These are 30 prompts for running a small business with Meta Muse, grouped by the job they do and free to copy, plus a five-part formula for writing your own. Each one names the connector it needs. The five that find new customers need data Muse doesn't have; we ran two of them (26 and 29) through superagnt's tools and show what came back.
By the superagnt team // updated
01// the formula
How to write a Muse prompt: five parts
Muse is an agent, not a chatbot: it plans, uses your connected apps and keeps going in the background. The prompts that work tell it five things, the pattern the AI Agents Library also lays out:
The outcome. What done looks like: "ten booked calls", not "help with sales".
The context it may use. Which apps, files and sites, and anything it should already know about you.
The boundaries. What not to touch, who not to contact, how much it may spend.
The actions that need your OK. Say "show me drafts before sending" in the prompt itself. Muse asks before sending email by default; keep that on, and keep approvals on for anything that sends, pays or posts (Meta's permissions guide).
A finish line. When to stop and what to hand back: a list, a draft, a one-line summary.
blank template
Goal: [the outcome, with a number and a date]
Use: [apps, files and sites Muse may use]
Don't: [what to leave alone, who not to contact, a spend limit]
Ask me before: [sending, paying, posting, deleting]
Done when: [what to hand back, and in what shape]
02// start here
The first prompt to try, and a daily brief
Start with work Muse can finish and you can check in a minute. In one reviewer's hands-on test of Muse on the free plan, meeting preparation scored 10 out of 10, a weekly brief 9, and inbox prioritization 6, where Muse wrongly concluded an email hadn't been sent (AI Agents Library review).
first prompt · needs: nothing yet
Set my house rules: never send, pay, post or delete anything without asking me first. Then tell me what you can do with the apps I've connected, and suggest three jobs you could take off my plate this week. Don't start any of them yet.
daily brief · needs: Gmail or Outlook + Google Calendar
Every weekday at 7am, send me one short message: today's meetings, emails that need my reply today, and anything due this week. Keep it under 120 words. Don't reply to anyone for me.
Research [company] before my call tomorrow: what they do, how big they are, recent news, and one question I should ask.
needs: Gmail or Outlook
Find every email from a potential customer in the last 30 days that I never replied to. List them by how likely they are to buy.
needs: Gmail or Outlook
Draft a short, friendly follow-up to each lead who went quiet after my quote. Show me the drafts before sending.
needs: Gmail + Google Calendar
When a lead replies asking to talk, offer them two times from my calendar next week and book the one they pick.
needs: Gmail or Outlook
Every Friday, list customers I haven't contacted in 90 days and draft a check-in for each.
04// prompts 6 to 10
Prompts for your inbox and calendar
needs: Gmail or Outlook
Each morning, summarize new email into: needs my reply today, can wait, and can archive. Draft replies for the first group.
needs: Google Calendar
Protect two hours of focus time every weekday morning and move anything that lands there to the afternoon, with my approval.
needs: Gmail + Google Calendar
Before each meeting tomorrow, send me a two-line brief on who I'm meeting and our last conversation.
needs: Gmail or Outlook
Unsubscribe me from newsletters I haven't opened in 60 days. Show me the list first.
needs: Calendly
Tell me how many meetings were booked through my scheduling link this month and which days fill up first.
05// prompts 11 to 14
Prompts for bookkeeping, bills and refunds
needs: Plaid
Show me every subscription my business account paid in the last 90 days and flag any I might not be using.
needs: Plaid
Compare this month's spending to last month by category and tell me what jumped.
needs: Gmail + web browsing
Find receipts in my email for [vendor] this year and put the totals in a spreadsheet.
needs: Gmail + web browsing
I was double-charged by [vendor] on [date]. Draft a refund request and tell me where to submit it.
06// prompts 15 to 17
Prompts for reviews and reputation
needs: web browsing
Check my reviews on [site] every week and tell me about any new ones under four stars.
needs: web browsing
Draft a calm, specific reply to this review: [paste review]. Don't argue, offer to fix it.
needs: Gmail or Outlook
Draft a short thank-you to customers who bought in the last 14 days, asking for a review with a direct link.
07// prompts 18 to 21
Prompts for hiring and admin
needs: Google Docs
Write a job post for a part-time [role] at my [business]. Include pay of [amount] and what a normal week looks like.
needs: Gmail or Outlook
Sort applications for [role] in my inbox into strong, maybe and no, with one line on each.
needs: Google Calendar
Schedule 20-minute interviews with the strong candidates next week and send them the invites after I approve.
needs: Google Docs
Turn my notes on [process] into a one-page checklist a new hire could follow.
08// prompts 22 to 25
Prompts to grow your Instagram, with a content calendar
Start from what already works on your account, then plan the month around it. Instagram analytics need an Instagram professional account connected; Muse for Small Business adds Facebook Pages and Meta ad accounts.
needs: Instagram
Look at my last 20 Instagram posts and tell me which topics and hooks got the most saves, shares and comments.
needs: Instagram + Google Docs
Content calendar: build a calendar for [month] with three posts a week, built on what worked in my last 20 posts. Give each post a hook, a caption draft and a day. Don't post anything.
needs: Gmail or Outlook
Turn the questions customers asked me by email this month into five post ideas, one line each.
needs: Facebook
Summarize new comments and messages on my business Facebook page and draft replies for my approval.
09// prompts 26 to 30
Prompts that find new customers, with superagnt
These five need people data Muse doesn't come with: who owns a business, their work email, and whether it's real. superagnt is the connector for that job, one MCP server with people and company search, a work email finder and a verifier. Add it to Muse as a custom connector, or see the full walkthrough in how to find customers with Meta Muse.
needs: superagnt: people search
Find 25 owners of [type of business] in [city] with 5 to 50 employees. Give me the name, business, website and one reason each fits.
needs: web browsing + superagnt: company search
Find businesses in [area] that opened or announced a new location in the last 60 days. I sell [what you sell] to businesses like that.
needs: Buyer Signal Search (coming to superagnt)
Find people on X and LinkedIn who posted in the last 30 days asking for [what you sell]. Show me each post and skip anyone who isn't a business owner or manager.
needs: superagnt: email finder + verifier
For each person on this list, find their work email and verify it. Remove anyone who doesn't verify.
needs: superagnt: people search
Who is the right person to talk to about [what you sell] at [company]? Give me their name, title and how you found them.
Prompts 26 and 29, run on November 3, 2026
Real tool calls on superagnt's staging environment, sent directly over MCP rather than from inside Muse, with prompt 26's search run for Austin medical practices and without its size filter. Each result is what the client received, trimmed and masked where it says so, and each wall time was measured around the call.
the ask
“Find 25 owners of medical practices in Austin, Texas, then find and verify their work emails.”
01Search for owners (one page of 25)792 ms wall time
» Trimmed: 24 of the 25 people, and this one's first and last name, headline, mobile status, department, LinkedIn links and person id. Names, company and domain are masked at a fixed width; the tool returned them.
02Find one owner's work email (25 lookups, 5 at a time)6.2 s wall time
» Trimmed: nothing. The address is masked at a fixed width.
25 people came back from 149 matches for the owner search (24 tagged founder or owner). The finder returned a work address for all 25, 24 looked up by company domain and 1 by company name (21 marked valid, 4 with a confidence score), and the separate check called all 25 valid. The whole job took 63 seconds and 68.5¢: 1.98¢ for the search, 61.5¢ for 25 lookups and 5¢ for 25 checks.
10// what muse remembers
What Muse keeps about the people in your life
A security researcher got Muse to share its own instruction files through the chat, and Wired reported on October 3, 2026 that one instruction appears to let it create "a page for every person in the user's life": family, partners, friends, colleagues and people you follow, updated hourly from what Muse can see, with sections such as Facts, History and Open threads. Pages start sparse, and the instructions say invented details are worse than an empty page. Gizmodo adds that a page can hold a person's name, how they're connected to you, recurring topics and dates like birthdays.
Meta told Wired that Muse gathers this "based on public information and from what you've chosen to share", and that each user's machine is closed to other users' agents. Tom's Guide checked its own Muse and found it knew little beyond what the writer had told it, and says the reporting isn't evidence of a profile for every person who doesn't use Muse.
11// stay in control
Limits and safety tips
Custom connectors are not reviewed by Meta, so only connect services you trust (Meta's help on connectors).
Double-check anything Muse finds before you act on it. Like every AI model, it can be confidently wrong.
Heavy recurring work uses up the free weekly limit faster. If you run several of these every week, check which Muse plan you need.
12// questions
Common questions
01What is the first prompt I should use in Meta Muse?
Start with work Muse can finish and you can check in a minute: a brief for tomorrow's meetings or a morning brief from your calendar and email. In one reviewer's test, meeting prep scored 10 out of 10. Our first-run prompt is on this page.
02What Muse prompts grow my Instagram?
Ask Muse to read your own results first (which topics and hooks got the most saves, shares and comments in your last 20 posts), then build a month's content calendar on what worked, with a hook and caption draft per post and nothing posted without your OK.
03How do I set up a daily brief?
Ask for a recurring task, for example: every weekday at 7am, send me today's meetings, emails that need a reply today and anything due this week, in under 120 words. Muse runs recurring tasks on schedule until you cancel them.
04What does Muse's system prompt say? Does it keep a page on every person?
Wired reported on October 3, 2026 that Muse's instructions, which a researcher extracted through the chat, appear to let it create a page for every person in your life, updated hourly from what it can see. Meta said it gathers this from public information and what you've chosen to share. Tom's Guide said the reporting isn't evidence of a profile on everyone, and its own Muse knew little beyond what it had been told. You can edit Memory.md or ask Muse to forget a person.
05Is Meta Muse safe?
Muse asks before important actions like sending an email unless you change that, and always before a purchase. The risks to manage: custom connectors aren't reviewed by Meta, Muse keeps notes on people in your life, and the setting that lets Meta train on your chats is on by default. Connect only what you trust and turn that setting off if you prefer.
06How should I write a Muse prompt?
In five parts: the outcome you want, the context Muse may use, the boundaries it must not cross, the actions that need your OK, and a finish line saying what to hand back. A blank template is on this page.
07Can Meta Muse find new customers for my business?
Not on its own: it has no data on who owns a business or their email. superagnt is the connector for that job. Prompts 26 and 29, run through superagnt's tools over MCP, returned 25 people from an owner search and 25 work emails, all 25 verified, in 63 seconds.
superagnt for muse
Find customers from inside Muse.
We are building a superagnt connector for Muse: people and company search, verified work emails, and Buyer Signal Search, which finds people publicly asking for what you sell. Get early access and we will tell you when it is ready.