AAAry Aranguiz, CPTD, AIPMFounder & CEO, Future-Ready AI Group, LLC · I help SMB owners embed AI into everyday operations so work moves faster, more consistently, and more profitably | Google Cloud Generative AI Leader

Use power prompts for deep research in Notebook LM

18 Mar 2026 · 2 min

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In this tutorial, the speaker introduces a reusable "power prompt" designed for deep research in NotebookLM. The prompt instructs the AI to search for high‑quality, up‑to‑date sources (industry reports, government publications, peer‑reviewed articles, case studies, market data) on a user‑specified topic, emphasizing evolution, real‑world applications, measurable outcomes, challenges, risks, and emerging trends. The speaker demonstrates copying the prompt, pasting it into NotebookLM, entering the topic "AI for SMBs" (small‑to‑medium‑sized businesses), selecting the "deep research" mode, and launching the search. The walkthrough shows how the prompt can be adapted for any context, enabling users to quickly generate comprehensive, current research without manual query crafting.

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So what we also created for you is power prompts. So this is one of those deep research power prompts. Now, feel free to take this power prompt, put it into ChatGPT, and adjust it as you see fit for your context. What this does is it will tell NotebookLM to search, to do the search for you. It will search for high-quality sources on whatever topic you fill in the blank. It will focus, for example, on how that particular area is evolving, real-world applications and use cases, measurable outcomes, common challenges, risks, or constraints, emerging trends or shifts. It will prioritize— we're, we're giving it instructions, NotebookLM, to prioritize sources that provide industry reports. Government or regulatory publications, peer-reviewed articles, case studies, market data or benchmarks, etc., etc., and keeping it current, right, between 2024 and 2026. So we are doing this to model for you the type of prompt that you could put into NotebookLM. I've copied it, then I'm going to go into NotebookLM. And I'm going to paste that here. I'm going to put here under topic, I'm going to change this and I'm just going to put AI for SMBs, small to medium-sized businesses. And then I'm going to select deep research, and then I'm just going to hit return there and it'll start doing the research. Now the power of this is if you are starting from scratch, you can have