Five Boxes Prompt Builder
The builder from the top of this page, on its own. Fill five boxes, copy a prompt that works.
A prompting course for business owners and managers
Stop guessing at AI.
Fill five boxes instead.
The Five Boxes is the one method this course teaches. Try it now: change any box and the prompt rebuilds. Copy it into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini.
Your prompt
That's the method. The course is everything you do with it: a prompt library you keep, workflows for the work you already do, and a policy your team can follow.
Founding price $67 until launch, then $85. Opens late October.
Most businesses already use AI. Almost none use it well.
Seventy-four percent of small businesses use AI tools. Seventy-seven percent have no written policy for how. Fewer than one in five have trained anyone. The gap isn't awareness. It's method.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce & Teneo 2025 Small Business Index; Bluevine 2026 Small Business AI Trends.
Start here, free
Three things you can use today
AI Use Policy
A one-page policy your team can actually follow: three tiers, a gut-check question, and no penalty for reporting a mistake.
10 Prompts to Steal
Ten ready-to-use prompts across marketing, sales, operations, and finance, each with the follow-up line that makes it better.
Eight modules and a capstone, over two weeks
What you'll build, week by week
Every module ends with something you keep. The written lesson stands on its own; a short walkthrough video sits beside it for anyone who would rather watch.
- 0 Setup and safety Pick a tool, know what never to pasteAI use policy
- 1 The Five Boxes Write a complete prompt every time5 prompts rewritten
- 2 Everyday business prompts Emails, summaries, fixing bad output10-prompt starter library
- 3 Iterate like a pro Steer the first draft into the real answer1 chained workflow
- 4 AI as thinking partner Use it for decisions, not just draftsA decision memo
- 5 Working with your documents Contracts, spreadsheets, transcriptsA vendor comparison
- 6 Your prompt library Stop re-explaining yourself every sessionPrompt library v1
- 7 From prompts to systems See what comes after promptingAutomation wishlist
- C Capstone Prove it on your own businessLibrary, workflow, and policy
Format
Written lessons in plain language, a PDF edition of everything, one diagram per module, and a 3 to 6 minute walkthrough beside each. No lectures.
Tools
Shown in Claude. Every module carries a dated card running the same prompt in ChatGPT and Gemini, so you can see exactly what differs.
How it's built
From the sources, not from vibes
The evidence first
Built from the official prompting guides Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google publish, the Prompt Report's review of 1,565 papers, and the small-business surveys that show where owners actually get stuck. When the sources disagree, the course says so.
One method, taught deeply
The Five Boxes covers what the dozen competing acronyms cover. You learn it well, get a one-page decoder for the rest, and never learn a framework you won't use.
Dated, and refreshed
Tools change roughly every 90 days. Every comparison card carries a date, the stable material lives apart from the volatile, and the whole thing is refreshed quarterly.
Pricing
Two ways in
Core is the course. Plus is the course plus work done on your business, not a seat in someone else's session.
Core
$85 founding $67
Everything you need to learn the method and build your own library.
- 8 modules and the capstone
- Starter Kit, 50 prompts
- Cheat sheets and the diagram set
- PDF editions of everything, yours to keep
- Free corrections and edits to this edition
For owners who want it done with them
Plus
$175
Core, plus prompts written for your business and a second pair of eyes on your work.
- Everything in Core
- Your Prompt Pack — answer a short intake about your business and get 10 prompts written for it, not the generic ones
- Library review — send your finished library, get it back marked up with specific rewrites
- 30 days of email support — ask anything, answered within two business days
Tools update roughly every 90 days. An optional Updates subscription, $9 a month, keeps your library and cheat sheets current after you finish.
Questions
Before you ask
Which AI tool do I need?
Any one of Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. The walkthroughs are shown in Claude, and every module includes a card running the same prompt in the other two. A free plan is enough for the whole course. A paid plan helps once you start working with long documents.
I'm not technical. Is this for me?
Yes. There is no code, no API, and nothing to install. If you can write an email, you can do everything in this course.
How long does it take?
About four to five hours of material, built to be done in 20 to 30 minutes a day over two weeks. Every module ends with something you use in your business that week.
The tools change every few months. Will this go stale?
The method does not change. The tool details do. Everything that goes stale, such as screenshots, menus, and model quirks, lives in dated text you can check, not in video. We refresh it quarterly, and an optional Updates subscription keeps your library and cheat sheets current after you finish.
Is my business data safe to put into these tools?
That is the first module, and it is also the free AI Use Policy template. The short version: replace names and figures with placeholders before you paste, and never paste credentials, personnel records, or anything under an NDA. The course teaches sanitizing as a habit, not a warning.
What's the difference between Core and Plus?
Core is the course: all eight modules, the capstone, and the 50-prompt Starter Kit. Plus adds work done on your business. You answer a short intake and get ten prompts written for your specific business, you send your finished prompt library and get it back marked up with rewrites, and you get 30 days of email support. Core teaches you the method; Plus applies it to your business alongside you.
What if it isn't for me?
If the first two modules have not earned their price, email us within 14 days for a full refund.
Be first when it opens.
Founding members get the $67 price and a say in what the first cohort covers.
No spam. One email when it opens, and an occasional prompt worth stealing.