Five prompts to try this week
Claude Opus 5.5 is out. Here are five prompts any business owner can run this week, with the exact wording to copy.
The latest in AI this week: Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, the newest version of its most capable model.
Opus is just the name, not an acronym. What matters is what changed.
What changed
- ~40%cheaper per task than the model it replacesVendor claim
- ~30%faster answersVendor claim
- 60%cheaper to re-read your documents (cache reads)Vendor claim
All three are Anthropic’s own numbers from its launch webinar.
It also writes like a colleague now, not a committee. The most important information comes first, answers are skimmable, and it tells you plainly what to do next.
The part we care about as operators: it finally finishes things. You ask for the spreadsheet and get the spreadsheet, not an outline of one.
So instead of a review, we made something more useful: five prompts any business owner can run this week, with the exact wording to copy.
The five prompts
- 01
Ask for the finished file
The old habit: ask for help, get an outline, then spend an hour building the thing yourself. The new habit: describe the finished deliverable and take the file. If the first draft is 80% right, you just bought back your afternoon.
- 02
Hand it your longest document
Every business has the document nobody has fully read: the lease, the supplier agreement, the 40-page plan. Ask for every mistake, inconsistency, and number that does not match across pages, with the page each one sits on. This is not a legal review, and your attorney still reads the things that matter. It is the five-minute pass that catches the mismatch before you sign, renew, or present.
- 03
Ask the question you’ve been sitting on
Should we raise prices? Open a second location? Drop a product line? These questions usually die in a notebook because answering them properly takes a week you do not have. Ask for a two-page memo with the recommendation at the top. You will not always take it, but you will be better informed making the call.
- 04
Ask for something visual
A landing page sketch for the new service, a simple site for the side project, a diagram that explains your process to a customer. One tip matters here: name the styles you do not want. A short list of things to avoid gets you something usable, and a draft to react to instead of an idea to imagine.
- 05
Show it, don’t retype it
Every business runs on charts somebody made months ago. Most people copy the numbers out of the chart and paste them into the prompt. Stop. Screenshot the dashboard chart, attach it, and ask what changed, when it changed, and what to check next. Fewer steps, no transcription typos.
“Here is my sales data for the year so far [attach file]. Build me the finished spreadsheet: monthly totals by product line, a summary tab with the three numbers an owner should watch, and a chart tab. Give me the file, not an outline of one.”
The guide has the exact wording for all five, plus four habits from Anthropic’s own team for getting better answers back. It is free, with nothing to sign up for.
A note on the numbers: every figure in this post is a vendor claim, taken from Anthropic’s own launch materials. Your business is the benchmark that matters: run the lease prompt on a document whose answers you already know, and see for yourself before you trust it with one you do not.
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