{"id":"fpa-headcount-plan-summary-cfo","audience":"fpa","category":"finance-work","track":"finance","level":"intermediate","technique":"audience","title":"Summarize the FY27 headcount plan for the CFO","free":false,"task":"Your CFO, Ruth, wants the FY27 headcount plan before her budget meeting. Start with one line giving total net new hires and their full-year cost, then at most 4 bullets, one per department, each showing hires × loaded cost = total. Include the latest change to Sales. Plain text, under 100 words.","materialLabel":"Source material (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"FY27 HEADCOUNT PLAN - DRAFT 3 (Oct 24)\n\nDept | FY26 end | FY27 plan | Net adds | Loaded cost per hire\nEngineering | 40 | 48 | +8 | $180,000\nSales | 25 | 31 | +6 | $140,000\nSupport | 12 | 14 | +2 | $80,000\nG&A | 10 | 11 | +1 | $120,000\nTotal | 87 | 104 | +17\n\nLoaded cost = salary, benefits, payroll tax and equipment. Full-year figures assume a January 1 start.\n\nChange log:\n- Oct 26: Support asked for a 3rd hire; declined by COO, stays at +2.\n- Oct 30: Sales VP withdrew 2 reqs after the Central and West territories merged. Sales net adds now +4.\n\nOpen questions:\n- Whether Engineering hires are split across two offices.\n- Recruiting agency fees are budgeted separately.","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":100},{"type":"maxBullets","max":4}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Using the table's total","why":"The AI copies +17 from the table and misses the Oct 30 change.","fix":"Add: \"Apply the Oct 30 change: Sales is +4, so recompute the total.\"","checks":["r0","r1"]},{"title":"No working shown","why":"The AI gives department totals Ruth can't check in the meeting.","fix":"Show the shape: \"- Engineering: 8 × $180,000 = $1.44M\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Burying the headline","why":"The AI opens with context about the draft, not the number Ruth needs.","fix":"Say: \"First line: total net hires and full-year cost.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting and runs long, adding lists and formatting you didn't ask for.","fix":"Cap each part (\"each line under 15 words\") and state the format: \"plain text, no bold.\"","checks":["plainText","maxWords","maxBullets"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says who it's for","patterns":["ruth","cfo"]},{"label":"Uses the latest change","patterns":["withdr","oct 30","\\+4","latest"]},{"label":"Shows the math","patterns":["×","\\bx\\b","show (the )?math","multipl"]},{"label":"Leads with the total","patterns":["first line","start with","lead with"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]}],"hint":"Ruth wants the bottom line first and math she can check. Tell the AI which plan changes count.","rubricLabels":["The first line gives +15 net new hires and a full-year cost of $2.28M ($2,280,000)","The Sales bullet shows 4 hires × $140,000 = $560,000, reflecting the 2 withdrawn reqs","Each department bullet shows hires × loaded cost = total (Engineering 8 × $180,000 = $1.44M, Support 2 × $80,000 = $160,000, G&A 1 × $120,000 = $120,000)"]}