CONTENT CREATION
A month of on-brand carousels from 4 prompts ⚡
Master this high-ROI AI workflow: This is four prompts that turn one idea into a month of on-brand carousels, built as a Claude Project so it designs in yo
Master this high-ROI AI workflow: This is four prompts that turn one idea into a month of on-brand carousels, built as a Claude Project so it designs in your fonts and colours without you ever opening Canva.
Content and paid ads are distribution engines for your core value proposition. Don't create content just for engagement—engineer every hook to qualify high-intent buyers, demonstrate immediate proof, and lead into a frictionless capture mechanism. Track cost-per-qualified-lead (CPQL) over vanity impressions.
Most people design carousels one slide at a time and burn a whole afternoon on a single post. Then they do it again next week, and again, and the content treadmill never speeds up. The bottleneck is not ideas, it is the hours each one eats.
This fixes that. Four prompts turn one idea into a month of on-brand carousels without opening Canva once. The first one, the Carousel Machine, you set up once as a Claude Project so every chat designs in your brand automatically. The other three feed it: topics, repurposing, and fresh trend-based hooks. Set up the Project, paste your brand in once, and you have a carousel engine. All four prompts and the bonus prompts are below.
What this actually does 🧠
It turns carousel creation into a system instead of a one-off design job.
- 🎨 The Carousel Machine lives inside a Claude Project. You give it a topic, and it writes the hook, every slide's copy, and the design itself as visual code (HTML and CSS you screenshot), in your fonts and colours. No Canva.
- 💡 The Idea Machine hands you 30 specific carousel topics in your niche, so you never stare at a blank canvas wondering what to post.
- 🔁 The Repurposer takes one finished carousel and spins it into a video script, an X post, and a LinkedIn post, so one idea covers four platforms.
- 🔎 The Trend Scout searches the web for what's actually getting saved and shared in your niche right now and turns it into fresh hooks.
Set up the Carousel Machine first 🛠
- 📁 Create a Claude Project. In Claude, make a new Project (the named workspace that keeps the same instructions across every chat inside it), open its instructions, and paste the Carousel Machine prompt below into the instructions box.
- 🎨 Drop your brand in once. In that prompt, replace the brackets with your real fonts, colours, and style. Now every chat inside that Project designs on-brand carousels automatically, and you only feed it the topic.
The mega prompts 📋
The Carousel Machine goes in your Project instructions. The other three you paste into a chat whenever you need them.
3 bonus prompts to run next 🎁
These finish the post once the carousel exists. Run them in the same chat so they keep your topic and brand voice.
How to get the most out of it 🎓
- 🎨 Spend time on the brand block once. The Carousel Machine is only as on-brand as the fonts, colours, and style you give it. Get that right in the Project instructions and every future carousel inherits it, so you never reformat again.
- 📸 Screenshot, don't fight the code. The output is HTML and CSS so it can design freely. Open the preview, screenshot each slide at a square crop, and you're done. Ask it to "render each slide full-screen one at a time" to make screenshotting clean.
- 🔗 Run them as a chain, not in isolation. Trend Scout or Idea Machine for the topic, Carousel Machine to build it, Repurposer and the caption writer to finish it. That loop is how one sit-down produces a week of content.
- 🪜 Brand new? Use the prompts exactly and fill the brackets. You don't need to read the code, just screenshot the preview. Power user? Add example slides you love to the Project instructions so it matches your layout, and have the Repurposer auto-draft the video script for every carousel you make.