{"id":"dat-pm-research-tool-weighted-pick","audience":"product-managers","category":"decisions","technique":"context","title":"Pick a user research tool with your team's weights","free":false,"task":"Your team is choosing a user research tool. Your design lead set the weights: participant pool 50%, integrations 30%, price 20%. Apply the vendor update in the notes. Write exactly 3 numbered lines, one per tool, each showing every score x weight and the total, then one unnumbered last line: Pick: [tool]. Plain text, under 90 words.","materialLabel":"Tool comparison sheet (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"RESEARCH TOOL SHORTLIST - scores 1-5 (higher is better)\n\nTool | Price | Participant pool | Integrations\nPanelpoint | 3 | 5 | 2\nVoxly | 5 | 4 | 4\nTestgrove | 2 | 4 | 5\n\nNotes:\n- Oct 30 update: Voxly dropped its B2B participant panel. Our team rescored Voxly's pool from 4 to 2.\n- Panelpoint has the best recruiting for niche B2B roles (e.g. payroll admins).\n- Testgrove integrates with our survey tool and our ticketing system.\n- Voxly is cheapest by far; finance likes that.\n- Contract decision due Nov 21.\n- Someone in the all-hands said \"everyone uses Panelpoint.\" Not a criterion.\n- Two-week trials are available for all three.\n- Shared with the team in the usual folder.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":90}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not giving the weights","why":"The AI weighs criteria equally and Voxly ties for the lead.","fix":"Add: \"Weights: pool 50%, integrations 30%, price 20%.\"","checks":["r0","r1","r2"]},{"title":"Missing the rescore","why":"The AI uses Voxly's old pool score of 4.","fix":"Add: \"Voxly's pool is now 2.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Not asking to see the work","why":"Your team will want to check the scoring.","fix":"Add a line to copy: \"1. Panelpoint: 5 x 0.5 = 2.5, 2 x 0.3 = 0.6, 3 x 0.2 = 0.6; total 3.7\"","checks":["numberedItems","r1"]},{"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 22 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it goes","why":"AI loves markdown tables and bold, which show up as clutter in a product channel.","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":"Applies the rescore","patterns":["voxly","rescor|update|now 2"]},{"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":"The AI can't know your team's weights. Give them, mention the rescore, and ask for the math before the pick.","rubricLabels":["Each line shows the weighted math with pool x 0.5, integrations x 0.3 and price x 0.2, using Voxly's revised pool score of 2","Totals are Panelpoint 3.7, Voxly 3.2 and Testgrove 3.9","The last line picks Testgrove, after the three lines, with nothing before the first numbered line"]}