Three Claude prompts I use weekly that aren't "summarize this."
Most prompts treat AI as a processing layer. Paste in data. Ask for a summary. Get a tidy paragraph back. That works for low-stakes use. It does not work for the actual operating decisions you have to make in a Monday morning meeting.
Three prompts I use weekly that change the perspective applied to a familiar task instead of just processing inputs.
Before signing any vendor contract:
"Read this contract as the vendor's lawyer enforcing every clause against me at the worst possible moment. List the three clauses you'd weaponize first, in priority order, with the scenario that triggers each."
Surfaces what a friendly read misses.
Before building any new dashboard:
"If this could only show three numbers, and someone glanced at it for four seconds once a week, which numbers would force the right action? Explain why each one beat its closest alternative."
Kills dashboard sprawl before it starts.
For any plan, proposal, or 30/60/90:
"Find the assumption inside this plan that nobody is questioning, but that everything else depends on. State it plainly. Then tell me what would have to be true for it to hold."
About 70 percent of the time, that one assumption is doing all the load-bearing work.