{"id":"data2-spoken-talk-track-board-metric","audience":"executives","category":"data","track":"data","technique":"format","level":"intermediate","title":"Turn a metrics table into a 30-second talk track","free":false,"task":"Your CEO, Ravi Menon, will say the Q3 numbers out loud on an investor call. Turn the table into a spoken script: exactly 4 sentences, plain text, under 80 words. Write numbers the way a person says them, with the word percent instead of the % sign and rounded to whole numbers or one decimal, and no symbols. Use the restated gross margin, not the old one.","materialLabel":"Q3 results table (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Q3 results - Pinewood Cloud (unaudited)\n\nRevenue: $18.4M, up from $15.9M in Q3 last year (+15.7%)\nRecurring revenue share: 91.2% of revenue\nNet revenue retention: 108%\nGross margin: 71.5% (restated Oct 28)\n  The earlier version of this table said 74.0%; that figure left out $0.46M of hosting costs that belong in cost of revenue.\nNew customers: 142 (vs 120 in Q3 last year)\nCustomers lost: 19\nCash: $22.7M\nHeadcount: 164\n\nCall logistics:\n- Ravi has about 30 seconds for the numbers before questions.\n- Ravi reads words aloud poorly when they include symbols or abbreviations like \"NRR\" or \"$18.4M\" written out in a tricky way; he says \"eighteen point four million dollars\".\n- Investor deck headline: \"Growth with improving efficiency\".","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":80}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Using the old margin","why":"The AI picks 74.0% because it appears in the note.","fix":"Add: \"Use the restated 71.5 percent gross margin.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Leaving symbols in","why":"The AI writes $18.4M and 108% which are hard to read aloud.","fix":"Add: \"Spell numbers as spoken and use the word percent.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Too many metrics","why":"The AI reads out every row, including headcount.","fix":"Add: \"4 sentences: revenue, margin, retention and new customers, cash.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Leaving the format to chance","why":"The AI picks its own length and layout unless told the exact shape.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold or headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]},{"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 part instead, for example \"each line under 15 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the speaker","patterns":["ceo","ravi","spoken","aloud"]},{"label":"Sets the sentence plan","patterns":["4 sentences","sentence 1"]},{"label":"Uses the restated margin","patterns":["restated","71\\.5","seventy"]},{"label":"Says how to write numbers","patterns":["percent","no (%|symbols)","as they are spoken"]},{"label":"Caps length","patterns":["under \\d+ words","output only"]}],"hint":"Spoken scripts need numbers written the way a person says them. Tell the AI the speaker, the order and the style.","mission":"Make a talk track from these Q3 numbers.","musts":["Exactly 4 sentences","Say numbers aloud","Use restated margin"],"rubricLabels":["The script states revenue as about eighteen point four million dollars (or $18.4 million written as words) and growth of about sixteen percent (15.7 is fine), up from the prior year","It uses the restated gross margin of about seventy-one point five percent (or 71.5 percent), not 74 percent","It is exactly 4 sentences with no % sign, no $ sign and no abbreviations such as NRR or M, and it is written as numbers a person would say aloud (for example 108 percent, 142 new customers)"]}