With the right prompting, AI can help produce marketing plans that actually hold up. My approach: simulate a 100-person focus group discussing the company, split into 20 breakout rooms of 5 for deliberation, then merge everyone’s input into unified recommendations. That gets distilled into a full report (5-20 pages) plus a one-pager.

As a demo, here’s an unaffiliated example – Energy Substantiation to test the prompts. Contact me for the longer version.

Claude Penland builds the marketing and business strategy for companies that are good at what they do and hard to find. Thirty years operating, one exit, eight of them as a practicing casualty actuary.

The free two-page read is genuinely free. Email claude@1000startups.com and I'll send back what I can see from the outside. Or see the work samples and how to work with me.