{"id":"exec-initiative-roi-stop-continue-invest-table","audience":"executives","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"intermediate","technique":"verification","title":"Classify initiatives by ROI as Stop, Continue or Invest","free":false,"task":"Compute ROI for each initiative as benefit divided by cost, rounded to one decimal and written like 1.4x. Then decide: Stop if ROI is below 1.0x, Continue if from 1.0x up to and including 2.0x, Invest if above 2.0x. Use the latest figures. Output a table with the header Initiative | ROI | Decision, one row each in the order listed, then the exact line: Counts: Stop N, Continue N, Invest N, with the numbers. Plain text, under 110 words.","materialLabel":"Initiative review (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Annual initiative review (benefit and cost in $ thousands)\n\n1. Referral program: benefit 420, cost 300\n2. Chat widget: benefit 150, cost 200\n3. Self-serve onboarding: benefit 900, cost 300\n4. Event sponsorship: benefit 240, cost 240\n5. Partner portal: benefit 510, cost 300. Correction from Finance (Nov 10): the benefit was overstated; the correct benefit is 270.\n\nThe VP Marketing believes the event sponsorship \"will pay off next year\". That is not in the figures.\nRule of thumb in the old deck: ROI above 1.5x is great. Not the rule here.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":110},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Using the uncorrected benefit","why":"The AI computes 1.7x for the partner portal.","fix":"Say: \"Use the latest figures, including Finance's correction.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Boundary mistakes","why":"The AI marks 1.0x as Stop.","fix":"Say: \"Continue is from 1.0x up to and including 2.0x.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Using the old deck threshold","why":"The AI uses 1.5x.","fix":"Say: \"Apply only the Stop, Continue, Invest rule given.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Wrong count line","why":"The AI leaves it out or miscounts.","fix":"Say: \"End with Counts: Stop N, Continue N, Invest N.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Wrong table","why":"The AI reorders rows.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly this header and five rows in the listed order.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI bolds decisions.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text.\"","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":"Gives the header","patterns":["initiative \\|","roi","decision"]},{"label":"ROI format","patterns":["1\\.4x","one decimal","divided by"]},{"label":"Decision thresholds","patterns":["below 1\\.0x","2\\.0x","stop","invest"]},{"label":"Latest figures","patterns":["latest","correction"]},{"label":"Counts line","patterns":["counts: stop"]}],"hint":"Give the header, ROI formula and format, the decision thresholds and the counts line.","rubricLabels":["Has the header Initiative | ROI | Decision and exactly five rows in the listed order","ROI values are 1.4x, 0.8x, 3.0x, 1.0x and 0.9x (using the corrected benefit of 270 for the partner portal)","Decisions are Continue, Stop, Invest, Continue and Stop, and the last line is exactly \"Counts: Stop 2, Continue 2, Invest 1\""]}