{"id":"dat-mgr-staffing-agency-weights","audience":"managers","category":"decisions","technique":"context","title":"Pick a temp agency with your own weighted criteria","free":false,"task":"You're choosing a temp staffing agency for peak season. Your director set the weights: fill rate 50%, cost 30%, quality 20%. Write exactly 3 numbered lines, one per agency, each showing the weighted math and total, then one unnumbered last line: Pick: [agency]. Plain text, under 80 words.","materialLabel":"Agency scorecard (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"TEMP AGENCY SCORECARD - Warehouse peak season (scores 1-5, higher is better)\n\nAgency | Fill rate | Cost | Quality\nBrightpath Staffing | 4 | 3 | 5\nKeystone Temps | 5 | 2 | 3\nNorthline Workforce | 5 | 4 | 2\n\nNotes from reference calls:\n- Brightpath: temps are well trained, but they filled only 80% of orders last peak.\n- Keystone: fills everything, priciest of the three.\n- Northline: fills fast and cheap; some no-shows on weekends.\n- Keystone's rep called their rates \"unbeatable.\" They are not the cheapest.\n- Contract must be signed by Nov 20.\n- Peak season runs Nov 20 to Jan 10.\n- We need about 25 temps per shift at the busiest point.\n- Director's weights came from last year's lessons: unfilled shifts hurt most.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":80}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not giving the weights","why":"The AI weighs everything equally and picks Brightpath.","fix":"Add: \"Weights: fill rate 50%, cost 30%, quality 20%.\"","checks":["r0","r1"]},{"title":"Not asking to see the work","why":"Your director will want to see how the scores add up.","fix":"Add a line to copy: \"1. Brightpath: 4 x 0.5 + 3 x 0.3 + 5 x 0.2 = 3.9\"","checks":["r0","numberedItems"]},{"title":"Getting a debate instead of a pick","why":"The AI writes pros and cons and hedges.","fix":"Add: \"Then one line: Pick: [agency]. 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 your director's email.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, headings or tables.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives the weights","patterns":["50\\s*%|0\\.5","30\\s*%|0\\.3","weight"]},{"label":"Asks to show the math","patterns":["show (the |your )?(math|work)","x \\$|\\bx\\b.{0,10}=","calculation","step"]},{"label":"Asks for one pick","patterns":["pick","choose one","which (one|agency)"]},{"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":"The AI can't know your director's weights. Give them, and ask for the weighted math before the pick.","rubricLabels":["Each line shows the weighted math (fill x 0.5 + cost x 0.3 + quality x 0.2) with correct totals: Brightpath 3.9, Keystone 3.7, Northline 4.1","The pick is Northline Workforce (highest weighted score), not Brightpath (which wins only with equal weights)","The pick comes last, after the three lines, with no intro or pros-and-cons paragraphs"]}