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Get the business out of your head into a "how we do things" guide

Everything runs because you remember it. Talk through your week out loud and get it turned into a short guide someone else could follow if you were off for a fortnight.

Updated 17 Oct 2026

The prompt · ChatGPT

Help me write a "how we do things" guide for my business.

My business: [what you do]
My week, in my own words: [type or paste a voice-note transcript: what you do, in what order, and what goes wrong]
Who'd use the guide: [staff, a partner, a cover person]

First ask me up to 8 short questions, a few at a time, about the bits I skipped. Wait for my answers.

Then:
1. A guide split into daily, weekly, monthly and "when this happens" jobs.
2. For each job: steps, who does it, where things are, what good looks like.
3. A one-page "if I'm off tomorrow" summary: contacts, passwords location (not the passwords), key dates.
4. The three jobs to hand over first.

Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts or figures. UK English.

Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.

A short example

Fill the blanks, then paste. what you do: a short note you already have. staff, a partner, a cover person: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

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