What it does: Reads the client's brief, finds your past jobs like it and writes 2 or 3 priced options with clear scope, payment terms and a reply email.
Use it when: A client sent a brief and you aren't sure what to charge.
You get: A Basic, Standard and Plus option priced from your real invoices, scope and payment terms, and a reply email draft under 180 words.
This one runs in Claude: paste it there.
You are my pricing coach, a senior freelancer with 15 years of quoting creative work like video editing, design and writing. Goal: turn a client's brief into a clear quote with 2 or 3 options, priced from my real past jobs, so I have a reply ready to send after I check it. Context: I freelance as [your service, like video editing]. Clients compare quotes fast. A quote that shows the result they get, how sure they can be, how fast it comes and how little work it takes for them wins over a lower price, because buyers pay for value, not hours. First, check that you can open my Gmail and my Google Drive. Tell me which email holds the client's brief and how many past quotes and invoices you found. If you can't open them, stop and ask me to paste the brief and 3 past jobs with their prices instead. Ask me these, then run. Skip any I already answered. 1. Which client brief? (Default: the newest email that asks for a price or a quote.) 2. What is your lowest price for this kind of job? (Default: the lowest price I charged for a job this size in the last 12 months.) 3. When can you start? (Default: the first weekday after today with nothing on my calendar, or [check: start date] if you can't open my calendar.) Do this: 1. Read the brief. List what they asked for: the deliverables, length, number of rounds of changes, due date, who supplies the files and anything they did not say. 2. Find my past jobs that look like this one. For each: what I made, how long it took, the price and if the client came back. Use only quotes and invoices you can find. 3. Work out a base price from those jobs. Show the math. If my past jobs don't match, say so and mark the price [check: price]. 4. Make 2 or 3 options. Basic: just what they asked for. Standard: adds one thing that makes the result better or faster for them. Plus: adds rush or more rounds of changes. Each option says what they get, the due date, the rounds of changes and the price. 5. Write the scope rules: what is in, what is out, the price for extra rounds and what happens if files come late. If the brief asks for something none of my past jobs priced, list it as out of scope with [check: price for this]. Never guess that price. 6. Write the payment terms: a deposit to start (default 50%) and when the rest is due. 7. Write a short reply email that starts with what they want to get, gives the options and asks them to pick one. 8. List anything the brief left out as a question in the email, 3 at most, the ones that change the price first. Put the rest in the scope rules as [check] marks. Example of an option, match this shape: "Standard: one 3 minute video, captions, 2 rounds of changes, ready in 7 days, $900." The numbers are made up, only copy the shape. Give me: the brief in 5 lines, my past jobs table, the price math, the options table, the scope and payment terms, then the email draft under 180 words. Before you show me, check your work: - Every past price comes from a real quote or invoice. Name the email or file. - No option is below my lowest price from question 2. - The due dates fit my start date and the client's due date. Rules: - Drafts only. Save the email as a draft. Never send it until I say yes. Saving this skill is fine. - Don't make up a past price, a client, a result or a deadline. Use only my data and what I tell you. - If something is missing, write [check: what is missing] and keep going. - Plain words. Short sentences. No em dashes, no semicolons. Last, save these steps as a skill called "Quote a Project" so you do it this way each time I ask. To run it again for the next brief, I just say: run Quote a Project.
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Connect first: your email. The steps for each AI are on one page. Then the prompt reads it for you. It ends by saving itself as a skill.
Built on: $100M Offers. The value equation: raise the dream outcome and how sure they feel, cut the wait and their effort.
Copilot version
Needs a Microsoft 365 Copilot work license. Grounded in your work email, files and meetings. Run it once, then save it in Copilot Prompt Gallery.
Goal: You are my pricing coach, a senior freelancer with 15 years of quoting creative work. Turn a client's brief into a quote with 2 or 3 options, priced from my real past jobs, so I have a reply ready to send after I check it. Context: I freelance as [your service, like video editing]. A quote that shows the result they get, how sure they can be, how fast it comes and how little work it takes for them wins over a lower price, because buyers pay for value, not hours. Source: Use only the brief in my Outlook email from [client], and my past quotes and invoices in my Outlook sent mail and /[my rates or invoices file] from the last 12 months. First, check that you can open them. Tell me which email holds the brief and how many past jobs you found. If you can't find them, tell me which one is missing. Or I will paste it in instead. Expectations: 1. List what the brief asks for: deliverables, length, rounds of changes, due date, who supplies files, and what it leaves out. 2. Find my past jobs like this one: what I made, the price and if the client came back. Use only quotes and invoices you can find. 3. Work out a base price from them and show the math. If nothing matches, write [check: price]. 4. Make 2 or 3 options: Basic, Standard (adds one thing that makes it better or faster for them) and Plus (rush or more rounds). Each has what they get, due date, rounds and price. None goes below [my lowest price], or the lowest I charged for this size in 12 months. 5. Write scope rules and payment terms (50% deposit to start unless I say). Anything none of my past jobs priced goes out of scope with [check: price for this]. 6. Write a short reply that starts with what they want to get, gives the options, asks them to pick one and asks up to 3 questions. Example of an option, match this shape: "Standard: one 3 minute video, captions, 2 rounds of changes, ready in 7 days, $900." The numbers are made up, only copy the shape. Give me: the brief in 5 lines, my past jobs table, the price math, the options table, scope and payment terms, then the email under 180 words. Before you show me, check that every past price comes from a real quote or invoice, and that the due dates fit my start date and the client's date. Rules: Drafts only. Leave the email as a draft in Outlook for me. Never send it. Don't make up a price, client or deadline. If something is missing, write [check: what is missing]. Plain words, short sentences, no em dashes, no semicolons. When it works, save this in Copilot Prompt Gallery as "Quote a Project" and run it again for the next brief.
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AuthorCorey Leon