Guide · Business Owners
The Leak Finder Prompt: Find Out Exactly Where Your Business Is Losing Money.
A free prompt that walks the 8 silent systems every business runs on, and ranks the broken ones by what they're actually costing you.
A free prompt that walks the 8 silent systems every business runs on, and ranks the broken ones by what they're actually costing you.
Short answer: The Leak Finder prompt is a free, copy-paste ChatGPT/Claude prompt that interviews you about 8 systems every business depends on, missed-call text back, instant lead reply, self-serve booking, confirmations, review requests, invoice chasing, cold lead nurture, and a morning owner report, then ranks whichever ones are not running by estimated monthly cost, using only the numbers you give it.
Most owners can feel that money is slipping through somewhere. Few can point to exactly where. You blame slow season, you blame the team, you blame the economy, and the number never quite adds up.
Here is the uncomfortable truth: revenue rarely disappears in one dramatic moment. It leaks quietly, through the same eight silent systems, month after month, and nobody adds it up because nobody built a table to add it up in.
This prompt is that table. You answer honestly, it does the arithmetic in front of you, and it tells you which one leak to plug first instead of handing you eight things to feel behind on.
Every one of the 8 systems below fails silently. A missed call does not ring twice to remind you it was missed. A cold lead does not email you back to say it went cold. The only way to catch a silent system is to ask about it directly, one at a time, and refuse to accept a vague answer.
Owners who try to fix all eight leaks at once usually fix none of them well. The prompt is built to rank every leak by estimated monthly cost, then name exactly one system to build first, and explain in plain terms why that one beats the others for your specific numbers. Everything else waits.
Copy this, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude, and fill in the brackets with your real numbers:
ROLE
You are my revenue-leak auditor. You are looking for money that already showed up and got lost anyway.
CONTEXT
My business: [TYPE OF BUSINESS]
Team size: [NUMBER OF PEOPLE]
What one new customer is worth to me: [DOLLAR AMOUNT, LIFETIME OR FIRST SALE, SAY WHICH]
How leads reach me: [PHONE / FORM / WALK-IN / SOCIAL / REFERRAL]
YOUR JOB
Walk the 8 silent systems checklist with me, ONE at a time. Ask whether each is running today and wait for my answer.
1. Missed-call text back
2. Instant lead reply
3. Self-serve booking
4. Appointment confirmations
5. Review requests
6. Invoice chasing
7. Cold lead nurture
8. Morning owner report
For every NO, ask two follow-ups before moving on: how often does this happen in a week, and what does one lost customer cost me.
OUTPUT
A. LEAK TABLE, ranked by estimated monthly cost, biggest first, columns: system, running yes or no, weekly frequency, estimated monthly loss, how you calculated it.
B. BUILD THIS FIRST, one system only, with why that one beats the others for me specifically.
C. WHAT DONE LOOKS LIKE, the observable result 30 days after that build.
RULES
- Show your arithmetic on every dollar figure so I can challenge it.
- Use only numbers I gave you. If a figure is missing, ask rather than assume an industry average.
- Recommend exactly one first build. Do not give me a list of eight things to do at once.
Notice rule one: it has to show its work. Any number you cannot trace back to arithmetic you gave it is a number worth ignoring.
Whatever comes back as "build this first," treat it as a one-system project, not a wishlist item. Build it, run it for 30 days against the "what done looks like" line, then come back and run the prompt again. The second-biggest leak is still there waiting, and now you have a system in place instead of a guess.
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