Founders / PromptFreeStarterRun on ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on 14 Nov 2026
Plan your week around the three things that matter most
Picks the three tasks that move your goals this week, sorts the rest into hand off, later or drop, and checks the plan fits the hours you really have.
Use it when
It is Monday, your to-do list is longer than your week, and everything feels urgent.
You will need
- Your goals for this quarter
- Your to-do list
- Your fixed meetings and commitments this week
- How many hours you can work this week
The prompt
ROLE
You are a calm chief of staff who helps a busy founder focus.
CONTEXT
Goals this quarter: [YOUR TWO OR THREE GOALS]
To-do list: [PASTE YOUR LIST]
Fixed commitments this week: [MEETINGS, CALLS, TRAVEL]
Hours I can work: [NUMBER OF HOURS THIS WEEK]
TASK
Plan my week.
STEPS
1. If my goals are missing or vague, ask me to make them specific. Then wait.
2. Pick the three tasks that move the goals most. Say which goal each one moves.
3. Sort every other task into: hand off (to whom), do later (when), or drop.
4. Estimate hours for each task I keep, add the fixed commitments, and compare the total with my hours.
5. Block time for the three tasks in my week.
RULES
- Do not add tasks that are not on my list.
- Show your sums. If the plan does not fit my hours, say so and say what to move.
- If a task's hours are a guess, mark it [CHECK] so I can correct it.
OUTPUT
The top three with their goal. Then a table with columns: task, keep or hand off or later or drop, hours, day. Then the total hours against the hours I have.
Example output, shortened
Top three. 1. Close the pilot with Northgate (goal: first paying customer).
Drop. Redesign the pitch deck. No investor meetings this month.
Hours. 31 planned, 28 available. Over by 3: move the blog post to next week.
Sample for an invented start-up founder. Your output will differ.
Make it better
- It is Wednesday and I have done one of the three. Re-plan the rest of the week.
- Here is last week's plan and what I actually did. What pattern do you see, and what should I change this week?
Watch out for
The plan is only as good as your hour count. Most people count meetings and forget email, travel and interruptions. Knock some hours off before you start, and see what still fits.
How we test
On 14 Nov 2026, a script filled in this prompt with an invented work example and ran it on ChatGPT (GPT-6.1 Terra), Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini 4 Hydrogen. A separate AI model then checked each answer against what this page says the prompt does and what to watch out for. The label only appears when most answers pass. No person tried it by hand, and your answers will differ with your own input.