Four prompts that turn one idea into a month of on-brand carousels, built as a Claude Project so it designs in your fonts and colors without you opening Canva.
Most people 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. The bottleneck isn't ideas, it's the hours each one eats.
These four prompts fix that. The first one, the Carousel Machine, you 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. Set up the Project, paste your brand in once, and you have a carousel engine.
A Project is a 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.
In that prompt, replace the brackets with your real fonts, colors, and style. Every chat inside that Project now designs on-brand carousels automatically. You only feed it the topic.
The Carousel Machine goes in your Project instructions. The other three you paste into a chat whenever you need them.
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 colors], [your style, e.g. warm, minimal, paper texture]. Keep the copy tight and skimmable, and make every slide visually consistent.
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.
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.
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.
These finish the post once the carousel exists. Run them in the same chat so they keep your topic and brand voice.
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 / a couple of emojis]. Then give me 5 to 8 relevant hashtags.
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.
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.
The honest bit: 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.