Check whether a design project will finish within its fee
A fee-burn check comparing fee spent with percent complete by phase, with an estimate at completion and recovery options.
The prompt
Help me check whether my architecture or engineering project will finish within its fee.
Contract fee by phase: [e.g. "SD $40k, DD $60k, CD $120k, CA $80k"]
Labor and consultant cost to date by phase: [PASTE from the project report]
Percent complete by phase: [the project manager's honest estimate of work done, not fee spent]
Approved and pending additional services: [AMOUNTS and status]
Remaining staffing plan: [hours by role through completion]
Billing and collections: [billed to date, unbilled work in progress, receivables over 60 days]
Target project profit margin: [e.g. "15%"]
Calculate and explain:
1. Earned value per phase (percent complete x phase fee) against cost to date, and the spent-vs-earned gap.
2. Estimate at completion: cost to date plus estimate to complete, and the projected profit or loss vs. target.
3. Effective multiplier or net revenue per hour, if I give raw salary costs [OPTIONAL].
4. Which phase is causing the overrun and the likely cause (scope creep without an additional services request, rework from coordination errors, extra client meetings, longer construction period).
5. Billing health: over- or under-billed position and collection risk.
Return:
- A phase table: fee | earned | cost to date | estimate to complete | estimate at completion | variance.
- The top three drivers of variance.
- Recovery options ranked by impact: additional services to request, staffing changes, scope clarifications, schedule changes.
- A short summary I can send to the principal in charge.
Use only my numbers; mark gaps [NEED DATA]. Show formulas.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- e.g. "SD $40k, DD $60k, CD $120k, CA $80k"
- PASTE from the project report
- AMOUNTS and status
- hours by role through completion
- e.g. "15%"
- OPTIONAL
- NEED DATA
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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