{"id":"ops-carrier-pick-meets-friday-deadline","audience":"operations","category":"operations-work","track":"operations","technique":"verification","level":"intermediate","title":"Pick the cheapest carrier that still arrives by Friday","free":false,"task":"A shipment is ready Monday and must arrive by Friday. Write a prompt for plain text with exactly four lines: \"Carrier A:\", \"Carrier B:\", \"Carrier C:\" and \"For approval:\". Each carrier line shows the pickup day, transit days, arrival day, price and MEETS or MISSES. Count transit in business days from the pickup day. The last line names the cheapest carrier that meets the deadline; the logistics manager approves. Under 100 words.","materialLabel":"Your material (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"SHIPMENT 3340 - 6 pallets to Denver\nReady for pickup: Monday 4:30 p.m.\nMust arrive by: Friday.\n\nCarrier pickup cutoff: 3:00 p.m. any day. A shipment ready after the cutoff is picked up the next business day. Transit days are business days counted from the pickup day (pickup Tuesday + 2 days = Thursday).\n\nQUOTES\nCarrier A (Ridgeline): $420, 3 transit days\nCarrier B (Hartley Express): $360, 5 transit days\nCarrier C (Summit Air-Ground): $510, 2 transit days\n\nNotes: Carrier B is the cheapest, and the sales rep says Friday \"should be doable\". No carrier offered a guarantee. The logistics manager approves carrier choices.","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":100}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Quotes the four labels","patterns":["carrier a:","carrier b:","carrier c:","for approval:"]},{"label":"Handles the cutoff","patterns":["cutoff","tuesday","3 p\\.?m"]},{"label":"Counts business days","patterns":["business days","transit"]},{"label":"Names the approver","patterns":["logistics manager","approves"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Pickup on Monday","why":"The AI ignores the cutoff and counts from Monday.","fix":"Say: \"The shipment misses the 3 p.m. cutoff, so pickup is Tuesday.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Choosing the cheapest overall","why":"The AI picks Carrier B because the rep says Friday is doable.","fix":"Say: \"Pick the cheapest carrier that MEETS the deadline.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Wrong lines","why":"The AI writes a comparison table.","fix":"Quote the four labels in order.","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Getting markdown back","why":"AI adds bold, headings and bullets by default, which show up as stray symbols where this is pasted.","fix":"Say \"plain text, no bold, no headings, no asterisks\".","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting and usually runs long, so a vague \"keep it short\" lands over the limit.","fix":"Cap each part instead of the total, for example \"each line under 15 words\".","checks":["maxWords"]}],"hint":"Say when pickup happens, how to count transit and what the last line must contain.","mission":"Pick the cheapest carrier that still arrives by Friday.","musts":["Business days from pickup","MEETS or MISSES","Manager approves"],"rubricLabels":["There are four lines starting Carrier A:, Carrier B:, Carrier C: and For approval: in that order","Every carrier uses Tuesday as the pickup day (ready after the 3 p.m. cutoff), and the arrivals are A Friday, B next Tuesday and C Thursday, shown as MEETS, MISSES and MEETS","For approval names Carrier A at $420 as the cheapest that meets the deadline, and says the logistics manager approves"]}