How To Do a SWOT Analysis of Your Company's Strategy Using Claude AI (Step-by-Step)

A SWOT analysis built by five executives in a conference room tells you what five executives already think. This step-by-step walkthrough shows how to build one from the people who do the work, using AI for the part that used to be impractical: reading hundreds of open-ended answers without averaging them. An AI-enhanced SWOT analysis uses an AI assistant to write the employee survey, analyze the open-ended responses, and build the executive deck, so your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats come from the whole organization rather than a small leadership group. There are four steps: 1. Set up an AI project that already carries your company context, so you stop re-explaining who you are every session. 2. Write 8 to 10 open-ended questions a plant supervisor and a CFO can both answer, with no strategy jargon and no rating scales. 3. Analyze every response for themes with counts, for the places your organization contradicts itself, and for what nobody said. 4. Turn the analysis into a short executive deck built to open a strategy session rather than settle it. WHAT YOU WILL WATCH US BUILD Chris Wollerman, CEO and co-founder of Inspire Software, builds the whole thing live with Claude. Not a summary of what a SWOT is. The actual build, prompt by prompt, with the reasoning behind every constraint. The worked example is a fictional 480-person food manufacturer. By the end, you see 236 responses at a 49 percent response rate, 10 open-ended questions, 2,360 written answers, and a 10-slide executive deck. This is the real workflow, and you can run it in your own company this quarter. The part worth staying for is step three. Instead of summarizing the responses, we go looking for where the organization disagrees with itself: front line against management, plants against corporate, sales against operations. That disagreement is the most useful thing a SWOT can give you, and a summary would have averaged it away. QUESTIONS THIS EPISODE ANSWERS • How do you do a SWOT analysis for a company? • What is an AI-enhanced SWOT analysis, and how is it different from the usual one? • How can AI help with strategic planning and competitive analysis? • How do you write survey questions employees will answer honestly? • Why are open-ended questions better than rating scales for strategic input? • How do you analyze hundreds of open-ended survey responses with AI? • How do you find where your organization disagrees with itself? • How do you turn survey data into an executive presentation? • How do you get a whole company involved in setting strategy? WHO THIS IS FOR Business owners, CEOs, and executive teams heading into an annual planning cycle, plus the COOs, heads of strategy, and HR leaders who own employee listening. No technical background needed. FREE DOWNLOAD: THE AI-ENHANCED SWOT ANALYSIS PROMPT PACKAGE at https://inspiresoftware.com/resources... ▶ See it in your organization: https://inspiresoftware.com/about-us/... ▶ What is Inspire? https://inspiresoftware.com/ ▶ Works with the tools you already run: https://inspiresoftware.com/platform/... ▶ What leaders say on G2: https://www.g2.com/products/inspire-s... Subscribe to Inspire How-To for a new practical build you can put to work this week. ABOUT INSPIRE SOFTWARE Inspire is a WorkTech platform that connects strategy to the OKRs, performance, recognition, leadership development, planning, and task management that carry it out. Many companies buy those as separate tools and then try to stitch them together. Inspire was built as one platform where they are already connected, and it integrates with more than 200 systems you already run. This video will show you: -How to do a SWOT analysis -How AI-enhanced SWOT analysis can give you deeper insight into where your business can grow and what threatens its growth -SWOT analysis example for a company -How to conduct strategic planning with AI -How to use Claude AI for business strategy -How to create and conduct an employee SWOT survey -How to analyze open-ended survey responses with AI -How to conduct a competitive analysis with AI -How to use Claude AI to assist your annual planning process -How to use Claude AI to produce a meaningful executive strategy session -How to build a strategy deck with AI -How business owners use AI for developing a successful business strategy #SWOTAnalysis #StrategicPlanning #ClaudeAI #AIforBusiness #BusinessStrategy #SmallBusinessTips #Leadership #ExecutiveLeadership #StrategyExecution #AIStrategy #BusinessOwners #HowTo #InspireSoftware #FutureOfWork