As of 13 August 2026, AI can generate social media ideas for your business.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open a blank document and write down your business, target audience, objective, platforms, offer, brand voice, available resources and topics to avoid.
   2. Gather your current price list, product descriptions, published claims, promotion terms, customer questions and approved reviews so the chatbot has facts it can use.
   3. Paste the prompt into a chatbot and replace every bracketed section with your own information, leaving out anything you cannot confirm.
   4. Read the generated ideas and mark the ones that match your actual offer, audience, available resources and posting capacity.
   5. Compare every proposed price, result, qualification, feature, review and promotion against your current business records, deleting any unsupported claim.
   6. Choose a small test group of ideas, adapt the wording to your normal voice, create the required assets and publish them on the named platforms.
   7. Record the responses and useful enquiries from each test, then ask the chatbot to generate follow-up ideas using those observed results without treating them as proof of future performance.

   Prompt

   Generate a practical bank of social media ideas for my business.
   
   Business: [describe what you sell and where you operate]
   Target audience: [describe the people you want to reach]
   Main objective: [for example, enquiries, bookings, email sign-ups, local awareness or repeat sales]
   Platforms: [list the platforms]
   Offer or product to feature: [describe it, including any confirmed price or promotion]
   Brand voice: [describe the tone]
   Useful proof: [customer questions, reviews, case studies, results or founder experience]
   Topics to avoid: [list them]
   Resources available: [for example, founder on camera, product photos, staff, premises, customer stories or no original images]
   Posting capacity: [how often you can realistically publish]
   
   Create 30 distinct ideas. For each idea, include:
   1. A short working title
   2. The platform and format
   3. The audience problem, question or desire it addresses
   4. The core concept in two sentences
   5. A suggested hook or opening line
   6. The action you want the audience to take
   7. What I need to create it
   8. Any factual claim, legal point or offer detail that I must verify before publishing
   
   Use only the information supplied above. Do not invent customer results, qualifications, prices, availability, reviews, statistics or product features. Include a balanced mix of educational, trust-building, behind-the-scenes, product-led, community and conversational ideas. Avoid generic advice such as 'post consistently' or 'share a customer story' unless you make the idea specific to this business. Label the 10 strongest ideas for the stated objective and explain briefly why each one fits. Finish with five low-effort ideas I could create using only a phone and existing business knowledge.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

3. Use a tool built for this

   The distant third