Get to a defensible view on an unfamiliar market
Asking for the disagreements is what stops a briefing reading as more certain than the evidence is.
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Ask better, and the answer stops needing checking.
Eighteen prompts that work, with a line under each explaining which part of the wording is doing the work. Copy one, replace the angle-bracketed parts, and run it against your own systems. When one of these becomes something you run weekly, turn it into a skill.
Your knowledge
- INTERNALDeal-desk pricing memoSharePoint
- INTERNALWin/loss by segmentSnowflake
Live web
- WEBCompetitor pricing teardown2 min ago
- WEBQ3 earnings call transcripttoday
One answer. Current, and grounded in your own record, with the links attached.
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The library
Six functions, and the reasoning left in.
The note under each prompt is the point. Most of these work because of one constraint in the wording, and copying the prompt without it gets you a different answer.
Check a counterparty before the meeting
Splitting internal from external keeps the reader clear on which half is yours.
1 field to fillReconcile a literature or filings set
Grouping by conclusion turns a reading list into an argument.
1 field to fillExplain a variance without a week of digging
Naming the threshold in the prompt is what keeps the answer to one page.
3 fields to fillRebuild a number from the systems, not the deck
Asking for row counts at each step is the cheapest way to catch a bad join.
3 fields to fillPrepare the close review
‘Only what is genuinely outstanding’ is doing the work here. Without it you get the whole checklist back.
nothing to fill inReview a portfolio against your own standard
The distinction between a breach and a variation has to be yours; state it or you get everything back.
1 field to fillBuild a chronology that survives challenge
The inference flag is the difference between a chronology and an assertion.
2 fields to fillCompare one clause across a relationship
The last line is the one people forget, and it is the one the partner asks about.
2 fields to fillRead a policy against the regulation
Holding back the drafting keeps the first pass an assessment rather than a rewrite.
2 fields to fillAssemble evidence for a control test
‘Not from prior working papers’ stops last quarter’s conclusion being recycled as this quarter’s evidence.
2 fields to fillReconstruct an access timeline
Clock skew across systems is the thing that quietly breaks a timeline.
3 fields to fillWrite up an incident the same day
The known/inferred split is what makes the write-up usable in a review rather than defensive.
1 field to fillCheck what a change actually touches
Query history is where the undocumented dependencies live.
1 field to fillPut a supplier on one page
The last line has paid for itself more than once.
1 field to fillBrief yourself before a first meeting
Asking for questions rather than facts is what makes the brief usable in the room.
1 field to fillRank a book by real risk
One signal per account keeps the output actionable instead of a dashboard.
1 field to fillDraft from what has already been approved
‘Do not invent one’ is the whole prompt. The rest is scaffolding.
1 field to fillNothing matching that yet? Tell us the question you are actually trying to answer and we will write the prompt with you.
Writing your own
Four things separate a prompt that works from one that reads well.
Name the sources
Say which systems to read and in what order. ‘Our records first, then the web’ produces a different answer from the same question asked without it.
State the standard
What counts as a breach, a variance, a risk. The judgement is yours; the work of applying it consistently is what you are handing over.
Ask for the uncertainty
Where the sources disagree, what was inferred rather than stated, what would change the conclusion. An answer that names its own limits is one you can act on.
Say what not to do
‘Do not invent one’, ‘do not suggest wording yet’, ‘escalate breaches, not variations’. The prohibition is usually the line carrying the whole prompt.
Once a prompt has been rewritten the same way three times, it has stopped being a prompt. Save it as a skill so the fortieth person to run it gets the same wording as the first.
Own your intelligence.
Bring the question you actually need answered and we will run it against your own systems on the call.