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The $20K/month AI Growth Consultant Prompt

By Nic Conley

Summary

## Key takeaways - **Viral Prompt Claims to Replace $20K Consultant**: A viral Reddit prompt claims to offer the strategic advice of a $20,000/month growth consultant for a fraction of the cost, prompting an investigation into its effectiveness. [00:15] - **Basic Prompt Yields Generic Advice**: The initial, basic prompt provided generic advice such as 'bulk purchasing agreements' and 'financing options for clients,' which the analyst found to be unhelpful and easily obtainable elsewhere. [06:11] - **Deep Research Prompt Offers Superior Insights**: Opting for the 'Deep Research' mode in the AI prompt resulted in a significantly more detailed and actionable report, including specific competitive intelligence and tailored growth opportunities. [04:25], [08:00] - **AI Prompt is Not a Consultant Replacement**: While powerful for identifying growth opportunities and blind spots, the AI prompt cannot replace a human consultant because it lacks implementation capabilities and personalized execution. [09:52] - **AI for Business Outreach and Strategy**: The AI prompt is highly valuable for businesses to identify their own growth blind spots or as a powerful tool for initial outreach to potential clients by generating personalized reports. [10:20]

Topics Covered

  • How iterative AI questions enhance consulting-like analysis.
  • Why AI growth advice often lacks actionable implementation.
  • Why "Deep Research" AI prompts yield superior insights.
  • Can a $20,000 growth consultant be replaced by AI?
  • How AI can generate client leads for growth agencies.

Full Transcript

What if you could hire a top tier growth

consultant for your business or side

project for just $20 a month? Get their

advice on how to find customers,

untapped business opportunities, how to

get your business in front of more

people, or go viral on social media.

Well, this Chat GBT prompt claims to do

just that. This Reddit post right here

went viral on X, and it claims that this

Chat GBT prompt can replace a $20,000 a

month growth consultant. but you can't

believe everything you see online. So, I

want to find out if that is true. So, in

this video, I'm going to use this prompt

with a real business and find out if

this prompt is legit, if these ideas are

any good, and if this prompt could

actually replace a $20,000 a month

growth consultant. Let's dive in. So, we

have the prompt right here on Reddit.

It's in the prompt engineering subreddit

and it says, "Drop your biz into this

and it'll map your competitors, find

untapped levers, rank your best growth

plays, feels like hiring a $20,000

strategy consultant." Here's the prompt.

We can just go ahead and grab this

prompt and we will throw it into chat.

GBT and we need to replace some of the

variables here. So, company, industry,

list or paragraph of the biggest

obstacles you're aware of slowing

growth. So, anywhere where there's the

double brackets, we need to input

basically our custom results for our

business. So, I actually own Wilmington

inc fencing, a fencing company in

Wilmington, North Carolina. Now, we're

just doing lead genen right now. So,

we're not actually doing the fences, but

I want to ask our new growth consultant

how I can grow this business and get

more customers. So, what we will do here

is we will start inputting the

variables. So, the business name is

going to be

Wilmington Fencing. Industry is fencing.

brief one paragraph description of what

the company does today, including key

revenue streams, pricing model, customer

segments, and any known growth tactics

we use. So, we are fencing company

Wilmington, NC. We provide, let's say,

we build fences for locals in the

Wilmington, NC area. Now, I'm going to

make up some numbers here. I'm going to

say we did 55 in revenue last year. We

get most of our clients through Google

SEO. What else can we say here? We

charge people our cost plus 30%. So, I

know a lot of fence companies do that.

They'll say like, "Hey, this is going to

cost me $10,000 to build, so I will

charge you $13,000." So, the $3,000 is

my profit. I'm going to leave it right

there. Now, the next one is list or

paragraph of the biggest obstacles

you're aware of. Slowing user growth,

rising CAC. I'm going to say biggest

obstacles are finding more customers. We

don't have many leads. And then I'm

going to say our costs are high because

we can't buy in bulk because we don't

have a ton of volume. Okay, there's

that. Map the competitive landscape.

Identify three to five direct

competitors plus one to two adjacent

space disruptors. So, it's going to do

all this for me. All of this part is not

for me. So this is the context that I'm

giving it and then the task is what it's

going to actually do. So approach that's

what it's actually going to do in the

task and then the output format return

only the following answers. Okay. Well I

say we send it. So let's see if this

prompt can actually be our growth

consultant for Wilmington NC fencing.

Here we go.

searching the

web answer. Okay. Superior fence and

rail. Here's our competitive landscape.

And actually, while it's working on

this, I am going to take these exact

instructions, and I am going to give it

the same exact prompt, but I'm going to

tell it to use deep research. So, deep

research is basically digging a lot

deeper, spending a lot more time, and

let's see how different the answer is

going to be here. So, let's click send.

And so, what Deep Research does a lot of

the time is it's going to ask you some

clarifying points. So, just like if you

are working with a growth consultant,

they wouldn't just be like, "Give us

this info. Okay, thanks." They'd be

like, "Okay, well, do you offer

residential fencing only, or do you do

commercial?" They're going to ask all

these follow-up questions for more

discovery. So, I'll go through these.

One, I'll just say we just do

residential. What types of fences? Let's

say wood and vinyl. Now, I actually

don't want to like go way over the top.

I know the more information you feed it,

the better, but I want to see how much

it can just like go off of, you know,

what it goes out and finds itself. Are

you open to expanding services? Yes.

Always open to adding more services for

do you serve all of Wilmington? Yes. And

50 plus miles surrounding. Are you

currently using any software for

quoting? No software. right now. Just

spreadsheets. Boom. Great. I'll analyze

the residential fencing market within

and around Wilmington. So, starts

research. It has like a loading bar

here. So, it's going to take a little

while, but as you can see, they're

building out like much more of a full

report that you probably get from a

consultant rather than just a quick

answer. So, let's go back to our normal

prompt here. Competitive landscape. It

gave us 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight competitors.

Now, all it really did here is sort of

just like grabbed the description from

their website. Opportunity gaps, bulk

purchasing agreements, established

partnerships, financing options for

clients, enhanced online presence,

invest in comprehensive digital

marketing strategy, including SEO,

social media engagement, online reviews,

diversification into commercial

projects. So that's not a bad idea, but

again it's not like that great. Value

added services offer additional services

such as maintenance packages, custom

designs, expedited installation. Okay,

that's not bad. Prioritize actions.

Okay, so it has action, the impact that

it's going to give us. So one through

five, the feasibility like how easy is

it going to be able to do rationale

behind it and first next step. So I like

this table implementing financing

options. So impact is going to be a

five. Feasibility is a four. Attracts

price sensitive customers. Research and

partner with finance companies. Enhanced

digital marketing. If I'm going to be

totally honest, I think this is kind of

garbage. I don't love this at all. Now

again, this is not deep research. So it

just gave me like eight competitors. It

gave me like a couple ideas. Like these

are generic. I feel like you could feed

these exact opportunity gaps to like any

business. Like bulk purchasing

agreements. Okay, great. But like how do

I actually do that? Who do I go talk to?

Financing options for clients. Like,

great. Thanks. You're a genius.

Enhancing online presence. Everybody

could do that. Everybody should be

enhancing their online presence. Why

would you not? Diversification into

commercial projects. I rate this a one

out of 10. I think this is pretty

garbage. And I think I could have gotten

this same output with a much more basic

prompt. Okay, let's check back on our

deep research. So, it's reading a bunch

of different fencing websites, 11

sources at the moment. So, it's taking a

little while. Let's give it a second

here to see what it gives us. All right.

So, deep research just got done. It took

10 minutes, 28 sources, 126 searches.

But this is all not in the format that I

want it. So, I'm going to say follow-up

question here. Can you output a little

easier to read in text formatting? Sure.

Here's a cleaner, more readable.

Beautiful. Okay. Competitive landscape,

superior fence and rail, Wilmington

positioning. So, this is what I'm

talking about. I don't just want some,

you know, one or two sentences on, oh,

this company does this pricing economies

of scale from national bulk buying moves

just opened in Wilmington. Okay.

Expanding in nearby county. So, it's

giving me like all of their competitive

intel as well. Angie and Home Advisor

positioning lead marketplace. They're

not even a fence company, but they're

technically in the fencing business,

right? Because they get leads and they

send them out to fencing companies. So,

opportunity gaps, Google local service

ads. So, top of page placements. Yep.

Untapped by you. That's right. I'm not

running them right now, so they knew

that. Referral partnerships. That's a

good one. I didn't even think about that

one. Quoting and CRM. So, you're still

using spreadsheets. tools like Jobber or

My Salesman. Offer repairs and

maintenance. Fence care subscription. I

kind of like this. $10 to $15 a month

for yearly inspections. Cross-ell other

services. So, pressure washing review

blitz campaign. So, get your first 50 to

100. You're behind. They could see I

don't have any reviews. Prioritized

action. So, they took all of these same

exact table that we had from our generic

one. But impact feasibility. This is

great. Okay. So, I am way happier with

this from Deep Research. And that's what

I've been finding a lot recently. Deep

Research, the answers are just so much

better. It just takes that extra time. I

mean, it took 10 minutes to answer this,

but like that is well worth the wait

because this answer was so much better.

So, here's what I got to say. Does this

replace a $20,000 a month growth

consultant? No. And the reason why is

because these are all somewhat generic,

right? I could probably come up with

most of these myself. And the biggest

part is that it doesn't implement it for

you, right? So, a good consultant will

also go in and say, "Hey, I'll do all

this for you." Or you go find agencies

for it. So, is it going to replace a

$20,000 a month consultant? No. But this

is awesome. How I could see you using

this is one for your own business. If

you run your own business, you should

run this right now and find all the

blind spots that you're currently

missing and growth opportunities. Number

two, if you're trying to go get

customers for, let's say, your marketing

or growth agency, this is incredible. I

would take my top 50 accounts right now,

go into ChatBT, plug in all the

information, do the deep research, put

this in a report, and send it over to

them as an initial outreach. Say, "Hey,

look, I put together this entire report

for you. It has all of the growth

opportunities that you're missing right

now in your business. And by the way, I

can take care of all of this for you.

So, this is the perfect entrance into

businesses for a growth consulting

agency or a growth agency. And so, for

that reason, I think this prompt is

awesome. But no, it's not going to

replace a growth consultant. Use this or

tweak it however you want. If you run

any sort of business, try this prompt

out. And as always, appreciate you guys.

Let me know what you think of the

comments.

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