360 AI Prompts: A Consultant's Playbook

This assumes you already use AI at work. It is not a beginner's guide. The prompts are short on purpose: one screen, your numbers, run more than once.You owe a market assessment by Thursday. The AI open beside you keeps returning paragraphs that read well and say nothing you can use. You have the AI. What you do not have yet is knowing what to ask it.360 AI Prompts is a prompt library for consulting work. 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. Fill the brackets with your product, your market, and your numbers, and the prompt fits your situation instead of a generic one.SECOND EDITION, 2026: WHAT IS NEWA worked example in every chapter. The same prompt asked thinly, then asked with real context, and what comes back each time. You see the difference before you run a single prompt.A note in every chapter on reading the output: what to check, and one follow-up prompt that fits the answer to your situation.A glossary of the methods and the shorthand the prompts use, from MECE and the Pyramid Principle to EBITDA, NRR, and RACI.A full edit. Formulas, frameworks, and attributions checked against their sources.KEPT FROM THE FIRST EDITIONTwelve loops that turn single prompts into review cycles: draft, critique, revise, verify. A chapter on giving the model your context and checking every number it hands back. Before and After AI notes in every prompt chapter. A Takeaways appendix with every chapter in a paragraph.WHO THIS IS FORConsultants, strategists, analysts, and commercial leaders who have to walk into a room with an answer.If you want a book about how AI works, this is not it. If you want output you can paste into a deck untouched, this is not it either. Each prompt gets you a first draft. Your judgment does the rest.THE PAPERBACK AND HARDCOVER INCLUDE THE COMPANION FILEAll 360 prompts and the twelve loop recipes, ready to paste into any AI tool, free with the paperback or hardcover edition. Instructions are inside the book.ABOUT THE AUTHORGeeta Padbidri has spent thirty years in pharmaceutical commercial strategy and analytics. She holds a BS and MS in Pharmacy and an Executive MBA. She ran these prompts on real work, cut the ones that came back generic, and kept what worked.