What a master prompt is
Think of it as a short manual about one role in your life or business. If there were a document called "Owner of [your company]," what would it have to contain for someone to do the job? That is the master prompt. You write it once and paste it in whenever you start with a new tool, so the answers come back tailored instead of generic.
Most people have a few: one for the business they run, one for a function they own (marketing, sales, ops), maybe one for a part of life outside work.
What goes in it
- Who you are and what you do.
- The business: what you sell, to whom, what makes it different.
- The people: team, customers, key relationships, how things are structured.
- Your goals and the constraints you are working inside.
- How you like answers (tone, length, format) so you stop repeating it.
How to build one (use pull prompting)
- 1Open your tool and say: "I want to create a master prompt for my role as [owner / VP of marketing / founder]. Ask me every question you need to build it, one at a time."
- 2Answer each question out loud with the voice-to-text mic. Talk, do not type.
- 3When it hands back the master prompt, read it and correct anything off: "you missed X," "tighten this," "add that." It rewrites the whole thing.
- 4Save it where you can grab it. A file named "Master Prompt - [role]" on your drive works. Paste it into any tool to bring it up to speed instantly.
Why it matters
This is the "context" step from the 4-part prompt formula, done once instead of every time. It takes a tool from stranger to colleague. It is also what makes pull prompting faster, since the tool has fewer questions to ask when it already knows your world.