Choose next year's company priorities and what we'll stop doing
A short list of company-wide priorities, each with an owner and measure, plus an explicit stop-doing list.
The prompt
Help me narrow down my company's priorities for next year.
Company stage and situation: [e.g. "Series A, $4M ARR, 18 months runway"]
Strategy or long-term goal: [WHERE we're trying to get]
Candidate priorities from my leadership team: [LIST everything on the table]
Current initiatives already consuming capacity: [LIST with rough team size]
Constraints: [budget, headcount, cash, key people]
What happened last year: [what we committed to and what actually got done]
Do this:
1. Group overlapping candidates and rewrite each as an outcome, not an activity.
2. Score each on: impact on the long-term goal, urgency, confidence we can do it, and capacity required. Show the table.
3. Recommend 3-5 company priorities. More than five is a sign we haven't chosen.
4. For each priority: one owner on the leadership team, one measure of success with a target, and the first 90-day milestone.
5. Build a stop/pause list: current work that conflicts with or starves the priorities, with how to wind each down.
6. Name the trade-offs plainly: what we are knowingly accepting by not doing the rest.
7. Check for the common failure modes: every department getting its own priority, priorities that are really metrics, and no capacity freed up to do them.
Return the scored table, the final list, the stop list, and a short paragraph I can use to explain the choices to the company.
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What to fill in
- e.g. "Series A, $4M ARR, 18 months runway"
- WHERE we're trying to get
- LIST everything on the table
- LIST with rough team size
- budget, headcount, cash, key people
- what we committed to and what actually got done
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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