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Why Your Prompts Aren’t Working and How to Fix Them

by Leah Aftab, Founder, Solar Flare Innovations

You’ve probably tried asking ChatGPT or another AI tool to help with work. Sometimes it spits out something useful. But a lot of the time? It’s vague, confusing, or just wrong.

That’s not your fault. But it’s not working either.

Most AI tools are trained to sound confident, even when they have no idea what you’re really asking. That means bad answers, wasted time, and more work, not less.

So what’s going wrong?

It usually comes down to the prompt.

Prompts are the instructions you give to the AI. But writing a good prompt isn’t about fancy words. It’s about logic, structure, and giving clear boundaries.

If your prompts aren’t producing what you want, it’s probably because they’re too open-ended, missing context, assuming the AI understands your workflow, or copied from a prompt that looked right but wasn’t built for your needs.

We’ve seen clients waste hours, sometimes whole workdays, trying to fix AI answers. Not because they’re doing something wrong, but because the system wasn’t set up properly in the first place.

What we do at Solar Flare Innovations

We help founders and small teams fix the root problem. We don’t just edit your prompt. We look at what you’re trying to do, how your workflow is set up, and where the breakdown is happening.

Then we build you a better system, whether that’s a cleaned-up prompt, a working automation, or a full AI-powered process that saves you time instead of wasting it.

Why it’s worth it:

You already know your time is valuable. Fighting with an AI model shouldn’t be on your task list. Paying for expert help means fewer hours rewriting the same prompt, clear answers from your tools, automations that actually run properly, and less stress in your daily work.

You don’t need to get better at AI. You need better tools.

And that’s what we do.