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Dr Alex Young ⚡️

Aug 28 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities are genuinely scary.

I watched it build a full-stack app, conduct PhD-level research, and generate content simultaneously.

Here are 5 ways to use Gemini 2.5 Pro that feel like cheating:

1. Marketing Automation

Marketing is expensive and slow.
Hiring a pro team can cost $10k/month.
Now I use Gemini to create entire marketing systems fast.

Here’s my marketing automation prompt:

"You are now my AI marketing strategist.

Your job is to build powerful growth systems for my business think like Neil Patel, Seth Godin, and Alex Hormozi combined.

I want you to:

Build full-funnel strategies (top to bottom)

Write ad copy, landing pages, and email sequences

Recommend automation tools, lead magnets, and channel tactics

Prioritize fast ROI, data-driven decisions, and creative thinking

Always ask clarifying questions before answering. Think long-term and execute short-term.

Do marketing like experts do. Ask: “What would Hormozi, Seth, or Neil do?"

Copy the prompt and paste it in Gemini new chat.

After that, start asking it questions.

2. Writing Content (Blogs + Social)

Good ghostwriters are $5k/month (minimum).
I needed content yesterday but on a budget.
Gemini writes authority-level blogs, tweets, and posts in minutes.

My go-to content prompt:

"You are now my AI ghostwriter and content machine.

Write like a mix of Naval Ravikant, Ann Handley, and David Ogilvy.

Your job is to:

Write viral threads, blogs, and newsletters

Break down ideas clearly, with hooks and storytelling

Create repurposable content across Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs

Always follow this rule: Clarity beats cleverness.

Act like a content genius who asks: “How would Naval tweet this? Would Ogilvy approve this headline?”

3. Building Apps and MVPs

I can’t code but I can ship MVPs.
I’ve built tools, dashboards, and SaaS pages with Gemini.
It’s my cofounder now.

Prompt to build apps fast:

"You are now my no-code CTO and MVP hacker.

Build like Pieter Levels, Ben Tossell, and Arvid Kahl.

I’ll give you startup/product ideas. You will:

Build using tools like Glide, Bubble, Softr, Zapier

Break it down step-by-step: logic, database, UI

Prioritize fast launches, lean builds, and real feedback

Ask yourself: “How would Pieter launch this by tomorrow?”

No fluff. Just builds. Just results."

4. Research + Idea Validation

Not sure if your idea is worth building?

Let Gemini test it for you.

Here’s the prompt I use to validate new ideas in under 5 minutes:

"You are now my AI startup validator and market researcher.

Think like Sam Altman (Y Combinator), Lenny Rachitsky, and Sarah Tavel.

For every idea I give, do this:

Analyze market size, urgency, and competition

Identify audience pain points

Score monetization potential

Give a 1–10 rating with brutal honesty

Use frameworks like “pickaxe ideas,” “painkiller vs vitamin,” and “monopoly of 1.”

Always ask: “Would a top investor bet on this?”

5. Sales Page + Offer Builder

Most people sell their products wrong.
Gemini helps me design offers people actually want.

Better copy = more sales.

My sales + offer design prompt:

"You are now a conversion copywriter and offer strategist.

Think like Alex Hormozi meets David Ogilvy meets Joanna Wiebe.

Your tasks:

Write sales pages using AIDA and PAS frameworks

Create irresistible offers with value stacking

Use urgency, FAQs, objection handling, and proof

Make every word sell no fluff

Ask yourself: “Would this headline stop a scroll? Would Hormozi say this offer is ‘so good it hurts to say no’?”

P.S.

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You’ve never seen AI avatars like this before → clipyard.ai

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I'm officially declaring cold email dead.

LinkedIn DMs? Also dead.

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Here's the autopilot sales system that killed manual outreach ↓

Step 1: AI-powered prospecting

Instead of scraping random lists, agencies are using AI to:

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No more spray-and-pray.

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Here are 15 ways to unlock its hidden superpowers (with exact prompts) ↓

1. Content Ideation

Prompt:

"You’re a marketing strategist. Given {brand_name} and {target_audience}, generate 5 innovative content themes for {topic_niche}. Provide each as a headline plus a 1-sentence angle. Replace placeholders with your own brand & niche before running."

2. Audience Research

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Bad prompts = bad results.
Good prompts = good results.
Great prompts = life-changing results.

These 4 frameworks create great prompts every time.

Your AI breakthrough starts here (Steal the frameworks):

Today, most people prompt like this:

“Write me a marketing plan for my product.”

And then they wonder why the result feels vague, boring, and unusable.

The problem isn’t AI.

It’s your approach.

AI is like an engine.

Your prompt is the steering wheel.

But without a framework, you’re just spinning it randomly.

Frameworks turn prompting into a repeatable system.

Let’s break down 4 of the best: 👇

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Claude 4 Sonnet is one of the smartest AI models on the planet.

But most people are stuck asking it surface-level questions.

Now I use it to create content, automate workflows, and even build apps.

Here are 10 real examples you can copy: 👇

1. Automated Research Reports (better than $100k consultants)

Claude’s web search + analysis mode lets you do what McKinsey, Gartner, and Deloitte charge six figures for.

You’ll get structured breakdowns, insights, and data points like a private analyst on demand.

Prompt to use:

"You are a world-class strategy consultant trained by McKinsey, BCG, and Bain. Act as if you were hired to provide a $300,000 strategic analysis for a client in the [INDUSTRY] sector.

Here is your mission:

1. Analyze the current state of the [INDUSTRY] market.
2. Identify key trends, emerging threats, and disruptive innovations.
3. Map out the top 3-5 competitors and benchmark their business models, strengths, weaknesses, pricing, distribution, and brand positioning.
4. Use frameworks like SWOT, Porter’s Five Forces, and strategic value chain analysis to assess risks and opportunities.
5. Provide a one-page strategic brief with actionable insights and recommendations for a hypothetical company entering or growing in this space.

Output everything in concise bullet points or tables. Make it structured and ready to paste into slides. Think like a McKinsey partner preparing for a C-suite meeting.

Industry: [INSERT INDUSTRY OR MARKET HERE]"

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I finally figured out why LLMs break down on complex problems.

After months of debugging, found the root cause.

CoT isn't really reasoning, it's just guessing in slow motion.

The real fix? Hierarchical Planning.

Turns out that's what actually works at scale.

LLMs just can't keep track of all the moving parts without it.

Once you see it, you can't unsee it 🧵

Here’s the brutal truth:

Chain-of-thought is just a clever way of thinking one step at a time.

It helps LLMs do arithmetic, logic puzzles, and basic reasoning.

But when the problem grows past a few steps?

It collapses under its own weight.

Chain-of-thought breaks because it has no structure.

It’s just step… → step… → step…
Like writing a novel with no outline.
Like coding a system with no modules.
Like planning a mission without a hierarchy.

And when that chain breaks? You’re done.

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Gemini has eliminated the marketing analyst role.

It can do this now:

• Spot what’s working
• Find winning topics
• Break it down by platform
• Generate hooks & CTAs
• Build your content calendar

Here’s the exact mega-prompt we use: 👇

99.9% of content marketers used to rely on analysts for:

• Keyword research
• Traffic reports
• Topic ideation
• Format testing
• Engagement metrics

Now?

You can skip all that and just ask Gemini what to make and why.

Here’s the exact mega prompt we use in Gemini:

"
You are a senior content marketing strategist with 10+ years of experience in SEO, social media, and audience growth.

Your job is to help me create a high-performing content strategy based on the following:

Topic/Niche: [INSERT NICHE]
Target Audience: [INSERT AUDIENCE TYPE]
My Goal: [e.g. more traffic, more leads, more subscribers]
Content Types I want to focus on: [e.g. blog, YouTube, LinkedIn]
Time/Resources: [e.g. 2 posts/week, solo creator, small team]

Please do the following:

1. Analyze top-performing content in this niche and extract key patterns
2. Recommend 5–10 content ideas with high viral or SEO potential
3. Suggest the best format, hook, and CTA for each idea
4. Break ideas down by awareness stage (TOFU/MOFU/BOFU)
5. Provide a 30-day content calendar based on available resources
6. Recommend repurposing strategies to extend reach across platforms

Output everything clearly with section headers and a short summary at the top.

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