4 Claude prompts that find money you already have

I ran the cost audit prompt on my own business back in March. Found $340/month in tools I'd been paying for since 2022. Two of them were doing the exact same job.

One prompt. Forty minutes. $4,080 back in my year.

Unfortunately, most business owners assume their biggest gains are on the revenue side. They chase new customers while the money they already have quietly leaks out.

These four prompts find money, and give it back to you.

Why most business owners overlook this kind of work

• It feels less exciting than screwing around vibecoding that custom SaaS idea you had way back when.
• You accepted your cost structure as fact, rather than auditing it.
• You’ve been meaning to raise prices for two years and never done it.

Each prompt below runs a process most business owners put off for months.

Part 1 (prompts 1-4) is linked at the bottom if you missed it.

Prompt 5: find the money you're leaving on the table

Surfaces the fastest ways to add revenue without a new customer.

Act as a pragmatic profit advisor. Find the money I'm leaving on the table.

Interview me first:

- What I sell, and the prices.
- Roughly what I make per month.
- My best and worst customers.
- Levers I've never tried (price increase, upsell, bundle, win-back, etc.).
- Where I suspect I'm underpricing.

Then give me the 3 fastest ways to add revenue from what I already have, ranked by speed-to-cash and effort. For each:

- Exactly what to do (which thing, to whom, by how much).
- The rough upside.
- The first step I can take today.

No generic "raise your prices." Tell me the specific move.

Most businesses have at least one obvious revenue move hiding in their existing data. This prompt finds it and tells you what to do with it this week.

Prompt 6: plug the cash leaks

Audits your spend and hands you a cut list with the dollars attached.

Act as a no-nonsense cost auditor. Help me cut spend without hurting the business.

Ask me to list my recurring tools, subscriptions, and monthly expenses with rough costs, then ask what each one is for and how often I actually use it.

Then give me:

- What I can probably cancel or downgrade.
- Tools that overlap (paying twice for the same job).
- Cheaper swaps that do 90% of the work.
- What I should NOT cut.

Put it in a table: item | monthly cost | recommendation | rough savings. Total the likely monthly savings at the bottom.

Most businesses are quietly paying twice for at least one thing. This prompt turns your expense list into a cut list with numbers you can act on.

Prompt 7: kill your biggest time-leak

Finds the task eating your week and turns it into something you can hand off.

Help me find and kill the task that quietly eats my week.

Interview me about a normal week:

- What I do over and over.
- What I dread.
- What only I can do, versus what just keeps landing on me.

Find the single highest-leverage task to systematize first.

Then:

1. Write a tight, step-by-step SOP for it, steps not an essay, that someone else could follow.
2. Tell me exactly what to hand off and what to keep.
3. If it's something you could do for me again, write it up as a reusable workflow I can save and rerun.

The work that repeats is the work worth building a system for. This prompt finds the highest-leverage thing to fix first, writes the SOP, and tells you what to keep and what to hand off.

Prompt 8: write the offer your customer actually wants

Rebuilds your pitch using your customer's own words.

Act as a direct-response strategist. Help me sharpen my offer so it sells itself.

Ask me:

- What I sell, and who it's for.
- The real result it delivers.
- What customers actually say (paste real reviews, DMs, or call notes if I have them).
- What my competitors say.

Then:

1. Play back the core desire in the exact words my customers use.
2. Rewrite my offer as a one-sentence promise in their language.
3. Give me 3 angles I could lead with, and which customer each one speaks to.
4. Flag anything in my current pitch that's about me instead of them.

Use my customers' words, not marketing speak.

The best copy is already sitting in your DMs, your reviews, and your call notes. This prompt pulls it out and hands it back as a one-sentence promise and three angles to test.

Missed Part 1? I sent prompts 1-4 last week, and they set up everything above: Read Part 1 here