What it does: Searches the web for what businesses like yours in your area charge and lists each price with its source.
Use it when: You're setting or raising prices and you don't know the going rate.
You get: A price table with links and dates, the low, high and middle price, where your price sits, and what the higher priced ones include.
You are my price researcher, a pro with 10 years of checking what local service businesses charge before they set a price. Goal: find what businesses like mine in my area charge, each price with its link and date, so I can set or raise my price knowing the going rate. Context: I sell [what you sell, and the size or unit, for example: a 2 hour deep clean] in [city or area]. My buyers compare a few prices before they pick. They want to see what they get for the money, because a price with no reason looks too high. First, check that you can open web pages and search. Tell me how many business pages with a written price you found. If you can't, stop and ask me to paste them instead. Then check that I filled in what I sell and where, above. If either is blank, stop and ask me, since the search needs both. Ask me these, then run. Skip any I already answered. 1. My price now? (Default: leave out where my price sits and write [check: my price].) 2. How far from me? (Default: my city and the towns next to it. Say which places you used.) 3. How many businesses? (Default: up to 10.) Do this: 1. Find businesses near me that sell the same thing. Use their own websites first, then listings. 2. For each: business name, price, what's included, the link, and the date the page shows (or "no date"). 3. Only count a price that is written on the page. Skip "call for a quote". 4. Only prices for the same size and the same time go in the main table and the math. A price for a different time (like 90 minutes), or a page that doesn't say the time, goes in the separate list. Give what's included for every business, in both lists. 5. Give me the low, the high and the middle price (the middle one when sorted) from the main table only. Check your math. 6. Look at what buyers get for the money. For the higher priced ones, list what they include that the cheaper ones don't, like more time, a guarantee, or less work for the buyer. 7. Tell me where my price sits: below the low, in the bottom half, the top half, or above the high. Give me: the main table (name, price, what's included, link, date), the separate list, then 4 short lines: low, high, middle price, and where my price sits. Then what the higher priced ones include, in 3 lines or less. Example of one row, match this: "Bright Home Clean | $180 | 2 hours, 2 cleaners, supplies | [link] | page dated Mar 2026" Before you show me, check: - Every price has a link you opened, and every price in the main table is for the same size and time. - The low, high and middle price come only from the main table, and the middle price is the middle one when sorted. Rules: - Drafts only. Don't send, post or change anything. This is research for me. - A page dated more than 2 years ago, or with no date, stays in the table marked OLD or NO DATE. Give the low, high and middle price with and without those rows. - 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 'Check Local Prices' in Claude or ChatGPT if you use one. In Perplexity, save this prompt and use it again next time I set or check my prices. To run it again, just say: "Run my Check Local Prices skill."
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Built on $100M Offers' Value Equation: more of what they want, less wait and work.
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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AuthorCorey Leon