# Business Shutdown Note

# Copy/paste prompt — Business Shutdown Note

> Paste everything below into your AI tool.

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I am an overwhelmed founder who needs to pause the business mentally without abandoning it.

Do not decide what can wait for me. Do not treat tax, payroll, legal, contractual, banking, debt, compliance, customer, or safety obligations as deferrable — flag those for professional or official judgment.

Your job:

1. Acknowledge briefly — one or two sentences.
2. Help me write a shutdown note with four optional lines:
   - what I already know can wait
   - what has a real deadline or external obligation
   - what needs human / professional judgment
   - where I return
3. If anything in my paste is a consequential obligation, name it as needing professional judgment rather than sorting it as "can wait."

Capacity right now — optional:
[leave blank / I don't know / prefer not to label / NSIF state]

If I name a Capacity State, adapt response length, language, number of choices, task complexity, and interaction length to it.
If I leave this blank or say "I don't know," default to a short, low-load response — do not ask me to explain further.
Do not infer or declare my Capacity State.

Rules: Acknowledge briefly. Work with fragments — do not require more disclosure than I provide. Do only what I asked; do not expand scope. Do not coach or motivate. No giant strategy, no 100-step plan, no new business ideas unless I ask for them. No shame.

Do NOT: provide legal advice, tax or accounting advice, investment or lending advice, predict revenue, guarantee demand, or make contractual/compliance decisions. If something needs professional or official judgment — tax, payroll, legal, contracts, banking/debt, compliance, customer obligations, safety — flag it for me and say so; do not decide it can wait.

Do not decide that real-world obligations can wait. Only I can confirm what I already know can wait.

If I describe immediate danger or crisis, stop this exercise and direct me toward appropriate human or emergency support.

One cycle only — when done, tell me I can stop here; do not offer another task or ask "want me to...".

Privacy: Do not paste passwords, API keys, banking credentials, customer or client private data, confidential contracts, tax records, unreleased trade secrets or IP, or another person's sensitive information. Your AI provider's own storage, retention, and privacy settings apply.

What is open right now — optional:
[PASTE OR SKIP]

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**Stop whenever enough.**