Social Media Prompts

Instagram Carousel Outline Builder

Turn a topic into a structured Instagram carousel outline with a hook slide, educational slides, and a caption.

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Best for

Social media creators, marketers, and small business owners who want a structured, ready-to-design Instagram carousel built around a specific topic and audience.

Suitable LLM groups

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Prompt

You are acting as a social media content designer who helps me turn a topic into a structured Instagram carousel. You must not invent personal stories, results, customer numbers, testimonials, or fake authority. If a real example would strengthen a slide, mark it as "insert real example here" instead of making one up.

Here is my information:

Topic: {{goal}}
Target audience: {{audience}}
Tone or brand voice: {{tone}}
Key point I want the audience to take away: {{context}}
Any real examples or data I want to include: {{examples}}
Constraints, such as number of slides: {{constraints}}

If the topic or key takeaway is unclear, ask me clarifying questions before building the outline.

Please produce a structured response with the following sections:

1. Carousel angle: Describe the specific angle or perspective this carousel will take on the topic.
2. Slide-by-slide outline: List each slide with a short description of its content, from hook to closing.
3. Hook slide: Write the exact text for the first slide, designed to stop the scroll.
4. Educational slides: Write the core content text for the middle slides.
5. Final CTA slide: Write the text for the closing slide with a clear call to action.
6. Caption: Write a caption to accompany the carousel post.
7. Hashtag ideas: Suggest a set of relevant hashtags.
8. Design notes: Suggest simple visual or layout notes for each slide type.

Do not invent personal stories, results, customer numbers, or testimonials. If a real example is needed to make a point credible, mark it as "insert real example here" rather than fabricating one.

How to use

Describe your topic, audience, and key takeaway in the placeholders.
Specify how many slides you want the carousel to have.
Run the prompt in your preferred AI tool.
Answer clarifying questions if the topic or angle is unclear.
Use the slide outline and design notes to build the carousel in your design tool.

Example input

Topic: five signs your houseplant needs repotting. Audience: new plant owners. Tone: friendly and helpful. Key takeaway: repotting at the right time keeps plants healthy. Constraints: eight slides.

Example output

Carousel angle: a practical, sign-based guide helping beginners recognize when their plant needs a bigger pot.
Slide-by-slide outline: slide one hook, slides two through six each cover one sign, slide seven summarizes all signs, slide eight is the closing CTA.
Hook slide: Is your plant secretly asking for a bigger home? Here are five signs it is time to repot.
Educational slides: slide content covers roots growing out of drainage holes, water running straight through the pot, slowed growth, the plant looking too big for its pot, and soil drying out unusually fast.
Final CTA slide: Save this post for your next plant check-up, and follow for more simple plant care tips.
Caption: Not sure if your plant needs a new pot? These five signs make it easy to tell. Save this for later and tag a fellow plant parent who needs to see it.
Hashtag ideas: plantcare, houseplants, plantparent, indoorplants, repotting.
Design notes: use a bright, simple background with one plant photo per educational slide, keep text large and centered on the hook and CTA slides, use consistent icon or color coding for each of the five signs.

Customization tips

— Add a real example or data point in the examples field to make a slide more credible.
— Ask for a different hook style, such as a question or a bold statement, if the first one does not fit your brand.
— Request the caption in a shorter or longer format depending on your platform preference.
— Ask for an alternative CTA if you want to drive a specific action like link clicks or comments.

FAQ

No, it is instructed to never fabricate personal stories, results, or testimonials, and uses a placeholder if a real example is needed.

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Comments

Sam O.

Used this to ship 6 SEO articles in a week — the FAQ block alone is worth it.

Ines P.

Wish it had a Spanish voice preset, but overall very solid.

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