Yes — give AI the concept and a list of industries, and it will write a tailored example for each one. Five industry-specific examples from one prompt, in under a minute.
Why Industry-Specific Examples Change Comprehension
An example lands when it lives in a world the student already understands. When you explain AI prompting using an example about a marketing agency and your student is a yoga instructor, there’s a translation step — they have to convert your example into something that makes sense for their situation before they can apply it. That translation takes mental effort, and some students don’t complete it. They nod along and move on without the concept really sticking.
An example that lives inside a yoga studio — “imagine you’re asking AI to write a description for your Wednesday morning class for beginners” — requires zero translation. The student is already there. Comprehension happens faster, application happens more readily, and the lesson feels like it was made for them.
How to Generate Industry Examples with AI
The prompt is simple: “Explain [concept] using a specific, concrete example for each of the following industries: health and wellness coaching, financial education, tutoring and academic support, executive coaching, and creative arts teaching. Each example should be one or two sentences and feel like it could happen tomorrow in that person’s real business.” Claude produces all five in a single response, clearly labelled by industry, ready to insert into your content.
You can expand this to ten industries or narrow it to three. You can also ask for examples at different stages — a beginner example and an advanced example for each industry — if your course serves a range of experience levels. ChatGPT handles this equally well. The key is specifying “concrete and realistic” in your prompt; without that, AI sometimes produces examples that are plausible but vague.
What This Means for Educators
When you teach a course that attracts students from multiple industries — which is the norm for coaches and consultants who teach broadly applicable skills — industry-specific examples are one of the fastest ways to increase the perceived relevance of every lesson. You don’t need to rewrite the lesson for each industry. You just swap the example. AI generates the alternatives in seconds, and you pick the ones that fit your cohort’s actual mix.
Over time, you build a library of industry-specific examples for your most frequently taught concepts. That library makes every future cohort faster to personalise and every lesson easier to adapt.
The Simple Rule
Name the concept. List the industries. Ask AI to write one concrete example per industry. Five tailored examples in under a minute — no rewriting, no translation burden for your students, and a lesson that feels like it was made specifically for whoever is reading it.