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You are a business plan consultant, working with students, teachers and parents at a school and online-learning provider.
## Goal
Write a business plan suitable for investors, banks or internal approval.
## What matters in Education
- How customers decide: parents choose for younger students; adults choose for themselves; they judge results, reputation, fees and flexibility; most decisions happen around admission time.
- Numbers that matter: course completion rate; learning outcomes and test scores; attendance; student engagement; enrolment and retention; parent satisfaction.
- Common risks to plan for: disengaged students and dropouts; privacy breaches involving minors; mixed ability levels in one class; teacher workload; content that is too hard or too easy.
- Rules and standards that usually apply: student data privacy (FERPA and COPPA in the US, GDPR, India's DPDP Act with parental consent for children); accessibility (WCAG and Universal Design for Learning); age-appropriate content; the board or curriculum standard (CBSE, ICSE, state boards, Common Core, IB); academic integrity.
- Rules differ by country. If I have not said where I work, ask me, and do not present one country's law as if it applied everywhere.
## What I will give you
- Business idea: [WHAT IT IS]
- Target market: [WHO AND WHERE]
- Team: [FOUNDERS AND SKILLS]
- Funding needed: [AMOUNT AND USE]
## What to do
1. Write the executive summary.
2. Analyse the market size, trends and competitors.
3. Describe the product, business model and pricing.
4. Write the marketing, sales and operations plans.
5. Build 3-year financial projections with assumptions.
6. List risks and how you will handle them.
## What to deliver
- Business plan with all sections
- Financial projection tables
- Assumption list
- Risk table
## Rules
- Keep accessibility, age-appropriate content and student data privacy in mind throughout, and point out anything in my plan that would break them.
- Where it fits, connect your recommendations to course completion and learning outcomes.
- Use plain language and short sentences. Use headings and tables where they make the answer easier to scan.
- Do not invent figures, laws, sources or quotes. Mark anything you had to assume with "Assumption:".
- If something important is missing, ask me up to 3 short questions before you start.
## Before you answer
Check your draft against this list and fix anything that fails:
- Each recommendation states its trade-off and what evidence would change it.
- It is written for a school and online-learning provider; nothing in it would read the same for any other business.
- Every item under "What to deliver" is included.
How to use this prompt
- Copy the prompt. Press Copy prompt and the full text goes to your clipboard.
- Fill the brackets. Use the form above, or replace [WHAT IT IS], [WHO AND WHERE], [FOUNDERS AND SKILLS], [AMOUNT AND USE] with your own details.
- Paste and send. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot and send. Ask follow-up questions to refine the answer.
Why this prompt works
The “Write a complete business plan” prompt tells the assistant exactly what to hand back: business plan with all sections; financial projection tables; assumption list; and risk table. It makes the assistant work through 6 steps in order, starting with "write the executive summary", instead of jumping straight to an answer. Before replying, the assistant checks its draft against 3 tests and fixes anything that fails.
This version is written for a school and online-learning provider, so the assistant keeps accessibility, age-appropriate content and student data privacy in mind and judges the result by course completion and learning outcomes. If an important detail is missing, it asks you up to 3 short questions before it starts.
How to get the best answer
- Fill every bracket with real detail: [WHAT IT IS], [WHO AND WHERE], [FOUNDERS AND SKILLS] and the rest should hold real names, numbers and dates, not placeholders.
- Paste real material: where the prompt asks for notes, data or text, paste the actual content rather than a summary.
- Refine in the same chat: ask "make it shorter", "turn it into a table" or "add more detail on step 2".
- Check the result: review it against what you know about course completion and learning outcomes before you share it.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Which AI assistant works best with the “Write a complete business plan” prompt?
The “Write a complete business plan” prompt works in any chat assistant and suits ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot best. Paste it in, send it, and ask follow-up questions in the same chat to refine the answer.
What do I fill in before sending the “Write a complete business plan” prompt?
Replace the 4 highlighted brackets – [WHAT IT IS], [WHO AND WHERE], [FOUNDERS AND SKILLS], [AMOUNT AND USE] – with your own details. The more specific you are, the better the answer.
Is the “Write a complete business plan” prompt only for Education?
No. This version is written for a school and online-learning provider, and the same prompt is also written for 15 other industries, listed on this page.
Is the “Write a complete business plan” prompt free to use?
Yes. First AI Prompt prompts are free to copy and use in personal and business work, with no sign-up, no account and no daily limit.
Can I trust the answer the “Write a complete business plan” prompt gives?
Treat it as a strong first draft: the prompt tells the assistant not to invent facts and to mark its assumptions, but check figures yourself, especially anything with legal, financial or safety consequences.
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