{"id":"lead-welcome-email-new-team-member-intro","audience":"managers","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"beginner","technique":"constraints","title":"Announce a new team member in an email with exact first and last lines","free":false,"task":"Announce a new hire to the team in an email. Plain text, under 90 words. Line 1 is exactly: Subject: Please welcome Dara Cole to Billing. The first sentence of the body states her role and start date. Include one thing she will own in her first 30 days and one fun fact from the notes. The last line is exactly: Say hello at the Monday standup. Do not mention salary, her previous employer's problems or her age.","materialLabel":"Notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"New hire: Dara Cole, Billing Analyst, starts Monday Jan 13. Reports to me (Tobias).\n\n- First 30 days she will own the monthly invoice-dispute report. Hand-over from Eun, who is moving to Collections.\n- Background: 6 years in accounts receivable. Her last company went through layoffs (she'd rather not discuss).\n- Fun fact: she restores old bicycles on weekends and rode 200 km across Iceland last summer.\n- Age: 41 (HR file; irrelevant).\n- Salary: $74,000 (confidential).\n- Desk: 3rd floor near the printer. \n- Her laptop arrives Jan 10.\n- Earlier I wrote that she starts Jan 6, but the start date is Jan 13.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Old start date","why":"The AI uses Jan 6.","fix":"Say: \"She starts Monday Jan 13.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Sharing private details","why":"The AI mentions salary or age.","fix":"Say: \"No salary, layoffs or age.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Wrong ending","why":"The AI ends with 'Best, Tobias'.","fix":"Say: \"The last line is exactly: Say hello at the Monday standup.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Missing ownership item","why":"The AI skips what she owns.","fix":"Say: \"Include what she owns in her first 30 days.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI bolds her name.","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 it: \"3 sentences, each under 20 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":"Exact subject","patterns":["exactly","subject"]},{"label":"First sentence","patterns":["first sentence","role","start date"]},{"label":"Fun fact","patterns":["fun fact"]},{"label":"Exact last line","patterns":["last line","exactly"]},{"label":"Leaves out","patterns":["salary","age","layoffs"]}],"hint":"Give the exact subject and last lines and what to leave out.","rubricLabels":["Line 1 is exactly \"Subject: Please welcome Dara Cole to Billing\" and the first body sentence says she is the Billing Analyst starting Monday Jan 13 (not Jan 6)","The email says she will own the monthly invoice-dispute report in her first 30 days, and includes the bicycle restoring or Iceland ride fun fact","The last line is exactly \"Say hello at the Monday standup.\" and the email mentions no salary, layoffs or age"]}