A Month of On-Brand Social Content From 4 Prompts

TL;DR: Four prompts turn carousel creation into a system instead of a one-off design job. The Carousel Machine lives in a Claude Project and designs on-brand carousels from a topic. The Idea Machine generates 30 topics. The Repurposer turns one carousel into a video script, X post, and LinkedIn post. The Trend Scout finds what's working now and turns it into hooks. Set it up once, then run the loop weekly.

Most brands 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, gets 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.

What this actually does

It turns carousel creation into a system instead of a one-off design job.

1. 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 colors. No Canva.

2. The Idea Machine hands you 30 specific carousel topics in your niche, so you never stare at a blank canvas wondering what to post.

3. 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.

4. 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

1. 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.

2. Drop your brand in once. In that prompt, replace the brackets with your real fonts, colors, and style. Now every chat inside that Project designs on-brand carousels automatically, and you only feed it the topic.

The 4 mega prompts

The Carousel Machine goes in your Project instructions. The other three you paste into a chat whenever you need them.

Carousel Machine (paste into Project instructions)

You design scroll-stopping Instagram carousels as visual code. When I give you a topic, first write a strong hook for slide one, then the copy for every following slide (one idea per slide, 7 to 9 slides, ending on a clear CTA slide). Then output the whole thing as clean, self-contained HTML and CSS I can screenshot slide by slide, sized square for Instagram, using my brand: [your fonts], [your colours], [your style, e.g. warm, minimal, paper texture]. Keep the copy tight and skimmable, and make every slide visually consistent.

Idea Machine

Give me 30 carousel topics for my niche [your niche], mixing beginner saves, contrarian takes, and step-by-step how-tos. Make each one a specific promise, not a vague theme (for example "5 ChatGPT prompts that write your week of emails," not "AI for productivity"). Number them and group them by the three types.

Repurposer

Take this carousel [paste the slide copy] and turn it into three things: a 45-second short-form video script with a hook and on-screen text cues, an X post (or short thread) with a scroll-stopping first line, and a LinkedIn post in a slightly more professional tone. Keep the same core idea, but match each platform's voice and length.

Trend Scout

Search the web for what's getting saved and shared in [your niche] right now, including recent angles, formats, and questions people keep asking. Then turn the strongest patterns into 10 fresh carousel hooks I could post this month, and note why each one is working right now.

3 bonus prompts

These finish the post once the carousel exists. Run them in the same chat so they keep your topic and brand voice.

The caption writer

Write me an Instagram caption for this carousel [paste the hook and main points]. Open with a line that earns the tap, deliver the value in short skimmable lines, and end with a soft CTA to save or follow. Match my voice: [casual / lowercase / professional]. Then give me 5 to 8 relevant hashtags.

The hook A/B tester

Give me 8 alternative hooks for this carousel topic [topic], using different angles: a number, a contrarian take, a mistake-to-avoid, a curiosity gap, a direct promise, a "before you do X" warning, a question, and a bold claim. Then rank your top 3 by scroll-stopping power and tell me why each would work.

The 30-day content calendar

Take these 30 topics [paste from the Idea Machine] and lay them out as a 30-day posting calendar. Balance the content types across the month so I'm not posting three how-tos in a row, slot the strongest hooks on the days I post [my posting days], and mark which ones to turn into video with the Repurposer.

How to get the most out of it

1. Spend time on the brand block once. The Carousel Machine is only as on-brand as the fonts, colors, and style you give it. Get that right in the Project instructions and every future carousel inherits it.

2. 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 Claude to "render each slide full-screen one at a time" to make screenshotting clean.

3. 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.

4. Brand new to this? 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 Claude matches your layout, and have the Repurposer auto-draft the video script for every carousel you make.

The honest take

The code output gets you genuinely good, consistent slides fast, but the first pass is a strong draft, not gospel. Tweak the hook, tighten a line, swap a weak slide. The win is that the design, layout, and copy arrive together in seconds, so your afternoon-per-post becomes minutes, and your taste goes into editing instead of building from scratch.

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