The Art of War Strategy Disciplines
132 copy-paste AI prompts applying Sun Tzu to competitive strategy — reading the terrain, knowing your own strength honestly, choosing where not to fight, and winning before the contest starts.
Key Capabilities & Features:
- •Anchored to the text — every prompt cites the chapter it comes from and what Sun Tzu actually said, rather than gesturing at ancient wisdom
- •Every prompt ends in a decision you can act on this week, not a reflection you will nod at and forget
- •The Situation Primer: paste your market, competitors, resources and the contest you are in once — every prompt after it works your actual position
- •A full section on choosing not to fight, which is the most quoted idea in the book and the least practised
- •An explicit ethical boundary on the deception chapter, stated in the product rather than left ambiguous
- •132 prompts across 8 sections — laying plans — the five factors, knowing yourself, knowing the other side, terrain & position and more
- •Works with ChatGPT (GPT-5), Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash — fill the bracket, paste, done
Bought separately these come to $50. The full toolkit is $44.
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What's Inside
8 modules132 promptsEvery module below is included in the single purchase.
- 1
Laying Plans — The Five Factors
20 promptsSun Tzu's five assessments made concrete: cause, timing, terrain, leadership and discipline, scored against your actual situation rather than admired in the abstract.
- 2
Knowing Yourself
18 promptsAn honest inventory of your own strength — where you are genuinely strong, where you believe you are and are not, and the capability you keep counting that no longer exists.
- 3
Knowing The Other Side
20 promptsCompetitor assessment from observable behaviour rather than their marketing, reading what their hiring and pricing reveal, and what they are structurally unable to do.
- 4
Terrain & Position
18 promptsThe nine terrains translated into market positions, ground you must not fight on, defensible position versus temporary advantage, and when the ground itself decides the outcome.
- 5
Choosing Not To Fight
18 promptsThe chapter everyone quotes and nobody applies — declining a contest you would win at ruinous cost, ceding a segment deliberately, and the competitor to leave alone.
- 6
Speed, Timing & Momentum
16 promptsActing before conditions are ideal versus acting too early, the cost of a prolonged campaign, momentum as a resource that decays, and the moment that will not return.
- 7
Deception & Signalling
12 promptsWhat you reveal and when, appearing strong or weak deliberately, the announcement made too early, and the ethical line this toolkit will not cross.
- 8
Campaigns & Aftermath
10 promptsSequencing a multi-quarter push, supply lines as burn rate, consolidating a win rather than extending it, and knowing when a campaign has already been decided.
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Everyone quotes the line about winning without fighting. Almost nobody has ever declined a contest because of it.
The Art of War Strategy Disciplines is a 132-prompt playbook applying Sun Tzu to competitive strategy — laying plans and the five factors, knowing yourself, knowing the other side, terrain and position, choosing not to fight, speed and momentum, deception and signalling, and campaigns and aftermath.
Start with the Situation Primer — paste in your market, your competitors, your resources and the specific contest you are in — and every prompt after it works your actual position rather than a general one.
The discipline that makes this useful rather than decorative is that every prompt is anchored to the text and ends in a decision. A prompt cites the chapter, states what Sun Tzu actually claimed, and then asks something you have to answer with a choice — which segment you are ceding, which competitor you are leaving alone this year, what your terrain actually is. There is no prompt in here whose output you can read, agree with, and change nothing.
The honest self-assessment section is the uncomfortable one. Most competitive analysis is generous about your own capabilities and rigorous about everyone else's, which produces confident plans that assume a strength you had three years ago and have quietly lost.
And the deception chapter has a stated boundary. Sun Tzu is unambiguous that warfare is founded on deception; a business is not a war, your competitors are not enemies, and your customers are certainly not. The prompts cover what you reveal and when, and they refuse to help you mislead a customer, a regulator or an investor.
On the source: built on the Lionel Giles 1910 translation, which is in the public domain. This is an independent work of application and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any publisher or edition.
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| Customer Rating | 4.92(33) | 4.9(40) | 4.92(31) | 4.94(38) |
| AI Models | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Formats Included | PDF Prompt Playbook | PDF Prompt Playbook | PDF Swipe File | 64-Page PDF Playbook + 22 Worksheets |
| Lifetime Updates | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Creator Rating | PromptWolf (99.2%) | Dr. Lucas Vance (99.2%) | Dr. Lucas Vance (99.2%) | Dr. Lucas Vance (99.2%) |
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It told me to abandon a segment I had chased for two years
The siege analysis was brutal. The incumbent owned the distribution channel and nothing I could do touched that. It also wrote the version I said to the team, which was the part I was dreading.
Every prompt ends in a decision
I have read a lot of strategy material that leaves you feeling clever and changes nothing. This refuses to do that. You finish each one having committed to something.
The capability I no longer had
The self-assessment section found that half my plan assumed a design capacity that left the company eighteen months ago. Nobody in our planning had said it out loud.
Read the book first
It cites chapters constantly and assumes you have at least skimmed the text. That is free and takes an afternoon, but I wish I had done it before rather than during.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a summary of The Art of War?
No. It assumes you can read the book in an afternoon for free, because you can — it is public domain. This is a set of prompts that apply it to a specific situation you are in, which is the part that does not happen by itself.
Is it affiliated with a particular edition or publisher?
No. It is built on the Lionel Giles 1910 translation, which is in the public domain, and is an independent work of application. No publisher, edition or estate has endorsed it.
Does the deception chapter teach manipulation?
No, and there is a stated boundary in the product rather than a disclaimer buried at the back. It covers what you disclose and when — a category most founders handle badly by announcing too early. The prompts refuse to help you mislead customers, investors or regulators.
Will this work for a small business rather than a company with competitors on a map?
The Primer asks your size. A three-person studio choosing which kind of client to stop pursuing is running the same analysis as a company ceding a segment, at a scale where the decision is more reversible and the cost of getting it wrong is more personal.
How is it delivered?
You receive a PDF with all 132 prompts organized into 8 sections, delivered within 24 hours of purchase. No app or account required — copy a prompt, fill in the bracketed variables, and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Can I use this for client work?
Yes. Your purchase includes a single-user commercial and personal license, so you can use every prompt in your own business or for client deliverables without restriction.