The Ops Prompts I Actually Used in 2025

The questions that surfaced the real work again and again.

I use a lot of frameworks. Less ops-oriented friends may even say I am a framework junkie, but alas, these are the questions I came back to over and over this year. Across clients, industries, and moments where something felt off but no one could quite name it yet.

These are the prompts that cut through noise, expose the real constraint, and tell you wh…