{"id":"lead-office-lease-two-options-memo","audience":"small-business","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"advanced","technique":"verification","title":"Compare two office leases with the math and flag unknowns for counsel","free":false,"task":"Write a decision memo comparing two office options for your 12-person agency. Plain text, under 170 words. Lines in this order: Recommend: (one option), Option A cost over 3 years as a calculation, Option B cost over 3 years as a calculation, the difference in dollars, Unknowns: listing what you cannot determine from the notes, then a final line: Lease terms to be reviewed by our lawyer. Use the final quotes only.","materialLabel":"Quotes and notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Option A: Stay at Elm Street. Rent $9,200/month now. Landlord offers a 3-year renewal at $9,800/month fixed (first quote was $10,400; the final offer is $9,800). Security deposit stays as is. Need to repaint (about $3,500, landlord says tenant pays).\n\nOption B: Move to Harbor Offices. Rent $7,900/month for year 1, rising 4% each year (year 2 = $8,216/month; year 3 = $8,545/month). One-time moving cost $11,000. Build-out $6,500. New deposit: 2 months' rent.\n\nOther: Harbor is 25 minutes farther for 5 of 12 staff. Elm Street's landlord might sell the building; no timeline. Harbor offers a 3-month free-rent promotion if signed by Dec 15 (not confirmed in writing).\nDo not give legal conclusions about lease clauses.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":170},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Old quote","why":"The AI uses $10,400.","fix":"Say: \"Use the final $9,800.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Ignoring escalation","why":"The AI uses $7,900 for all 3 years.","fix":"Say: \"Rent rises 4% a year in B.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Wrong totals","why":"The AI does not add one-time costs or gets the difference wrong.","fix":"Say: \"Add repainting to A and moving plus build-out to B, then state the difference.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Counting unconfirmed savings","why":"The AI subtracts the free rent.","fix":"Say: \"Free rent is unconfirmed; list under Unknowns.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Legal conclusions","why":"The AI says clauses are fine.","fix":"Say: \"No legal conclusions; end with the lawyer line.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI makes a table.","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 line: \"each line under 35 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"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 12 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Recommend first","patterns":["recommend:"]},{"label":"Math","patterns":["calculation","x 36","x 12"]},{"label":"Unknowns","patterns":["unknowns?"]},{"label":"Lawyer line","patterns":["lawyer"]},{"label":"Final quotes","patterns":["final"]}],"hint":"Give the line order, ask for calculations, and list the unknowns and the final lawyer line.","rubricLabels":["Option A is calculated as $9,800 x 36 = $352,800 plus $3,500 repainting, and Option B as ($7,900 + $8,216 + $8,545) x 12 = $295,932 plus $11,000 plus $6,500","The difference is stated in dollars (Option A totals $356,300 and Option B $313,432, so B is $42,868 cheaper), and the recommendation is a single option","Unknowns names the unconfirmed free-rent promotion, the possible building sale and staff commute impact, and the last line is exactly \"Lease terms to be reviewed by our lawyer\" with no legal conclusion"]}