{"id":"dat-sb-salon-price-increase","audience":"small-business","category":"decisions","technique":"context","title":"Estimate what a price increase does to monthly revenue","free":false,"task":"You're thinking about raising salon prices. Plan for losing 5% of clients in each service when prices go up. Write exactly 2 numbered lines, one per service, each showing new clients x new price vs current revenue = change, then one unnumbered last line: Net change: +$X/month. Plain text, under 60 words.","materialLabel":"Your service numbers (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"STUDIO NOVA - monthly averages (last 6 months)\n\nService | Current price | Proposed price | Clients per month\nHaircut | $40 | $45 | 400\nColor | $120 | $130 | 100\n\nNotes:\n- Product sales (shampoo etc.) average $1,800/month; not changing.\n- Two stylists asked for raises; this would help.\n- Last price increase was 2 years ago; we lost a few regulars but most stayed.\n- Clients get 30 days' notice by text and a sign at the front desk.\n- Blowouts and treatments are tiny, leave them out of this.\n- Competitor down the street charges $50 for cuts.\n- Bree thinks \"nobody will leave.\" Gut feeling only.\n- Rent goes up $200/month in January.\n- Shared with the team in the usual folder.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":2},{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":60}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not giving a client loss","why":"The AI assumes nobody leaves, like Bree, and overstates the gain.","fix":"Add: \"Assume 5% of clients leave in each service.\"","checks":["r0","r1"]},{"title":"Not asking to see the work","why":"A bare forecast is hard to trust.","fix":"Add a line to copy: \"1. Haircut: 380 x $45 = $17,100 vs $16,000 = +$1,100\"","checks":["numberedItems","r0"]},{"title":"Mixing in other costs","why":"The AI subtracts rent or adds product sales.","fix":"Add: \"Only the two services. Nothing else.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each line: \"each line under 16 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it goes","why":"AI loves markdown tables and bold, which show up as clutter in your planning notes.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, headings or tables.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Assumes a client loss","patterns":["5\\s*%","lose|leave|loss"]},{"label":"Asks to show the math","patterns":["show (the |your )?(math|work)","x \\$|\\bx\\b.{0,10}=","calculation","step"]},{"label":"Asks for a net change","patterns":["net","total change","difference"]},{"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 result depends on how many clients you lose. Give the AI your assumption and ask it to show each service's math.","rubricLabels":["Haircut: 400 x 95% = 380 clients x $45 = $17,100 vs $16,000 = +$1,100","Color: 100 x 95% = 95 clients x $130 = $12,350 vs $12,000 = +$350","The last line gives Net change: +$1,450/month, with product sales and rent left out and no intro"]}