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100 prompts, written to be run

Every entry follows one of the five fixed frames — standard, reasoning, research, video, or image — so you can paste it into any model and get a deliverable rather than a chat.

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  • AI & Prompting

    Reasoning

    Diagnosing Why a Model Keeps Ignoring an Instruction

    Diagnoses why a system prompt instruction keeps getting ignored across runs instead of restating it more forcefully.

    A direct rule sits in the system prompt and the model keeps violating it across runs.

    • 2 variables
    • prompt-engineering
    • diagnosis
    • llm
    Use this

  • AI & Prompting

    Standard

    Evaluation Rubric for a Custom Assistant

    Builds a graded rubric to evaluate a custom assistant's outputs before shipping it.

    An assistant is about to ship on the strength of a handful of manual spot-checks.

    • 2 variables
    • evaluation
    • rubric
    • llm
    Use this

  • AI & Prompting

    Image

    Image Prompt Template for a Brand Mascot

    A reusable image-generation prompt template that defines a consistent brand mascot character sheet-style, generation to generation.

    You are generating mascot art for {{brand_name}} on {{tool_name}} and need every generation to keep the same character consistent.

    • 2 variables
    • prompt-template
    • image-generation
    • mascot
    Use this

  • AI & Prompting

    Standard

    Vague Ask to Testable Prompt

    Turns a one-line request into a prompt whose output can be graded before you run it.

    You have a one-line ask and no way to tell whether the model's answer is any good.

    • prompt-engineering
    • specification
    • evaluation
    Use this

  • AI & Prompting

    Video

    Video Prompt Template for a Product Explainer

    A reusable video-generation prompt template that turns a product name and one core benefit into a full seven-block shot direction.

    You are generating a product explainer clip on {{tool_name}} and need a complete, fillable video prompt rather than a one-line description.

    • 2 variables
    • prompt-template
    • video-generation
    • product-explainer
    Use this

  • Business

    Image

    Founder Headshot Direction for a Raise Deck

    Art-directs a single founder headshot built to read as credible and warm on a fundraising deck's team slide.

    {{founder_name}} needs a headshot for the team slide of a raise deck that reads as competent without looking like a corporate stock photo.

    • 2 variables
    • headshot
    • founder-brand
    • photography
    Use this

  • Business

    Standard

    Monthly Investor Update Email

    Turns raw metrics and notes into the monthly update investors actually read.

    The month's numbers are in and investors need the update before you need something from them.

    • 3 variables
    • investor-relations
    • update
    • metrics
    Use this

  • Business

    Research

    New Market Sizing Brief With Citations

    Builds a top-down and bottom-up TAM/SAM/SOM brief for a new market where every figure carries its source.

    You are pitching entry into a new market and the only number anyone has is a headline TAM slide with no citation.

    • 2 variables
    • market-sizing
    • tam-sam-som
    • sourcing
    Use this

  • Business

    Video

    Product Launch Teaser Video Direction

    Directs a three-scene teaser video that builds anticipation for a product launch without showing the full feature set.

    You are launching {{product_name}} and need a teaser clip for {{platform}} that creates anticipation before the full demo drops.

    • 2 variables
    • launch
    • teaser
    • video-direction
    Use this

  • Business

    Standard

    Vendor Decision Brief

    A buy/build/defer brief that forces the tradeoffs into the open before money moves.

    Two vendors look equivalent on their websites and the team is arguing from preference.

    • procurement
    • decision
    • tradeoffs
    Use this

  • Business

    Standard

    Weekly Operating Review Memo

    Converts a pile of team updates into a one-page memo a busy executive can act on.

    Your weekly status thread is long, unstructured, and nobody reads it.

    • memo
    • reporting
    • management
    Use this

  • Coding

    Standard

    API Endpoint Spec From a User Story

    Turns a one-line user story into a full endpoint spec covering method, payload, errors, and auth.

    A one-line user story is the entire specification an engineer has been handed.

    • 2 variables
    • api-design
    • spec
    • backend
    Use this

  • Coding

    Standard

    Bug Report to Failing Test

    Turns a vague bug report into a reproduction and a test that fails for the right reason.

    A bug report says it is broken and you need it to say exactly how.

    • testing
    • debugging
    • regression
    Use this

  • Coding

    Standard

    Database Migration Plan

    Plans a schema migration for a live table with zero-downtime steps and a rollback.

    A live production table needs a schema change and cannot afford a lock or an outage.

    • 2 variables
    • migration
    • database
    • rollback
    Use this

  • Coding

    Research

    Dependency and License Risk Audit

    Audits a project's full dependency tree for license incompatibilities, abandoned packages, and unpatched vulnerabilities.

    Legal or a customer asked for a software bill of materials and nobody has audited the dependency tree in years.

    • 2 variables
    • dependencies
    • licensing
    • supply-chain
    Use this

  • Coding

    Reasoning

    Diagnosing an Intermittent Production Failure

    Diagnoses a production failure that will not reproduce locally by hunting for the production-only variable.

    A service fails intermittently in production and every attempt to replay it locally succeeds.

    • 2 variables
    • debugging
    • production
    • reliability
    Use this

  • Coding

    Standard

    Pull Request Review With Severity Tiers

    A review that separates a security defect from a naming preference.

    Reviews come back as 30 comments with no signal about which ones block the merge.

    • code-review
    • security
    • quality
    Use this

  • Coding

    Research

    Threat Model for a New Feature

    Produces a STRIDE-based threat register for a feature before it ships, tied to its actual trust boundaries.

    A feature design is finalized and about to ship with no security review behind it.

    • 2 variables
    • threat-modeling
    • security
    • stride
    Use this

  • Communication

    Standard

    Bad News Email That Keeps the Relationship

    Delivers a slip, a rejection, or a price increase without burying the lede or the apology.

    You have to tell someone something they will not like and you have rewritten it six times.

    • email
    • difficult
    • stakeholder
    Use this

  • Communication

    Standard

    Crisis Response Statement

    Drafts the first public statement after an incident, before all facts are known.

    Something has gone wrong publicly and silence past the next hour reads as concealment.

    • 2 variables
    • crisis
    • statement
    • pr
    Use this

  • Communication

    Standard

    Fan Community Announcement Post

    Writes the announcement post for a release, tour, or drop to a fan community.

    An artist has news to share and it needs to sound like them, not a press release.

    • 3 variables
    • fan-community
    • announcement
    • music-business
    Use this

  • Communication

    Research

    Internal Terminology Glossary Alignment

    Researches how a term is actually used across a team's own documents to converge on one aligned definition.

    Two teams have been arguing past each other for a week and it turns out they mean different things by the same word.

    • 2 variables
    • glossary
    • alignment
    • documentation
    Use this

  • Communication

    Standard

    Stakeholder Update in Three Registers

    One project truth, written three ways for three audiences, with nothing contradicting.

    The same update has to reach an exec, a peer team, and the people doing the work.

    • updates
    • audience
    • consistency
    Use this

  • Compliance

    Standard

    Control Narrative for an Audit Request

    Describes a control the way an auditor tests it, with evidence named up front.

    An auditor asked how a control works and the honest answer is spread across four people.

    • audit
    • controls
    • evidence
    Use this

  • Compliance

    Research

    Data Retention Policy Benchmark

    Benchmarks data retention periods against regulatory minimums and industry norms so the schedule is defensible.

    An auditor asked why a retention period is set the way it is and the honest answer is nobody decided it deliberately.

    • 2 variables
    • data-retention
    • privacy
    • benchmark
    Use this

  • Compliance

    Reasoning

    Diagnosing a Failed Compliance Control

    Diagnoses whether a failed control test reflects a design deficiency or an operating deficiency before proposing a fix.

    A control failed its test and leadership needs to know whether it was ever adequate or was just skipped this period.

    • 2 variables
    • controls
    • audit
    • diagnosis
    Use this

  • Compliance

    Standard

    Security Incident Disclosure Notice

    Drafts the legally-required disclosure notice after a data security incident.

    A breach has been confirmed and the notification law's window is running.

    • 3 variables
    • incident-response
    • disclosure
    • privacy
    Use this

  • Compliance

    Research

    SOC 2 Control Mapping Research

    Maps a company's existing practices to SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria control by control before the first audit.

    A customer is asking for a SOC 2 report and nobody has mapped existing practices to the actual criteria yet.

    • 2 variables
    • soc2
    • controls
    • audit
    Use this

  • Compliance

    Research

    Vendor Security Questionnaire Response Kit

    Builds a reusable, defensible answer library for enterprise-customer security questionnaires from existing certifications.

    An enterprise deal is stalled on a 200-question security questionnaire and every answer is being written from scratch.

    • 2 variables
    • security-questionnaire
    • vendor-risk
    • sales-engineering
    Use this

  • Data Analysis

    Standard

    A/B Test Readout Memo

    Turns a raw experiment results table into a memo that states whether to ship, kill, or extend.

    The results table just came in and the team is already arguing about whether to ship.

    • 3 variables
    • experimentation
    • statistics
    • readout
    Use this

  • Data Analysis

    Standard

    Anomaly Triage on a Metric Drop

    A structured first hour when a number falls and nobody knows why.

    A key metric dropped overnight and the theories are outrunning the evidence.

    • incident
    • diagnostics
    • metrics
    Use this

  • Data Analysis

    Standard

    Cohort Retention Read

    Reads a retention table honestly, including what the sample size will not support.

    Retention looks like it improved and you need to know whether that is real.

    • retention
    • cohorts
    • analysis
    Use this

  • Data Analysis

    Reasoning

    Diagnosing Conflicting Dashboards

    Diagnoses why two dashboards report different numbers for what should be the same metric.

    A stakeholder noticed two tools disagree on the same metric and asked which one is right.

    • 3 variables
    • dashboards
    • diagnosis
    • data-quality
    Use this

  • Data Analysis

    Reasoning

    Diagnosing Contradictory Customer Segments

    Decides which of two statistically significant but contradictory segment findings to trust.

    Two analyses of the same customer base point at different drivers and both look significant.

    • 2 variables
    • segmentation
    • statistics
    • diagnosis
    Use this

  • Documents

    Research

    Data Processing Agreement Clause Benchmark

    Benchmarks a vendor's proposed DPA clauses against market-standard terms before anyone signs it.

    Legal handed you a vendor's Data Processing Agreement and asked whether the terms are normal.

    • 2 variables
    • dpa
    • privacy
    • contracts
    Use this

  • Documents

    Standard

    Freelance Contract Redline Summary

    Reads a client's contract redlines and explains what actually changed in plain terms before signing.

    A redlined contract just came back and the legal language is hiding what actually changed.

    • 2 variables
    • contracts
    • freelance
    • redline
    Use this

  • Documents

    Standard

    One-Pager From a Long Research Doc

    Compresses a long internal research document into a one-page brief for people who will not read the original.

    A decision-maker needs to act this week on a document they will not read past page one.

    • 2 variables
    • summary
    • brief
    • research
    Use this

  • Documents

    Standard

    Policy Document Rewrite for Readability

    Rewrites an internal policy so people can follow it without a lawyer present.

    Nobody follows the policy because nobody can finish reading it.

    • policy
    • plain-language
    • rewrite
    Use this

  • Documents

    Standard

    SOP From a Verbal Walkthrough

    Turns a recorded or transcribed walkthrough of how someone does a task into a written SOP.

    A process lives only in one person's head and their calendar.

    • 2 variables
    • sop
    • documentation
    • process
    Use this

  • Finance

    Standard

    Artist Royalty Statement Explainer

    Translates an opaque distributor royalty statement into plain language the artist can act on.

    A royalty statement arrived as a dense export nobody has time to decode.

    • 3 variables
    • royalties
    • music-business
    • statements
    Use this

  • Finance

    Reasoning

    Diagnosing a Cash Flow Gap

    Diagnoses why cash is tighter than the profit and loss statement implies it should be.

    The bank balance is tighter than the P&L suggests and nobody has traced the gap yet.

    • 2 variables
    • cash-flow
    • diagnosis
    • finance
    Use this

  • Finance

    Standard

    Invoice Dispute Resolution Email

    Writes the email that disputes a client's pushback on an invoice without damaging the relationship.

    A client has pushed back on an invoice and the reply needs facts, not defensiveness.

    • 2 variables
    • invoicing
    • collections
    • freelance
    Use this

  • Finance

    Research

    Payment Processor Fee Comparison

    Compares effective processing rates across major processors for a specific transaction profile, not just list price.

    You are choosing a payment processor and the pricing pages all quote a headline rate that hides the real cost.

    • 2 variables
    • payments
    • fees
    • comparison
    Use this

  • Finance

    Standard

    Runway and Hiring Plan Stress Test

    Tests a cash plan against the two or three futures that would actually break it.

    The plan works in the base case and nobody has written the case where it does not.

    • runway
    • scenarios
    • cash
    Use this

  • Finance

    Standard

    Unit Economics Sanity Check

    Rebuilds the per-unit math from primitives and says which numbers cannot be trusted.

    The deck says the payback is nine months and you need to know what is inside that number.

    • unit-economics
    • margin
    • diligence
    Use this

  • Image & Video

    Image

    E-Commerce Product Photography Direction

    Art-directs the single main listing image for a product, specified precisely enough to be shot or generated consistently across a full catalog.

    You are listing {{product_name}} on a storefront and need a main product image consistent with {{brand_palette}} across the whole catalog.

    • 2 variables
    • product-photography
    • ecommerce
    • art-direction
    Use this

  • Image & Video

    Image

    Event Poster Art Direction

    Art-directs a poster for a live event built around one striking central image rather than a lineup-grid template.

    {{artist_name}} is playing {{event_name}} at {{venue_name}} and needs poster art direction specific enough to hand to a designer or image model.

    • 3 variables
    • poster
    • event
    • art-direction
    Use this

  • Image & Video

    Video

    Founder Talking-Head Explainer Video Direction

    Directs a single-shot talking-head video of a founder addressing one specific objection directly to camera.

    You need a founder-led clip for {{platform}} that addresses {{topic}} directly, without hiding behind a script that reads as scripted.

    • 2 variables
    • talking-head
    • explainer
    • founder-led
    Use this

  • Image & Video

    Video

    Merch Drop Announcement Video Direction

    Directs a short vertical announcement video for a limited merch drop, built to create urgency without a countdown graphic.

    {{brand_name}} is launching {{product_name}} as a limited drop and needs an announcement clip that reads as an event, not an ad.

    • 2 variables
    • merch
    • drop
    • announcement
    Use this

  • Image & Video

    Video

    Music Video Treatment for a Single

    Directs a full three-act music video treatment built around one visual theme for a single release.

    {{artist_name}} needs a music video treatment for {{song_title}} built around {{visual_theme}}, structured for a director to bid against.

    • 3 variables
    • music-video
    • treatment
    • direction
    Use this

  • Image & Video

    Standard

    Product Hero Still Art Direction

    Art-directs a single product image with lighting, lens, and surface specified.

    You need one product image that looks deliberate instead of generated.

    • art-direction
    • product
    • photography
    Use this

  • Operations

    Reasoning

    Diagnosing a Recurring Deploy Failure

    Diagnoses the shared root cause behind a deploy failure that keeps recurring despite different fixes each time.

    The same class of deploy failure keeps recurring even though each prior fix looked complete.

    • 2 variables
    • ci-cd
    • diagnosis
    • reliability
    Use this

  • Operations

    Research

    Incident Response Tooling Comparison

    Compares paging, escalation, and postmortem tooling for a team standing up its first formal on-call rotation.

    Your team is starting a real on-call rotation and paging people over Slack is not going to hold up.

    • 2 variables
    • incident-response
    • tooling
    • on-call
    Use this

  • Operations

    Standard

    On-Call Handoff Note

    Writes the handoff note between outgoing and incoming on-call engineers.

    A shift is ending and the next on-call needs the real state, not just an absence of alerts.

    • 2 variables
    • on-call
    • handoff
    • incident-response
    Use this

  • Operations

    Standard

    Runbook From a Postmortem

    Converts an incident write-up into steps the next on-call can follow at 3am.

    The postmortem has good analysis and the next person on-call still will not know what to do.

    • incident
    • runbook
    • on-call
    Use this

  • Operations

    Video

    Safety and Onboarding Training Video Direction

    Directs a straightforward instructional video that walks a new hire through one safety or compliance procedure step by step.

    {{audience}} needs a training video covering {{process_name}} that a compliance auditor could also use as evidence the procedure is taught correctly.

    • 2 variables
    • training
    • onboarding
    • safety
    Use this

  • Operations

    Standard

    Vendor Offboarding Checklist

    Produces the checklist to fully offboard a SaaS vendor, including access revocation and data deletion.

    A vendor relationship is ending and canceling the subscription alone leaves access and data behind.

    • 2 variables
    • offboarding
    • access-control
    • vendor-management
    Use this

  • Personal

    Reasoning

    Diagnosing a Recurring Procrastination Pattern

    Diagnoses which specific trigger causes a recurring procrastination pattern on one task type.

    The same task keeps getting avoided at the same time of day regardless of how simple it is.

    • 2 variables
    • procrastination
    • diagnosis
    • habits
    Use this

  • Personal

    Standard

    Job Offer Comparison Memo

    Compares two job offers on total compensation and non-comp factors to force the real tradeoff into view.

    Two offers keep getting compared on base salary alone when the real gap is far larger.

    • 2 variables
    • career
    • negotiation
    • decision
    Use this

  • Personal

    Image

    Personal Brand Headshot Direction for LinkedIn

    Art-directs a professional headshot calibrated to the visual norms of a specific industry rather than a generic corporate template.

    {{name}} works in {{industry}} and needs a LinkedIn headshot that reads as credible within that industry's actual visual norms.

    • 2 variables
    • headshot
    • personal-brand
    • linkedin
    Use this

  • Personal

    Standard

    Personal Financial Runway Check-In

    A monthly personal-finance check-in that states how many months of runway remain and why.

    Income varies month to month and the anxiety is not knowing the runway number regularly enough to act.

    • 2 variables
    • personal-finance
    • runway
    • review
    Use this

  • Personal

    Standard

    Weekly Review That Ends in a Plan

    A personal review that converts a week of noise into three commitments and one deletion.

    Your weekly review has become journalling and nothing changes as a result of it.

    • review
    • planning
    • focus
    Use this

  • Presentations

    Reasoning

    Choosing What to Cut From an Overloaded Deck

    Decides which slides survive when a deck has to shrink to fit half the allotted time.

    Your meeting slot just got cut in half and the deck was built for the longer version.

    • 2 variables
    • deck
    • editing
    • prioritization
    Use this

  • Presentations

    Image

    Conference Talk Title Slide Art Direction

    Art-directs a clean background image for a conference title slide that supports text legibility instead of competing with it.

    {{speaker_name}} is speaking at {{event_name}} and needs a title-slide background for {{talk_title}} that still reads clearly with text overlaid.

    • 3 variables
    • conference
    • title-slide
    • art-direction
    Use this

  • Presentations

    Standard

    Executive Deck From a Decision

    Builds a deck backwards from the decision you need, one message per slide.

    You have 40 slides of material and 15 minutes of meeting.

    • deck
    • narrative
    • executive
    Use this

  • Presentations

    Standard

    Investor Pitch Deck Narrative Arc

    Builds the slide-by-slide narrative arc for a fundraising deck backwards from the ask.

    The deck is a pile of slides assembled by different people with no single argument pulling it together.

    • 3 variables
    • pitch-deck
    • fundraising
    • narrative
    Use this

  • Presentations

    Standard

    Speaker Notes That Survive a Cold Read

    Turns a finished deck into notes someone else could deliver convincingly.

    Someone else has to give your deck, or you are presenting on four hours of sleep.

    • speaking
    • delivery
    • handoff
    Use this

  • Research

    Research

    Grant and Fellowship Landscape Scan

    Scans federal, foundation, and fellowship funding available to a specific applicant profile with a deadline calendar.

    You need funding for a project and have no idea which of dozens of grant programs are actually a fit.

    • 2 variables
    • grants
    • funding
    • research
    Use this

  • Research

    Standard

    Literature Digest for a Non-Specialist

    Summarizes a body of work for a smart reader outside the field, disagreements intact.

    You need to brief a decision-maker on a field you both only half understand.

    • synthesis
    • summary
    • explanation
    Use this

  • Research

    Research

    Open Source License Compatibility Research

    Researches whether two open source licenses can legally be combined in one distributed project before it ships.

    Two components under different open source licenses need to ship together and nobody has checked if that's legal.

    • 3 variables
    • open-source
    • licensing
    • compliance
    Use this

  • Research

    Research

    Streaming Platform Payout Rate Comparison

    Compares net per-stream payout across major platforms after distributor cuts and payout-model differences.

    A release is about to drop and you need to know which platforms actually pay, not just which ones have the most listeners.

    • 2 variables
    • streaming
    • royalties
    • music-business
    Use this

  • Research

    Standard

    Vendor Landscape Scan With Citations

    A sourced landscape read that separates what is documented from what is claimed.

    You need a defensible market map, not a list of the vendors that advertise loudest.

    • landscape
    • sourcing
    • evaluation
    Use this

  • Sales & Marketing

    Image

    Album Cover Art Direction

    Art-directs a full album cover concept built from the album's genre and emotional register rather than a generic collage.

    {{artist_name}} is releasing {{album_title}} and needs album cover art direction specific enough for a designer or an image model to execute on the first pass.

    • 3 variables
    • album-art
    • music-business
    • cover-design
    Use this

  • Sales & Marketing

    Standard

    Cold Outreach That Names the Pain

    A four-touch outreach sequence built from one specific, observable trigger.

    Your cold emails describe your product instead of the prospect's problem.

    • outbound
    • email
    • sequencing
    Use this

  • Sales & Marketing

    Reasoning

    Diagnosing a Stalled Sales Pipeline

    Diagnoses which stage of the pipeline is actually broken instead of assuming it is top-of-funnel.

    Pipeline against quota has stalled and the team is arguing about which stage is to blame.

    • 2 variables
    • pipeline
    • diagnosis
    • sales
    Use this

  • Sales & Marketing

    Standard

    Landing Page Message Test

    Rewrites a hero section three ways along one deliberate axis of difference.

    Your homepage says what the product is but not why anyone should switch.

    • copywriting
    • positioning
    • testing
    Use this

  • Sales & Marketing

    Video

    Product Demo Video for a SaaS Landing Page

    Directs a short screen-capture demo video that shows one core workflow start to finish without narration.

    Your landing page for {{product_name}} needs an autoplaying demo clip that shows {{core_workflow}} working, not a marketing montage.

    • 2 variables
    • product-demo
    • saas
    • video-direction
    Use this

  • Sales & Marketing

    Standard

    Product Hunt Launch Copy Kit

    Produces the tagline, first comment, and gallery captions for a Product Hunt launch day.

    Launch day is set and the copy that carries it does not exist yet.

    • 3 variables
    • launch
    • product-hunt
    • copywriting
    Use this

  • Sales & Marketing

    Video

    Short-Form Music Release Teaser

    Directs a 15-second vertical teaser built around one hook line from a new song, timed for a release-day post.

    {{artist_name}} is dropping {{song_title}} and needs a single-shot vertical teaser for {{platform}} that leads with the hook, not the artist's face.

    • 3 variables
    • music-release
    • short-form
    • teaser
    Use this

  • Spreadsheets

    Reasoning

    Diagnosing a Spreadsheet That Won't Reconcile

    Diagnoses why a spreadsheet total will not reconcile against the source system.

    A reconciliation gap has survived two attempted fixes and nobody can find the exact row.

    • 2 variables
    • reconciliation
    • diagnosis
    • excel
    Use this

  • Spreadsheets

    Standard

    Driver-Based Forecast Tab

    Specifies a forecast where every number traces back to an assumption you can argue about.

    Your forecast is a row of grown numbers with no visible logic.

    • forecast
    • planning
    • structure
    Use this

  • Spreadsheets

    Standard

    Royalty Split Calculator Spec

    Specifies a spreadsheet that calculates each collaborator's share of streaming and sync income for a release.

    Splits have to be applied by hand every quarter and nobody trusts the resulting numbers.

    • 3 variables
    • royalties
    • music-business
    • splits
    Use this

  • Spreadsheets

    Standard

    Spreadsheet Formula Audit

    Finds the broken assumption in a model before it reaches a board deck.

    A model gives an answer that feels wrong and you cannot find where it went wrong.

    • excel
    • audit
    • modeling
    Use this

  • Spreadsheets

    Standard

    Subscription Revenue Waterfall Tab

    Specifies an MRR waterfall tab that decomposes revenue movement and reconciles to the billing tool.

    MRR moved and nobody can say whether it was new revenue, expansion, or churn.

    • 2 variables
    • mrr
    • saas-metrics
    • waterfall
    Use this

  • Strategy

    Reasoning

    Build vs. Partner Decision

    Decides whether to build a capability in-house or partner for it, with the reversal condition named up front.

    A team is split on whether to build a needed capability in-house or bring in a vendor.

    • 2 variables
    • build-vs-buy
    • decision
    • strategy
    Use this

  • Strategy

    Standard

    Competitive Positioning Teardown

    Reads a competitor's public surface for the strategy it implies, not the one it claims.

    You need to know what a competitor is actually betting on, not what their about page says.

    • competitive
    • positioning
    • analysis
    Use this

  • Strategy

    Research

    Competitor Pricing Model Teardown

    Tears down a competitor's public pricing page for the value metric and buyer segment it actually implies.

    Sales keeps losing on price to the same competitor and nobody has actually mapped their pricing structure.

    • 2 variables
    • pricing
    • competitive
    • teardown
    Use this

  • Strategy

    Reasoning

    Diagnosing Why Growth Stalled

    Diagnoses which layer of the growth engine actually stopped working when a growth curve flattens.

    A previously-growing product's core metric has flattened for several consecutive periods.

    • 2 variables
    • growth
    • diagnosis
    • strategy
    Use this

  • Strategy

    Standard

    Market Entry Go / No-Go

    Forces the entry decision to name its killable assumption before spending begins.

    The team is excited about a new market and no one has written down what would make it a mistake.

    • market-entry
    • decision
    • risk
    Use this

  • Strategy

    Research

    Regulatory Landscape Scan Before Entering a State

    Scans registration, licensing, tax, and employment requirements before committing to a new jurisdiction.

    The team wants to launch in a new state and nobody has checked what operating there actually requires.

    • 2 variables
    • regulatory
    • expansion
    • compliance
    Use this

  • Teaching

    Standard

    Lesson Plan From One Objective

    Builds a full session backwards from a single thing the learner should be able to do.

    You have 50 minutes and a topic, and topics do not teach - objectives do.

    • curriculum
    • lesson-plan
    • assessment
    Use this

  • Teaching

    Standard

    Onboarding Curriculum for a New Hire

    Builds the first-two-weeks curriculum for a new hire in a specific role and tool stack.

    A new hire's first two weeks currently rely on scattered shadowing and a stale wiki page.

    • 2 variables
    • onboarding
    • curriculum
    • ramp-up
    Use this

  • Teaching

    Standard

    Socratic Tutor for a Stuck Learner

    A tutoring frame that diagnoses the misconception instead of re-explaining the answer.

    A learner keeps getting it wrong and repeating the explanation is not working.

    • tutoring
    • diagnosis
    • socratic
    Use this

  • Teaching

    Standard

    Workshop Outline for a Paid Cohort Course

    Designs a paid cohort workshop's session-by-session outline from one core promise.

    People are paying and blocking calendar time, and the workshop has one promise and no structure yet.

    • 2 variables
    • cohort-course
    • curriculum
    • workshop
    Use this

  • Writing

    Reasoning

    Choosing the Right Structure for a Technical Explainer

    Decides between listicle, narrative, and FAQ structure before writing a technical explainer.

    You need to explain something technical and are not sure which structure the material actually wants.

    • 2 variables
    • structure
    • explainer
    • technical-writing
    Use this

  • Writing

    Reasoning

    Diagnose Why a Draft Isn't Landing

    Diagnoses why a finished draft is getting a polite reaction instead of a persuaded one, before another rewrite.

    A draft feels finished but early readers are lukewarm and you are tempted to rewrite the opening again.

    • 2 variables
    • diagnosis
    • writing
    • feedback
    Use this

  • Writing

    Standard

    Line Edit for Rhythm and Cut

    A sentence-level pass that tightens prose without flattening the writer's voice.

    A draft reads flabby and you cannot tell which sentences are carrying weight.

    • editing
    • voice
    • concision
    Use this

  • Writing

    Standard

    Newsletter Draft From Bullet Notes

    Turns rough bullet notes for a weekly newsletter into a finished issue in the writer's own voice.

    You have a scatter of bullet notes for this week's issue and no time to write full sentences.

    • 4 variables
    • newsletter
    • drafting
    • indie
    Use this

  • Writing

    Standard

    Outline to First Draft

    Turns a bullet outline into a coherent draft that keeps your argument order intact.

    You have a messy outline and keep rewriting the opening instead of finishing the piece.

    • drafting
    • long-form
    • structure
    Use this

  • Writing

    Standard

    Podcast Show Notes to Blog Post

    Converts a podcast episode's rough show notes and transcript excerpt into a publishable blog post.

    An episode just wrapped and the companion post is due within 48 hours.

    • 3 variables
    • podcast
    • repurposing
    • seo
    Use this