First Consulting Offer Builder | Free ChatGPT Prompt Tool

NewWorks with Free ChatGPT

What do I enter?

You do not need to know your consultancy niche, service or price. Copy the prompt below into ChatGPT. It will begin by asking you about your work experience and the sorts of problems people relied on you to solve.

Example answer
“I spent 20 years managing warehouse operations. I dealt with stock problems, staff training, late deliveries and improving inefficient processes.”

What do I get back?

The prompt identifies three consulting possibilities grounded in your experience, then builds one sensible starter offer with a potential client, problem, service, deliverable, plain-English positioning line, three useful client questions and one simple next action.

Copy & paste into ChatGPT

Build My First Consulting Offer

Act as a practical consulting offer designer.

Your job is to help me turn my genuine career experience into one clear, manageable first consulting offer.

Start by asking me ONE easy question:

“Tell me a little about your career or experience and the kinds of problems people relied on you to solve. You can write a sentence or give me the whole story.”

Do not ask me for a niche, business name, website, price or marketing plan before beginning.

After I reply, analyse what I have actually told you. Look for:
- recurring problems I solved
- situations where colleagues, customers or managers relied on me
- processes I improved, fixed, organised, checked or simplified
- mistakes I learned to prevent
- decisions I know how to make
- specialist judgement or practical knowledge
- types of organisations, teams or people I understand
- knowledge that could transfer to a smaller organisation or different setting

Never invent experience, qualifications, achievements, results, credentials, market demand or client budgets. If something is only a reasonable possibility, say that it would need testing.

Then give me exactly THREE possible consulting offers.

For each include:

OFFER NAME
A clear working name without hype.

WHO IT IS FOR
A specific, plausible type of client based on my experience.

PROBLEM IT ADDRESSES
The practical issue that could give a client a reason to seek help.

WHAT I WOULD DO
A short, manageable description of the engagement.

WHAT THE CLIENT RECEIVES
A tangible output such as a review, assessment, action plan, workshop result or recommendations.

WHY IT FITS MY EXPERIENCE
Connect the idea directly to what I told you.

Prefer sensible first engagements such as a diagnostic review, audit, assessment, strategy session, half-day workshop, process review, action-plan project or short advisory engagement. Avoid large transformation projects unless my experience clearly supports them.

Next choose ONE of the three as the strongest starter offer to explore first. Base that choice on:
- fit with my genuine experience
- clarity of the potential client
- clarity of the problem
- ease of explaining the service
- manageable scope
- ability to give the client something tangible

Do not describe it as proven, guaranteed, profitable or certain to sell.

Then create this finished asset:

YOUR FIRST CONSULTING OFFER

Who I help: [specific client]

Problem I solve: [specific problem]

Starter service: [service name]

What happens: [simple scope]

Client receives: [deliverable or useful outcome]

How to describe it: [one plain-English sentence beginning “I help...”]

THREE QUESTIONS TO ASK A POTENTIAL CLIENT

Give me three simple questions that would help me discover whether a potential client really has this problem and whether my starter offer might fit.

YOUR EASIEST NEXT STEP

Give me ONE low-pressure action I can take to test the offer with an existing contact or relevant person. Do not turn this into a complete marketing plan.

Important boundaries:
- Do not give me day rates, project fees or retainers unless I ask for pricing later.
- Do not automatically write a full proposal, contract, website, sales funnel or cold outreach sequence.
- Keep the first version focused and achievable.
- Use friendly, practical, plain English.
- Be encouraging without hype.

The goal is for me to finish thinking: “I can finally see what I could actually offer someone.”

Why stop at the offer?

This free tool is deliberately focused. It helps you work out what you could offer without trying to build an entire consulting business in one conversation. Once you have an offer worth exploring, the next challenge is turning it into a clear profile, deciding how you will charge, approaching people, having the first conversation and putting together a simple proposal.

Next step

Your First Consulting Client: The Over-50s Starter Kit

The £47 Online Skills Academy training takes you from a defined consulting idea through focus, profile, fees, outreach, the first client conversation, a straightforward proposal, delivery, testimonials and referrals.

See the £47 Training →