{"id":"fpa-one-variance-three-audience-rewrites","audience":"fpa","category":"finance-work","track":"finance","technique":"audience","level":"advanced","title":"Explain one revenue variance to the board, sales and operations","free":false,"task":"You're sending one revenue result to three audiences. Write a prompt for plain text with lines starting \"Board:\", \"Sales team:\" and \"Ops team:\", each one sentence. Board is formal, under 30 words, and gives the dollar and percent variance. Sales team is plain, under 30 words, names the drivers, and avoids the word \"variance\". Ops team is under 25 words and says whether the shipping plan changes. Use only the facts given. Under 110 words.","materialLabel":"Source material (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Q3 REVENUE RESULT\n\nActual revenue: $4.8 million\nPlan: $5.0 million (shortfall of $0.2 million, which is 4% of plan)\n\nDrivers:\n- Two enterprise deals slipped to Q4 (together $0.3 million). Both are services deals; there is nothing to ship.\n- SMB customers came in $0.1 million above plan.\n\nOperations note: the product shipping plan is based on unit orders. Unit orders were on plan in Q3. No change is being made to the shipping plan.\n\nNotes: the board has asked for a short factual line. The sales team is concerned about the two slipped deals and wants a straight explanation. The operations team worries that a revenue miss means a cut to shipments; it does not. The numbers are final and the quarter is closed. Rounding: $0.3 million - $0.1 million = $0.2 million.","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":110}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the three lines","patterns":["board","sales team","ops team"]},{"label":"Sets the registers","patterns":["formal","plain"]},{"label":"Bans the word variance","patterns":["variance","avoid"]},{"label":"Asks for the ops answer","patterns":["shipping plan","ops"]},{"label":"Caps length","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","under \\d+"]}],"mistakes":[{"title":"One message for everyone","why":"The AI writes the same text three times.","fix":"Say: \"Write each line for its own reader, with its own length limit.\"","checks":["r0","r1"]},{"title":"Using jargon for sales","why":"The AI uses the word variance with the sales team.","fix":"Add: \"Sales team: plain words, avoid the word variance.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Missing the ops answer","why":"The AI repeats the revenue story for ops.","fix":"Add: \"Ops team: say whether the shipping plan changes.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Going over the limits","why":"The AI writes long sentences.","fix":"Add: \"Board and Sales under 30 words; Ops under 25.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Markdown extras","why":"The AI adds bold labels, headings and a closing note.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold. Output only the lines asked for.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"hint":"Same facts, three readers. Give each line its register, its limit, and the one thing that reader needs.","rubricLabels":["The three lines start Board:, Sales team: and Ops team: in that order, each a single sentence","Board gives the shortfall as $0.2 million (or $200,000) and 4% of plan in formal wording, and Sales team names the two enterprise deals that slipped to Q4 and the $0.1 million SMB gain without using the word \"variance\"","Ops team says the shipping plan does not change (units were on plan and the slipped deals are services), in under 25 words"]}