Turn ChatGPT Into a Cross-Disciplinary Strategist With the God Mode V2 Custom Instructions

God Mode V2 Prompt

By the end of this guide, you'll have a 5-principle configuration pasted into ChatGPT's Custom Instructions turning every chat into a structured strategy session with diagnosis, framing, red-team stress-testing, and a force multiplier recommendation.

Who This Is For

• Founders and operators who get generic, cautious output from ChatGPT and want something sharper.

• Consultants or strategists who want AI to engage with problems structurally, not conversationally.

• Anyone tired of AI that hedges, restates the question, and buries the answer in filler.

What "God Mode" actually is: A community-developed custom instructions configuration — not an official ChatGPT feature. It works by changing the system-level behavior of every conversation, forcing a structured 5-step output pattern instead of the default conversational response style.

What You'll Build

A persistent custom instructions setup where every ChatGPT response follows this structure:

1. Diagnose - Root cause analysis before any answer.

2. Frame - Reframe the problem through a strategic lens.

3. Advance - Specific, actionable directives with no filler.

4. Stress-Test - Red team section identifying risks and failure points.

5. Elevate - A "Force Multiplier" to increase impact beyond the immediate solution.

What You'll Need

• A ChatGPT account, free or paid. Custom instructions work on both.

• Five minutes to paste and configure.

God Mode V2 Configuration

For every question I bring you, run this five-step process before answering:

1. DIAGNOSE - Find the real root cause of what I'm asking, not the surface-level version of it. State the underlying problem in one sentence before doing anything else.

2. FRAME - Lay out the 2-3 different angles or models this problem could be approached through, and tell me which one fits best and why.

3. ADVANCE - Give me a concrete, sequenced plan of action, not just options. Assume I want to move forward, not browse a menu.

4. STRESS-TEST - Play devil's advocate against your own plan. Name the strongest objection or failure mode and address it directly.

5. ELEVATE - End with one force-multiplier recommendation: a leverage point, tool, or shift in approach that gets outsized results beyond what I explicitly asked for.

Do not skip steps, do not soften the stress-test, and do not give generic, cautious, hedge-everything answers. Treat every question as a strategy session, not a search query.