{"id":"career-networking-followup-meetup","audience":"job-seekers","category":"career","technique":"context","track":"writing","title":"Follow up with a contact from a networking meetup","free":false,"task":"You met someone at a local UX meetup last night and want to follow up by email. Keep it under 100 words, plain text. Write to the person who offered to look at your portfolio, not the speaker, mention the detail she shared, and include your portfolio link. Ask for 10 minutes of feedback on one case study, not a job. End with exactly \"Thanks again, Malik Grant\".","materialLabel":"Your notes from the meetup (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"NOTES FROM LAST NIGHT: Riverbend UX Meetup, Thursday\n\n- Speaker: Carla Jensen, design director at Summit Bank, talk on accessible forms. Great talk, didn't get to talk to her.\n- Talked to Hannah Brooks (UX researcher at Wildflower Health) for like 15 min by the snacks\n  - she switched into UX from teaching 5th grade, same as me switching from retail!\n  - she said portfolios should show the messy middle, not just final screens\n  - she said \"send me your portfolio, happy to look at one case study\"\n  - her card: hannah.brooks@wildflowerhealth.example\n- my portfolio: malikgrant.design (the case study I want feedback on: the food pantry sign-up app)\n- also met Theo, who does freelance web stuff, didn't get his last name\n- I'm job hunting for junior UX roles. Wildflower might have openings?? Don't ask, too early.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":100},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not naming the right person","why":"The AI may write to the speaker, the first name in your notes.","fix":"Add: \"Write to Hannah Brooks, not the speaker.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Keeping the ask vague","why":"AI follow-ups say 'would love to stay in touch', which gives her nothing to do.","fix":"Add: \"Ask for 10 minutes of feedback on the food pantry case study and include my link.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Slipping in a job ask","why":"Because you're job hunting, the AI often adds 'and if Wildflower has openings...'.","fix":"Add: \"Don't ask about jobs or openings. End with: Thanks again, Malik Grant\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"4 sentences, each under 18 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's going","why":"AI adds bold and headings that show up as stray symbols in her inbox.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the right person","patterns":["hannah"]},{"label":"Makes one small ask","patterns":["10.?min","one case study","food pantry","feedback"]},{"label":"Includes the link","patterns":["link","malikgrant","portfolio"]},{"label":"Rules out a job ask","patterns":["(no|not|don't|do not).{0,20}(job|opening|referral|hiring)"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]}],"hint":"Good follow-ups are specific and easy to say yes to. Tell the AI who it's for, what you talked about, the one thing you're asking for, and what not to ask.","rubricLabels":["Is addressed to Hannah (not Carla Jensen) and mentions one detail from their talk (her switch from teaching, or the 'messy middle' advice)","Includes malikgrant.design and asks for about 10 minutes of feedback on the food pantry sign-up app case study","Doesn't ask about jobs, openings or referrals, and ends with 'Thanks again, Malik Grant'"]}