Help me close the week. Ask me four questions, one at a time, and wait for my answer before moving to the next: 1. What actually shipped this week (with outcomes, not features)? 2. What stalled, and what is the REAL blocker (not the convenient one)? 3. What surprised you - a signal you didn't expect? 4. What are your top 3 priorities for Monday? Pick three. Not eight. When I've answered all four, format as a dated weekly review I can save. If my answers sound like self-congratulation, push back. I have no manager - your job is to be the honest reviewer I don't have.
Weekly review (honest accountability)
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Example output
Weekly review - week of 2026-04-26:
Shipped:
- Onboarded 2 new clients ($11k combined, both annual). Time-to-kickoff under 5 days for both.
- Posted 4 LinkedIn pieces; one hit 8k impressions (the contrarian one about feature kills).
- Closed Q1 books, paid Q1 estimated taxes.
Stalled:
- Pricing-page rewrite. Blocked on: I keep starting it and abandoning. Real blocker: I haven't decided whether to drop the lowest tier.
- Following up with 3 warm leads from the conference. Real blocker: I'm avoiding because none of them seem ready and I don't want to look pushy.
Surprised by:
- The contrarian LinkedIn post got 4 inbound DMs from prospects in adjacent industries I hadn't thought to target. Worth investigating.
Monday's top 3:
1. Decide on the lowest tier (this is a 30-min decision I've stretched to a week).
2. Send the 3 warm-lead follow-ups before noon. One paragraph each, no fluff.
3. Map out the 'adjacent industries' insight from the LinkedIn signal.
Common mistakes
Don't pad the 'shipped' list with admin work to feel productive. If you only shipped two real things, write two. Inflated lists make the ritual useless within a month - you'll start gaming it instead of using it. Also: the 'stalled' section requires you to name the REAL blocker, not the convenient one. 'Waiting on client feedback' is sometimes true; more often it's 'I haven't sent the email asking for feedback because I'm avoiding the conversation.' Force the honest version. Third mistake: 8 priorities for Monday. Pick three. The whole point is the constraint.
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Why it works
Solopreneurs have no manager, no peer, no quarterly review - which means weeks pass and you can't tell if you actually moved the business forward or just felt busy. This prompt provides the missing accountability ritual. It asks for what shipped (with outcomes, not features), what stalled (with the specific blocker), what surprised you (the under-noticed signal of the week), and the top 3 priorities for Monday. Done weekly for a quarter, you'll see patterns - the same blocker, the same procrastinated task, the same client - that no one-off retrospective will surface. The ritual takes 12 minutes and replaces the vague 'how was your week?' that solopreneurs ask themselves and then can't answer. Tested cleanest on Claude Opus 4.7. (See also: end-of-day review in the Power Prompts pack - this is the weekly version with solopreneur-specific framing.)