{"id":"exec-regulator-letter-response-timeline-table","audience":"executives","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"advanced","technique":"constraints","title":"Plan a response timeline to a regulator's letter, flagged for counsel","free":false,"task":"Build a table with the header Step | Owner | Due, sorted by date, with exactly five rows: Acknowledge, Draft, Legal review, Executive sign-off, Submit. Compute the dates from the letter date: acknowledge within 7 calendar days, submit within 30 calendar days. Internal rules: the draft is due 10 days before submission, Legal review finishes 3 days before, and the executive signs the day before. Use the owners in the notes. After the table add the exact line: Counsel confirms the deadlines and content before anything is sent. Plain text, under 110 words.","materialLabel":"Letter details and owners (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Regulator letter received - Monday, October 6 (the letter is dated October 6)\n\nThe letter asks the company to acknowledge receipt within 7 calendar days and to submit a written response within 30 calendar days of the letter date. It says extensions \"may be requested\" but promises nothing.\n\nOwners\n- Acknowledgment: Nadia Cruz, Compliance Officer\n- First draft: Owen Pike, VP Operations\n- Legal review: Sam Adeyemi, outside counsel\n- Executive sign-off: Hannah Lowe, CEO\n- Submission: Nadia Cruz, Compliance Officer\n\nThe CEO is traveling Oct 27-30 (back in the office Oct 31).\nSomeone suggested asking for an extension. No decision.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":110},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Date math slips","why":"The AI miscounts the 30 days.","fix":"Say: \"Compute from the letter date: +7 days and +30 days.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Assuming an extension","why":"The AI adds time.","fix":"Say: \"Do not assume an extension.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Mixing owners","why":"The AI assigns the wrong owner.","fix":"Say: \"Use the owner named for each step.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Wrong table","why":"The AI adds steps or columns.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly five rows with this header, sorted by date.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI bolds dates.","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":"Header and five steps","patterns":["step \\|","owner","due"]},{"label":"Date rules","patterns":["7 calendar days","30 calendar days","10 days before"]},{"label":"Owners","patterns":["owner","notes"]},{"label":"No extension","patterns":["extension"]},{"label":"Closing line","patterns":["counsel confirms"]}],"hint":"Give the header, all the date rules, and the exact closing line.","rubricLabels":["Has the header Step | Owner | Due and exactly five rows in date order: Acknowledge, Draft, Legal review, Executive sign-off, Submit","The dates are Oct 13 (acknowledge), Oct 26 (draft), Nov 2 (Legal review), Nov 4 (sign-off) and Nov 5 (submit) with the owners Nadia Cruz, Owen Pike, Sam Adeyemi, Hannah Lowe and Nadia Cruz","Ends with the exact line \"Counsel confirms the deadlines and content before anything is sent.\" and does not assume an extension"]}