{"id":"dat-off-mileage-reimbursement","audience":"office","category":"data","technique":"context","title":"Fill in a mileage claim with round trips and no commute","free":false,"task":"You're filing November's mileage claim. Company rate is $0.65 a mile, round trips (RT) count both ways, and your regular commute between home and office isn't reimbursable. Write one numbered line per eligible trip (there are 4), each as Date place: miles math, then one unnumbered last line: Total: X mi x $0.65 = $Y. Plain text, under 60 words.","materialLabel":"Your mileage log (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"MILEAGE LOG - November (one-way miles from the map app)\n\nNov 3 | Office to Riverside Dental (client), RT | 12\nNov 5 | Home to Office (car in shop all week before) | 18\nNov 6 | Office to Supply depot, RT | 8\nNov 10 | Office to Airport (flew to Denver; came back by shuttle) | 20\nNov 12 | Office to Lakeview Clinic (client), RT | 15\n\nNotes:\n- Last year's rate was $0.58. Finance updated it in January.\n- Parking at the airport was $36 - that goes on the expense report, not mileage.\n- Lakeview visit ran long; grabbed lunch with the client.\n- Claims are due by the 5th of next month.\n- Use the map app's one-way miles.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":4},{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":60}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not giving the rules","why":"The AI doesn't know your rate or that commutes don't count.","fix":"Add: \"$0.65 a mile; skip home-to-office commutes.\"","checks":["r1","r2"]},{"title":"Forgetting round trips","why":"The AI uses one-way miles for RT trips.","fix":"Add: \"Double the miles for trips marked RT.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Not asking to see the work","why":"Finance will bounce a claim it can't trace.","fix":"Add a line to copy: \"1. Nov 3 Riverside: 12 x 2 = 24 mi\"","checks":["numberedItems","r0"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each line: \"each line under 10 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it goes","why":"AI loves markdown tables and bold, which show up as clutter in an expense form.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, headings or tables.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives the rate","patterns":["0?\\.65","rate"]},{"label":"Doubles round trips","patterns":["round trip|\\bRT\\b","double|x 2|both ways"]},{"label":"Skips the commute","patterns":["commute","home to office"]},{"label":"Asks to show the math","patterns":["show (the |your )?(math|work)","x \\$|\\bx\\b.{0,10}=","calculation","step"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no (headings|tables)"]}],"hint":"The AI doesn't know your mileage rules. Give it the rate, the round-trip rule and what doesn't count.","rubricLabels":["Round trips are doubled: Riverside 12 x 2 = 24, Supply depot 8 x 2 = 16, Lakeview 15 x 2 = 30, and the airport trip stays 20 (one way)","The Nov 5 home-to-office commute is left out","The last line gives Total: 90 mi x $0.65 = $58.50, with no parking or lunch added and no intro"]}