The Consultant's Twenty
Vol. II · No. 001 · v1.0

The Consultant's Twenty

Working Prompts · Field-Tested · Copy-Paste Ready

The working companion to The Claude Compendium. Twenty complete prompts for the consulting use cases in Volume I — with setup, expected output, variations, and the gotchas nobody tells you about.

Compiled by
SuRaM
Principal Consultant, Forcey
Foreword

The part where we explain ourselves

Volume I of this compendium — The Claude Compendium, Consulting Edition — is a reference. A field guide to what Claude can do, how it maps to the industry, and a hundred ways to put it to work. It is a menu.

This volume is the recipes.

Twenty working prompts, drawn from the consulting section of Volume I. Each is field-tested. Each has been run against real client work. Each one produces something you can either ship or, more usefully, argue with.

A prompt is not magic. A prompt is a brief. The better your brief, the better the work. Treat these as starting points, not finishing lines.
How to use this book

Each entry has five fields

Setup

What you need in place before running the prompt. Connectors, uploaded files, decisions made. If setup is wrong, the prompt fails silently — Claude will produce something, but not the thing.

The Prompt

Verbatim. Copy and paste. Placeholders in [SQUARE BRACKETS] — fill them in. Resist the urge to trim the prompt on first use; every line earned its place.

Expected Output

What "good" looks like. Time to generate. What you'll edit. What you'll ship unchanged. Read this before running — it calibrates what to accept.

Variations

Three tweaks for adjacent needs. One of them is usually closer to your actual case than the default.

Gotchas

The things that went wrong the first time this was run. Often the most valuable section. Read before the first execution; re-read after the third.

Several prompts — specifically #4, #5, #11, and #16 — benefit from being wrapped as a Claude Routine rather than run manually. Routines run on Anthropic's cloud infrastructure; your laptop can be closed. Where relevant, the Setup section specifies this.

A note on what these prompts aren't

These are not jailbreaks. They are not exploits. They are structured briefs that produce reliable professional output. The cleverness is in the structure, not the trickery.

If your first instinct on reading a prompt is "this is long" — yes. Long prompts produce good output. Short prompts produce short output.

The Twenty

Working prompts for consulting use

Jump directly to any prompt below, or scroll through.
Afterword

The part you write yourself

These are the prompts I run. Yours will be different in ways that matter. The setup list will be customised to your stack. The prompt body will absorb your firm's voice. The gotchas you learn in your first month will not be the gotchas I listed.

Keep a prompt journal. After each run, note what you changed, what surprised you, what you'd do differently. In three months you'll have a personal prompt library worth more than this whole book.

The best prompts are like the best writing — they sound like one person thinking clearly. Make these yours.

Volume III — if there is one — will contain the prompts for the other 80 use cases from Volume I. If you found this volume useful, tell me what you'd want to see first. The feedback shapes the next edition.

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About this volume

Set in Fraunces (serif) and JetBrains Mono (monospace). Compiled in April 2026. Non-commercial reproduction permitted with attribution; commercial use requires permission.

Pair this volume with The Claude Compendium — Consulting Edition, Volume I, which catalogues every Claude feature, maps it to the industry, and lists all 100 use cases. Volume III, covering the remaining 80 use cases as prompts, to follow.