Napkin AI Prompts

Create a decision tree flowchart showing a customer support routing system with branches for billing issues, technical support, and general inquiries. Include decision nodes, outcomes, and escalation paths.

Generate a swimlane process flow diagram for an e-commerce order fulfillment process. Show lanes for: Customer, Order System, Warehouse, Shipping Carrier, and Finance — with all steps, decision points, and handoff moments.

Design a cloud architecture diagram showing a microservices-based application with API gateway, authentication service, user service, order service, and database layers. Include connection arrows and data flow direction.

Create a flowchart showing the product development lifecycle at a software company, from ideation through design, development, QA, and release. Include feedback loops, approval gates, and rollback steps.

Map a customer escalation flowchart: a support ticket arrives, is triaged, goes to L1 support, escalates to L2 if unresolved, then to engineering if needed. Show SLA timers and the resolution and closure steps at each stage.

Create a Sankey diagram showing how website traffic flows from different sources (organic, direct, referral, paid) through pages (landing, product, checkout) to outcomes (purchase, bounce, email signup).

Generate a mind map for a digital marketing strategy with central node 'Digital Marketing' and branches for SEO, social media, email marketing, content marketing, and paid advertising — each with 3-4 tactics as sub-nodes.

Create a Venn diagram showing the intersection of AI capabilities (automation, data analysis, prediction), business needs (efficiency, insights, scalable growth), and current tooling (spreadsheets, dashboards, CRM).

Design a bubble chart concept for visualizing marketing channel performance: X-axis is cost, Y-axis is conversion rate, bubble size represents total revenue. Channels: organic search, paid search, email, social media, referral.

Create a funnel diagram showing a SaaS sales pipeline: Awareness → Lead Capture → Discovery Call → Demo → Proposal → Negotiation → Closed Won. Include drop-off labels between each stage.

Design a product roadmap showing Q1-Q4 deliverables with phases (discovery, development, launch, growth), dependencies between features, and milestone markers. Use a horizontal timeline layout.

Create a comparison matrix showing 5 AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Mistral) across dimensions (cost, speed, context length, coding, document analysis) with visual rating indicators.

Generate an organizational chart for a 30-person tech startup with CEO at top, reporting lines to CTO, CFO, VP Sales, and VP Marketing — each with their direct reports shown in a clear hierarchy.

Design a 2x2 priority matrix (Impact vs. Effort) for these strategic initiatives: [list 8-10 initiatives]. Place each in the appropriate quadrant: Quick Wins, Major Projects, Fill-ins, or Thankless Tasks.

Create a flywheel diagram showing how these business elements reinforce each other: [list 5-6 elements like 'great content → more traffic → more signups → more revenue → better product → great content']. Show momentum arrows.

Map the complete recruitment process from job posting to day-1 onboarding, including stages: job posting, application screening, interviews (phone, technical, panel), background check, offer, and start-date prep — with responsible parties.

Create a detailed incident management flow showing detection, triage, assignment, resolution, verification, and post-incident review with escalation paths, SLA timers, and on-call triggers.

Design a financial approval workflow for purchase requests showing authorization levels ($1K, $10K, $50K, $100K+), approval chains, budget check gates, and exception handling paths.

Map the customer contract lifecycle: prospecting → proposal → contract draft → legal review → negotiation → signature → kickoff → renewal. Include responsible teams, handoff points, and SLA expectations.

Create an employee offboarding process diagram covering: resignation notification, knowledge transfer, access revocation, equipment return, exit interview, payroll settlement, and alumni communication — with the responsible team for each step.

Create a SWOT analysis diagram for [company or product] with four quadrants: Strengths (internal positive), Weaknesses (internal negative), Opportunities (external positive), and Threats (external negative). Populate with 4-5 bullet points each.

Design a Porter's Five Forces diagram for [industry], showing: Competitive Rivalry, Threat of New Entrants, Threat of Substitutes, Bargaining Power of Buyers, and Bargaining Power of Suppliers. Rate each force as high/medium/low.

Create a Jobs-to-be-Done framework diagram showing the main job [customer trying to do], the functional jobs, emotional jobs, and social jobs — organized in a hierarchy with example tasks at each level.

Generate a business model canvas for [company or startup idea] with all 9 blocks: Customer Segments, Value Propositions, Channels, Customer Relationships, Revenue Streams, Key Resources, Key Activities, Key Partnerships, and Cost Structure.

Map a growth model showing how [company] acquires, activates, retains, and monetizes users. Include feedback loops, virality mechanisms, and the key metrics that signal health at each stage.

Illustrate a complete machine learning workflow: data collection → data preprocessing → feature engineering → model selection → training → evaluation → deployment → monitoring with feedback loop back to retraining.

Create a visual representation of the software development lifecycle (SDLC): requirements gathering, system design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance — with iterations and feedback loops between phases.

Design a comprehensive customer journey map for a SaaS product: Awareness → Consideration → Trial → Activation → Regular Use → Expansion → Advocacy. Include touchpoints, emotions, and key actions at each stage.

Create an onboarding learning path diagram showing the sequence of topics a new employee should cover in their first 90 days, organized by week with dependencies between learning modules.

Illustrate the concept of [complex topic] using an analogy diagram. Compare it to [a familiar concept or system] side by side, labeling which elements correspond to each other.