I've never billed an hour in my life. But I can see exactly where your practice is bleeding — and so can you. You've just been too busy mopping the floor to look up.
You bill 2.5 hours of an 8-hour day. The other 5.5, you give away — typing, chasing, filing, repeating.
That's not opinion. That's the number across solo and small firms. Now put your rate on it.
RTF — Rule. Task. Format. Tell the AI the rule (who it is, what it must obey), the task (the job), and the format (the shape you want back). Rubbish in, rubbish out. Precision in — freedom out. Every prompt below already does this. Copy. Paste. Change the brackets.
Act as my drafting assistant. Using this template [paste] and these facts [paste], draft a first version of a [retainer letter / demand letter / agreement for sale]. Formal, clear, ready for me to review and finalise.
Summarise this document [paste]. Give me: the key facts, the parties, the dates that matter, and the 3 issues I should focus on. One page, scannable.
Write a follow-up to a client whose invoice is 30 days overdue. Courteous, firm, no apology for asking. Make it easy for them to settle today.
Here are my intake notes [paste]. Structure them into: client, matter type, what they want, key dates, documents needed, and my next 3 actions.
Here are clauses I reuse [paste]. Organise them into a labelled library by type, and flag where the wording should change depending on the deal.
Rewrite this clause / advice [paste] in plain English a non-lawyer client will understand. Keep it accurate. No jargon. Short sentences.
Write a matter status update to my client: where things stand, what I'm doing next, what I need from them, and the timeline. Warm and professional.
For a [matter type], build me a step-by-step checklist and a realistic timeline from instruction to completion, with the filing deadlines flagged.
Write a LinkedIn post explaining [common legal question] to business owners. Plain English, no fear-mongering. End with a soft invite to ask me.
Build me a project brief to set up one assistant trained on my practice: load my templates, my tone, my practice areas. List what to feed it and how to talk to it daily.
The prompts give you a win today. The build gives you your evenings back. The gap between the two is the whole point.
That's what I teach operators to build.
I teach operators to build it — trained on their own practice — inside the BLUEPRINT Cohort.