A USER GUIDE · FROM SEPT 17, 2026
The Muse User Guide
Everything I use Muse for — and how you can do the same.
- Written for you, the reader, from seven weeks of daily use.
- Second person, throughout — you, your business, your blanks to fill in.
- Plain & direct — no hype. No income promises. Every use in here is real.
- 15 prompts inside — copy, fill in the blanks, paste, review before you act.
How to use this guide
How to use this guide
Use it like a manual.
This guide is a working manual. It is not a story about one person. It lists every job the helper does in a real business. The jobs are grouped by type. Each job has a prompt you can copy.
What is inside
- What an AI agent is — plain words, on page 03.
- The origin — where this started, and the setup to copy first.
- The full list — seven groups, every use in one place.
- 15 prompts to copy — plain words. No names. Blanks where your details go.
- Proof — real pictures of real pages, with dates.
- Results, in percentages — what changed in seven weeks, and what drove it.
- 1Fill in your profileYour name, what you sell, who you serve.
- 2Pick the jobFind the job in the list. Open its page.
- 3Copy the promptFill in every blank. Paste the whole thing.
- 4Review before you actCheck names, numbers, prices, dates, links.
The one rule that matters most: the helper can research, draft, plan, and check. The last check is always yours. If it says it could not check something, treat that as not checked.
Contents
- How to use this guide 02
- What is an AI agent? 03
- The origin & setting up first 04
- Results, in percentages 05
- The inventory at a glance 06
- Categories 1–7: every use 07–14
- The 15 prompts 15–19
- Proof — pictures 20–21
- Plain-words glossary 22
- What a day looks like 23
- Your first week 24
Start here
What is an AI agent?
An AI agent is a computer helper. You tell it what to do in plain words. Then it does the job for you.
Think of it like a new team member who is very fast at reading, writing, and checking. It is not a person. It does not know your business until you tell it. You stay in charge. You check its work. You say yes before anything goes out.
What it can do
- Read a lot, fast.
- Write a first draft.
- Make a plan.
- Check a page, link by link.
- Turn a long call into short lessons.
What it cannot do
- It cannot know what you never told it.
- It cannot send, post, or pay without your yes.
- It cannot tell a guess from a fact unless you ask it to check.
An everyday example
You sayYou say: “Find three good dates for my class. Check my calendar first.”
Helper doesThe helper does this: it checks your calendar. It lists three open dates.
You doYou do this: you pick one. That is the whole job.
More words are in the glossary on page 22. If a word in this guide still feels hard, look it up there first.
The origin
Found in a community, put to work the same day
Muse was found on September 17, 2026, inside the AI Execution Club — a group of people who share how they use AI in their work. It was not bought and put on a shelf. It was given real work the same day.
The start was simple. One person did everything. Hiring help for expert work was slow. And the help that was hired did not do the jobs that needed doing. The work that ate the days was building: pages, systems, and content. All done by hand, one at a time.
What changed things was a method, not a feature. Give the helper a skill. Let it learn the skill well. Then let it do the work. Check the result in the real system before you call it done.
Set up first — before the first prompt
The honest part: work that repeats needs check-ins. A job that ran three times a day can stop, and no one tells you. Teach the helper what you do not want, early. And keep the human jobs human: emails you send by hand, and anything that touches your card — plane tickets included — stay yours.
Results
Seven weeks, in percentages
These numbers are percentages only. No dollar amounts are in this guide. The numbers compare 51 days with the 50 days before them. The drivers are named, too. A number without its driver is a sales line, not a result.
What drove the growth: a few large client invoices. Done-for-you work and consulting. Not small digital products. Subscription income fell 28% in the same window. So read the +79% with both facts. The helper freed the owner to close and deliver big work while it did the buildouts. That is the honest story. It is still a strong one.
How we counted: paid payments only, two business accounts, failed and $0 payments left out. The two periods are 51 days and 50 days. So the per-day number (+76%) is the fairest one. Percentages are rounded to whole numbers. The first numbers were checked at the source.
The inventory at a glance
Seven groups. Every use, in one place.
Everything the helper is used for, grouped by the job. Not by the day it happened. Never as a list of single tasks. Find the job. Read its page. Use its prompt.
How to read a group page
Start in the middle: your business. Each group is one kind of job. The numbers are the prompts for that job, on the Prompt Pack page.
Six everyday prompts are used alongside the fifteen — morning briefing, end-of-day closeout, weekly money report, revenue radar, delegating a goal, and “am I missing anything?” — and are listed as one-line starters on the pages where they belong.
Categories 1–7 — every use
Research & Decisions
CATEGORY 1 OF 7 · RESEARCH & DECISIONS · TRY PROMPTS 01, 04, 13
Research that ends in a decision
The most-used job of all. Research is only worth doing if it ends in a choice you can act on. With the risks. With the numbers to watch. With the questions you forgot to ask.
- 1Ask one questionOne clear choice you must make.
- 2Read real sourcesTrue sources, not guesses.
- 3Split facts from guessesSay what is proven, and what is not.
- 4Decide, with a planA next step, the risks, 30 days.
Deep research that ends in a decision
Ask about one topic. The helper reads real sources. It splits facts from guesses. Then it gives you a clear next step, the risks, and a 30-day plan. If the proof is thin, it says so.
Used forPricing, a new offer, a new tool, a buy — any choice where a wrong call costs time or money.
Local opportunity intel
The helper scans your area for the week ahead. For each event, it lists the date, the price, and the place. It rates each one High, Medium, or Low for meeting good people. It ends with the top three.
Used forA weekly list of rooms worth being in.
Turn expert research into a learning product
The helper studies a topic in depth. Then it turns what it learned into lessons. Each lesson starts with a real example. Each one ends with questions, cards, and a quiz.
Used forTraining, member lessons, and turning research into teaching you can sell.
Planning & Strategy
CATEGORY 2 OF 7 · PLANNING & STRATEGY · TRY PROMPT 03
Plan the business, then watch the money
Planning turns a big idea into something you can run, price, and staff. Then the weekly numbers tell you if the plan is working.
- 1VisionThe big idea, in plain words.
- 2Offers & pricesA ladder: entry, core, premium.
- 3CostsWhat it costs at each stage.
- 4Hire orderWho you need first, and next.
- 590-day planWhat happens first.
Build the full business model
Turn a big idea into a model. A ladder of offers, with prices. Costs at each stage, with guesses marked as guesses. The roles you need, and the order to hire them. Weekly numbers to watch. The big risks. A 90-day plan.
Used forTurning a big idea into a model you can run.
Weekly money report
Each Monday, pull the numbers that matter. Proposals sent. Invoices past due. Renewals in the next 30 days. Member counts. Then name the three best money moves for the week.
Run my weekly money report. Pull proposals sent and their status, overdue invoices, renewals in the next 30 days, and member counts. Give me the three highest-leverage revenue actions this week, ranked by money.
Revenue radar — money left on the table
Look for money left on the table. Proposals with no reply. Invoices past due. Talks that stalled. Members near the end. Old clients with no follow-up. For each one, draft a follow-up. Do not send it. Rank them by money.
Scan for money I am leaving on the table: unanswered proposals, overdue invoices, stalled conversations, and past clients with no follow-up. Draft each follow-up for my approval and rank them by likely money recovered.
Audits & Quality
CATEGORY 3 OF 7 · AUDITS & QUALITY · TRY PROMPTS 02, 07
Audit first. Launch second.
An audit is read-only. It looks at proof first. It ends in a verdict, not a vague “looks good.” It is the cheapest safety net a launch has.
- 1Read onlyNothing changes. You only look.
- 2Check every pathEach page, each link, each step.
- 3VerdictReady, ready with fixes, or not ready.
- 4Fix listMost important first, with examples.
Ruthless audit with proof
Audit a page, account, course, or offer. Read only. Nothing changes. Check every tab and every path a buyer can take. Report what works, with proof. Report what is broken. Then give a verdict: ready, ready with fixes, or not ready.
Used forChecking anything before you trust it or share it.
Checkout & fulfilment quality check
Walk every buyer path. Do not pay. Check each one: name, price, and any crossed-out price. A coupon box that works only where it should. The right tag, email, booking, or access after paying. Words on the thank-you page that match the promise.
Used forChecking an offer before launch, so buyers never hit a broken payment.
The rule for both: check inside the real system before you call anything done. Read printed words out loud, word for word, before you call them live. If the helper could not check a claim, treat it as not checked.
Building
CATEGORY 4 OF 7 · BUILDING · TRY PROMPT 05
Brief it completely, or do not brief it at all
The most common way a build goes wrong is a short brief. A page is missing. A checkout is missing. A form leads nowhere. The fix is a brief that names everything up front.
- 1BriefEvery page, every step, named.
- 2BuildPages, forms, and links.
- 3Wire the money pathProduct, payment, tag, follow-up.
- 4TestClick the main action. Check mobile.
- 5ApproveYou say yes. Then it goes live.
Complete build briefs — funnels, sites, pages, apps
Brief the build in full. Every page. The one main action. Your colors and fonts. The system it must join. What must happen after someone acts. Add checkout, thank-you, mobile view, and error states. Match each form box to the right type. Test the main action. Leave it unpublished until you say yes.
Used forPages, funnels, booking flows, dashboards, and apps.
Courses, lessons & membership content
Turn teaching into lessons. The lesson words. A picture baked into the video. The lesson page. The path through it. Check each lesson like a checkout: the video plays, the links work, the next step is clear.
Used forLessons, recorded classes, and member libraries.
The commercial wiring around a build
A page is not a product until the money path works. The product. The payment link. Coupons and their rules. The tag or follow-up that fires after a sale. The words the buyer sees. Check them as one path, not as loose parts.
Used forProducts, payment links, coupons, tags, and follow-ups.
Sales & Clients
CATEGORY 5 OF 7 · SALES & CLIENTS · TRY PROMPTS 06, 08, 10, 15
Walk in prepared. Leave with a next step.
Sales work is research work. Know who you are talking to, what they are missing, and the next step — before the call starts.
- 1ResearchTheir site, offers, and posts.
- 2PrepLeaks, chances, and three paths.
- 3CallAsk. Listen. Offer the next step.
- 4Next stepOne clear move, with a date.
Prospect prep that becomes a decision asset
Research the prospect: site, offers, posts, your notes. Sum up what they do and sell, in plain words. Name their likely money leaks, with proof. Show three paths: what they can do, what their team can do, and where outside help moves fastest. For each job: scope, price, time, next step. Flag what you could not check.
Used forCalls, proposals, and follow-ups.
Client tracker reconciliation
Match a project list against the real records: meetings, files, notes, contacts. Change nothing. For each line: where it came from, who owns it, the link, and what proves it is done. Or say no proof exists. Split open work from done work. Flag copies, dead links, and items marked done with no proof.
Used forHandoffs, project recovery, and disputes.
Testimonial mining, with receipts
Search the groups, courses, and chats you can reach. Look for real praise — never your own words, never vague praise. For each find, save the exact words, who said it, the date, the link, and a picture. Put it in a table for posts and sales pages proof. If a place cannot be reached, say so.
Used forBuilding a proof file from real praise.
Call prep — “prep me for this call”
Before any meeting, get four things: who they are, in three lines; what they most likely want, and why; four good questions; one clear next step to end with. Anything not checked — time, date, time zone, link — is flagged, not guessed.
Used forMeetings, talks, podcasts, and sales calls.
Two more jobs in this group are below: proof from real praise, and a plan for every call.
Content & Marketing
CATEGORY 6 OF 7 · CONTENT & MARKETING · TRY PROMPTS 09, 11, 12
Content from real work, in your real voice
The content engine runs on work that already happened. Recordings. Research. Real words from real customers. Not on making up posts from nothing.
- 1RecordingA call, a class, a talk.
- 2WordsRead the written words first.
- 3Best momentsHooks, with start and end times.
- 4Three plansLessons, short clips, long video.
Short social content in your voice
Draft two short posts for a campaign. One teaches. It uses one fact you checked. One relates. It names the real life of running a business: the juggling, the missed timing, the second-guessing. Keep both short and in your voice. One call to action, once. Never post from the draft. Show the exact words for a yes first.
Used forCampaigns, launches, and countdowns — checked each day, not left to run alone.
Recording-to-content pipeline
Review a library of calls or classes. Read the words first. Sort each one: safe as-is, needs edits, needs a yes first, or never use. Find the best hooks, with exact start and end times. Flag private details, client names, money talk, other people's work, and off-the-record words. Then make three plans that do not repeat each other: lessons, short clips, long video. The weekly job — download the week's calls, sort them, load them into the course and the video plan — is the same job each week.
Used forTurning a call library into lessons, clips, and posts — safely.
Promo video, planned before it is made
Plan a short upright video before you make it. One camera move per shot. The exact words for the voiceover, written the way people talk. Short words on screen. Music and sound notes. An end card with the date and the call to action. List what you need first. Do not start until the plan is approved.
Used forTrailers, launch promos, and event teasers.
Operations
CATEGORY 7 OF 7 · OPERATIONS · TRY PROMPTS 14, 15
The business, run on rails
Operations is everything that repeats: briefings, closeouts, bookings, follow-ups. The steps that make a good week repeatable.
Turn work into a repeatable process
When a job works once, write it down. The trigger. The inputs. The steps, in order. The checks. The fixes when it breaks. So the next person can follow it with no questions.
Email drafts — never sends
Draft emails, replies, and follow-ups in your voice. Show the exact words for a yes first. The helper drafts. You send. Emails you send by hand stay with you.
Scheduling & calendar
Check the calendar and open jobs. Flag what is due in the next two days. Spot clashes, and time-zone mix-ups. A morning brief, one screen: what must happen today, what can wait, what is stuck on someone else.
Travel, planned — tickets bought by you
Research the options. Flights, times, prices, and the trade-offs. Compare day trips, direct flights, and flights with a stop. Lay out the choice in plain words. Booking and paying — the part that touches your card, like plane tickets — stays with you.
Recurring briefs
Two briefs run on a clock. A local events scan: openings, talks, vendor spots, and the top three not to miss. And a change log read: what shipped, what changed, what it means for your tools. Both are checks, not auto-pilot. Read them. Decide. Act.
Podcasts — learn, then make
Two ways. Learn from podcasts: read across shows, notes, and words, and boil the lessons into a playbook you can use. And make them: turn your own words into a spoken show, with a script and voices. Check it before it goes out.
Everyday starters
- Give me my briefing for today
- Close out my day — what finished, what is open, my top 3 for tomorrow?
- Break this goal into tasks with an owner, a due date, and what done looks like
- Am I missing anything? Answer in two columns: covered, and not confirmed.
The 15 prompts
The prompts live in the Prompt Pack
The fifteen copy-and-paste prompts — with their “Best for,” “Fill in first” blanks, and full text — live on a single page. Copy one, fill in every blank, paste the whole thing, and review the result before you act.
Proof
Real pages, captured live
Every picture here is a real shot of a real page. Taken on November 7, 2026. No stock pictures. No mockups. No private data.
Inside the builder, below: two more pictures, taken inside the builder tool. They show only things the helper built. Private details are blurred out. Contact lists, messages, and money screens are still not shown — they hold other people's details.
Inside the builder
These two pictures are from inside the builder tool. They show the helper at work. Private details are blurred out.
What you will not see here: contact lists, messages, or money screens. Those hold other people's details, so they stay out of this guide.
Glossary
Plain words
Every hard word in this guide, in plain words. One line each.
- AI agent
- A computer helper that does jobs for you after you tell it what to do.
- Prompt
- The words you type to tell the helper what to do.
- Funnel
- A set of web pages that guide a visitor, step by step, to one action. Like booking a call or buying.
- Landing page
- The first page a visitor sees. It is built for one action.
- Checkout
- The page where a buyer pays.
- Thank-you page
- The page a buyer sees right after paying.
- CRM
- Short for “customer relationship management.” A tool that keeps your contacts, notes, and sales in one place.
- Lead
- A person who shows interest in what you sell. Like filling in a form.
- Conversion
- When a visitor does the thing you wanted. Like booking or buying.
- Automation
- A job the computer does on its own when something happens. Like sending a thank-you email after a sale.
- Workflow
- The steps a job follows, in order, from start to finish.
- Tag
- A label on a contact, so you can find them later. Like “buyer” or “member.”
- Opt-in
- When a person says yes to hearing from you.
- Dashboard
- One screen that shows the key numbers or links in one place.
- SOP
- Short for “standard operating procedure.” The written steps for a job, so anyone can repeat it.
- Testimonial
- Words from a happy customer, in their own words, saying what worked.
- Transcript
- The written words of a recording.
- Clip
- A short video cut from a longer one.
- AI builder
- A tool that builds web pages from words you type.
- Brief
- A short note that says what to build, and how.
- Revenue
- Money that comes in from sales.
- Subscription
- A payment that repeats, like once a month, until it is stopped.
If a word in this guide still feels hard, check here first. Then ask the helper to explain it like you are ten.
A worked example
What a day looks like
One normal day, step by step. Your day will look different. The pattern is the same: you ask, the helper does the job, you check, you say yes.
The pattern, every time: ask in plain words → the helper does the job → you check → you approve. Nothing skips the last two steps.
Your first week
Start with the job in front of you
You do not need to set up everything at once. Pick the job in front of you today, and run it properly.
Before you act
Before you act on any result — a short checklist
The Muse User Guide — written from seven weeks of daily use, September 17 to November 6, 2026. Figures are percentages only; no dollar amounts appear in this guide. If a job in your business is not covered here, the prompts still apply — fill in your own details and let the helper do the job.
- Names, prices, dates, times, and time zones are right. Checked at the source, not just in the draft.
- Every link opens. Each one goes where the words say it goes.
- Nothing is called a fact when the helper said it was a guess, an estimate, or not checked.
- No private details are out in the open. No contact details, private numbers, or client details that should stay private.
- Every blank that was meant to be filled in has been filled in.
- A person said yes to the exact final words before they were sent, posted, or paid for.
- Work you will reuse is saved as a process (prompt 14), so it can be done again.