Nine cards, nine named business strategy frameworks, each one turned into a ChatGPT role instruction. AI Central's set runs from Porter's Five Forces and the Value Net through the BCG Growth-Share Matrix, zero-based budgeting, game theory, PESTLE, a profit framework and supply chain analysis. Every prompt uses the same skeleton: assign a consultant role, name the framework, state the task, demand recommendations. Fill two bracketed slots with your own business and run it.
Reviewed August 2026.
What the nine cards cover
The set is built around named frameworks rather than around tasks, which is the first thing worth noticing. There is no card called write my strategy. Every one of them picks a framework with a track record, then hands ChatGPT the job of applying it to a business you name.
In the order the document presents them, the nine cover this ground.
- Porter's Five Forces, for reading the structural profitability of a market through rivalry, new entrants, supplier power, buyer power and substitutes.
- The Value Net, for finding where cooperation with customers, suppliers and even competitors grows the market instead of splitting it.
- A congruence model card, aimed at aligning the organization for execution.
- The BCG Growth-Share Matrix, for sorting business units into stars, question marks, cash cows and dogs, then deciding where to invest, divest or reallocate.
- Zero-based budgeting, for rebuilding a budget from a starting point of zero and making every line justify itself.
- Game theory, for situations with several parties, aimed at cooperation and a larger overall pie rather than a won argument.
- PESTLE, for the shocks that arrive from outside: political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental.
- A profit framework, for splitting revenue and cost into fixed and variable, then testing profitability at different sales volumes.
- Supply chain and value chain together, for mapping where value is actually added and cutting the activity that adds none.
The skeleton underneath all nine
Read the prompts side by side and they are the same prompt, refitted. Each opens by casting ChatGPT as a specialist, and the specialist always matches the framework. A business strategy consultant handles Porter. A financial analyst handles zero-based budgeting. A business portfolio analyst handles the growth-share matrix. An operations consultant handles the supply chain.
The opening line of the game theory card is the pattern at its plainest, as AI Central writes it.
Act like a Strategic Consultant specializing in Game Theory for [TOPIC].
After that role line, each prompt moves through three more beats.
- A task line, always opening with your task is to, which names the framework's components in full rather than assuming the model will recall them.
- A constraint line, always opening with you must, which fixes what the answer has to contain: market share and growth rate for the matrix, fixed and variable costs for the profit framework, all operational costs for zero-based budgeting.
- An extension line, usually opening with also, which pushes the answer past description and into recommendations.
Why the enumeration matters more than the framework name
The prompts do not simply say run a PESTLE. They spell out political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental. The Porter card lists all five forces by name. The matrix card names stars, question marks, cash cows and dogs. That reads like padding on the page. It is not.
Ask a model for a framework by name and it returns something shaped roughly like that framework, weighted toward the parts that get written about most. In practice the legal and environmental sections of an unprompted PESTLE tend to come back thin for exactly that reason. Enumerating the components turns the prompt into a checklist the model has to answer against, and it is the cheapest reliability upgrade in the whole set.
The closing clause does the other half of the work. Most strategy output from a chatbot stops at description, a tidy account of the situation with no move in it. Every card here ends by demanding one: where to invest or divest, how to streamline the budgeting process, how to mitigate risk, how to improve delivery. Analysis without a recommendation is a book report, and these prompts are built so you cannot get one back.
One card in the set does not hold up
The third card is titled Align Your Organization for Execution and labeled as a congruence model for organizational excellence. The prompt printed underneath it is not a congruence model prompt. It is the Value Net prompt from the card before it, repeated word for word, down to the closing warning about circular thinking. Checked against the document's own text rather than skimmed, the two blocks are identical.
So the set ships eight distinct prompts under nine headings. Worth saying plainly rather than papering over, and it is fixable in about a minute, because the skeleton is the transferable part. Keep the four beats, swap the specialist to someone who works on organizational design, name the framework in the task line, list the elements you want assessed, then write your own constraint and extension clauses. The same recipe produces a tenth prompt, or a thirtieth.
How to run them so the output is worth something
Two placeholder slots appear in every prompt and they are not the same slot. The topic slot sits in the role line and sets the specialist's domain. The second slot, written variously as insert business or industry, insert company or business, insert business scenario, or insert business or product, names the thing being analyzed. Filling one and leaving the other generic is the most common way these go flat.
- Paste your real figures. The matrix asks for market share and growth rate, the profit framework asks for fixed and variable costs across sales volumes, zero-based budgeting asks for all operational costs. Withhold them and you get a confident analysis of a company that does not exist.
- Run them as a sequence, not as nine separate errands. PESTLE reads the outside world, Porter reads the market, the Value Net finds who to cooperate with, the matrix decides where the money goes, budgeting and the profit framework work the cost side, and the supply chain card handles delivery.
- Carry each answer forward. Paste the PESTLE output back in as context before running Porter, and the second answer stops being generic.
- Push back on the first draft. These produce a starting position, not a conclusion.
AI Central's closing card makes the same point in four words.
Strategy is a process.
The instruction beside it is a loop rather than a one-shot: try the prompts, polish the output, get your best content. Nine frameworks run once give you nine documents nobody reads. Run properly, with your own numbers in them and each answer feeding the next, they give you an argument about where the business should go.
Do I need to know these frameworks before using the prompts?
Not to get an answer. Each prompt names its own components, so ChatGPT supplies the structure and the vocabulary. You do need enough judgment to test what comes back, because a model will happily park a product in the cash cow quadrant on the strength of an adjective you used. Treat the framework as a way to organize your thinking, not as a verdict.
What is the difference between the two bracketed slots?
The first defines the specialist you are hiring, so it takes a domain, something like B2B software or specialty coffee retail. The second takes the specific subject: your company, one product line, a department, or a scenario you are trying to think through. Putting the same words in both slots is usually a sign the question has not been narrowed enough.
Can I use these in something other than ChatGPT?
The set is written for ChatGPT. Nothing in the wording is tied to a particular product though, there is no special syntax and no tool calls, just plain English role instructions, so they carry across to any assistant that will hold a few hundred words of setup.
Which prompt should I start with?
It depends where the uncertainty sits. If what worries you comes from outside the business, regulation, rates, a technology shift, start with PESTLE. If it sits inside the market, start with Porter's Five Forces and then the Value Net, because that pair asks two opposite questions about the same competitors: how they take value from you, and where they could help you create more of it.