Best AI Prompts for LinkedIn Posts (2026)

Prompts for LinkedIn posts#

Act as my ghostwriter for LinkedIn. I am [DESCRIBE YOUR ROLE AND COMPANY]. Write a post of about 200 words that argues one position: [STATE YOUR OPINION IN ONE SENTENCE]. Base it only on this experience: [DESCRIBE WHAT HAPPENED, WITH DATES AND REAL NUMBERS]. Match the voice of these past posts: [PASTE 2 TO 3 OF YOUR OWN POSTS]. Open with the sharpest sentence, use short paragraphs, and do not add any fact I did not give you.

Act as an engineering leader writing for peers. Turn these notes from [DESCRIBE THE PROJECT, FOR EXAMPLE A MIGRATION OR REFACTOR] into a lessons-learned post: [PASTE YOUR NOTES, METRICS AND DECISIONS]. Lead with the decision that surprised us, give three concrete takeaways a reader can apply this week, and say plainly what we got wrong. Leave out any metric I did not supply.

Act as a founder writing a milestone update. Draft a post about [DESCRIBE THE MILESTONE] that credits the people who did the work: [LIST NAMES AND CONTRIBUTIONS YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO MENTION]. Include one difficult moment from [DESCRIBE IT HONESTLY] and what we changed because of it. Keep the tone plain and avoid superlatives I cannot support.

Act as a design director. Convert [PASTE YOUR ARTICLE, TALK OR DESIGN NOTES] into a text-only post that walks through [NUMBER] principles, one short block each, with a one-line example from my own work: [DESCRIBE THE EXAMPLES]. End with one question to my audience that I would genuinely want answered.

Act as a publishing strategist. Write a post announcing [DESCRIBE YOUR GUIDE, REPORT OR NEWSLETTER], using only these findings: [PASTE THE 2 TO 3 FINDINGS WITH SOURCES]. State who it is for, what the reader will be able to do after reading it, and add the link at the end: [PASTE URL]. If the post is sponsored or I have a financial connection to anything it names, put "[DISCLOSURE WORDING]" in the first line.

What to add to any LinkedIn prompt#

• A real story with dates and numbers. Both Anthropic and Google advise supplying context the model would not otherwise have, and Google's example turned a generic answer into a specific one this way.
• Two or three of your own past posts, marked as examples. Anthropic calls examples one of the most reliable ways to steer tone and structure, and recommends 3 to 5; Google recommends including them.
• Your reason for writing. Anthropic says explaining why you want something helps the model deliver a more targeted result.
• Constraints: length, paragraph size, the audience, and what to leave out, such as "no facts I did not give you".
• A clear separation between your material and your instructions, using headings or tags. Anthropic and OpenAI both recommend this when a prompt mixes instructions, context and examples.

A worked example#

Act as my ghostwriter for LinkedIn. I am the head of platform engineering at a 200-person logistics software company. Write a post of about 200 words that argues one position: we should have deleted our internal feature-flag service instead of rewriting it. Base it only on this experience: in March 2026 we spent eleven weeks rewriting the service; in June we found that 40 of the 52 flags had been on for over a year; we removed them and retired the service in two weeks. Match the voice of these past posts: [past post 1 pasted here] [past post 2 pasted here]. Open with the sharpest sentence, use short paragraphs, and do not add any fact I did not give you.

A good result for this task:

• Uses only the dates and counts you supplied, and no invented statistics or industry claims.
• States your position in the first two lines and defends it with the one story.
• Sounds like your past posts: same sentence length, same level of formality, no new catchphrases.
• Contains at least one detail a stranger could not have written, such as the eleven weeks or the 40 of 52 flags.
• Ends with something you would honestly say, not a stock call to action.

The full prompt library is on our prompt library page.

Limits of this guide#

We tested none of these prompts and did not measure reach or engagement, so we make no claim about what performs on LinkedIn. We could not find a LinkedIn Help page we could read that sets a rule on AI-generated text, and the policies page we read does not use the term; it covers synthetic or manipulated media, which is not the same thing. The FTC page is guidance for influencers, not legal advice, and whether it applies to your post depends on your circumstances.