Layoffs are back.
Quietly. Brutally. By email on a Tuesday.
Most people found out the same way: a calendar invite they didn't schedule.
You don't want to be in that meeting.
Why most people get layoff-proofing wrong:
They try to work harder.
Longer hours. More tasks. Fewer breaks.
That's not what keeps you employed in 2026.
What keeps you employed is being the person who uses AI better than everyone else in your department. Not the person AI replaces.
There's a prompt gap between those two people. Here are the 7 prompts that close it.
Run them tonight. Keep the outputs. You'll use them for the next 12 months.
1. Role Risk Audit (tells you exactly which of your tasks AI is about to eat)
You know some of your work is at risk. You just don't know which parts.
Guessing wrong is expensive.
The prompt:
You are my career risk analyst. My job title is [YOUR TITLE].
My main tasks are [LIST 10 TASKS YOU ACTUALLY DO IN A WEEK].
For each task, classify it as one of these:
1. Automate: AI can do this better than me right now
2. Augment: AI makes me 3x faster but I'm still needed
3. Keep: Only a human can do this well
Then tell me:
1. The 3 tasks most at risk of disappearing in 12 months
2. The 3 tasks I should double down on starting this week
3. What I should stop doing entirelyMost people never run this audit. They find out the hard way.
2. Irreplaceable Plan (turns your safe tasks into metrics your boss can't cut)
"Keep" tasks only protect you if leadership knows they matter.
Right now they probably don't.
The prompt:
You are my business impact coach. I'll paste you my 3 most important tasks
[FROM THE ROLE RISK AUDIT].
For each one, do this:
1. Translate the task into a business outcome with a real metric
2. Write 4 weekly actions that move that metric in the next 30 days
3. Show me how to report progress in one sentence per week
Make it something my boss's boss would care about.
Not busywork dressed up as strategy.Now you're not "the person who does X." You're the person who moved a number.
3. Automation Blueprint (makes you the one building the workflows instead of getting replaced by them)
Every team has someone who becomes the AI person.
That person gets promoted. Everyone else gets replaced.
The prompt:
You are my automation architect. I'll paste you 5 repetitive tasks from my week
[LIST TASKS].
For each one, design an AI workflow:
1. What AI tool runs it (Claude, ChatGPT, Zapier, etc.)
2. The exact trigger that starts it
3. The step-by-step logic
4. Expected hours saved per week
5. How to pitch this to my manager as a team win, not a threat
Pick the one with the highest time-save and write me a 90-day rollout plan.You become the person leadership can't lay off because you built half the systems.
4. Wins Ledger (gives you receipts when performance review season hits)
You forget 80% of what you did this quarter.
Your manager forgets 95%.
The prompt:
You are my wins documenter. I'll paste you raw inputs from my work this quarter
[EMAILS, MESSAGES, COMPLETED TASKS, PROJECT NOTES, COMMITS].
Do this:
1. Extract every win I'd forget about
2. Rewrite each as a one-line achievement starting with a verb
3. Translate each into dollars saved, hours saved, or a specific metric moved
4. Group them into "client impact," "team impact," and "business impact"
5. Format the final list so I can drop it into a Friday update or a review
If a claim isn't backed by the input, don't make it up.Run this monthly. You'll never blank on what to say in your review again.
5. Skill-Gap Sprint (builds the skill AI can't touch in 14 days)
There's always one skill your role needs that nobody on your team has yet.
That skill is your insurance policy.
The prompt:
You are my learning coach.
Current role: [YOUR CURRENT ROLE]
Target role or promotion: [WHERE YOU WANT TO BE IN 12 MONTHS]
Current skills: [LIST YOUR TOP 5]
Build me a 14-day sprint plan to close the biggest skill gap:
1. Identify the one skill that matters most for my target role
2. Use only free resources (YouTube, docs, blogs, open tools)
3. Daily tasks under 45 minutes
4. One concrete deliverable per day I can show publicly
5. A final-day project I can add to my portfolio
Tell me the skill before you build the plan, so I can say yes or no.14 days. One new skill. More leverage than most people build in a year.
6. Portfolio Case Builder (turns your past work into proof, not just memories)
If you got laid off tomorrow, what would you show a new employer?
"Trust me, I worked hard" isn't it.
The prompt:
You are my portfolio writer. I'll paste you messy notes from 3 past projects
[PROJECT NOTES, EMAILS, DOCS].
Turn each one into a case study with:
1. The problem in one clear sentence
2. The actions I took, in order
3. The metric I moved (with a real number or a defensible estimate)
4. A visual suggestion (chart type, screenshot, diagram)
5. A one-line takeaway I can use in interviews
Format it so I can paste it straight into Notion, LinkedIn, or a portfolio site.
Don't exaggerate. If something is weak, flag it so I can strengthen it.You now have 3 case studies you can send to any recruiter in 10 seconds.
7. Interview Coach (trains you for interviews that actually happen, not generic ones)
Most interview prep is wasted on questions you'll never get asked.
This one trains you on the real ones.
The prompt:
You are the hiring manager for [TARGET ROLE AT TARGET COMPANY TYPE].
Run a mock interview like this:
1. Ask me one realistic question at a time
2. Wait for my answer
3. Grade my answer using the STAR method: situation, task, action, result
4. Show me a stronger 60-second version in my voice, not a corporate template
5. Then ask a harder follow-up the real hiring manager would ask
Run 5 questions. End with a summary of my 3 biggest answer weaknesses
and what to drill before the real interview.You walk into the real interview already having answered the hard questions once.
Setup (45 minutes, one time):
Open Claude.ai. Create a new project called "Career Insurance"
Run prompt 1 first. Save the output to the project
Run prompts 2 and 4 this week. Save outputs
Run prompts 3, 5, 6, 7 over the next 7 days
Revisit the project every Friday for 10 minutes
The compound effect:
Week 1: You know exactly which parts of your job are at risk.
Month 1: You have documented wins, new metrics, and a skill sprint in motion.
Month 3: You're the AI person on your team. The one leadership protects.
Month 6: If you get laid off, you have a portfolio ready. If you don't, you're in line for a raise.
That's the shift.
Most people wait to find out. You build the evidence before you need it.
Start tonight. One prompt. That's it.
While everyone else is refreshing LinkedIn wondering if they're next, you'll have a 10-page document proving why you're not.
Cheers,
Matas Jonaitis
Founder, Daily Prompter