's what that saved us

• 30 minutes per post → 2 minutes

• 10 posts per week

• 4.7 hours saved per week

• 18.8 hours saved per month

• At $30/hour = $564 monthly savings on just ONE task

And that's just social media. Think about all the repeatable tasks in your business

• Customer service responses

• Meeting summaries

• Project briefs

• Sales follow-ups

• Content outlines

• Market research

• Competitor analysis

Every single one of these can be templatised, optimised, and rolled out across your team.

The System We're Building

Over the next four parts, we're going to build your blueprint prompt system from the ground up:

• Part 2: Creating your first Blueprint prompt (with templates you can and should steal)

• Part 3: Testing and refining your prompts until they're bulletproof

• Part 4: Getting your team involved (because they know their jobs best)

• Part 5: Using AI as a prompt engineer

Whether you're a solopreneur planning for growth or managing a large team, this system scales with you. The principles stay the same - we're just adjusting the implementation based on your business size. Hell, if you are a one person band for now you’ll be building the foundations for growth!

Keep Prompting,

Kyle