Maren Holloway
Writes about prompts that actually work and the strange new rules of being found by AI.
Former in-house content lead who went independent before the SEO traffic finished drying up. Now she figures out what prompts and visibility look like next.
Latest from Maren
Structured Output That Survives a Model Swap: The JSON Scaffold I Actually Ship
Multi-model routing is normal now. Here is the schema-first prompt pattern that keeps objects valid when you change the brain underneath.
Your Brand Is Probably Wrong in ChatGPT. Here Is the 90-Minute Audit.
Stop guessing whether AI search knows you. Run this query set, fill the gap matrix, and leave with a one-page fix list.
The 12-Prompt Eval I Run Before I Trust Any Model Upgrade
A model wave is not a migration plan. Here is the fixed task set I score before I change a default, with a pass/fail rubric you can steal.
Upgrade Your Prompt Stack for Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Without Rewriting Everything
New models land and teams thrash their prompts from zero. Here is the lab method: keep the scaffold, re-test three failure modes, ship the diffs.
The De-Slop Prompt Stack: Six Prompts That Stop Claude and ChatGPT From Sounding Like a Robot
Readers now punish writing that feels machine-made. These six prompts remove the tells, and they're built to be saved once and used forever.
The Constraint Goes First
Everyone writes prompts top-down: role, context, task, then a stack of rules at the end. That's the bug.