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12 production system prompts for business agents.
Twelve system prompts for the agents businesses actually build — support triage, invoice extraction, HR Q&A, escalation routing — each with a worked example and its three known failure modes.
Twelve prompts that already have the guardrails written in
Most business agents fail in the same two ways: they invent a fact rather than admit a gap, and they answer confidently when they should have handed the case to a person. Both failures are written into the system prompt long before anyone notices them in production.
This library is twelve system prompts for the agents businesses actually build, each one written the way you would write it on the third attempt rather than the first. Every prompt comes with a worked example showing the input and the output you should expect, and three failure modes with the specific line that prevents each one.
By the end you will have twelve prompts you can adapt by swapping placeholders, a shared structure to write your thirteenth against, and two rules encoded in all of them: when unsure, say so and escalate; never invent facts, IDs, amounts or policy.
- Category
- Toolkit
- Reading time
- 7 min
- Format
- ZIP
The things you take away from it.
Five things, listed the way they appear in the zip.
- A guide to prompt anatomy — role, scope, refusal behaviour, output format, escalation path — and how to adapt each prompt by filling in placeholders
- Twelve production system prompts covering support triage, order status and returns, invoice extraction, expense policy, HR Q&A, candidate screening, meeting notes, sales call prep, knowledge-base answering, escalation routing, onboarding and IT helpdesk
- A worked example for every prompt: the input it receives and the output it should produce
- Three named failure modes per prompt, each paired with the line of prompt text that prevents it
- Explicit bias guardrails on the candidate screening prompt, and citation requirements on every prompt that answers from documents
Written for three people in particular.
If none of these is you, it will still be readable — but it was written with these jobs in mind, and it assumes their problems.
Building your first agents without a prompt engineer
You need a working starting point written by someone who has watched these prompts fail, not a blank text box.
Team whose prompts grew by accident
Four people have edited the same prompt, nobody knows which line does what, and it is now too long to reason about.
Agency shipping agents for clients
You need a consistent house structure across engagements so the second build is faster than the first.
6 chapters, in order.
Each one stands on its own. Read it front to back the first time, then come back to the chapter you need.
- 01
The anatomy of a production prompt
The sections every prompt here shares — role, scope, hard rules, output format, escalation path — and why the order matters more than the wording.
- 02
Adapting them to your business
Which placeholders to fill in first, what to add from your own policy, and the edits that reliably make a prompt worse.
- 03
Customer-facing prompts
Customer support triage, order status and returns, and the escalation router — the three prompts a person's bad day passes through.
- 04
Document and data prompts
Invoice data extraction, expense policy checking, and the knowledge-base answerer that has to cite the passage it used.
- 05
People prompts
HR policy Q&A, candidate screening with explicit bias guardrails, and the onboarding checklist assistant — where a wrong answer costs the most.
- 06
Internal operations prompts
Meeting notes to action items, sales call prep research, and internal IT helpdesk L1 — the quiet hours these agents give back.
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Figures quoted in the guide.
Where a number comes from a specific engagement, the guide says so.
| Prompts included | 12 |
|---|---|
| Worked examples | One per prompt |
| Failure modes documented | 3 per prompt |
| Setup | Copy the prompt, fill the placeholders |
The most valuable sentence in any of these prompts is the one that tells the agent what to do when it does not know — and it is the sentence almost every homegrown prompt is missing.
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Can we get help implementing this instead of building it ourselves?
Yes — that is the day job. The same work runs as a fixed-scope engagement: four weeks to a first system in production, measured against a quality bar agreed at kickoff, with you owning the weights, datasets, eval suites and runbooks afterwards.
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