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LinkedIn Post Prompts That Start From What Happened

Five prompts that turn a week of real work moments into LinkedIn posts: a Friday interview, one moment one post, hook rewrites and a for-the-reader check.

By , Founder, Baljia AI

The short answer

The posts that sound automated are not the ones AI wrote. They are the ones drafted from nothing: no moment, no number, no detail only the author could know. The five prompts below fix the sourcing instead of the wording. One interviews you about your week, one turns a single real moment into a post with a point, one rewrites the hook without inflating it, and two act as gates: is this post for the reader, and is every fact in it something that happened.

The guardrail runs through all five, written into the prompt text itself: posts come only from things that actually happened. No invented customers, no invented dialogue, no number that was not in your notes. Prompt packs that skip this produce confident little stories, and your market can smell them.

We make Baljia, an AI employee for founders and small businesses; it gets two sentences near the end. The prompts work in whatever assistant you already use.

Feed the prompts, or they have nothing

This pack runs on captured moments, not on inspiration. Keep one running note on your phone and add one or two lines a day: what you shipped or fixed, what a customer asked, a number that surprised you, an opinion you defended in a meeting. One line per moment is plenty; the note is an inbox, not a draft. Why this habit beats daily composing, and how it fits a lane and pillars, is the subject of building a founder brand on LinkedIn. This post is the prompt layer on top of that system.

Prompt 1: the Friday interview

If the week's note is thin, this prompt replaces it. The AI's job here is to ask, never to write.

Interview me about my work week. Your job is to ask questions, not to
write anything.

Rules:
- Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer.
- Never suggest an answer, never offer an example to pick from, and never
  add a detail I did not say. If my answer is thin, ask one follow-up for
  the specific detail: what exactly, who (by role), when, what number,
  what changed.
- You are hunting for things that actually happened this week, not
  opinions I could type any week.
- After 8 to 10 questions, stop. List the moments you heard, one line
  each, using only my words. If you are unsure you understood a moment,
  mark it with a question instead of smoothing it over. Do not pad the
  list; three real moments beat seven stretched ones.

Start with these and branch from my answers:
1. What did you ship, change or fix this week, however small?
2. What question did a customer or prospect ask you this week?
3. Which number in the business surprised you, up or down?
4. What did you argue for or against in a work conversation?
5. What went wrong, and what did it cost in time or money?

Prompt 2: one real moment into one post

Turn the moment below into a LinkedIn post with one point.

Rules:
- The post may contain only what happened plus what I think it means. Do
  not invent dialogue, customers, names, numbers or a neater ending. If
  the moment has no number, the post has no number.
- People appear by role only (a customer, our first hire), never by an
  invented name.
- If the moment is too thin to carry a post without inventing, say so and
  ask me one question. Do not pad.
- One point per post. If you see two lessons, pick the stronger and put
  the other in a note to me, not in the post.
- 80 to 150 words, short lines, plain words, no motivational voice, no
  hashtags unless I use them. End on the point, or on a question a reader
  can answer from their own experience.
- Match how I sound. Below are past posts of mine; copy their structure
  and rhythm, never their content.

Posts that sound like me:
[Paste 2 or 3 of your own past posts, your best ones.]

The moment, in my words:
[Paste one line from the interview, plus any detail you want included:
what happened, who was involved by role, what it cost or changed.]

What I think it means:
[One line. If you think the moment does not actually show this, say so
instead of writing around it.]

Prompt 3: the hook rewrite

Rewrite only the first line of this post. Everything else stays as it is.

Rules:
- Every option must be paid off by the post below it. Use only facts
  already in the post; do not sharpen a number, escalate a claim or invent
  a situation to make the line hit harder. A hook the post cannot cash is
  bait.
- My voice, not announcer voice.

The post:
[Paste the full draft.]

Give me five first lines: one leading with the concrete detail or number,
one leading with the mistake, one leading with the question a reader is
already asking, one that states the point flat out, and one that is my
original line tightened. Under each, one sentence on who it stops
mid-scroll.

Prompt 4: about me, or for the reader

Judge this post on one question: is it about me, or for the reader?

Rules:
- Quote the post whenever you make a claim about it. No general feedback.
- Do not rewrite anything. Verdicts only.

The post:
[Paste it.]

Answer:
1. What does a reader who has never met me take away that they can use
   this week? If the honest answer is nothing, write "nothing".
2. Which lines exist to make me look good rather than to carry the point?
   List them.
3. Does the ending invite their experience, or applaud mine?
4. Verdict: post it, cut the flagged lines, or park it. One sentence why.

Prompt 5: the proof check

Run this last, after any editing, because edits are where invented facts sneak in.

Check this post the way a skeptical reader in my market would.

Rules:
- Flag every sentence that states something as fact. For each one: did it
  come from my notes below, or did it appear during drafting? Anything
  that appeared during drafting gets listed for me to confirm or cut.
- Numbers get the strictest treatment: every number must trace to my
  input. Flag any that do not, even if they sound plausible. Plausible is
  exactly how invented numbers survive.
- Mark anything you cannot trace as unknown. Do not fix or rewrite;
  report only.

The post:
[Paste the final version.]

My original moment and notes:
[Paste what you gave the drafting prompt.]

How to read the output, and the weekly rhythm

The whole loop fits in well under an hour a week: ten minutes of interview on Friday, a draft or three from prompt 2, the hook pass, then the two gates. A draft that fails prompt 4 is usually a diary entry; park it. A draft that fails prompt 5 has facts to confirm before it goes anywhere. When prompt 2 refuses a thin moment, believe it: one skipped post costs you nothing, while one invented detail in a published post costs you the exact credibility the posts exist to build.

Posting cadence, pillars, and what LinkedIn itself says it limits are covered in the founder brand guide. And the people who comment on these posts are not an audience metric; they are Wednesday's conversation list in the one-loop week, where content and outreach feed each other.

Where Baljia fits, briefly: it is an AI employee for founders and small businesses. It writes and publishes SEO content, the articles your posts can point to, and it finds prospects and drafts LinkedIn and email outreach, sending only after you approve it or switch sending on; LinkedIn campaigns come with the Growth and Scale plans. The AI marketing agent page explains the content side, and pricing lists the plans.

Frequently asked questions

Can AI write LinkedIn posts that do not sound like AI?

Yes, when the raw material is yours. The automated sound comes from sourcing, not wording: a post with no detail only you could know reads as generated whoever typed it. Give the model a real moment, a real number and your own take, forbid it from adding anything, and the result reads like you on a clear day.

What if nothing worth posting happened this week?

Run the interview before deciding that; the follow-up questions usually surface two or three usable moments from weeks that felt empty. If it genuinely finds nothing, skip the week. A skipped week is invisible; a padded post is not. Never let the AI invent a moment to keep a streak alive.

How many posts should one week's moments become?

Two or three is a sustainable output from one Friday interview, and consistency beats volume. Draft from your strongest moments and park the rest; a parked moment is still good next month, because it happened and is yours.

Why does every prompt repeat the no-inventing rules?

Because models drift toward helpfulness as a chat grows, and helpfulness in a writing task means filling gaps. A rule stated once fades; a rule restated in each prompt stays active. The repetition costs a few pasted lines and buys you posts you can stand behind on a sales call.

Try it this Friday

Run the interview at the end of your week, draft one post from the strongest moment, and gate it. If you want the article side written and published for you, Baljia offers a 7-day free trial, no credit card, at https://baljia.ai/. Automations that run on their own start on a paid plan, and LinkedIn campaigns come with Growth and Scale.

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