{"id":"dat-mgr-open-roles-budget-cost","audience":"managers","category":"data","technique":"context","title":"Estimate this year's cost of two open roles","free":false,"task":"Finance wants this year's cost for your two open roles. Use salary x 1.25 for benefits and taxes, prorated by the months each person will work this fiscal year (which ends Dec 31). Write exactly 2 numbered lines, each as Role: salary x 1.25 x months ÷ 12 = $X, then one unnumbered last line: Total: $X. Plain text, under 60 words.","materialLabel":"Hiring plan (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"HIRING PLAN - Client Services team (this fiscal year: Jan 1 - Dec 31)\n\nRole | Salary | Planned start\nClient Analyst | $60,000 | Apr 1\nClient Coordinator | $48,000 | Jul 1\n\nNotes:\n- Recruiter thinks the Analyst might slip to May. Plan stays Apr 1 until we hear otherwise.\n- Signing bonus: none planned.\n- Laptops come from IT's budget, not ours.\n- Last year finance used a 1.2 load; they updated it to 1.25 this year.\n- Both roles report to me (Dana).\n- Interview panel for the Analyst role is set for next week.\n- Coordinator may be hired internally; doesn't change the cost.\n- Finance's budget template is due Friday.\n- Shared with the team in the usual folder.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":2},{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":60}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not giving the load and proration","why":"The AI reports full-year salaries, or uses last year's 1.2.","fix":"Add: \"Salary x 1.25, prorated by months worked this year.\"","checks":["r0","r1"]},{"title":"Not asking to see the work","why":"Finance will check the months.","fix":"Add a line to copy: \"1. Analyst: $60,000 x 1.25 x 9 ÷ 12 = $56,250\"","checks":["numberedItems","r0"]},{"title":"Leaving the ending open","why":"The AI adds hiring advice.","fix":"Add: \"Last line: Total: $X. Nothing else.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each line: \"each line under 14 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it goes","why":"AI loves markdown tables and bold, which show up as clutter in a finance email.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, headings or tables.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives the load","patterns":["1\\.25","benefits"]},{"label":"Prorates by months","patterns":["prorat","months","÷ ?12"]},{"label":"Asks to show the math","patterns":["show (the |your )?(math|work)","x \\$|\\bx\\b.{0,10}=","calculation","step"]},{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no (headings|tables)"]}],"hint":"A full-year salary overstates this year's cost. Give the AI the benefits load and how to prorate.","rubricLabels":["Client Analyst is $60,000 x 1.25 x 9 ÷ 12 = $56,250 (Apr 1 start = 9 months)","Client Coordinator is $48,000 x 1.25 x 6 ÷ 12 = $30,000 (Jul 1 start = 6 months)","The last line gives Total: $86,250, with nothing before the first numbered line"]}