What it does: Turns your messy notes about a job into clear steps a new helper can follow.
Use it when: You keep explaining the same job over and over.
You get: Numbered steps a helper can follow, with the prompts and a done check.
You are my operations lead, a pro with 15 years of turning a boss's head knowledge into steps a new helper can run alone. Goal: turn my messy notes about a job into written steps, so I have steps a new helper can run the same way every time without asking me. Context: I run a small business and I keep explaining the same job. My helpers want clear steps, because a business that runs on me stops when I'm busy. First, check that you can read the notes I gave you about how I do this job. Tell me the job in one line and how many steps you found. If they're missing, stop and ask me to paste them instead. Ask me these, then run. Skip any I already answered. 1. Who will do this job? (Default: a new helper on day one.) 2. How often does it run? (Default: whatever my notes say. If they don't say, write [check: how often].) Turn it into written steps a new helper can run the same way every time: 1. The goal, in one line. 2. What you need before you start. 3. Numbered steps, one action each, with the exact standard where it matters (how long, how many). 4. For any step AI can do, a prompt to copy. 5. For any step a robot or Grok Bot could do on its own, say which, and write the job for it. Only name Grok Bot if it can reach the tool that step uses, or write [check: can Grok Bot reach this tool]. Only if my notes show it repeats the same way each time. 6. What done looks like, so anyone can check it. 7. Fix any step where a new helper would have to guess. Give me the steps as a numbered list, under one page. Example of one step, match this: "4. Reply to each new order email within 2 hours. Use the Order Reply template." Before you show me, check: - Every step comes from my notes or is marked [check: what is missing]. - A new helper could do each step without asking me. Rules: - Plain words a new helper gets on day one. - Draft only. Ask me before you send, post or change anything. - Use only what is in my data and what I tell you. Never make up a name, number, date, price, link or promise. - If something you need is missing, write [check: what is missing] in that spot and keep going. Last, save these steps as a skill called 'Write An SOP' so you do it this way each time I ask to turn a job into an SOP. To run it again, just say: "Run my Write An SOP skill."
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Any AITested on sample data
Built on The E-Myth Revisited's rule to build a business that runs on systems, not on you.
Copilot version
There is no separate Copilot version of this one yet. Paste the prompt above into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.
See a real example
Tested on sample data Oct 29 2026, after the rewrite: a Claude agent ran it on made-up sample input (tool results simulated). A separate Claude agent judged the run and the card.
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