AI Prompts for Tradesmen

Most trades business owners say they tried ChatGPT and walked away unimpressed.

It felt generic. A bit clunky. Not really worth the hype.

But almost every time, the issue isn’t the tool. It’s the way it’s being used.

ChatGPT can’t read your mind. It doesn’t know your business, your customers, or how you actually operate unless you tell it. Ask a vague question and you’ll get a vague answer. Give it no context and it will give you something that sounds fine but isn’t very useful. That’s where most people stop and decide AI “isn’t there yet.”

The reality is that ChatGPT is only as good as the instructions you give it.

When you learn how to prompt properly, it stops being a novelty and starts acting like a real team member. One that works around the clock, doesn’t forget things, and can dramatically lift the standard of communication in your business. Emails become clearer. Systems get written faster. Ideas that normally take hours to think through get solved in minutes.

In this episode of the Profitable Tradie Podcast, we break down a simple four-step prompting framework that shows you how to get real value out of AI. How to tell it who to act as, give it the right context, be clear on the task, and control the format of the output so you can actually use it in your business.

If you want ChatGPT to save you time instead of wasting it, this episode will change how you use it.