Prompt Teardown is a free weekly newsletter. You get ready-to-paste prompts for things you didn’t think to use AI for, and they work the first time. When a new AI trend or prompting technique comes out, I try it and send you what works.
One issue a week. Some issues have 3 or more prompts. Some have one longer one. It depends on what’s worth sending.
What’s in each issue
The email gives you the prompts. Copy one, fill in the brackets, and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
The full walkthrough is on the website. Every prompt there ends with the same 3 parts:
- Why it works. What makes it work the first time.
- One gap. Where I got tripped up, and where you might too.
- Simple fix. The line that patches it.
The business idea prompt is a good one to start with.
Why it’s called Prompt Teardown
I take every prompt apart before you see it. I break it, rebuild it and run it again until it works on the first paste.
Sometimes that takes one try. The motion graphics prompt took 4 long versions that kept getting worse before a short one won.
You get the version that survived.
How to find an old prompt
Search your inbox for promptteardown.com plus a word from the task, like “promptteardown.com contract”. That skips every other email about contracts and pulls up the issue.
On the website, the issue archive has every past issue. The blog sorts prompts by what they’re for: money, work, home, health and more.