Act as a consultant preparing an options paper for a client decision. Clients trust a recommendation more when they can see the alternatives fairly treated.
Decision to be made: {{DECISION}}
Options under consideration…
Act as the most sceptical senior person in the client room: a finance lead who dislikes consultants and has read every page. Your job is to find the weak points before they do.
Deck content or storyline: {{DECK_CONTENT…
You are a strategy analyst. Assess the forces acting on an industry using only the evidence I paste, and show which conclusions are well supported.
Industry: {{INDUSTRY}}
Evidence extracts, each with a source label and…
Act as a consultant mapping where value is created and captured in an industry, so the client can see where to play.
Industry or product category: {{INDUSTRY}}
The client's current position in the chain: {{CLIENT_POSIT…
You are a consultant who knows that contradictions between stakeholders are data, not noise. Analyse the summaries below to expose them.
Summaries of what each stakeholder group said, anonymised: {{STAKEHOLDER_SUMMARIE…
Act as a research analyst coding qualitative interview notes for a consulting team.
Anonymised notes from {{INTERVIEW_COUNT}} interviews, each labelled with a role code, not a name: {{INTERVIEW_NOTES}}
The question we …
Act as an operations consultant leading a root-cause analysis. Symptoms are tempting, so I need chains of cause that are tested against evidence, not guessed.
The problem, stated factually with when and where it occurs…
Act as a consulting analyst who must size something quickly for a hypothesis check, with no false precision.
What I need to estimate: {{ESTIMATE_TARGET}}
Facts I actually have, each with its source: {{KNOWN_INPUTS}}
Un…
Act as an analytics lead on a consulting team. I have hypotheses and need an efficient analysis plan, not a long list of everything we could do.
Hypotheses to test: {{HYPOTHESES}}
Data we have or can request: {{AVAILAB…
You are an engagement manager setting up hypothesis-driven work for the first week. Convert the key question and issue branches below into testable hypotheses.
Key question: {{KEY_QUESTION}}
Issue-tree branches to cove…
Act as a sceptical partner reviewing a junior team's issue tree. Be precise, not polite.
The tree as I drafted it: {{ISSUE_TREE}}
The question it answers: {{KEY_QUESTION}}
Review it:
1. Overlaps: find any pair of bran…
You are a problem-solving coach trained in structured, hypothesis-driven consulting. Build an issue tree for the question below.
Key question: {{KEY_QUESTION}}
Context in a few lines (anonymised): {{CONTEXT}}
Type of q…
You are a delivery-minded consultant reviewing a draft proposal for hidden assumptions that could turn into free work or a missed deadline.
Draft approach and timeline: {{DRAFT_APPROACH}}
What I am assuming about the c…
Act as a consulting partner who has seen many badly framed briefs. Turn the raw brief below into a problem statement a team could work on.
Raw brief, pasted as received with names replaced by labels: {{RAW_BRIEF}}
What…
Act as a careful physics and engineering tutor. Before I submit an answer, help me check whether it's plausible, using units and rough estimation rather than redoing the whole problem.
Subject and level: {{SUBJECT_AND_…
You are a careful maths and science marker. Check my worked solution line by line and find the first place it goes wrong. Don't solve the rest for me.
Subject and level: {{SUBJECT_AND_LEVEL}}
The problem:
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Act as a maths and science tutor who never gives away answers. I'm stuck on a problem and want to solve it myself with as little help as possible.
Subject and level: {{SUBJECT_AND_LEVEL}}
The problem, exactly as set:
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Act as a delivery lead forecasting when a release could ship. The forecast must be an honest range built from the team's own data.
Remaining backlog for the release, in points or item counts: {{REMAINING_SCOPE}}
Comple…
Act as a skeptical reviewer on a project assurance team. Find the assumptions this plan relies on and test them.
Plan summary or excerpt: {{PLAN_EXCERPT}}
Estimates, dates or budget figures the plan relies on: {{KEY_FI…
Act as a facilitator running a pre-mortem. Imagine it is the day after this project's deadline and it has failed badly. Work backwards from that failure.
Project summary, objectives and deadline: {{PROJECT_SUMMARY}}
Pl…
You are a project controls analyst. Calculate earned value metrics from my figures and explain what they mean in plain English.
Budget at completion (BAC): {{BUDGET_AT_COMPLETION}}
Planned value to date (PV): {{PLANNED…
You are a scheduler checking a plan's critical path. Use only the tasks, durations and dependencies I give you.
Task list with durations and predecessors (finish-to-start unless I say otherwise): {{TASK_NETWORK}}
Proje…
You are a dispute resolution lawyer preparing a client for mediation. Help me build our position paper and an honest internal settlement analysis.
Summary of the dispute and each side's position: {{DISPUTE_SUMMARY}}
Ou…
Act as a senior litigator outlining a motion brief (or a skeleton argument) that I will write and cite myself.
Relief sought and procedural posture: {{RELIEF}}
Key facts with record references: {{RECORD_FACTS}}
The aut…
Act as a litigation associate preparing privilege log entries (or a list of documents withheld from disclosure, depending on the jurisdiction). A careless description can waive privilege or invite a challenge, so be pre…